Consumer Rights
Agencies and Laws
Vocabulary
Abbreviations
Advertising Techniques
100

This right makes certain that consumers have a variety of goods and services

What is the right to Choosec

100

 This agency regulates advertising and encourage informative and truthfulness in advertising. It also prevents one firm from using unfair practices to run competing firms out of business.

What is the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)?

100

A company's promise that the product will meet specific standards over a given period of time.

What is a Warranty? 

100

FTC

What is the Federal Trade Commission? 

100

This is the BEST one you'll ever own!

What is weasel words?

200

This right promises that consumers should be able to obtain fair judgements consumer problems

What is the Right to a remedy?

200

This agency protects consumers from dangerous products?

What is the Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC)?

200

A situation with only one company sells a product giving it an unfair advantage.

What is a Monopoly? 

200

FDA

What is the Food and Drug Administration?

200

Buy it because you're awesome!

What is complimenting the customer? 

300

This right states that products must not endanger consumers’ lives or health

What is the right to safety?

300

This agency helps insure consumer safety by setting standards for the grading of farm products that are sold from one state to another. It also controls the processing and grading of meat.

USDA: United States Department of Agriculture.

300

Anyone who purchases goods and services.

What is a Consumer? 

300

CPSC

What is the consumer product safety commission? 

300

Your child's health depends on this!

What is emotional appeal? 

400

This right provides that consumers are given sufficient information to make rational buying decisions

What is the right to be informed or the right consumer education?

400

This occurs when inaccurate information is given to customers in an effort to make a sale.

What is Fraud?

400

Laws that provides a way for individuals to fight back against abusive business practices.

What are consumer rights?

400

USDA

What is United States Department of Agriculture? 

400

Absolutely Everyone will have these jeans!

What is bandwagon?

500

This right gives consumers a protection from hazardous goods.

What is the right to safety? 
500

This is a disclaimer against all warranties and protects sellers of potentially                                            faulty products.

What is 'As Is'

500

The right to receive the correct information about a product. 

What is the right to be informed?

500

FRD

What is fraud? 

500

This product was made in America!

What is patriotism? 

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