Analysis Topic: Consumer Watch
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Wednesday, October 09, 2019
Amazon Selling Fake Hard Drives - 4tb WD Blue - How to Check Your Drive is Genuine / ConsumerWatch / Amazon
By: HGR
This video was supposed to be a review of a 4tb WD Blue drive bought from Amazon for £95. However, that's not how things turned out during the course of the review when it become apparent that the drive was a FAKE, a cheaper drive that had a WD Blue stuck onto it.
So watch this video for the necessary checks to perform on ALL New hard drives to ensure that your not unwittingly buying and using a FAKE Hard drive, and thus putting your valuable data at risk.
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Sunday, October 06, 2019
Check Engine Warning Light ECU Dealer Diagnostic Cost - Land Rover Discovery Sport / ConsumerWatch / Land Rover
By: HGR
My Land Rover Discovery Sport has just gone out of the manufacturers 3 year warranty and up pops the dreaded yellow engine managment warning light which could be triggered by something simple as a the fuel cap, faulty sensor or as expensive as a major fault with the engine. And this landrovers only done 18,000 miles!
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Friday, September 27, 2019
Land Rover Discovery Sport Engine Management Warning / ConsumerWatch / Land Rover
By: HGR
My Land Rover Discovery Sport has just gone out of the manufacturers 3 year warranty and up pops the dreaded yellow engine managment warning light which could be triggered by something simple as a the fuel cap, faulty sensor or as expensive as a major fault with the engine. And this landrovers only done 18,000 miles!
Anyway here's what to expect when you own a Land Rover Discovery Sport when the engine management warning light pops up on your dashboard.
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Monday, September 23, 2019
Thomas Cook COLLAPSE! 300,000 Passengers Stranded, Flights Cancelled, Planes Grounded / ConsumerWatch / Airline Sector
By: HGR
One of the world's oldest and largest travel companies, Thomas Cook has gone bust, ceased trading, all planes have been grounded whilst all planes in the air have been ordered to return back to the UK and all booked future flights and holidays have been cancelled. With the Thomas Cook website stating that the company has entered into compulsory liquidation.
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Saturday, July 06, 2019
JLR Electric Land Rovers Coming Soon Following Climate Change Collapse of Diesel Car Sales / ConsumerWatch / Land Rover
By: HGR
So Jaguar Land Rover has finally woken up to realise that the petro car age is coming to an end so it is going to invest £1 billion in developing electric cars. This follows the announcement of a record £3.6 billion annual loss and 6,500 job losses last year following the collapse of diesel sales which has seen a 50% CRASH in UK new car sales due to increasing climate change panic and government announcements to move towards a zero carbon emissions economy by 2050
Where carbon emissions are concerned, the number 1 culprit is transport that generates green house gasses of more than twice that of conventional power stations with emissions down less than 3% since 1990.
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Wednesday, June 19, 2019
How Long Do Land Rover Discovery Sport Brake Pads Last? / ConsumerWatch / Land Rover
By: HGR
How long can you realistically expect your Land Rover Discovery sports brake pads to last? For instance many cars can go for as long as 70,000 miles before they need new brake pads. However, the Discovery Sports discs are prone to corrosion of and excessive wear of brake pads both front and rear can occur. So your not going to get anywhere near what one usually expects from such vehicles regardless of driving style as my latest Land Rover Discovery Sport video reveals of when you can expect to see the dreaded yellow Worn Break Pads warning pop up on your dash board.
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Friday, June 07, 2019
Land Rover Discovery Sport Brake Pads Expected Life, Worn Pads Dash Warning / ConsumerWatch / Land Rover
By: HGR
How long can you expect your Land Rover Discovery sports brake pads to last? And what happens when they approach the time to replace them in terms of dashboard warning messages. So find out when to budget for replacement brake pads in our latest Discovery sport video.
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Monday, June 03, 2019
LinkedIn Hack Scam Extortion Emails / ConsumerWatch / Cyber Crime
By: Nadeem_Walayat
It's another day and another scam email lands in my email box trying to extort bitcoins out of me, giving me 24 hours to make payment else supposed footage of compromising activities grabbed from a web cam will be immediately made available to the whole wide world. And before you ask No, I don't have a web cam connected to my computer.
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Tuesday, May 28, 2019
Avoiding Hype-Burn Amidst IPO Stock Mania / ConsumerWatch / IPOs
By: Harry_Dent
Given that we’re in the greatest global bubble in history, almost everything is overvalued. We’re expecting central banks to keep printing money, interest rates to stay near zero, growth to continue “into a plateau of prosperity.” Just like 1929.Dare us to say: it’s hard to find good value investments out there.
Look at this chart of accelerating IPOs at higher and higher prices, most often from companies that have no or little profits. People are buying into the bubble at prices that companies could not possibly fulfill even in many years, if ever. They don’t call these companies “unicorns” for nothing.
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Monday, May 13, 2019
Amazon SCAM Deliveries for Fake Verified Purchaser Reviews "Brushing" / ConsumerWatch / Amazon
By: HGR
We, like an increasing number of people have been on the receiving end of products from Amazon that we NEVER ORDERED! Random low priced stuff without any info of who's sending the item and most of it usually completely useless.
So what's going on?
Is someone you know sending you junk to wind you up? We'll it's likely an Amazon SCAM called 'Brushing'. Where the primary purpose is for the Seller to be able to write a glowing Amazon verified purchaser FAKE review so as to entice Amazon customers to buy.
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Tuesday, April 09, 2019
Are Fake Electronics Goods Worth Buying? Turkey Fethiye Market / ConsumerWatch / Shopping
By: Anika_Walayat
If your going to be holidaying in Turkey this year and are anywhere near the Dalaman / Fethiye area then you MUST visit the Fethiye Tuesday market! It is huge! Vibrant, bustling with variety, Turkish culture in action with plenty of bargains to be had if your upto the haggling challenge. It's a experience in its out right and its FREE, apart from the shopping. You get to see a side of the world that you don't usually see, full of tourists from all over the world of all types and ages, a true melting pot.
