Eight out of ten consumers believe this majority of stores cheat with discounts According to a survey by face Via Twitter with 2,350 users participating.
Special, 83.6% of consumers think most businesses are advertising unrealistic discounts during the sales season. While 9.1% believe that this practice is done by half of the businesses, 5.5% believe that very few do it and only 1.8% think that no businesses do it.
Consumer organization identified by Facua various irregularities in stores, including advertising a product that sells for exactly the same price at a discount raising and then lowering prices more or more days before the start of sales and bragging about discounts.
Facua also points out that: There are shops that “overestimate” their salesAnnouncing that there are discount rates much higher than the actual rates on the labels or signboards next to the products, or that they advertise as discounted products that have not really been discounted before.
Besides “false discounts”, the consumer organization claims that during the sales season, many businesses refuse to take responsibility when there are manufacturing defects.
It also reports that such organizations exist. they are announcing discounts of up to 70% valid only on a few items that disappear in the first few daysor after a few weeks, when there are almost no discounted products on their shelves, they extend the sales season to two months.
Facua regrets that the consumer authorities in the region do not carry out inspection actions before and during the sale, “These are practices that include fraud against consumers and unfair competition with businesses that apply real discounts in all cases.” economic sanctions.
In the event that a store guarantees that a product is discounted and the product is not really or the discount percentage does not match the truth, Facua recommends it to consumers who can prove it, as well as disseminating the facts through networks to warn others. customers, make a complaint before autonomous consumer protection authorities to impose sanctions.
Likewise, if there is a manufacturing defect in the products purchased at the time of sale, the association reminds that there is still a three-year guarantee that the organization has to undertake, regardless of the discount percentage.