Consumer Beware

Refund.ie – A service that I’d stay well clear of

Both the Irish Examiner and the Irish Independent (three times) have blindly (and misguidedly in my opinion) given coverage recently to a new [...]

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 [...]