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Rip Off Britain

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The Rip Off Britain team is ready to tackle the issues you feel affect you the most.

The Rip Off Britain team is ready to tackle the issues that most matter to you - from bills and bad customer service, to holidays and food.

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Rip Off Britain: Series 8

Angela Rippon

Julia Somerville

Gloria Hunniford

Rob Unsworth

Chris Walker

Rip Off Britain: Series 8: Episode 13

Episode 13

Series 8

BBC One - Rip Off Britain, Series 8, Episode 13

The team expose the secret sales techniques used to pressure vulnerable customers.

Documentary exposing rip-offs. The team expose the secret sales techniques used to pressure more vulnerable customers into buying products they simply can't afford.

Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville investigate the various ways companies try to give what they're selling the edge, and they expose the secret sales techniques used to pressure more vulnerable customers into buying products they simply can't afford. 

The team also go behind the scenes at the testing centre that determines which goods should receive one of the country's best-known endorsements. But is it being exploited by companies that don't deserve it? 

Plus tips on protecting your mobile phone, and why the competition to win impressive-sounding awards may not always have been quite as fierce as you might have assumed.

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Angela Rippon and the team expose some of the rip-offs that are costing British consumers.

Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville return to their journalistic roots to expose some of the rip-offs that are costing British consumers.

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