Poll

Over the last few years, a raft of cashback sites have sprung up, offering you a cut of the ‘affiliate revenue’ they receive, so that if you buy products through them, you get cashback on top (see top cashback sites and the cashback maximiser for more). Regular MoneySavers swear by them... but how widespread is their usage?

Poll Started 23 Feb 2009. Would you help a fellow consumer? You’re in the queue at an electrical shop. The person in front of you is taking back their new radio, bought a few days earlier, as it's faulty. The shop staff tell him/her "you have to send it to manufacturer, it's not our business". This is NOT correct, it is the shop you made the 'contract' with, thus the law says it needs to sort it. You KNOW what the shops said is wrong, so which of these is nearest to your attitude?

Poll Started 16 Feb 2009: Do you buy name brand medicine? Branded medicine has a powerful selling point: nobody wants to ‘scrimp’ on their health. Yet generic medicines (unbranded/own brand) offer EXACTLY the same active ingredient (see the cheap medicines guide for more) at a fraction of the cost. Often the only difference is the lack of fancy packaging, and the coating. Which of these do you mostly buy for yourself/your family?

Poll Started 10 Feb 09: Can you use a voucher on a first date? The taboos surrounding vouchers have virtually disappeared, as a tribe of credit crunch voucheristas choose where they go depending on the 2for1 restaurant deals. Yet as it's Valentine’s week, does this apply to a first date? Imagine Bob asked Sarah out to dinner on a first date, and as he asked, he says he’ll pay. When the bill comes he pulls out a 2for1 voucher... Which of these is nearest your opinion?

Poll Started 3 Feb 2009: Should we trade with China? Premier Wen Jiabao of China, the world's latest economic giant, is in the UK talking to Gordon Brown about strengthening trade. Yet everywhere he goes, there are protests about human rights issues. Which of these is closest to your view?

Poll Started 26 January 2009: How close to the brink are you? Three months ago we first did this poll... then recession was on its way. Now it's here. Have things changed? On a scale of nought to nine, how near the financial edge are you? Which of these is nearest your situation?

Poll Started 19 Jan 2009: Should we nationalise the banks? This week the government covered another £200 bn of banking assets and increased its share in RBS to 70%. Is it time for us to take the whole banking system into state ownership and control? Which of these is closest to your view of what the Government should do?

Poll Started 12 Jan 2009: How well do you know Europe? The UK has been a member of the European Union (well, EEC) since 1973. It means people from the UK have rights to work in other EU countries and much greater freedoms of import and export. Yet how well do you know which countries are EU? In the list below, one country isn’t a member of the EU, can you spot which? Which of these countries ISN’T a member of the EU?

Poll Started 05 Jan 2009: Is it time to ditch the pound? The pound's dropped like a stone against the dollar and the Euro. Is it time we moved our currency into part of a bigger one? Should the UK join the Euro?

Poll started 30 Dec 2008: Fantasy Chancellor II… now it's political Last week it was the turn of a range of celebrities, and the battle was hard-fought between the Dragons (see result). This week, which current sitting member of parliament, irrelevant of political party, do you think would make the best Chancellor?