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Vulnerable elderly people get signed up for services they do not want or have not asked for.

Here’s my pick of the ways in which service providers “inconvenienced” their customers in 2023.

Lower interest rates and food inflation could spell relief in the coming year, but in the meantime we can shop smart to make savings.

Efforts to more efficiently investigate and finalise fraudulent contract cases would be a huge help.

Insurers will find any reason to decline a claim. Many consumers believe that, and it’s certainly true that insurers have been found to have rejected claims without the necessary justification — last year 29% of complaints lodged against insurers by their clients were resolved by the Ombudsman of Short-Term Insurance either totally or partly in the consumers’ favour.

Of the 14-million registered vehicles in South Africa, fewer than a third are insured.

Just under 70 Priority Escapes reviews posted on Hellopeter between March 2021 and August 24 this year remain on the site, with an overall rating of just under three stars

Beware of fake repairers found on Google who want to take your appliance away to fix it: You may never see it again, writes Wendy Knowler

Priority Escapes has been accused of knowingly taking clients' funds for direct flight bookings to the Maldives despite no flight heading there from SAshut up shop at the weekend.

Don’t assume that your losses are limited to under R500 if your tap & go card does land in the wrong hands.