Consumer Beware

What would it take for you to switch your bank?

There’s a lot of talk these days about how our choice in banking is slowly but surely being eroded with the closure [...]

Another reason not to get involved with gift vouchers – I’m losing count now

One of the more popular pages on this site is my constantly updated feature on reasons not to get involved in using [...]

Buy Irish? Make sure you check the small print

I wrote recently about some comments in the Seanad and elsewhere from people concerned that Irish consumers were sometimes being conned into [...]

Readers E-mail – Is this a scam website? What can I do?

This e-mail came through from a ValueIreland.com reader recently. For the moment, I’m going to blank out the company name as I [...]

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 [...]