Home insurance renewal arrived the other day. £500
Put all the policy details in to comparethemarket.com and got the same policy with another insurer for £340 (although the excess is less on the new one), so accepted it.
Called current insurer the following day to...

Need to get a new bed, does anyone have any recommendations, where to buy or not buy due to good/bad experiences?

Stop the hard sell: exposed bad bank advice and pushy sales tactics in branches across the country

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 11th December 2013 11:29.

Since September 2012, This is Money has opened an ugly can of worms revealing some shocking practices...

Lloyds fined £28m for 'sell or be demoted' incentive plan

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 11th December 2013 11:32.

*Regulator slaps its biggest ever retail fine on Lloyds Banking Group for creating a culture of mis-selling by incentivising staff to sell......

The bank where four in ten staff are paid to rip off customers

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 6th September 2012 09:04.

*Taxpayer-backed Lloyds facing fine over claims it mis-sold products* * A probe into banks' incentive schemes uncovered 'serious' failings......

A friend of mine went to her local curves gym yesterday and it was a pretty hard sell, she had to basically sign up there and then it was a lot of pressure (we know how gyms can be)


However, Today she has seen that this wasn't a wise choice very high membership for very shotty...

Funeral directors are using hard sell tactics on vulnerable families, trying to push added extras such as embalming, to increase the price. Requests for a ‘simple’ funeral are...

Say no to your bank's hard sell

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 18th October 2011 08:16.

*When banks go beyond current accounts they tend to offer poor value. * Barclays is our most complained about bank, clocking up customer...

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Just a mini rant...

I need to lose weight and get fit, but I need to do it safely taking into account my health problems. Which means joining a gym, where there'll be personal trainers on hand to supervise and advise me.

But NONE of them advertise their prices! I went...

Sub-Prime Credit Products

Sub Prime does not mean that it is not as good, as say prime credit, it simply means that if your credit is far from perfect, you may be accepted by one of the companies below as their credit scoring model is designed to accommodate higher risk, whereas mainstream lenders'...