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Wendy Knowler is arguably South Africa’s most experienced consumer journalist. She’s helped more consumers over her 20 year career in consumer journalism than she could count. But while known as a champion of consumer rights, Wendy is also known and respected by corporates for her fair, accurate and balanced reporting. Want to be a more sussed consumer or corporate? Listen to Wendy's episodes here.
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239 Episodes
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Bank fraudsters get F2F with pensioners - in their homes!

Podcast  |  East Coast Radio - Catch Up | ECR Consumerwatch
Consumerwatch’s Wendy Knowler warns about a new very direct method fraudsters are using to trick pensioners into giving them access to their bank accounts.
9 Dec 2021 7 min

How to deal with Fourth Wave related cancellations

Podcast  |  East Coast Radio - Catch Up | ECR Consumerwatch
After the discovery of the new COVID-19 variant, Omicron, so many people had to come up with Plan B in terms of their travel plans. That would mean cancellations for everything one might have prepared whether it be going out of SA or coming in. Take a listen as Wendy…
2 Dec 2021 6 min

This is how to NOT do Black Friday

Podcast  |  East Coast Radio - Catch Up | ECR Consumerwatch
With Black Friday on everyone's lips, it's everywhere on radio and television and on our phones, it is easy to be swept up by the hype. Consumer journalist, Wendy Knowler shares some valuable information regarding ways to stay safe financially during Black Friday. Do it all correctly. Take a listen…
25 Nov 2021 3 min

What if your wedding photographer sells your pictures as stock footage?

Podcast  |  East Coast Radio - Catch Up | ECR Consumerwatch
This question comes after a wedding picture went viral on Twitter as it was included on the FNB website. But who really owns the photograph here? Is the people who bride and his husband or the photographer? Take a listen as Wendy Knowler explains this
18 Nov 2021 9 min

What’s to stop teenagers from having booze delivered to them, via an app? - Wendy Knowler

Podcast  |  East Coast Radio - Catch Up | ECR Consumerwatch
Wendy Knowler is arguably South Africa’s most experienced consumer journalist. She’s helped more consumers over her 20 year career in consumer journalism than she could count. But while known as a champion of consumer rights, Wendy is also known and respected by corporates for her fair, accurate and balanced reporting…
11 Nov 2021 8 min

Got a Kulula or British Airways credit? End of November, use it or lose it

Podcast  |  East Coast Radio - Catch Up | ECR Consumerwatch
Wendy Knowler is arguably South Africa’s most experienced consumer journalist. She’s helped more consumers over her 20 year career in consumer journalism than she could count. But while known as a champion of consumer rights, Wendy is also known and respected by corporates for her fair, accurate and balanced reporting…
4 Nov 2021 7 min

All about the “confirm your Telkom directory listing" scam

Podcast  |  East Coast Radio - Catch Up | ECR Consumerwatch
Wendy Knowler is arguably South Africa’s most experienced consumer journalist. She’s helped more consumers over her 20 year career in consumer journalism than she could count. But while known as a champion of consumer rights, Wendy is also known and respected by corporates for her fair, accurate and balanced reporting…
28 Oct 2021 8 min

What if your shop was looted and you thought you had SASRIA cover, but you didn’t?

Podcast  |  East Coast Radio - Catch Up | ECR Consumerwatch
Wendy Knowler is arguably South Africa’s most experienced consumer journalist. She’s helped more consumers over her 20 year career in consumer journalism than she could count. But while known as a champion of consumer rights, Wendy is also known and respected by corporates for her fair, accurate and balanced reporting…
21 Oct 2021 8 min

What's the story with the Woolworths rotten juice boxes?

Podcast  |  East Coast Radio - Catch Up | ECR Consumerwatch
Wendy Knowler is arguably South Africa’s most experienced consumer journalist. She’s helped more consumers over her 20 year career in consumer journalism than she could count. But while known as a champion of consumer rights, Wendy is also known and respected by corporates for her fair, accurate and balanced reporting…
14 Oct 2021 7 min

Can a company refuse to compensate you for loss or injury?

