Most goods that you buy will be covered by a manufacturer’s warranty that lasts for the first twelve months from the date of purchase but any Manufacturer’s Warranty is issued in addition to the protection you enjoy under Sale of Goods legislation. This legislation allows you to bring an action against the retailer that sold you the faulty goods for up to six
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Call free from July
One of the biggest bugbears about mobile phone contracts is the excessive charges that have been levied on calls to numbers that are free when called from landlines. Freephone numbers have never been free when called from mobile devices, and to add insult to injury often have to re-dialled since the mobile device won’t recognise the number until the initial…
Read MoreAvoiding a post-holiday disaster
Without wanting to put a dampener on your holiday mood (the weather is probably doing that for you already!), but we’re told that a quarter of us come back from our summer holiday last year to find a domestic disaster waiting for us. The most common problem is a water leak followed by a boiler breakdown, burglary and an infestation of…
Read MoreKeeping safe online.
Identity theft is still causing us problems, and part of the reason is that we are too free with the information we share with others on-line. According to Experian more than a quarter of us have shared our full name and date of birth on a social media site, and less than half of us have different passwords for each…
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