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 12: Episode 8

Episode 8

Series 12

BBC One - Rip Off Britain, Series 12, Episode 8

A couple who paid £85,000 for collectable gold coins learn what they’re really worth.

A woman whose husband paid £85,000 for collectable gold coins learns what they’re really worth, and the couriers who did a runner after being hired to move valuable items.

Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville investigate more cases of viewers being left seriously out of pocket. Today, the people who trusted a special website to help them find couriers to move valuable goods, only for the couriers to do a runner. A woman whose husband paid £85,000 for collectable gold coins is shocked to learn what they’re really worth, and there’s more indispensable advice for the visitors to our pop-up shop.

Rip Off Britain: Series 12

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Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville return with more investigations.

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