Fair Trading Act
Consumer Guarantees
Contract Law
Comparison Shopping
General
100
This is a law which aims to protect consumers from dishonest shopkeepers and traders.
What is the Fair Trading Act
100
This is a law which aims to protect consumers when they are involved with the purchase of goods and services for household use.
What is Consumer Guarantees Act?
100
An invitation to make an offer
What is a Price Tag?
100
Products sold in plain packages at lower prices than brand name products.
What is Generic Products?
100
Parliamentary law
What is an Act?
200
This occurs if the information you have been given about a product is false.
What is False Representation
200
A supplier should not sell something that is not theirs to sell. If they owe money on the item they cannot sell it.
What is a Clear Title?
200
You make someone an offer, they accept it, and you promise to give something - usually money - in return for what you're getting.
What are the three common features of a contract
200
Talk to people who have used the products that you are considering buying
What is a recommendation?
200
They won gold in the commonwealth games for netball.
Who are the Silver Ferns?
300
If you get the wrong idea about goods and services being sold you may have been misled or deceived.
What is Misleading and Deceptive Conduct
300
Repair
Replace
Refund
What is possible when a Guarantee is broken?
300
Something - usually money - you give in return for what you're getting.
What is consideration?
300
Factors that need to be considered when comparison shopping.
What is cost, features, quality, recommendations and warranty in relation to shopping?
300
The bottom team of the Tri-Nations competition
Who is South Africa?
400
Relates to the way in which you were encouraged to purchase, i.e. a selling method or technique is unfair and aims to take advantage of you.
What is Unfair Practices
400
Consumers may also claim for any reasonably foreseeable extra loss that results from the initial problem.
What is Consequential Loss?
400
Under 20 years old can only enter certain types of contracts, mental disorders are unlikely to enter into a contract, a person who is drunk does not have the capacity to enter into a contract.
What is person without capacity?
400
A store’s written agreement to repair a product or refund your money should the product not function properly.
What is a warranty?
400
Place without lawyers where small claims can be made against a business
What is Disputes Tribunal?
500
The Fair Trading Act requires that a reasonable quantity of products be available for a reasonable time at the advertised prices.
What is Bait Advertising?
500
Second-hand goods, purchase of goods from an auction
What is not covered in the Consumer Guarantees Act
500
Forced into a contract (without consent)
What is undue influence and/or duress?
500
How much that product costs per unit of measure. For example, it allows shoppers to compare the price of a 3kg bag of carrots and a 2kg bag of carrots to find the best price per kg.
What is Unit Pricing?
500
Caveat Emptor
What is buyer beware?