CHOICE 2013 Shonky Awards

c64 on 29/10/2013 - 12:50
Last edited 29/10/2013 - 14:46 by 1 other user

http://www.choice.com.au/media-and-news/consumer-news/news/2…

This year’s Shonky Award winners are:

• Dairy Farmers Oats Express Liquid Breakfast, Banana and Honey - claims to be a smooth blend of milk, oats & ‘banana honey’ but the ingredients panel states otherwise.

• Nuk Starlight Silicone Orthodontic Soother (0-6 months) - NUK spat the dummy on mandatory safety standards.

• Credit Repair Australia - $990 nonrefundable administration and service fee – likely creating more debt

• ecoeggs - Ecoeggs are labelled freerange despite a stocking density that's 13x the model code.

• Kleenex Mansize Tissues - the tissues themselves have shrunk in size by almost 14%

• EnergyAustralia - Keeping customers in the dark when prices increase

• EA Games - When SimCity was released with bugs, it cost $2.48 p/min to complain on @EA_Australia tech support line!

• Qantas Frequent Flyer Toolbar - Qantas tracks customers’ web searches in return for loyalty points but it takes 8yrs to get meaningful value.

You can vote for the 2013 People’s Choice Shonkiest Shonky Award here.

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  derpdeder on 29/10/2013 - 14:48

  +3

  The link to Credit Repair Australia doesn't work. Shonky Choice webpage.

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  Davo1111 on 29/10/2013 - 15:58

  tbh, the credit repair site is taking half of what others charge over the course of a year. So it may not be the shonkiest deal.

  According to WP, some of those debt consolidation sites charge $50/week administation fee. That's $2600/year.

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    Blockey on 30/10/2013 - 10:32

    I think the shonky part of it, is the fact there is a non refundable upfront fee regardless of whether they actually do anything. So if they can't help, then you don't get your money back.

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  Infraction on 29/10/2013 - 18:51

  God damnit I have two of these products in my fridge right now! haha. One taste of that Oats Express rubbish though and it was quite apparent I was drinking sugar water. The way ecoeggs put it is 'Our hens range outside at only 2 hens per meter squared' which is the same but I guess doesn't sound as bad as 20000 per hectare. I'm with Energy Australia and they've been using the carbon tax as an excuse to raise prices regularly for years, since before the tax was even in effect. We really need electricity pricing reform we are getting gouged in this country.

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  emibel19 on 29/10/2013 - 21:12

  I was with TruEnergy before they became part of EnergyAustralia, and they were good at giving advance notice of price change, but EA has been pretty hopeless in this regard. I stick with them though, as the prices I get from them (after the One Big Switch discounts) are still competitive.

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  Baghern on 30/10/2013 - 10:13

  Qanta's is just a really funny one, I looked up QFF after reading the credit card threads. Read up on FF for web browsing… wtf… then saw how much you get, lol.

  I've a feeling the person who created that deal got OZb'ed by OZbargainer types of a previous deal.