In weighing up the decision to buy you must navigate a minefield of facts and fiction, truths, half-truths and outright myths.

To make matters worse, depending on who you listen to you'll hear directly opposite statements presented as fact. For each myth presented here you'll find numerous sources that claim that far from being myths, these are actually true statements.

These contradictions are possible because each of these myths contain a nugget of truth, or at least something that sounds like it could be true.

You'll have to make up your own mind.