(2013-03-21) Julian Morrow and Craig Reucassel from The Chaser team reinvent consumer affairs TV in a new show that will inform, entertain and empower ordinary consumers.
I love The Chaser's shows. You learn so much from these guys, way more than mainstream news shows, and best of all you're entertained along the way too.
Love it! It's great to have a show that's not only informative, looking after consumers but is entertaining all at the same time. Keep up the good work guys, thanks.
I've tried stuff like that in the past with different accounts and people don't seem to understand that I have to upload it as a new video and I can't simply replace the old low quality video.
Nah I'm an American living in America, so it'd be pretty hard to get access to the Aussie ABC on my TV. :P Usually there are release groups that release 480p television rips of Aussie TV shows, but they usually take a day or two to appear and by that time I'm flooded with messages asking me if I'm going to upload the episode. I just buy access to an Australian based VPN and rip the show directly from the iView streams. If people want, I can upload iView and then the TV rips when released, but...
awesome episode, thank you for putting that much effort and research into the big companies, who think that because they have so much money and they have 'legal' documents, no one can complain about their treatment of us consumers. hopefully this would change things once they know people are on to them. a really good topic for an episode would be why Australian goods are so overpriced and one of the most expensive in the world! even normal groceries cost a fortune here in sydney!!
I kinda have a problem with hands-free soap dispensers. Yes, the pump will be packed with germs, but you're basically about to wash those germs right off.
you can service you own car for $100 for a full service but at Holden its $200 for just an oil and filter change i should know i used to work in the garage there
To be honest, almost half of the free to air TV here is American/foreign, and some of it is pretty good, particularly the stuff on ABC. Of the Australian content, its summed up in reality cooking, reality singing, reality cooking, "news" programs, reality other and generally poor "home grown" drama's that the nation could not give two shits about, just like our film industry. Yeah, i dont watch too much tv.
This was a well researched consumer affairs show that has made me a more avid consumer. Therefore, the ABC will cut it before the first season is done.
the start was a bit slow but then it got really good. i can't complain since facts are more important than information but i'm surprised this isn't as funny as the usual chaser stuff. still going to watch all the episodes. thanks for uploading
I upload the quality that iView provides. I'm not the ABC nor The Chaser so it's not like I have the original source video at my disposal. Complain to the ABC that iView needs to provide better quality video. :P
I like the fact that the show exposes the questionable and in many cases, unacceptable practices of today's commercialism and corporate practices, but the thing that is missing is, after watching these objectionable practices, one is left powerless as to what can be done to stop or curtail such behaviour. Which raises the question as to the purpose of the show - entertainment or an attempt to do something about it? If it's the latter, where's that component of what's been done, what can be done, and how effective has it been?
Nope. Entertainment crossed with education. THere's very little you can do to impact multi-million dollar corporations without a lot of money (even with huge piles of evidence). These guys are comedians called the Chaser. They mostly do biting political satire but this is education for some reason.
If they do cut it i will say to you you won are congratulations and stuff like that but if you lose you post on my channel that i am awesome do you accept this challenge?
Right after this episode Swisse sued ABC. I think neither the ABC nor the Chasers would want to waste their time with raging idiot representitives from companies.
+valcarni1 Maybe because products, services, retailers and advertisements are getting away with same tricks time after time? That is the whole point of the show, to highlight who is engaging in these tricks and what we, as consumers, can do about it.
Definitely not as funny as the Chaser's other stuff - they've swapped some humour for education - but it's still good and miles better than 95% of the rest of the stuff on TV. Oh, I wish I was exaggerating that percentage... Although there is some weird bias occasionally. E.g. the "Buy now, Pay Forever" segment.doesn't actually show comparisons to other non-"replacement refills" goods which must be routinely replaced anyway, especially looking at comparative product quality (the reality is it all adds up either way and some products are worth paying refills for and some aren't). Although _social media_ helping to change the world for the better was absolutely hilarious. Yes, because people are actually going to listen to someone else's complaints for anything other than their own entertainment, and that will really change anything whatsoever. Multi-million dollar corporations which ruthlessly use and abuse human beings for money will really absolutely give a flying fuck (...unless you hold them to ransom). We're in the era of social aggression and alienation in a crowd. The more ruthless and superficial our culture, the more people's behaviour worsens (by which I mean principally hatred, intolerance and prejudice, although trolling wankers probably count too) and compassion slowly dies out year by year.
