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The Checkout: April 18

This week on The Checkout targets money-stealing apps and reveals Australia's most expensive wi-fi

4chktThis week on The Checkout targets money-stealing apps and reveals Australia’s most expensive wi-fi (any suggestions?).

In this week’s episode:

· Fast, targeted relief from your money – Jules and Kirsten, with the help of Andrew McLachlan (Professor of Pharmacy for the University of Sydney) give Nurofen and other pharmaceutical companies a headache over bogus medicine variants that are painfully expensive. Is the most active ingredient actually marketing?

· Nicole Kidman joins The Checkout team – consumer affairs ambassador Nicole Kidman speaks out for the first time about her Swisse ads. And Craig follows up The Checkout’s first investigation into dodgy labelling of complementary medicines, analysing Swisse’s dodgy reaction to their dodgy products being banned.

· If I Could Say One Thing: Barry Swartz, Professor of Psychology, and author of “Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less” lets us in on his secret of how to cope with the dizzying array of options out there – whether it’s buying a flat-screen TV, a mortgage, a place to go on holidays or even buying a tube of toothpaste.

· The Search for Australia’s Most Expensive ….. – This week The Checkout team reveals Australia’s most expensive wi-fi as submitted by our viewers, and begins its search for the county’s most expensive parking #mostexpensive

· As a Guilty Mum – Kate looks at all the nifty sleeping aids mother-nature left out when delivering your newborn baby.

· Adventures in Fine Print – Craig investigates a tip from a viewer about a scooter that lists one of its warnings notes as “may cause cancer, birth defects or other reproductive harm”.

· Not ‘Appy! – Craig examines Look-a-Like apps, Money-Stealing apps and Bill-Shock apps and fills us in on how you can get your money back when your app turns out to be not what you paid for.

· F.U.TUBE – Kristen showcases the latest video complaints from The Checkout audience … this week’s gripes include Apple laptop chargers and Startrack’s not-too-express deliveries. Plus the heart-warming finale to Jack Yakovich’s quest for a refund – an episode no internet shopper should miss.

Thursday April 18 at 8pm on ABC1

6 Responses

  1. Craig it depends on how expensive the hotel is. Upmarket hotels pretty much always charge for wifi as they assume you have the money to spend or cater for business travelers who put it on expense accounts. Motels, hostels and cheap hotels often have it for free. Weird conundrum I know!

  2. @Craig – but Samsung and Nokia aren’t evil!

    My recent experience of 4 and 5-star hotels in Aus is that they all charge for wifi access, and it’s not cheap. I usually find an open relay or hotspot anyway.

  3. Love this show, it makes learning fun.

    One think I don’t get is the expensive wifi, I thought most hotels and other places had free wifi for customers?

    I don’t like the Apple bashing, yes it’s good to warn people of the app traps and their consumer rights but enough already. It’s not like Samsung and Nokia don’t have their faults.

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