The Bureaus investigation found that the
advertised prices are deceptive because consumers must pay additional fees that are added later in the purchasing process.
Violations included offering promotions without obtaining the necessary licence from the concerned department, failing to display prices, selling expired products, describing or advertising product in a misleading way, charging higher than the
advertised prices, failing to use Arabic in statements and ads relating to products and failing to comply with the mandatory bulletin of vegetables and fruits prices.
"The directorate is combating commercial fraud by monitoring a number of violations of some shops for setting prices other than
advertised prices, or those that do not set clear prices for consumers," said a statement by the Consumer Protection Directorate.
The refusal by many bookmakers to accommodate punters with reasonable bets at
advertised prices, and the closure of accounts that are deemed uneconomical, is a source of massive frustration to many, and the HBF spells out some of its expectation in the small print.
Quote code B9QAMB & save PS50 per booking on
advertised prices. Applies to Apr to Oct 2016 departures & may be withdrawn any time.
(Retailers were allowed to select more than one response.) Match
advertised prices 72.2% Only match brick-and-mortar prices 40.5% Match online prices 13.9% Match price plus a percentage off 2.5% Other 2.5% Source: NRHA 2015 State of Pricing Study Note: Table made from bar graph.
Simply, a grocer may not draw you to its store with low
advertised prices for an item it has failed to stock adequately.
Over the past year dubizzle has seen shifts in the average
advertised prices from quarter to quarter, in most cases reflecting an uptrend.
But around one in six finds its difficult to work out what the
advertised prices include.
But Ryanair says it will have to ditch the discount as the OFT is forcing airlines to include card surcharges in
advertised prices.
A complaint was then made, questioning whether the advert was misleading because it did not make clear from which departure airports the
advertised prices applied.
The
advertised prices totalled pounds 15.75, however I was quoted pounds 21.50.
