The Competition and Markets Authority has sounded the alarm over the problem as online reviews influence an estimated £23 billion of transactions a year in the UK alone.

Australian shoppers hoping to make a sweet profit are cashing in on Allen's new Mini Chocolate Raspberries on eBay for more than three times the retail price.

Sharon Fairfax took to the UK Facebook group We Love Mrs Hinch to share the impressive before and after photos of her laundry room transformation, kitted out with vintage accessories.

Labour MP for Batley and Spen, West Yorkshire, Tracy Brabin, 58, sparked outrage this week after her black off-the-shoulder dress slipped down her arm at the despatch box.

Chris Rice, from Portsmouth,launched a family-run sex toy business with annual turnover of £1 million and told FEMAIL that working with his relatives is 'never awkward'.

Leah Holden, from Lincolnshire, posted before and after photographs of a poky spare room in her house on Facebook 's DIY On A Budget UK, revealing how she turned it into an airy bathroom.

Mum-of-three Martyna Janczyńska, from Middlesbrough, has shared her impressive kitchen makeover, revealing how she spent just £80 transforming the space with bargain buys. 

Aleksandra Hoyles, 32, from Yorkshire is so popular on Instagram that clothes sellers are using pictures of her and her daughter on eBay without her permission to sell their look-alikes,

Kelly Jordan, from Pontefract, West Yorkshire, posted to Facebook to reveal the finished result of her Disney-inspired makeover, which took a 'couple of months' to complete.

Tens of thousands of Australians have found themselves out of work overnight as COVID-19 continues to destabilise the economy, but some entrepreneurs are discovering new niches.

'Unscrupulous' eBay users are attempting to exploit desperate shoppers in the midst of the coronavirus crisis by selling out-of-stock essentials for more than ten times their shop price.

Victoria Robinson, 33, a part time Tesco worker from Hertfordshire, took to a Facebook group to share how she turned her drab kitchen into a modern space by swapping her handles and tiles.

Blogger Hayley Rubery, 29, from Essex, was scheduled to have a complete refit of her bathroom, but did the job herself using leftover paint, vinyl flooring from eBay and old wood.

Michael Goonan is selling his Married At First Sight memorabilia on eBay, which means fans can now own a piece of reality TV history.

American Express cardholders can earn £5 cashback when they spend £10 or more at independent stores, restaurants and retailers until December 16.

Virgin Money is currently running a bumper sign-up offer on its Virgin Atlantic Rewards+ credit card - enough points to get a free return flight to New York. but it ends at 4pm - should you sign up now?

Excluding mortgages, personal debts hit a record total of £428billion in the third quarter of 2018 - which is 33 per cent higher than in 2008 just before the financial crisis.

American Express customers could just have been handed the answer to their perennial problem, a trick to get their cards accepted anywhere. We reveal how.

Those thinking of putting money on the 5.15 at Aintree on Saturday could be making a mistake far costlier than backing the wrong horse - using a credit card to bet.

Tourists are routinely offered a chance to pay in their 'home' currency at restaurants, shops or hotels abroad in a process called 'dynamic currency conversion'.

Mike Weaver, 61, took out several payment protection insurance policies when he set up his radio hiring business in 1991. He recalls being told that he had to buy PPI to get the loans he needed.

Love it or loathe it, Black Friday weekend is looming. This is when retailers are expected to shower shoppers with juicy discounts for a few days only.

Buy now, pay later juggernaut Klarna announced it has signed up over 60,000 retailers so far in 2019, including Microsoft and travel agent Expedia, as it prepares for a bumper Black Friday.

Lloyds, Santander, Nationwide, NatWest, Virgin Money, HSBC and Barclaycard all confirmed staff cannot unblock credit cards in branch.Some banks say it must now be done by a specialist team.

Virgin Money apologised and reversed its decision, saying that everyone who had their card suspended will be able to use them to make purchases again from Saturday 9 May.

All you need to do is make a few simple changes to the way that you spend your money and you’ll have found yourself a brand new source of income.

Households are increasingly saving less and getting into more debt and a payday loan crackdown hasn't solved the problem. This is Money rounds up some of the start-ups trying to help

Laura Heaps, 36, was denied a mortgage after her advisor said she had a default on her credit file. However, rating agency Equifax had mistakenly put her twin sister's historic debt on her report.

Britons paid back more on their credit cards than they borrowed in November - the first time this has happened in more than six years, according to official figures.

A large number of buy now, pay later users do not know the full implications of missing payments while a large chunk don't believe the terms and conditions are clear enough.

UCAS will stop sending out emails advertising private student loan provider Future Finance, the student charity announced today, following a backlash over the promotions

Credit card customers of high street bank Halifax have reportedly been hit by charges when trying to make Klarna repayments, the buy now, pay later firm said.

Here are around six phone calls every year that almost every household needs to make if they don’t want their outgoings to suddenly balloon.

Party manifestos are not exactly known for their jokes. But as I trawled through them all over the past few days there were two lines that at least made me snigger.

There’s little in life more frenzied than booking a hotel online. You could plan an off peak trip to the back end of nowhere and it seems there'd be an inordinate number of people looking too.

I don't have a Vanguard account, but if someone said they wanted an easy and cheap way to build their wealth, opening one and picking a Lifestrategy fund would be near the top of my list of things to try.

Moves such as cutting higher rate tax relief are often depicted as hitting the wealthy older generation, but that's disingenuous.

There's nothing to sharpen the investing mind like being down thousands of pounds, but if you had panic sold on Friday you would have missed this week's rebound. So what can investors do?

If ever there was a time when investors needed a hero, it's now. And among the stock market capitulation, a ray of light has arrived with the latest list of Dividend Heroes.

Fans of Tiger King: Murder Mayhem And Madness have come up with a shock theory that suggests Jeff Lowe is actually Carole Baskin's abusive first husband Michael Murdock.

Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister says he believes more than one person killed Carole Baskin's second husband Don Lewis and money was likely involved as motivation.

The three friends recreated an Australian version of the popular song from Netflix docoseries Tiger King.

An Australian man currently living in 14-day quarantine has shared an ingenious hack for streaming Netflix and YouTube on a hotel TV, and it only requires two pieces of technology.

She stars as Ruth Wilder in the Netflix hit comedy/drama series Glow. And Alison Brie opened up about how training for her character and the physical element of the role 'helped.'

From working from home to lounging on the couch and binge-watching another Netflix show, the right robe and slippers can make life in quarantine a lot better.

'When I've been in a really serious depression, I'll drag myself to a yoga class - even if I don't want to be around people - tears streaming down my face,' said the star.

US cyber security company BrandShield says it has discovered more than 600 fake web domains containing the word 'Netflix' that try to scam users by taking their payment details.

Written by composer and lyricist Andrew Lippa, the song tells the story from the perspective of Baskin, who may or may not have fed her husband Don to a tiger.

Netflix recently dropped a trailer for their newest dating reality series, Too Hot to Handle - launching Friday, April 17 at 5pm.

Too Hot To Handle's Francesca Farago and Kelechi 'Kelz' Dyke shared the only NUDE scene of Netflix's newest dating series. And Harry Jowsey has revealed how he reacted to the racy tryst.