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This is Money Show - Misselling madness, what a WW2 radio mast has to do with high-frequency trading - and how to get your complaints heard

This is Money Podcast

This is Money

Business, Investing, Business News, News

4.4735 Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2015

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

This week Rachel Rickard Straus and Lee Boyce of This is Money talk to Share Radio's Georgie Frost about how to complain to the new ombudsman, misselling madness and high-frequency traders #complaints #ww2 #flashboys

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Hosts: Georgie Frost, Simon Lambert, Lee Boyce, Helen Crane

Producer: Georgie Frost


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0:00.0

A very warm welcome. You're listening to Share Radio. I'm Georgie Frost with you every weekday from 9 until 1 on consuming issues on digital online and through the Share Radio mobile app, making the pound in your pocket go a little bit further.

0:18.5

The team from This is Money, the award-winning finance website

0:21.4

are back in the studio for our weekly catch-up talking through the stories they've been tackling

0:25.7

this week and today I'm joined by Rachel Rickard Strauss and Lee Boyce on the agenda. Today got a gripe

0:32.2

with a high street shop, perhaps a faulty car repair or even a bit of shoddy workmanship will

0:37.2

now we have a loud voice for our complaints.

0:40.1

We take on the problem, we look at it, we go back to the company, get the details from there, we make a decision.

0:45.4

If there needs to be some sort of remedy, we will recommend what that remedy should be.

0:49.3

We'll be taking a closer look at the new Consumer Ombudsman's service.

0:52.5

Also one thing that's really gotten our wicks

0:54.8

this week, and that's the airport shops that have been pocketing VAT savings meant for us.

1:00.4

I just assumed that it was obligatory and it was a legal requirement. Didn't ask any other questions.

1:05.7

Well, I feel, yeah, very ripped off. The audacity, I can't believe they've been doing it

1:09.7

for so many years. Well, you join the thousands in refusing to show your boarding parts?

1:14.7

We also uncover a brand new mis-selling scandal that could see bank customers pocket a 33 billion

1:20.9

pound winful. So what did the banks do wrong this time? And will you receive compensation?

1:26.0

Talking of misselling, we take a closer look at the impact that it can cause

1:29.5

with one couple facing losing their home.

1:32.4

Also, an investigation straight out of a Michael Lewis book.

1:39.3

The anxious days and weeks which we have all passed are over.

1:45.4

The great adventure has begun.

1:48.7

How a shadowy high-tech traders

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