Friday 10 May 2013
10D Big q
Read the 'Trading Standards' case study on page 169 of the black books. Have
you, or somebody you know, ever been a victim of any of the dishonest business
practises identified in the case study? Briefly explain what happened. How did
this make you or them feel. If you haven't personally been affected see if you
can find a news article on the internet where Trading Standards have had to
intervene. Briefly explain the article.
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I bought a pair of football boots from jjb in Farnham, the boots had a 28 day warranty. However, a couple of months later, my nice leather boots split in half. This annoyed me as they shouldnt be splitting. I therefore took them back the shop and complained. At first they were not going to change them, however after complaining for a couple of minutes, they changed their minds and let me change my boots for free :)
ReplyDeletenot very nice
Deletewouldnt of wrote it if they didnt :/
DeleteA Cheltenham shopkeeper has been prosecuted for illegally storing fireworks and obstructing a Trading Standards officer at Cheltenham Magistrates Court today.
ReplyDeletethey were fined £2000 for having incorrectly stored fireworks, £1000 for obstructing the Trading Standards officer, £1500 for having the fireworks publicly accessible and £2000 costs. There was also a £15 victim surcharge and the court instructed that the fireworks be surrendered to Trading Standards for safe disposal.
Hadib
I was paying for some food and the shop keeper charged me £5.00 more than it was advertised for so i got my money back as i said it was false advertising.I dont go there anymore.
ReplyDeleteAlex and Will K
jack purchased a coat from blackbush market for £50, but later found out it was only worth £20 in high street shops, and also poor quality and counterfiet and could not return it, due to no recipt or or warenty. he felt upset and angry that he got cheated out for money.
ReplyDeleteishti josh and jack
Delete*josh purchased
DeleteHi guys from Joe Bray <3 (and Andy)
ReplyDeleteIn the article the man sold fake bomb detectors to be used in countries like Iraq by the armed forces. He has made £50 million by selling 7,000 fake bomb detectors and has been jailed for 10 years.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22378708
Vodka and gin drinkers were getting less than they bargained for at a restaurant in Gloucester a court heard today.
ReplyDeleteSamples taken by an officer from Gloucestershire County Council’s Trading Standards Service during a visit to the restaurant in Westgate Street, Gloucester, were found to have been falsely substituted with cheaper, inferior brands.
Appearing before Gloucester magistrates, the owner of the restaurant pleaded guilty to two charges of tampering with the ‘Smirnoff’ vodka and ‘Gordon’s’ gin on sale at the bar.
He failed to identify to the Trading Standards Officer what was actually in the bottles and a prosecution was brought against him for misleading his customers.
He was fined £480, and ordered to pay costs of £575 plus a victim surcharge fee of £15
Eddie Coventry, Head of Trading Standards, said: “Consumers have a right to know what they are eating or drinking and do not expect to be served with anything other than what they have ordered and paid for. We will not hesitate to take action against those who we believe are deliberately cheating the consumer.”
The International Federation of Spirits Producers, which represents the major spirit brand owners, believes that on average, customers are being ripped off to the tune of £43 million a year by proprietors substituting expensive brands for the cheapest spirits they can buy.
Leo & Zak
Copy and pasted?
DeleteHadib
copy and pasted?
Deletehttp://www.tradingstandards.gov.uk/cgi-bin/glos/newsitem.cgi?file=ppcn0018.txt
Deleteclearly not copy and paste
i was once sold a faulty RC helicopter at blackbushe market and it ended up exploding above me and my dad. we took it back and the bloke at the stall didnt give us a refund and he said it had a 2 month warranty. we ended up going to the trading standards stall and they shut the stall down
ReplyDeleteRyan Woodfine
i bought a pair of boots and they broke within two months. i was annoyed
ReplyDeletejack and laurence
bought some jack and jones jeans from a shop called Red in Woking, for £75. when i got home i found multiple stains on the inside of the leg.
ReplyDeletei soon realised they were fake. i got my money back.
when my friend and i went to back bush market, there was a man seeling beats for £10-£20 but they were fake , i said to him they cant be real becasuse of the price of them , he was convinced they were real but my friend and i knew they were fake, he didnt want to believe they were fake.
ReplyDeleteTheresa & Jordan