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Category Archives: Grey Products
Standard Life insurance ????
Once upon a time, in the days of real people, before the advent of the internet I took out a life insurance. It was fourty six years ago give or take a year or two. I hardly remember … Continue reading
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Smart Meter Threats
The roll out of the Smart Meter programme for electricty supply has been badly handled from the start. It was always too ambitious and was launched with little explanation of what is was all about. It was clearly of … Continue reading
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Equity Release Puzzle
This is another follow-up to my post “Equity Release Revisited” which prompted me to look into the subject again and start a new series of blogs on the subject. I first wrote about this in 2012 and then again in … Continue reading
Equity Release Alarm Bells !
This is a follow-up to my post “Equity Release Revisisted” which prompted me to look into the subject again and start a new series of blogs on the subject. I first wrote about this in 2012 and then again in … Continue reading
Equity Release Sales Patter
This is a follow-up to my post “Equity Release Revisisted” which prompted me to look into the subject again and start a new series of blogs on the subject. I first wrote about this in 2012 and then again in … Continue reading
Equity Release Research Key Issues
This is a follow-up to my post “Equity Release Revisited” which prompted me to look into the subject again. I first wrote blogs about this subject in 2012 and then again in 2015. (You can find my earlier posts … Continue reading
Equity Release Revisited
I first wrote blogs about this subject in 2012 and then again in 2015. ( You can find my earlier posts by clicking on Equity Release in the TAG CLOUD). The use of this type of borrowing has grown substantially since … Continue reading
New Year Virtual Ramble
This is a continuation of my ramble through Silicon Valley and stumbling on the magical mythical unicorn. This is geekie speak which I will explain, before we start. A “unicorn company” is a start-up tech business that … Continue reading
Baby Boomer Plasters
There are 15 million older people in the U.K. and that number will increase by 24% by 2040. So it represents the fastest growing sector of the population. In marketing terms it is the least well understood … Continue reading
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Memory Card Readers
I can’t imagine why anyone would want a card reader. I can read my cards all by myself. Perhaps they get a lot more fan mail than I do, or receive hundreds of Christmas cards which they don’t … Continue reading