Podcast  |  East Coast Radio - Catch Up | ECR Consumerwatch
Wendy Knowler is arguably South Africa’s most experienced consumer journalist. She’s helped more consumers over her 20 year career in consumer journalism than she could count. But while known as a champion of consumer rights, Wendy is also known and respected by corporates for her fair, accurate and balanced reporting…
30 Sep 2021 8 min

Beware the non existent puppy scam, says Consumerwatch’s Wendy Knowler

Podcast  |  East Coast Radio - Catch Up | ECR Consumerwatch
Here is some advice on how to spot a pet scam. The pet scam is by no means new, but a significant number of South Africans are still falling for it. If you type “husky breeder” or “maine coon kittens” into an internet search engine, you will inevitably land on…
23 Sep 2021 8 min

How to avoid being scammed - Wendy Knowler

Podcast  |  East Coast Radio - Catch Up | ECR Consumerwatch
Shopping on the world wide web is very dangerous business, more dangerous than many realise. Too many get caught in the web because they’re too trusting of a good looking website or a great price. Pat Pontack of Cape Town contacted me last week to say she’d lost more than…
9 Sep 2021 9 min

Uber and their cancellation penalty

Podcast  |  East Coast Radio - Catch Up | ECR Consumerwatch
Wendy Knowler is arguably South Africa’s most experienced consumer journalist. She’s helped more consumers over her 20 year career in consumer journalism than she could count. But while known as a champion of consumer rights, Wendy is also known and respected by corporates for her fair, accurate and balanced reporting…
2 Sep 2021 8 min

Not all the appliances which were stolen from shops were new, some were in for repairs.

Podcast  |  East Coast Radio - Catch Up | ECR Consumerwatch
Wendy Knowler is arguably South Africa’s most experienced consumer journalist. She’s helped more consumers over her 20 year career in consumer journalism than she could count. But while known as a champion of consumer rights, Wendy is also known and respected by corporates for her fair, accurate and balanced reporting…
26 Aug 2021 8 min

Are funeral policy increases killing your budget? Wendy Knowler advises

Podcast  |  East Coast Radio - Catch Up | ECR Consumerwatch
Hollard said it had to implement a second premium increase as result of mortality experience exceeding expected experience across our entire funeral portfolio, over a period of more than a year. It affects the insurer’s direct book of business - that’s policies taken out over the phone and policies sold…
19 Aug 2021 7 min

Scammers using Capitec bank accounts as so-called business accounts

Podcast  |  East Coast Radio - Catch Up | ECR Consumerwatch
Fraudster pay so-called money mules to open bank accounts, and when the victims’ money lands in that new account, they transfer it to the fraudster, thereby ensuring that the fraudster remains untraceable. “Capitec does not currently offer business accounts, therefore people should not believe a business that states it has…
12 Aug 2021 6 min

Flights suspended and Mango communications is vrot, says Consumerwatch’s WENDY KNOWLER

Podcast  |  East Coast Radio - Catch Up | ECR Consumerwatch
It’s not been a great week for Mango Airlines and its ticket-holding passengers are feeling the pain - again. On Monday the SAA subsidiary announced that it was going to go into business rescue and the next morning hundreds of would-be passengers were left stranded at Joburg’s OR Tambo and…
29 Jul 2021 8 min

Is there an unreasonable increase on the prices of goods after the looting in KZN?

Podcast  |  East Coast Radio - Catch Up | ECR Consumerwatch
It is called price gouging and if you can prove it if, here’s what to do As the people of this province know all too well, last week’s extraordinary looting of not only supermarkets but their distribution centres, too, led to chronic food shortages, and in some cases, crazy prices…
22 Jul 2021 8 min

How to - Insurance after looting

Podcast  |  East Coast Radio - Catch Up | ECR Consumerwatch
If you have car and household contents insurance cover, then a tiny part of your monthly premium is paid every month by your insurer to Sasria, a government-owned insurer providing cover against risks such as civil commotion, public disorder, strikes, riots and terrorism. The good news is while Sasria’s (the…
15 Jul 2021 8 min

Critical online shopping advice by Wendy Knowler

Podcast  |  East Coast Radio - Catch Up | ECR Consumerwatch
Seeing is believing - but seeing on a computer screen can be tricky When buying goods on line you always run the risk of being unpleasantly surprised when they are delivered. Going by photos and descriptions can never come close to being able to see and interact with a product…
8 Jul 2021 7 min
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