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Hosted by Wendy Knowler · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 57 episodes
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Know your rights as a consumer. ECR’s Consumer Watchdog, Wendy Knowler, is giving us daily consumer tips to help empower you as a consumer. Here are the latest Consumer Hacks with Wendy Knowler.
Wendy Knowler hosts Consumer Hacks with Wendy Knowler, a education show with 57 episodes published.
Store cards can quietly drain your wallet through monthly service fees, even if you have what you assume is a zero balance. Last month Woolworths raised its store card fee to R52.49 a month, applying it even to those cus
Nico Grobler and his wife bought two Grafton Everest leather recliners from Tafelberg Furnishers. A few years in, the leather on the armrests and leg rests began to wear and scuff – prematurely, in their view. But becaus
Home Affairs has launched a site that shows you the closest bank branch where you can apply for a Smart ID Card. It's at myhomeaffairsonline.dha.gov.za. There are 372 participating branches so far, and new ones appear on
When you pay a company by EFT, where do you get the banking details? If they’re saved in your banking app, that’s worth a second thought. A Truworths account holder made debt repayments using saved beneficiary details, b
A couple flew from Joburg to Auckland, with the return journey via Perth, but were refused boarding because their Perth layover was longer than eight hours, meaning they needed an Australian transit visa. Being Sunday af
Balloon payments are appealing in that you get the car for a smaller “affordable” monthly payment, BUT a big lump sum awaits you after six or seven years. On a R350 000 car over five years, a 20% balloon knocks around R8
Spotted a slick online shop with a South African-sounding name and great prices? Look twice. A lot of them aren’t local at all. They are fronts for sellers shipping from China. And those appealing pics are all AI. So, yo
Why? Not because the Ombud is in bed with the insurers as many assume. Because many consumers didn’t fully grasp what they were and weren’t covered for, or hadn’t met their side of the policy in terms of the security or
An awful form of bank fraud is on the rise – it’s called Business Email Compromise. Here how it works - a fraudster hacks into an email exchange, waits for an invoice, then swaps in their own banking details before it re
Here is a fast-growing scam - fraudsters copy your social media account, your name, your photo, even your videos, and set up a near-identical fake. Then they slide into your followers’ comments and messages, posing as yo
If you buy a used car on finance and it turns out to be a lemon, don’t spend all your energy on the dealer. The bank that financed it is on the hook too. Our Supreme Court of Appeal confirmed it recently: when a bank fin
When you apply for vehicle finance through a dealership, the finance manager submits your application to multiple banks - and gets back a "podium" showing every offer, with different rates and terms. They're not obliged
When your cellphone contract expires and you haven't given 30 days' notice to cancel or signed a new deal, your network can move you onto a month-to-month rate — at a dramatically higher price. Nadene's MTN contract was
When you search for a product category on a grocery app like Checkers Sixty60, the results aren't random — they're influenced by which brands have paid for keyword placement. Search "tea" and Five Roses appears first; th
Retailers - online and in-store - are experts at manufacturing urgency such as flash sales, "only 2 left," countdown timers. The antidote is simple: wait three days before purchasing any unplanned, non-essential item. Wr
Streaming services, fitness apps, cloud storage, that online magazine you signed up for during lockdown - subscriptions are designed to be easy to start and easy to forget. Go through your bank or credit card statement a
Most appliance breakdowns are preventable. Run white vinegar through your dishwasher on a hot cycle once a month - it clears limescale and grease and can add years to the machine's life. Also, pull your fridge away from
Organised syndicates are targeting travellers with expensive watches at South African airports - and security checkpoints are a favourite hunting ground. The tactic: spot the watch, wait for it to land in a screening tra
Supermarket shelf-stackers always load new stock behind old, nudging you to grab what's in front - the stuff closest to its sell-by date. Make a habit of reaching to the back of the shelf for dairy, bread, meat, and any
The Consumer Protection Act gives you six months from taking delivery of a used car to return it to the dealer at their cost if it has a major defect. But you need to discover that defect first. A long road trip is the b
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Consumer Hacks with Wendy Knowler is hosted by Wendy Knowler. The show is categorised under education (self improvement) and has published 57 episodes.
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