Analysis Topic: Consumer Watch
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Thursday, May 19, 2016
Vauxhall Zafira B Fire Recall Update - Pentagon Dealership Experience / ConsumerWatch / Auto Sector
By: N_Walayat
Vauxhall is just one amongst a growing list of auto manufactures being forced to issue recalls for a myriad of reasons from alleged fraudulent emissions ratings by the likes of Volkswagen to Vauxhall's recall of some 220,000 Zafira B models in the UK that are apparently at a real risk of catching fire and even exploding as is the experience of countless Zafira owners over the past few years hence triggering the recall.
Monday, April 04, 2016
Vauxhall Panics over Zafira B Fire Recall Whilst Dealers Such as Pentagon Adopt a Laid Back Attitude / ConsumerWatch / Auto Sector
By: N_Walayat
This is an update on the crisis facing Vauxhall, the latest in a long list of auto manufactures forced to issue recalls for a myriad of reasons from alleged fraudulently emissions ratings for the likes of Volkswagen to Vauxhall's recall of some 220,000 Zafira B models in the UK that are apparently at a real risk of catching fire and even exploding as is the experience of countless Zafira owners over the past few years hence triggering the recall.
Saturday, March 19, 2016
Pepsi Max UEFA Champions League Promo Compared Against Walkers Crisps Entries / ConsumerWatch / Freebies and Comps
By: Adnaan_Walayat
After having successfully having won over 80 prizes in the walkers crisps UEFA promo. I decided to try and see what I could win from the Pepsi-Max drinks bottles.
Find out in this video how to enter and whether you have more or less chance to win than the walkers crisps codes entries.
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Saturday, March 12, 2016
UEFA Champions League Football Wins Prizes Delivery2 - Walkers Crisps Game Ready / ConsumerWatch / Freebies and Comps
By: Adnaan_Walayat
Find out what the second batch of prizes delivered look like, a week on from the first delivery of the easy to win UEFA champions league walkers crisp packets promo. Also we take a look at how well the footballs perform out on a football pitch.
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Wednesday, March 09, 2016
UEFA Champions League Now 20 Times Harder To Win! (Walkers Crisps Promo) / ConsumerWatch / Freebies and Comps
By: Adnaan_Walayat
It's several days since we warned that it was increasingly looking like the Walkers Crisps promo was to all in tents and purposes over, as it was becoming near impossible to win any prizes. We'll now a few days on and some 100 entries I can confirm several facts that will save you a lot of time and money, especially as officially the promo has another 6 weeks to run. Top of the list is the fact that in our experience it is now about 20 times harder to win a prize than just a week ago. Watch the video for the all of the info.
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Monday, March 07, 2016
Walkers Crisps UEFA Game Ready Promo Over? Now Near Impossible to Win Prizes / ConsumerWatch / Freebies and Comps
By: Anika_Walayat
It's increasingly looking like the Walkers Crisps Game Ready UEFA Promo is over for what was a good chance of winning t-shirts, sharing bowls and footballs, well before the 25th April end date for final entries. So it may now prove a waste of time and money buying the multi-packs and trying to win by entering the promo codes, find out why in our latest video in the Walkers Crisps UEFA Champions League series.
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Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Weed Killer Cheap Vs Expensive Test - B&M Stores vs Resolva Tesco / ConsumerWatch / Reviews
By: Anika_Walayat
Springs just around the corner, and the weeds usually tend to be the first to sprout, so now is the time to be prepared to nip any weed infestations in the bud, and definitely before they go to seed and multiply their presence a hundred fold. In this test we find out whether a cheap weed killer purchased from a discount store such as B&M Stores is just as effective as a more expensive weed killer purchased from a garden centre or supermarket such as Tesco.
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Sunday, February 14, 2016
Don’t Keep Your Personal or Financial data on a Windows 10 Machine! / ConsumerWatch / Microsoft
By: Paul_Behan
Well not if you want to keep it private. Like many people I was surprised at the Edward Snowden revelations a few years ago. Nothing has seemed to change and in many cases things have got worse. Some corporations are in partnership with government agencies in regard to collection of data. Whilst the government has the right to collect data to try and protect is citizens from harm, in my opinion this data collections has gone way too far and is now breaching personal liberties.
Sunday, January 03, 2016
Nabru Self Assembly Sofa Extensive Review and Guide / ConsumerWatch / How to Guides
By: Adnaan_Walayat
This is our extensive review and how to guide for the Nabru and similar self assembly sofa's that allow prospective buyers to purchase sofa builds that match their near exact requirements, not just in terms of material but also in fitting awkward spaces and also given the self assembly nature are not constrained by doorways, stairs other obstacles when moving furniture and that assembly is a straight forward process of slotting and covering, and NO gluing or nailing!
Friday, December 25, 2015
PPI Refund Claims Scam / Nuisance Call Christmas Fun - Cold Callers Beware! / ConsumerWatch / Scams
By: N_Walayat
If people actually answered the phone every time it rang then no one would get any work done! For the people of Britain, as amongst of most developed countries, are subject to a daily barrage of cold callers trying to sell or scam their way out of ones hard earned money or whatever one may be legitimately entitled and PPI cold callers must rank near the top of the nuisance / scam callers list.
