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Season 2018 , Episode 9How safe is your car? Tonight we reveal a sticky problem that could have serious safety ramifications for Kiwi motorists.. But beware of deals too good to be true. There is quite a few people who have lost $1000, $2000. Plus ` when pricey Lego online and got swindled. There's is quite a few people that have lost $1000, $2000. Now he's quite a few people that have lost $1000, $2000, $500. I asked around, and I put a value at about $10,000 -
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Season 2018 , Episode 4The fight against legalised ticket scalping has begun! We have some really good news for concert fans sick of being ripped off.at all. But under the old New Zealand Golf scheme, Barrie could claim up to $1000 dollars for lost gear stressed. I really have. She got stung $1000 for trying to return an unsuitable oxygen machine. As far as I an oxygen machine which wasn't suitable, and then got stung for a $1000 're-stocking' or 're-shelving' fee than $1000 as a 'restocking fee'. I just couldn't believe it, and I sent an email back and said, 'You -
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Season 2015 , Episode 17Merv Lanigan has been on Fair Go five times since 1999 and tonight he's back for the sixth time being chased by creditors who want their money back because of his shoddy roof painting jobs.they worth... ? They weren't worth six grand` 6000. < How about 1000? Not even. I would pay maybe 250 for all of them but not 1000. It's not easy to put a price on a happy memory; on a little brother's smiling face , then sent Kavanna a second contract with her iPad signature copied on to it. This was for over $1000 . So you think that she owes you $1000? Good luck getting that to stand up in court. If they're asking -
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Season 2023 , Episode 33On Fair Go, we look at the cost of having your identity stolen, the cost of your water bills, and the cost of parking in the wrong place.of 1000. - I'm kind of gobsmacked. - To be clear, Sarah has been a student, but says she paid off her loan $70 to almost $1000 for one month ` I mean, it's so outrageous. - Especially because it's only Miriama ? - That's like 1000... 1170 bathloads of water in a month. I mean, that's just not possible. - Carla Gee system has had teething issues for around 1000 Papakura customers. The system is designed to exclude -
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Season 2023 , Episode 19money for gravel.' Then he said, 'I've ordered the wrong mesh and I have to come up with another $1000 ,' Then he said, 'I've ordered the wrong mesh and I have to come up with another $1000,' Then he said, 'I've ordered the wrong mesh and I have to come up with another $1000,' Then he said, 'I've ordered the wrong mesh and I have to come up with another $1000,' Then he said, 'I've ordered the wrong mesh and I have to come up with another $1000,' Then he said, 'I've ordered the wrong mesh and I have to come upJoin Pippa Wetzell, Hadyn Jones and the Fair Go team as they stand up for the underdogs and consumer rights! -
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a lot. - Every time we've been flooded, it's cost us at least $1000 on insurance excess Walmart and find a $1000 action figure lying on the shelves. - Each figure is crowd-funded, needingNew Zealand's weekly whinge. Consumer affairs that blends investigative journalism and good advice to ensure Kiwis get a fair go. -
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Season 2017 , Episode 13Every seven minutes a house or business is burgled in New Zealand. It is the reason more and more people are installing monitored alarms, but are they really being monitored?for that. Credit card, please. (LAUGHS) Crikey. Not 1000. 360. Thank you. This is the lock that our locksmith . It was Lawrence who did the job. When he got in his car to write this out, he said, 'Oh, that'll be $1000. (LAUGHS good, eh. Here's 1000 bucks, go get you whatever you want. (LAUGHS) Jeez, I'd invite you to my wedding -
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Season 2015 , Episode 7If the worst happens - How's your insurance cover? Can sunlight really crack a double-glazed window? Council wrong, Motorist right.to $1000 or more. If you use a builder, make sure they're across current rebuild costs. If you're doing sunshine can do extraordinary things. So the sun can break people's windows? Did it break this $1000 double reason he isn't taking in the vista ` Roger has a crack in his window ` his $1000 floor-to-ceiling double -
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Season 2023 , Episode 14, that's one in every 1000 people getting a ticket under their wipers. Whereas if you lived in Wellington five in every 1000 people were fined. We should point out we only have a year's worth of data for our actually enforce our city of 180,000 people. And so with over 1000 streets, we can't be everywhereJoin Pippa Wetzell, Hadyn Jones and the Fair Go team as they stand up for the underdogs and consumer rights! -
