
Diana Clement: Insurance company's sales tactics shocking
YOUI debited $592 from my Visa card even though I’d cancelled policy, writes Diana Clement.
YOUI debited $592 from my Visa card even though I’d cancelled policy, writes Diana Clement.
Air New Zealand has been issued with a formal warning by the Commerce Commission and will stop pre-selecting travel insurance for passengers buying tickets online.
Spark yesterday reignited the copper pricing debate, hitting out at the Commerce Commission and Chorus after the commission set its draft price.
A probe into how three banks marketed interest rate swaps to farmers will see up to $24.2 million go back to rural customers and their communities, with Westpac following ANZ and ASB and settling with the Commerce Commission.
Out-of-court settlements may be cheaper, quicker and more certain than seeing a case through - but they can often feel like a cop-out.
Vodafone is on "shaky ground" in raising its fibre internet prices along with copper-line broadband charges, says InternetNZ.
The country's three biggest internet companies are planning to charge customers more from next month and the general manager at one of them doesn't think broadband will ever be as cheap as it was....
The Australian branch of Christmas hamper company Chrisco is being sued by regulators across the Ditch for allegedly breaching consumer laws.
Cloud computing is built on data centres which are sprouting out of the ground like weeds at the moment around the world.
ANZ has admitted misleading conduct over interest rate swaps and up to 178 farmers will now have to decide whether to accept their share of $18.5 million from the bank.
Everyone's poring over the Commerce Commission's draft decision on ye olde copper phone line network. And no one's happy.
ANZ will pay $18.5m to some of its rural customers who complained about interest rate swaps after reaching a settling with the Commerce Commission.
The Commerce Commission has missed its own deadline on whether it will file court action against three banks involved in its interest rate swaps probe.
Debt collectors and repo men need to clean up their act says the Commerce Commission, which next year gets new powers to directly crack down on shoddy practices.
More than 800 customers of a consumer loans company will get back $3.3 million after they were overcharged for interest and fees.
The former egg producer whose packaging scam put the spotlight on the NZ industry is predicting a huge drop in the availability of free-range eggs on supermarket shelves.
Productivity Commission extols more competition and adopting cloud computing.
Internet companies will enjoy a reduction in some of their wholesale costs in December but aren't committed to passing on these savings directly to consumers then.
A South Dunedin man is calling for more support for people trying to start their own businesses.
A Swiss air freight company has been penalised $3.1 million by a NZ judge for being part of a "classic hard-core cartel" that used gardening codewords to try disguise itself.
The Commerce Commission and Swiss air freight company Kuehne + Nagel have agreed it should be penalised $3.1m for "hardcore cartel conduct" deliberately hidden using gardening codewords and ran for five years, the High
Wood products group Carter Holt Harvey has been slammed with a $1.85m fine for price fixing after admitting its part in anti-competitive activity.
Carter Holt Harvey has agreed with the Commerce Commission that it should pay a $1.85m penalty for its part in a timber price fixing cartel with a division of Fletcher Building.
Labour MP Shane Jones says he feels vindicated by the Commerce Commission's decision to formally investigate allegations he has made.