Sunday, December 20, 2015
Cheap Christmas Lights Review (B&M Stores), What to Expect - Video / ConsumerWatch / Reviews
By: Anika_Walayat
This is a review of cheap outdoor Christmas lights such as by B&M Stores (Diamond Berry and similar), these lights are made exclusively for B&M Stores comprising 80 multi-coloured LED bulbs, of what use you can expect over 2 Christmas.
Friday, December 18, 2015
Cineworld Star Wars the Force Awakens NOT for Tesco Clubcard Voucher Customers / ConsumerWatch / Shopping
By: Sami_Walayat
Star Wars the Force Awakes with near unanimously good reviews looks set to become one of the biggest movie hits of all time, and so is encouraging many less frequent cinema goers to pay a visit to their local cinema's such as Cineworld, preferably to watch the movie on the biggest IMAX screens in 3d for the full Star Wars effect.
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Thursday, November 26, 2015
Vauxhall Zafira B Fire Danger Recall - What to Do Video / ConsumerWatch / Auto Sector
By: N_Walayat
It seems each week brings a new crisis for the auto manufacturers that is apart from the alleged emissions fraud that the likes of Volkswagen have been engaged in prompting a recall of 9 million cars. Whilst today's news is of Nissan forced to issue a recall for 1.6 million SUV's due to the risk of air bag injury. Meanwhile in the UK at least Vauxhall has been forced to recall all 220,000 UK Zafira B models that are at a real risk of catching fire and even exploding! As prompted by countless customer experiences of Zafira's catching fire over the past few years and hence prompting Vauxhall to finally act.
Wednesday, May 27, 2015
National Holidays London and the Magic of Legoland UK Review / ConsumerWatch / Holidays
By: Sami_Walayat
The summer holidays are fast approaching and many families in a time of austerity are looking towards UK based short break holidays such as at the various theme parks around the UK of which one of the most popular is LegoLand Windsor that fits in well with a day's sight seeing tour of London. Therefore this is a review of what to expect from the National Holidays offering of a London and Legoland 2 day coach trip holiday taken during the month of July.
Friday, January 02, 2015
Sheffield BT Infinity Broadband Speed Review - What to Know Before Signing Up! / ConsumerWatch / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
BT still retains a telecoms monopoly across most of Britain's major cities with competitors such as Virgin Media having only made marginal headway into competing for fibre optic broadband services. This article illustrates what people in cities such as Sheffield can typically expect after signing up to BT Infinity in terms of quality of service and broadband speeds.
Wednesday, November 26, 2014
TrueShopping.co.uk Real Customer Experience Review - Online Shopping Lessons / ConsumerWatch / Shopping
By: Nadeem_Walayat
At the start of November with winter fast approaching and the temperature starting to drop, I decided it was time to get a decent set of ladders to enable me to complete a whole host of maintenance tasks before winter and after much searching settled on a large 12 rung Triple Extension Ladder supplied by the online retailer TrueShopping.co.uk, that could also be used as double extension step ladder though which lacked adequate online customer reviews though I did not think it would make much material difference to products such as ladders.
Friday, November 07, 2014
Tesco Empire Strikes Back, £5 off £40 Discount Voucher Spend Explained, Exclusions Warning! / ConsumerWatch / Money Saving
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Tesco, Britain's super market giant that continuous to implode as a consequence of a soaring debt mountain against a collapse in profits, a crisis further compounded by multiple investigations into financial irregularities by the regulator and SFO - Serious Fraud Office, appears to be going for broke by launching back to back £5 off vouchers for £40 spend on your next £40 shop offers in an attempt to reclaim its lost customers from the discount retailers.
Monday, May 12, 2014
Sheffield House Fire that Killed Family of 5 Caused by Faulty Mobile Charger / ConsumerWatch / Health and Safety
By: N_Walayat
The Sheffield Wake Road house fire that killed a family of 5 including 3 children 2 weeks ago is said by South Yorkshire Police and Fire investigators to have most probably been started by a faulty charging device such as a mobile charger.
South Yorkshire Police stated: "Following a joint investigation, South Yorkshire Police and South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue have found that the most probable cause of the fatal house fire in Wake Road, Nether Edge, Sheffield, was an electrical fault involving a faulty charging device.
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Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Bitcoin Ponzi Scam Crash Update - MTGox Vanishing Act, Who Will be Next ? / ConsumerWatch / Bitcoin
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Holders of the Bitcoin fictional currency remain in a state of denial as MtGox, the worlds largest Bitcoin exchange has effectively gone bust after a fortnight of statements that they would soon resume allowing clients to transfer their funds and bitcoins out of 'Magic the Gathering', instead MTGox has disappeared in a puff of smoke with some estimated 750,000 of customer bitcoins that at the current average market price of $500 (illiquid price) would be worth $375 million.
Thursday, February 07, 2013
The 10 Greatest Financial Scams in History / ConsumerWatch / Scams
By: Money_Morning
Over the past 40 years, only one new entry has been added to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) roster of "Top 10" investment scams - the very broad category of "Internet fraud."
The other financial rip-offs listed are merely new versions of tried and true swindles that have been around for decades or more - from Ponzi schemes and pyramid systems to phony stock offerings and commodity cons.
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