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Season 2023 , Episode 18under, I think driving 1000 K's a week Coast - belt on, and out again to where the damage is. - Roughly about 1000 K's 1000 K's a week is little to what they're Join Pippa Wetzell, Hadyn Jones and the Fair Go team as they stand up for the underdogs and consumer rights! -
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Season 2014 , Episode 11Fighting back against cold callers; help for a disabled woman stung by a tradie; and are reversing drivers always to blame?scandal in the UK. Could you be owed 1000? 3000? Maybe even more? But Richard was the wrong guy to call it? Yeah, it is. When we turned up to finish the job, we had to put... I think we used 1000 nails -
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Season 2016 , Episode 34For years they've maintained the land as their own. They've planted veggies, fruit trees and beautiful gardens! Now they're being railroaded off it by KiwiRail!. Uh-uh. This is part of a 3-4-year-long audit by KiwiRail of at least 1000 properties on the sides . Let's take one grain. Cut that one grain into 1000 pieces, Then dissolve that 1000th of a grain of salt -
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Season 2016 , Episode 25The bureaucrats have declared war on the Kiwi cake stall, but are they really a public health menace? And we meet a Kiwi artist whose patience is wearing thin with NZ Post.to get a water test done, which could be` which will bring me up to about $1000, but when you've been plan. That's close to 1000 bucks, plus annual inspections, just like Sheryl. You've got -
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Season 2017 , Episode 37Modelling can be a lucrative business, but it hasn't proved profitable for a Christchurch teen. She is the face of a spray tan clinic problem is no one asked if they could use her image!that an image used in this way is worth $1000 a year. To my mind, you owe Kate van der Weert and Fairfax $2,000 . (LAUGHS) Find me a model in New Zealand that gets paid $1000 a year for a photo like that. For that type -
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Season 2018 , Episode 24Tonight, they're seeking relief but it's leading to grief! The team go in to bat for a medicinal cannabis user who is fighting for a Fair Go. Plus, do you trust your car's speedo?a $1000 disaster. And it wasn't easy. Number two goes on the bottom. That's a lot of money. What do you they were actually better. They did refund about half the $1000 kit, but with the greenhouse not operational -
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Season 2014 , Episode 21Panel beaters taking your cars for a joy ride and find out what happens to unclaimed goods.. They` They wouldn't stay on my jaw. The original dentures cost around $1000. Gil then paid almost $300 more to have like Gil, with a lot of other health expenses, $1000 was a lot of money. To then spend another $280 -
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Season 2015 , Episode 24What happens when a young law abiding citizen goes for a job only to be told he has driving convictions convictions that he never actually had?me if I don't do that, I'll be taken to court and either given a $1000 fine or sentenced to three could carry that much kick? Well, this one did, and it did nearly $1000 worth of damage and fried -
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Season 2016 , Episode 14This week, a Fair Go special a show all about the ugly legacy of methamphetamine. We go inside a contaminated house and try and make sense of the messy clean-up business.per 100cm2. A 1/50 of a grain of salt instead of a 1/1000 and less than anything measured at Emma in decontaminations on close to 1000 properties now over the four years. I can successfully save walls with readings -
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Season 2018 , Episode 14Tonight, smartphones are rapidly replacing family photo albums. But what happens when you or a loved one dies? Plus, we assist a night worker who's being driven mad by her neighbour's noisy dog.for a letter of probate. And applying to the court for probate would be more than $1000. It's money Haley just and a three-legged cat... (MEOWS) He's a $1000 cat. ...all uninsured. Don't want it at all. I'm not interested -
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Season 2018 , Episode 3Property management is big business, but do landlords really get value for money? We meet a woman who got stuck with a 100-thousand dollar bill after a property manager let her home to criminals.a couple of bucks, but how about $50, $100, $500 or even 1000? Yowzers. Here's Anna with one of the most that there was a shelving fee involved. Shirley was being charged more than $1000 to return the machine. I just couldn't -
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Season 2023 , Episode 1it and split the proceeds. - Out of that $1000, first person that complains gets $400. - Sounds crazy too much to ask for, and` especially when it's their mistake. - Plus, Bronte's paid over $1000Join Pippa Wetzell, Hadyn Jones and the Fair Go team as they stand up for the underdogs and consumer rights! -
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you on a meter. Kaipara seems cheap at $4.18 for 1000 litres, or a thousand glasses of tap water for $1. But the best deal for metered water looks like Opotiki at $0.56 for 1000 litres. That's more thanNew Zealand's weekly whinge. Consumer affairs that blends investigative journalism and good advice to ensure Kiwis get a fair go. -
