Consumer TV Series on television

[5corpio]

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Fake Britain

This Week Monday 24th September 2012 @ 19.30 BBC 1:
In this episode, the scandal of the fake charity collections taking advantage of your generosity - we see for ourselves how it's done, and how it's costing legitimate charities millions. Also, the chip shops shifting fake fish, and the perils of not knowing what you are eating. Plus the fake firework-bangers being sold to schoolchildren, which are both illegal and dangerous.Since the making of this programme, Macmillan Cancer Support have asked us to point out that they do now make home clothing collections.


Linky: BBC One - Fake Britain, Series 3, Episode 8

Next Week:

Fake Britain
BBC 1
Series 3 - Episode 9
Monday 1st October 2012 @ 19.30

In this episode, the fake firefighter crying wolf to relieve honest shopkeepers of their cash... at gunpoint. And the dangerous counterfeit vodka that could leave you with more than just a headache - we're with Trading Standards as they crack down on the shopkeepers that are selling it.

Linky: BBC One - Fake Britain, Series 3, Episode 9

[5corpio]

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Yep I can vouch for this - ours (5yrs old now) seems to be falling apart, why does everything last 5yrs till end of builder warranty before dying? Pain in the ass.

Our patio door just combusted the other day, literally it just shattered for no reason whatsoever..... plus bathroom 1 main tap is broken so thats a few hundred out of pocket - 2 months after warranty ended.

Utter bollocks. :niddy

Not watched it yet, been busy typing here, and there lol

[PlanB]

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Yep I can vouch for this - ours (5yrs old now) seems to be falling apart, why does everything last 5yrs till end of builder warranty before dying? Pain in the ass.

Our patio door just combusted the other day, literally it just shattered for no reason whatsoever..... plus bathroom 1 main tap is broken so thats a few hundred out of pocket - 2 months after warranty ended.

Every newbuild has to obtain a NHBC warranty before it gets signed off by building control. This is a 10 year warranty which is transferred to each new buyer when the property changes hands. I think windows (and therefore your patio doors) are covered by the insurance

http://www.nhbc.co.uk/Warrantiesandcover/Homeowners/

[Never-In-Doubt]

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Every newbuild has to obtain a NHBC warranty before it gets signed off by building control. This is a 10 year warranty which is transferred to each new buyer when the property changes hands. I think windows (and therefore your patio doors) are covered by the insurance

http://www.nhbc.co.uk/Warrantiesandcover/Homeowners/

Thanks, It's not NHBC (that is useless) - I am specifically referring to the actual builder 5yr warranty

see this ---> 5 year warranty | Barratt Homes


p.s. We pay for the faults, that's just the way it is

[The Tech Clerk]

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Barratt = lego build!!!

[SXGuy]

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I honestly believe warrenty is calculated based on life expectancy and not any other way round.

Otherwise they would loose to much money repairing things they knew would pack up. But thats life i spose.

Years ago things would last forever, but as mass production began to increase so the life expectancy decreased.

Quick sales, long term profit, short term losses.

[5corpio]

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Panaroma: 1st October 2012 @ 8.30pm

Undercover: Debt on the Doorstep

The economy is showing few signs of recovery, but one area of business is doing well: door-to-door loans. Panorama investigates the debt business, a world of cash on the doorstep and high interest rates. We go undercover to reveal the tactics of the trade: the real costs of a loan and the techniques which mean that some customers may never clear their debt. And we find victims - the vulnerable and mentally ill, who are sold loans in apparent breach of industry guidelines....Linky: Panorama, Undercover: Debt on the Doorstep

[Never-In-Doubt]

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Lynch mob anyone, anyone

Panorama Special - lynch mob hunt and kill 500 doorstep bullies in vicious act of revenge based of the spineless attitude of the regulators....

** wake up niddy

[LooLoo]

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o god just watching this

[PlanB]

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Dear OFT,

At what point does the penny finally drop?

Yours sincerely.

Plan B xx

[jen_br]

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Dear OFT,

At what point does the penny finally drop?

Yours sincerely.

Plan B xx

Dear Diary,

Today sucked a little more

Love OFT

[SaltnVinegar]

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At the point where the OFT stops believing the arguments put forward by those companies who *claim* to follow certain criteria but in reality, all they do is lie, fib and tell porkies!

They will continue to believe it for as long as its convenient.

Its far easier for them to believe their own propaganda than to admit there are serious failings in regulating short term lenders.

The sooner they are defunct the better...

[5corpio]

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Update on last night screening:

Doorstep lender criticised over loans to vulnerable

Britain's biggest doorstep lender has been criticised after a BBC investigation found it had loaned thousands of pounds to a woman with a serious mental illness. The woman, a diagnosed schizophrenic, was given multiple loans. The Citizens Advice Bureau accused the firm, Provident Financial, of lacking social responsibility. Provident said in a statement it makes every effort to ensure borrowers are capable of.....Read more on our Blog Pages: Doorstep lender criticised over loans to vulnerable - allaboutFORUMS

[The Tech Clerk]

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Update on last night screening:

Doorstep lender criticised over loans to vulnerable

Britain's biggest doorstep lender has been criticised after a BBC investigation found it had loaned thousands of pounds to a woman with a serious mental illness. The woman, a diagnosed schizophrenic, was given multiple loans. The Citizens Advice Bureau accused the firm, Provident Financial, of lacking social responsibility. Provident said in a statement it makes every effort to ensure borrowers are capable of.....Read more on our Blog Pages: Doorstep lender criticised over loans to vulnerable - allaboutFORUMS

Provident = Nothing new there then.

[The Tech Clerk]

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The short-term lending issue would be dead easy to sort out. A Nordic friend of mine has told me that, in Finland, interest rates are capped, there is a maximum any lender can charge. Although I don't know the exact figure, it's somewhere around 50%. Quite high compared to mainstream credit cards and loans, but much lower than rates charged by PDL and doorstep lenders in the UK.

If there was a similar cap here, the incentive to set up new supbrime cowboy outfits to prey on the vulnerable would go away. Many would exit the market but this wouldn't be a bad thing, would it? Although I'm sure there would be lots of arguments defending short-term lending as usual!

Use to be 48% here in the 60s as I remember, course greed since over decades has brought about the problems now.