{"id":100973,"date":"2026-04-02T11:43:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/100973\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T11:43:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:43:50","slug":"ecocheque-price-gauging-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/100973\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecocheque price gauging scam?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/kw0te9sjlrsg1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/tt5fg3wjlrsg1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/k7hxgmxjlrsg1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/m58y6dzjlrsg1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n<!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>I was looking into buying some kitchen essentials using my ecocheque. I noticed that the items are much more expensive on the websites that accept ecochques (krefel, mediamarkt) compared to the ones that don&#39;t. for example, the waterfilter tap system is significantly more expensive on mediamarkt (74 eur) compared  to smaller vendors websites ( the items are not on sale). They are also much cheaper on Amazon or Bol.com. <\/p>\n<p>Does anyone know why is this? is this even legal from consumers and competitive perspective?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON --><br \/>\n<br \/>&#8212;<br \/>\nSsushee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I was looking into buying some kitchen essentials using my ecocheque. I noticed that the items are much&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[44],"class_list":{"0":"post-100973","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-belgium","8":"tag-belgium"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@forums\/116334963113716661","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}