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Season 2022 , Episode 12that into real terms for a household, every year, they are paying approximately $1000 to $1200 more than 4000 outlets in New Zealand, and we have more than 1000 gas stations. So they are the real answerNew Zealand's weekly whinge. Consumer affairs that blends investigative journalism and good advice to ensure Kiwis get a fair go. -
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Season 2022 , Episode 16here, so how about, um, you pay us $1000 back, you put $1000 in your pocket and, um, we just callNew Zealand's weekly whinge. Consumer affairs that blends investigative journalism and good advice to ensure Kiwis get a fair go. -
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Season 2022 , Episode 3. - They paid the 2000, and in the same week paid an extra 1000 for the parts that Nelson needed . We know it won't be easy to make this stretch a week. Consumer NZ surveyed 1000 people online. 84New Zealand's weekly whinge. Consumer affairs that blends investigative journalism and good advice to ensure Kiwis get a fair go. -
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Season 2020 , Episode 24Fair Go help a Christchurch woman investigate her shocking eight thousand dollar power bill. Plus, in Gore a couple have been driven round the bend by some faulty spark plugs.explode. - Normally it starts at about $20, you know, but it was at $1000-and-something for one day . - Your ears do not deceive you. You were using... - Mm-hm. - $1000 electricity a day? - Apparently -
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Season 2020 , Episode 9Fair Go tracks down a rogue fencer who's left a trail of destruction across Christchurch and Invercargill. A Dunedin couple are caught out with rent. Plus, advice for avoiding COVID-19 scams!, you know, but he's just blatantly lying now. Zac owes john and his wife, Kim, nearly $1000 as $1000 towards the refreshment tab. We would love to see if there's a way we could help them have -
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Season 2020 , Episode 10Now that our borders are closed, Fair Go asks what makes a home, home? Plus, are financial options such as 'AfterPay' and 'Oxipay' a help or a hindrance?Afterpay or Oxipay really a good idea? All of a sudden, that $1000 flat-screen can end up costing $1250 as 25% of whatever it is you've bought. So all of a sudden, you know, that $1000 flat-screen -
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Season 2023 , Episode 8frustrated. Just can't do what you want to do when you want to do it. - And how does more than $1000 just of waiting for her lonely $1000, Tina was losing hope. - This, for some time, is quite depressing. (CHUCKLESJoin Pippa Wetzell, Hadyn Jones and the Fair Go team as they stand up for the underdogs and consumer rights! -
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Season 2024 , Episode 7On Fair Go, we’ve got a Muriwai house where the tenants are puzzling over a “get out in 7 days” order, the tale of a tattoo where expectations didn’t meet reality and the mystery of the hatchback. It’s mystery time folks. We’ve got the Muriwai house where the tenants are puzzling over a “get out in 7 days “ order; then the tale of a tattoo where expectations didn’t meet reality and the mystery of the hatchback – it’s not an open and shut case.. As with many studios, no definite quote, but Kayla agreed to a deposit of $100 and bought a voucher for $1000 on the day, for $300 less. Now, prices will vary, so we checked with a few studios, and most said $1000 -
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Season 2024 , Episode 3We’ve got a worrying investigation into underage vaping and the ease of buying online, a couple trying to change with the times but hitting a banking snag, and the cost of travelling the South Island.ake nei, coming up ` it takes four hours in a car, but if you need to catch the bus, that'll be $1000 . That's my rent, my phone. You do that twice, that's $1000. - Ethan could fly to Nelson and catch a bus -
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by deceiving people. 18 of those charges are for amounts of more than $1000, and he also faces one countNew Zealand's weekly whinge. Consumer affairs that blends investigative journalism and good advice to ensure Kiwis get a fair go. -
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Season 2016 , Episode 26Damage, delays and loss are all part 'n parcel of shipping overseas, but the scale of this freight fiasco will alarm you.that wasn't, like, $1000 a night was proving quite difficult. Then on holidayhouses.co.nz, Hannah found -
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Season 2016 , Episode 18An Auckland family is living in fear after their dairy was ram raided six weeks ago. Why haven't the landlord's insurers given them piece of mind?is a superfood and makes a sought-after oil. It's worth nearly $1000 a tonne to a company called Canterbury Seeds -
