If you want to find out your credit score, you generally have to pay for it. Information about you, held by companies such as Experian, is used to determine whether you are a risky person to lend money to. It's clearly in your interests to ... (more)
There is some consternation over a website offering discount heating oil prices, as long as you pay for it using relatively unknown payment methods. The website in question is heatingoildelivery.co.uk, a plain affair with a payment page ... (more)
Have you heard of in-app purchases? If you haven't now, you might have by the time your credit card bill or bank statement comes in. It's extremely easy to spend money inside iPhone and iPad apps, and you may not realise that the high-tech ... (more)
Time Trialling Cycling Time Trials (CTT) is the authoritative body for time trialling in the UK. It has a highly active and forward-looking membership, and this is reflected in its informative and up-to-date website. A handful of events ... (more)
It is all to easy for a finance agreement to have payment protection insurance slipped into the figures without anyone noticing. In this repayment plan that I took out in August 2004, offered by Scan Computers as a 0% interest deal, the PDF ... (more)
One day, we'll be wondering how we ever managed to pay for things without our mobile phones. Right now, however, Barclays Bank is taking the plunge and allowing their customers to push payments from their smart-phone to someone else's phone ... (more)
This is an exerpt of a message I received from Smile, regarding international money transfers: As from the start of business Monday 14th May 2007, there will be a change to the way international payments are processed. The USA Government ... (more)
If you are having trouble getting approved for a credit card, or had your application for a current account turned down, then you are probably in need of a financial health check. In the UK the best place to turn to for a credit report ... (more)
When you order your next batch of heating oil, you may be told that you can send a cheque within a few days of the delivery. This means that you don't have to be in at the time of delivery, and you won't get charged a credit card surcharge ... (more)
Facebook has opened up its commenting system to all websites. What this means is that there is no need for a website owner to develop, run and moderate their own comments platform, and they will also be able to benefit from the comments being ... (more)
Impartiality in the heating oil domestic market can be as slippery to grasp as the heating oil itself. Last time you visited a heating oil website that offered oil quotes, did you know which company was actually quoting you? And when you ... (more)