Act in your own best interests – It’s a big bad rip-off world out there. Businesses are out to rip us off. [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2008
TopTips.ie – A Euro Saved is a Euro Earned
[This article refers to TopTips.ie which I gave up as no longer necessary - instead, you can click on the ValueIreland Top [...]
Sale. Discounts. Special Offers. Bargains. Money Off.
In the last couple of weeks there’s been lots of talk about downturns and recessions and businesses finding things tough. We’re being [...]
Car Clocking – To undertake or not undertake!
[This article refers to TopTips.ie which I gave up as no longer necessary - instead, you can click on the ValueIreland Top [...]
NCA and consumer legislation nothing more than a charade
In a freaky sense of timing, this article was published in todays Irish Times, available here on the new free Irish Times [...]
National Consumer Agency Surveys – tell us something we don’t know
Right! Let’s get one thing out of the way here. I don’t think we needed the fuckers* to tell us last week [...]
Taxi receipts – have you ever been given one?
I don’t think I’ve ever received a receipt from a taxi driver since it became the responsibility of taxi drivers to provide [...]
Neat trick by hard pressed greedy Dublin hotel
A couple of weeks ago, a Canadian contractor was working in my office for a few days. Being over from Canada, away [...]
Where’s the electricity competition?
In case you didn’t know, way back in February 2005, the Irish electricity market for residential consumers was deregulated. At that time, [...]
Who’s really to blame for “Rip Off Ireland”
On Thursday last week, only a few days after I wrote about whether it was consumers or businesses that were at fault [...]
