HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is giving UK shoppers an early Christmas present by raising the threshold that customs duty is charged from £18 to £105 reports Which?. The new rules apply from 1st December 2008
This means that smaller imports from outside the EU below £105 will no longer attract import duty although VAT will [...]

Card Not Present (CNP) fraud is on the increase and it seems that at least some of it originates closer to home than previously thought.
According to a new survey 1 in 5 of the UK’s under 16s admit to using their parent’s credit card details to make online purchases - spending an estimated £191 million [...]

Visa Europe are testing a new credit card aimed at tackling the ever growing problem of online and other Card Not Present (CNP) fraud.
The major innovation is a keypad and display on the back of the card.  When you use the card you enter your PIN and it generates a one-time security code which replaces [...]

The Daily Mirror has launched a new UK Shopping site which offers cashback on online purchases made through the site.
MirrorCashback is a free service that will pay upto 10% cashback when you make purchases from around 1400 UK retailers including H. Samuel, Currys, Boots, British Gas, Halfords and Asda.
When you have earned £25 cashback you [...]

A new survey has revealed that 78% of Scots plan to do their festive shopping by internet, compared with a UK average of 71% – and just 68% in London.
Despite last week’s interest rate cuts, many consumers are fearful of the looming recession and believe they will save cash as well as shoe leather by [...]

Amazon.co.uk have dropped the eligibility requirements for getting free UK delivery with their ‘Super Saver Delivery’ from £15 to just £5 just in time for the big Christmasg Christmas Shopping rush.
According to Amazon this means that 90% of their UK deliveries will have no post & packing charges.
The delivery time for Super Saver Delivery orders [...]

In 1990 I wrote a letter of complaint to Mars about their plans to rebrand the Marathon Bar to the Snickers Bar. I pointed out the dictionary defined snicker as “to laugh in a half-suppressed, indecorous or disrespectful manner, and the madness of using a plural as a singular. Incredibly, despite this, they [...]

Today is World Fair Trade Day 2008
To mark this I’ve added a new Fairtrade and Ethical Category to the directory and have been busy adding links. You’ll find general Fairtrade stores, such as Shared Earth and Traidcraft down to specialist shops such as Traces of Rock who print and sell fairtrade organic [...]

Eleven years after it was founded, the auction site QXL has announced that they will withdraw from the UK market and close their doors on 30 May. The last date for listing items will be 9 May and the last chance to bid or buy will be 19 May.
Although they do not explain the [...]