ECR Consumerwatch

SA rapper MarazA was detained at the exit of a Pick n Pay in Joburg on Monday night while his R8300 purchases were “verified”. So what actually happened. Wendy Knowler spoke to the former KZN resident to find out more...

So you want to sell your car privately to get a better price than you would if you went through a dealer, but how safe is it? One of the case studies in the Ombudsman for Short Term Insurance’s annual report for 2016 which was released on Tuesday will let you know how safe it is...

IF you buy something and it doesn’t fit, can you take it back for a refund? That's what Wendy Knowler discusses in today's East Coast Radio Consumerwatch. More here...

Beds for Africa was a major national bed retailer with at least 14 branches around the country, seven of them in KZN, but many of them have been closed or sold in the past six months, including the Hillcrest, Newcastle and Richards Bay branches, leaving only a few open for trading. That is until May 8 when the last of those doors closed, and that was that. 
No notices put up, no explanation, nothing.The thing is, that was almost a month after the company was liquidated. Wendy Knowler investigates

The reality is that e-fraud is growing as fast as e-commerce, so while you may be thinking "no way would I ever fall for that puppy scam", you may go online to buy something else - a football jersey, maybe, or a camera - and end up unwittingly transferring money into a fraudster’s account. So a lot of the red flags in this scam story will apply to other online scams.

South Africa’s biggest non-food retailer has been found guilty of charging hundreds of thousands, if not millions of its account-holders an illegal fee. Find out more with Wendy Knowler in today's ECR Consumerwatch.

How can it be legal for a product called a beef patty to have as little as 36% beef in it? That’s generally how people react when they hear that a beef patty contains little more than a third beef. But it’s perfectly legal - provided the percentage of beef is revealed prominently on the packaging.

While cancer is what most people are suffering or dying from in all other provinces, in KZN it’s cardiac or cardiovascular events - heart and blood vessels issues, in other words. The data doesn’t apply to the entire population, but to the 40% who have long term insurance products - mainly life cover, income protection and chronic diseases cover. Wendy Knowler picks up the story.

I think it’s fair to say that 2017 has not got off to a great start for Ford South Africa. And late yesterday it got a bit worse - the manufacturer announced the voluntary recall of another Ford. Wendy Knowler has the details...

The ban on taking laptops and tablets into the cabin on certain flights into the US and UK is about a lot more than not being able to do some work on your laptop on that long haul flight, says Wendy Knowler.