The market sells virtually everything under the sun, food, fruit, sweets, electronics, bags, all sorts of bags, trinkets, shoes, jewellery and clothes, tons of clothes, from the mainstay for tourists t-shirt's tons and tons of t-shirts to the local traditional garments.
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Tuesday, March 19, 2019
KitKat's "Make a Break for It" 2019 Travel Goodies Promo, Has Anyone Won Anything? / ConsumerWatch / Freebies and Comps
By: Anika_Walayat
KitKat's 2019 promotion that went live online on the 1st of Feb, promoting 10 top prizes of holidays worth £8,000 each to be instantly won by finding a golden ticket inside a Kitkat packet has just 10 days left to run. Also there were supposedly 100 getaway goodies to be won EVERY DAY just by entering the codes found on the inside of Kitkat wrappers which means this 'should' have been an easy to win promotion.
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Tuesday, March 05, 2019
Fake Electronics Market Goods Are They Worth it? Testing Beats Headphones and Karaoke Mike / ConsumerWatch / Shopping
By: HGR
Go to on holiday to China, Turkey, virtually any tourist destination, you'll soon find how common markets for knock of goods and clothes are. As was our experience on our last trip to Turkey, specifically to visit the giant open air market at Fethiye where virtually every good was on show at knock down prices, this even before we attempted to negotiate the price down.
In this video we buy and test a Beats headphone for £15 (UK price £120), and a Karaoke Mike for £10 (£50 UK price). Of course we tested to make sure they worked at the time of purchase which they did, but are they the same, similar and most importantly do they LAST! Do they still work several months later, find out as we answer the question do you actually save money by buying knock off goods or not.
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Tuesday, March 05, 2019
Fethiye Tuesday Market - Shopping Top Tips for Buying Cheap Clothes - Turkey Holidays 2019 / ConsumerWatch / Shopping
By: Anika_Walayat
If your going to be holidaying in Turkey this year and are anywhere near the Dalaman / Fethiye area then you MUST visit the Fethiye Tuesday market! It is huge! Vibrant, bustling with variety, Turkish culture in action with plenty of bargains to be had if your upto the haggling challenge. It's a experience in its out right and its FREE, apart from the shopping. You get to see a side of the world that you don't usually see, full of tourists from all over the world of all types and ages, a true melting pot.
The market sells virtually everything under the sun, food, fruit, sweets, electronics, bags, all sorts of bags, trinkets, shoes, jewellery and clothes, tons of clothes, from the mainstay for tourists t-shirt's tons and tons of t-shirts to the local traditional garments. Where in this video we focus on shopping for clothes, giving our top tips of where to start and what to expect in terms of pricing!
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Friday, February 15, 2019
Virgin Media's Increasingly Unreliable Broadband Service / ConsumerWatch / ISP's
By: N_Walayat
The following map says it all of what to expect as a customer of Virgin Media. Where once livable outages of an hour or so are turning into near 24 hour losses of service.
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Wednesday, February 06, 2019
Olympus TG-5 Underwater Swimming Pool Video Test - Waterproof Tough Camera Review / ConsumerWatch / Technology
By: HGR
Here is our 7th REAL user video review of the Olympus Tough TG-5 Camera, where we test to see if it lives up to its primary sales pitch of being waterproof by plunging the camera into a swimming pool for the first time! So find out what the quality of the video and sound is like from the TG-5 once its been plunged under water a few times.
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Monday, January 14, 2019
Real Reason for Land Rover Crisis is Poor Quality of Build / ConsumerWatch / Auto Sector
By: N_Walayat
Land Rover is under severe distress due to a collapse in sales. In my opinion I think Land Rover is deing due to poor quality of build. For instance a car thats 2 years old should NOT have bubbling paint work! So here's what you need to know before buying an approved used Land Rover in 2019. My comprehensive review after having owned and driven Land Rover's popular Discovery Sport's model (HSE Black trim) for over 1 year. Now knowing what I should have known a year earlier of what to look out for, with the video covering the following topics -
Friday, January 04, 2019
What to Know When Buying an Approved Used Land Rover 2019 / ConsumerWatch / Motoring
By: N_Walayat
Here's what you need to know when buying an approved used Land Rover in 2019. As my comprehensive mega review of after having owned and driven Land Rover's popular Discovery Sport's model in a HSE Black trim for over 1 year! Answering questions I should have asked a year earlier of what you would need to know before buying, after having put the car through its paces of what to expect under real world driving conditions, with the video covering the following topics -
Thursday, January 03, 2019
Britain's Tortured Commuters Hit With Rail Fare Hikes / ConsumerWatch / Travel & Holidays
By: Adnaan_Walayat
Britain's tortured commuters have been hit with their annual new year rail fare price hikes of typically 3.2% as an automatic reward for the rail companies for delivering another year of anxiety inducing bad rail services, one of daily delays and cancellations with the rail companies ready with a string of worthless excuses as they play pass the parcel between themselves and network rail.
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Sunday, December 30, 2018
Buying a Land Rover Discovery Sport in 2019 - What You Need to Know / ConsumerWatch / Motoring
By: N_Walayat
Considering buying a Land Rover Discovery Sport in 2019. We'll here is my comprehensive mega review of what's good and bad about the car after having owned and driven a HSE Black trim for over 1 year! All of your questions answered that you would need to ask before buying a Discovery Sport, after having put the car through its paces for a whole year of driving, of what to expect under real world driving conditions, all that is good and bad which includes the following and more -