Both the Irish Examiner and the Irish Independent (three times) have blindly (and misguidedly in my opinion) given coverage recently to a new [...]
Consumer Beware
How to identify a clocked car
A little later than I intended, here is our Value Ireland Top Tips on how you might be able to identify if [...]
Product Warranties – more information
Last week, I wrote this post “How long is my purchase guaranteed for? 1 Year? 2 Years?” where I advised that European [...]
Mortgage companies, Insurance companies and re-build costs – what’s going on?
You’ll have read three posts already today (here, here and here) about how insurance companies and mortgage providers are trying to force [...]
Another mortgage company looking to overstate re-build costs for insurance
Here’s a comment posted recently by a ValueIreland.com reader which is linked to todays topic – rebuild costs for the purposes of [...]
Rebuild costs – mortgage company overstating rebuild costs
Following on from this mornings post about home insurance premiums and re-build costs, here’s one e-mail that I received from a ValueIreland.com [...]
Buy in sterling. Refund in Euro. Quids in!
This interesting e-mail came through recently from a regular ValueIreland.com reader. I’m not advocating that people actually do this, but it just [...]
Problems with getting your winnings from online bookies
Adrian Weckler contacted me last week about a piece he was putting together for his reality BYTES column in Sundays Sunday Business [...]
Irish Independent advertising sleight of hand
I thought I noticed over the weekend a banner advert on Independent.ie for the IdeasCampaign. I thought it strange that, as a [...]
My bank is ripping me off with my mortgage rate
This e-mail came through last week regarding someone who’d fixed their mortgage rate last July and now feel they are overpaying:
I dont [...]