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Season 2016 , Episode 30Tonight a shady dispute leaves a family feeling claustrophobic. They've been walled in by a neighbour and the council couldn't care less.of a $1000 iPad that should still work. So we got in touch with Apple, and within 24 hours, Apple had rung -
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Season 2016 , Episode 31Do you want to be mortgage free? There's no denying brokers are full of good advice, but it pays to check the fine print.more, AJ shelled out 1000 kiwi dollars and surprised Faye with this nine-foot Balinese beauty. I -
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Season 2016 , Episode 8The star of a road safety advertisement ends up in the driving seat of a real life drama! This is one of the worst car sales stories we've ever come across.is a a burial plot, which can cost from under $1000 to over 5000, and cremation costs, we've also seen from -
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Season 2016 , Episode 9Do we need tougher lemon laws? If you bought a brand new car and it spent 6-months off the road in the first two and a half years would you want a refund? When is enough, enough?cheap either. And $1000 is` to me is a significant purchase amount. Kim Robson wrote to us having -
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Season 2015 , Episode 31gone to his bank and asked them if, as a pensioner, he get a $1000 loan to move house? And it happenedNew Zealand's weekly whinge. Consumer affairs that blends investigative journalism and good advice to ensure Kiwis get a fair go. -
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Season 2014 , Episode 24Patients caught in the cross-fire with health insurers, working on websites and how not to get scalped at the Bledisloe Cup.. 'But a lot of their reviews are not good.' Says, 'Ripped off. I paid 1000 rand for two rugby tickets, Sharks -
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Season 2016 , Episode 27We check out an off-road vehicle - 'exclusively designed for our local conditions' - that's off-road for all the wrong reasons.on the farm. Bev and her husband do twice as much. If you're doing 1000 hours a year in heavy mud, obviously -
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Season 2017 , Episode 15Picture this: you're on your big OE, you break a leg and your travel insurance company says, 'sorry that's not fully covered - it's baggage'. It sounds too ridiculous to be true, but it isn't!their mind, why should over 1000 students suffer? You know, the student is no longer communicating with us -
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Season 2017 , Episode 36How safe is your hot water system? A mix-up - followed by mixed messaging - has got a family questioning the safety of their gas cylinder.that resource consent, which comes with a $1000 application fee. And if the council says no, a hearing will cost -
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Season 2017 , Episode 30Tonight on Fair Go: When is a Kiwi not a Kiwi? For 55 years Liz Young has called New Zealand home, but now she's a stranger in her own land. We investigate a case of bureaucracy gone mad!surprise ` the bill. Nearly $1000. I thought, 'Oh, this is just a mistake,' and rang them up to clarify -
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Season 2017 , Episode 16The fear of missing out can make people reach deep into their pockets, but how and why is it OK for concert tickets to be re-sold at up to 20-times their face value?home. They'd paid just over $1000 for their tickets. Now Jetstar was saying, 'It'll be three days -
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Season 2017 , Episode 22The last thing newborn parents need is bad nappies, but there's a new and improved brand out there that is driving young mums mad.. That adds up to roughly 1000 hours a year. Yowza. It's a tough gig, and the last thing you need in the mix -
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Season 2017 , Episode 12Shoplifting is a million dollar problem, but do retailers have the right to randomly bag search unsuspecting customers? Is it an invasion of privacy? Is it even legal?they've stolen $1000 worth of stock, or if the offence is committed between the hours of 9pm and 6am. Your -
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Season 2017 , Episode 2Fair Go is on the trail of an unscrupulous, unlicensed backyard car dealer who has left his customers fuming., which is completely unfeasible. It is effectively a write-off, worth just $1000 to a wrecker. So just -
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Season 2017 , Episode 6Some scientists reckon protein-packed creepy crawlies will be the food of our future. If that leaves you squeamish, you'll be shocked to learn how many bugs we eat every year.of the replacement oven. Ah. Oh my gosh. Thank you. So they're wiping that $1000 debt. Aw, it's all right, aunt. It's -
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Season 2018 , Episode 26Tonight, damp and poorly ventilated homes can be hosting mould, a silent killer that has brought heartbreak to one Christchurch woman. Plus, are you feeding your baby's sugary addiction?was actually damaged on the car. Luke got just over a $1000 settlement from Trade Me Insurance, minus his
