Saturday, December 22, 2007

Do You Grind The Whole Clove

GIFTS FOR THE HOLIDAYS'

Purchases aware

or avoid the possible purchase in installments, except in extreme cases.
Too many families are struggling for not being able to cope with the accumulation of installments due .. The purchase rate is not always convenient usually useful only to the seller. If you really want to buy in installments always compare the APR among the different funds offered.
not use consumer credit to buy unnecessary, but only for purchases of goods and services needed urgent!. Ø Keep
carefully
purchase receipts are needed to prove the identity of the trader and the validity of the guarantee for durable products is less than two years ...
Ø Beware of discounts often hide
series or end products with quality content and do not justify even that discounted price.
Ø Avoid too many gifts with gadget gadget
often not connected to the greater functionality of the purchased but try to be leading to the main object. It 'a technique widely used because at least one of the gadgets inspire impulse buying to the main subject of the utility
or gifts purchased on the web
The opportunities are many. Use only the best known and trusted sites. There are still many pitfalls on credit cards. Verify that the reference banks are the ones you know and specialized in electronic payment. Attention to have concrete guarantees about the dates delivery, the money back on the producers and the certainty of their identification and traceability. Do not forget to also guarantees the instructions in Italian.
Ø For food favorite local produce in your area.
communicate quality, health and identity of people who give them
careful labeling of food packaging and the only way not to be fooled by the beautiful packaging specifically designed to attract. The quality of food for the holidays such as panettone, pandori, doves, donuts and more dependent on the production method and the quality and quantity degl'ingredienti. Addressed for choosing products that have clear labels, listing degl'ingredienti and with the weight percentage for individual ingredients. Do not buy the packages, which do not contain a clear identification of the type of ingredients (butter from cream or serum, fresh eggs of type A or powder or frozen).
By Decree 22 July 2005 Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry has issued a specific law to protect some of the best-known specialties of Italian confectionery tradition because they are precisely defined characteristics and composition of the following products: Panettone, Pandoro, Dove, Savoy, Amaretto, Amaretto soft.
or gifts
For more demanding expensive gifts as useful as a better choice of trips for couples, especially for the elderly health weeks, visits to theme parks for children, musical instruments for adolescents, and finally subscriptions to the theater, sporting events or magazines, a little bit for everyone, etc.. Always check the security of "money back"
or gifts for your loved ones a little older
Electronics - Choose products whose basic functions are used in elementary
choose the age and degree of literacy. Not frustrated children with objects too complex for their age thinking Genes that are above average only because do well in school Let them enjoy their age. Avoid gifts that require excessive costs of operation and maintenance
to maximize the invitation to reading and attention to video games. Better to test them in the shops before buying them to avoid not much and not just the scenes of violence, but not to lead to imitation effects for the exaltation of the hero image of a bully and all-powerful against the weak. Best strategy games and role-playing and all those that stimulate solidarity and ability to listen to others.
Do not compromise their safety, only buy toys with CE marking certifies that the compliance with European safety standards for this category of products. With this brand, the manufacturer certifies that you have performed all the requirements required by the Directive on toy safety, in fact, the CE marking may be affixed to the toy unless it meets all the essential safety requirements and has been subjected to all procedures compliance. Check the appropriate age for which the game is recommended, and stick to it.
Ø Avoid fireworks and if you can not help it avoid those illegal
addition to avoiding serious accidents every year cost of injuries and deaths due to defective fireworks, if you cause loud noises many animals are frightened that they heard a more sensitive than ours. Who has a dog knows what it means to see him tremble with fear.
Ø Beware of bag-snatching and pickpocketing.
Bring the money necessary and try to take advantage of banking services (paid for by credit card, cash).
careful use of handbags and glove hanging on the wallet. Do not carry your wallet in your back pocket, keep separate a small amount for small purchases, so you do not have to come up every time a purse full of money, showing everyone how much you have with you. For the elderly: beware of strangers who stop you on the street with an excuse, such as requiring time, alleged that officials do not believe you closer to a control outside the office where you are visiting any institution they say, avoid overcrowded places. Ø
protect yourself when returning from holidays
If you purchased the travel package and feel that your holiday was ruined by bad service, tour operator or other interested parties to return alleged incidents by sending a letter to the more 'soon the agency that sold you the travel package and for information to tour operators or other interested parties please contact us and we will be at your side in protecting your rights. Keep testimonies, videos, photos and anything else that they witness directly to the discomfort and damage.

Merry holidays to
Arcoconsumatori Marche

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Best Anonymous Browser?

Alarm For Ascoli price increases up to 400%

"Consumers in this time of Christmas holidays in which all allow ourselves a little more careful with the promotions department stores, hypermarkets, supermarkets and businesses in general, because they contain increases as much as 400%, especially on food. " This was announced in a statement the Arch Brands, Consumers Association, based in Ascoli Piceno. "Unfortunately one of our detections made in recent days - continues the statement - the main businesses that have advertised dell'Ascolano their offers and promotions and through leafleting door to door and through posters "6 to 3, but also with radio spots, we learned that the vast majority of products contain proposed increases as much as 400% and thus well above those a housewife and, more generally, the consumer now imagine despite the chronic "price alert". The data we have collected and analyzed by comparing them with those found on OsservaPrezzi.it, the Gateway Centre Rates and Charges, the Ministry of Economic Development, both with our Arc Observatory, which is good to clear away, provides the best prices offered in 'Last year, per product. Monitoring, our currently monitors more than 1050 products by trade marks of production and / or marketing and dealer. "
"But yet - Circular Arc - we enter the specific risks so as not to give rise to doubts in the minds of more suspicious. Premise that the data is that each consumer can control themselves because they learned from some of the best known retailers citizens. Mineral from the water, the Ministry argues that a minimum price of 0.77 € for a pack of 6 bottles of 1.5 liters. but until a few months ago were selling packages to 0.45, but today there are those who in promotions "offers" the 6 bottles to 1.68 euro, or +118 percent compared to the Ministry and +273 per cent compared to the market. Coffee roasted with rising start softer than all'OsservaPrezzi (4.76 instead of 3.96 for a +20 percent), but arrive at 205 per cent (1.56) when measured with our basket. The flowers of cow's milk is a -13 percent on the Ministry (6.00 instead of 6.88) but a +50 (3.99) than us. Lighter hand on the oil extra virgin olive oil, the industrial means and not the mill, with increases from 14 to 33 percent. While the price increases affect the parmesan at most 17% of durum wheat semolina pasta, we all eat several times a day, ranging from 106 to 325 per cent (1.36 € per kilo compared to a range between 0.66 and 0.32). Other super price rises then register on fruit juice, rice wine and the municipality where you switch from a 72 percent juice also on the 431 on table wine. "
"The Arch - he concludes - is in agreement that the property can and there are differences in quality and price for this very special offers that end up in our homes should be studied with greater criterion and a hint of conscience and not only the optical drive of profit, because alas, unfortunately, the new poor are increasing. " The Arc
Brands, Consumers Association, the site in the hamlet of Villa San Antonio, at the CIT, the intermodal transport consortium, has also an active counter for the management of complaints on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 9 am to 12.30 pm Phone and fax 0736.813284.