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• Consumer newsletter subscriptions. Am I paranoid, or is it just me?

  Published: September 18, 2007, 4:48 pm

  Tags: Eddie Hobbs, Consumer Affairs, National Consumer Agency, European Consumer Centre, Nca, Brendan Investments

  to this one here. National Consumer Agency consumer alerts subscribe here for this one. As I've never received any communications yet, I have resubscribed to all of the above again. So, either these promised communications are never actually sent (and if so, then why bother advertising a newsletter apart from just hoarding

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• saynoto1890.com, unless you are a "body corporate"

  Published: September 20, 2007, 4:14 pm

  Tags: National Consumer Agency, Ifsra, Financial Regulator, Callsave, Www Saynoto1890 Com, Nca, Locall

  supposed to be protecting us consumers from - at least when it comes to calling them.National Consumer Agency - Consumer HelpLine - Lo-call 1890 432 432 - contact us page is here.National Consumer Agency - Corporate HelpLine - Call 01 402 5500 - contact us page is hereFinancial Regulator - Consumer HelpLine - Lo call 1890 77 77 77 - contact us

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• The good and the bad of shopping in Lidl and Aldi

  Published: September 22, 2007, 7:34 am

  Tags: Aldi, Grocery Prices, National Consumer Agency, Nca, Lidl

  Thanks to Primal Sneeze for the link in the "Serious Rant" section of the links on the site. Some very interesting comments on Primal Sneeze and worth keeping track of. His current post A Shopping Un-list is interesting in the light of some of the coverage following our Lidl and Aldi addition to the NCA Grocery Survey.While we did point out the

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• National Consumer Agency - Yet another useless government agency

  Published: September 25, 2007, 4:22 pm

  Tags: Useless Regulators, National Consumer Agency, Nca, Office Of Director Of Corporate Enforcement

  of the uselessness of the National Consumer Agency. First of all, how many employees are there in the NCA? And they still can only come up with a pre-written bog-standard generic unhelpful PFO e-mail reply to a complaint? In almost a carbon copy of the response I received from the similarly useless Office of Director of Corporate

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• The most realistic, imaginary pretend thing you will read. But it's true.

  Published: September 27, 2007, 5:12 am

  Tags: Irishblogs, Humour, Activism, Technology, Business, Web, Blog, America, Satire, Lidl, Politics, Aldi, Fluffy, National Consumer Agency, Cows Guns

  Politics, Aldi, fluffy, National Consumer Agency,

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• Mixed Responses to "just and no more" MCD Compensation

  Published: October 1, 2007, 3:40 pm

  Tags: Barbara Streisand, National Consumer Agency, Consumer Association Of Ireland, Mcd, Nca

  50/50. Dermott Jewell of the Consumer Association of Ireland said it was a "poor deal" for consumers.In what I think is a disgraceful "archers salute" type response to Mr. Jewell and consumers, the acting chief executive of the National Consumer Agency, Ms.Ann Fitzgerald disagreed, said it was a good deal and said "if people were unhappy they

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• Newsletters - I was just paranoid apparently

  Published: October 1, 2007, 3:27 pm

  Tags: Competition Authority, You Your Money, National Consumer Agency, Nca, Newsletters

  e-mail newsletter from the National Consumer Agency last week announcing their happiness with the MCD compensation announcement. I have also received newsletter 6 from the You & Your Money website. If you're interested in consumer stuff, they're worth subscribing to.Just an addition, one agency who are pretty consistent with their e-mail

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• Problems with 3 Mobile Broadband

  Published: October 15, 2007, 4:10 pm

  Tags: National Consumer Agency, 3 Broadband, Nca, Comreg, 3 Mobile

  I have complained frequently here about my 3 Mobile service frequently in the past (here, here, and here) before moving to Vodafone (and being completely happy in the year since moving)Today I received an e-mail from a fellow blogger asking me to bring to your attention the issues many people are currently having with the 3 Mobile Broadband

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• AIB confirms further theft of money from their customers

  Published: October 20, 2007, 10:48 am

  Tags: Aib, National Consumer Agency, Ripoff Ireland, Financial Regulator, Overcharging

  2004, 1,375,973 Irish consumers have been overcharged by approximately 112m. This is the true scale of "Rip Off Ireland" yet where are the National Consumer Agency or the Financial Regulator when it comes to addressing this theft from Irish consumers?

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• Spreading the consumer love - some recent press releases

  Published: November 19, 2007, 5:45 pm

  Tags: National Consumer Agency, Financial Regulator, Press Releases

  Financial Regulator and the National Consumer Agency.Save hundreds on your home and life insurance premiums - The Financial Regulator has updated their Cost Surveys for buying home insurance and life insurance. Check out the news here and follow the links to their surveys.Online 'shopping assistant' helps EU consumers - The National Consumer

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• Further evidence of how useless the NCA are!

  Published: November 21, 2007, 4:32 pm

  Tags: Useless Regulators, National Consumer Agency, Nca, Office Of Director Of Corporate Enforcement

  I wrote about how the National Consumer Agency and the Office of Director of Corporate Enforcement were taking to writing to PFO letters to this Irish consumers coming to them for help.Some time ago, I found a further example of such a letter from the NCA sent to Ach go h irithe after a complaint about drinks pricing in a Dublin bar.

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• I really hope this is a sarcastic post on Shitedrivers.com

  Published: December 11, 2007, 5:43 pm

  Tags: National Consumer Agency, Www Shitedrivers Com, Buying Used Cars, Euroncap

  Used Cars. Or check out the National Consumer Agency "Guide to Buying A Car".

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• Fluffy Links - Wednesday January 9th 2008

  Published: January 11, 2008, 4:28 am

  Tags: Consumer Association Of Ireland, Irishblogs, Price Rises, Fluffy, Petrol Prices, Dermott Jewell, Lidl, Irish Independent, Aldi, Saving Money, National Consumer Agency, Nca, James Doorley, Irish Consumerist

  1 more posts on this topic: Consumer Association, Association Ireland, Consumers' Association, Home Heating, Heating OilKeywords: home heating, heating oil, dermott jewell, jewell, dull question, YEAR2008, dermott, consumer association, heating, association, oil, whos best, cork sorry, whos available,

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• Canny Cash Tips - from the Irish Independent

  Published: January 8, 2008, 4:19 pm

  Tags: Aldi, National Consumer Agency, Nca, Lidl, Saving Money, Irish Independent

  and we wondered why the National Consumer Agency weren't telling consumers that fact.There are two paragraphs in the article about saving money. I'd like to expand on those by proposing again the Value Ireland Savings Plan. Check out how it works here.

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• Press Ombudsman & Council - just another useless Irish regulator?

  Published: January 13, 2008, 4:57 pm

  Tags: National Consumer Agency, Lazy Journalists, Press Ombudsman, Irish Independent, Press Council, Office Of Director Of Corporate Enforcement

  As of January 1st, 2008 the Press Ombudsman and the Press Council of Ireland are no in place. According to the Press Council of Ireland website, everybody in Ireland now has access to an independent press complaints mechanism that is quick, fair and free. This is one of the most positive developments in the history of Ireland's newspapers and

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