Does a “special offer” really deliver on its promise, or is it the manufacturer’s way of luring us in to buy their products?  Watch these answers being revealed on Carte Blanche Consumer this evening. Other topics include the ongoing scams affecting gullible investors and an investigation to find out who is actually milking the milk price chain.

Just Checking: Free percentage
Manufacturers of consumer goods will do anything to get you to buy their product, even if it means offering an additional percentage of the same product for free. But is really? On Carte Blanche Consumer this week, we unpack several consumer products on “special” to see if consumers really get what’s promised.  Producer: Eugene Botha.

Rugby players scammed
History has shown that the only person who benefits from get-rich-quick investments schemes is the originator, usually leaving gullible victims poorer. But do we ever learn? Carte Blanche Consumer traces two shrewd operators who seemingly managed to coax millions out of prominent rugby players and trusting church-goers through yet another pyramid scheme. Producer: Bernadette Cook; Presenter: Devi Sankaree Govender.

Milk Price
Consumers across the country are having to cough up R9 for a litre of milk these days, which is more than what we pay for a litre of petrol. Yet farmers ditch thousands of litres of unsold milk, saying dairy farming is no longer sustainable. So if producers claim to be paid a pittance compared to the end shelf price, who’s the middleman skimming off the cream? Carte Blanche Consumer does an-udder investigation.  Producer: Angus Begg; Presenter: Annika Larsen.

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