Price comparison websites

Supermarket price comparison tool Trolley.co.uk is on the brink of collapse due to licensing issues and is trying to crowdfund more than £28,000 to stay afloat. The popular money-saving site has been a hit with shoppers trying to save money on their food bills and many have voiced concerns about the possible closure. 

Price comparison website Compare The Market has been fined £17.9 million by the competition watchdog, after it banned home insurers from offering customers cheaper prices elsewhere.

Train booking website Takethetrain.co.uk has introduced a hefty £5 booking fee that's already caught some passengers out. If you want to book online without paying a fee, look at other sites instead.

Comparison site MoneySupermarket has been fined £80,000 after it sent an email to millions of customers who had opted out of marketing messages.

Price comparison sites are generally serving their users well, but could improve to be an even more effective tool for consumers, according to the competition watchdog.

British Gas and E.on are freezing the price of their standard variable tariffs until at least the end of March 2017, hot on the heels of a similar move by rival supplier SSE last month.

Shoppers are reporting a shortage of dozens of popular household brands at Tesco. But if you're frantically searching for your fix of Marmite, Hellmann's or PG Tips, it's actually possible to slash costs by buying the same brand elsewhere or downshifting to an own-brand equivalent.

The effectiveness of price comparison websites is to come under scrutiny from the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) in a new probe.

Mobile comparison site MobilePhoneChecker has released a first-of-its-kind tool that allows you to compare the cost of different ways of buying a mobile phone – including pairing mix-and-match financing options for a handset with a Sim-only plan.

Price comparison sites should pay compensation to energy customers who have been misled into switching to deals that were not the cheapest on the market, MPs say.