Category Archives: Consumer Problems
Property Developer Ordered to Stop Work Three Times
Prestige Homes Construction Limited, a property developer based in Manchester, has ended up in court after the Health and Safety Executive issued the firm with three Prohibition Notices to stop …
Farepak compensation process problems
The government have recently been called on to intervene with the compensation process underway for those who suffered when the Christmas hamper company, Farepak, went out of business over five …
Crash for cash conmen get the attention of Anti-motor fraud unit
A team of investigators that work in a unique way are fighting back against the ‘crash for cash’ fraudsters and others who are making bogus claims, and have just completed …
PPI accounts for half of all financial complaints
In the final three months of last year over 50 percent of the complaints that the Financial Ombudsman Service received was in regard to PPI, or payment protection insurance. It …
PPI claims running at 3000 a week
According to the latest figures, compensation has been paid out to hundreds of thousands of people for being mis-sold payment protection insurance, or PPI, with banks forking out £557m in …
Car dealers still most complained about group
This week official complaints have been continued be lodged against car dealers and this shows that car dealerships are the most complained about business in the UK. Nearly 60,000 people …
Mobile market and consumer questions
Some analysts in the mobile market have been saying that the smartphone is the new window for companies to increase brand awareness among their consumers. More people than ever before …
Energy Ombudsman exposes energy company complaints
Recently information has been released by the Energy Ombudsman that has showed the number of complaints about energy firms have sky rocketed by over 80% in recent months. In September …
Northern Ireland is conmans paradise
It is estimated that the people in Northern Ireland are being conned out of £100 million a year by scams being operated against them. These figures have come out of …
Trading standards warn about online counterfeit Christmas gifts
The trading standards service in Oxfordshire has said that people should be careful about buying gifts online as Christmas approaches. It has already recorded complaints about online retailers rising by …