Priase -Consumer Rights bills, end to all online scams

hpuse

Expected : October - 2015

Key summary

• Right to get what you pay for
• Right that goods and digital content are fit for purpose and services are provided with reasonable care and skill
• Right to have faults in what you buy put right free of charge, or to be provided with a refund or replacement

tomtontom

Any hope of people taking responsibility for what they sign up to?

hpuse

tomtontom wrote: »

Any hope of people taking responsibility for what they sign up to?

No. But there is hope that online services 'designed' for those who do not make the habbit of 'carefully reading each line in T&Cs ' before clicking will be spawning less...

E.g goverment copycats . Good isn't?

forgotmyname

How will this make any difference? A copycat site are providing a service that you pay for. The fact you can do it for free if you use the correct site wont protect you.

I think your reading too much into this.

No mention of not sending some complete stranger lots of money when you have no idea if they are legit or not.

Azari

What would be of the very greatest use would a some legislation that makes sellers of good and services responsible for stating very clearly and prominently any terms or conditions that may be detrimental to the customer, particularly if these may be unexpected.

An end to people being able to advertise some good or service with an apparently very attractive offer in massive type, with detrimental qualifiers or exclusions buried away in very small print often behind links would be most welcome.

Some of the banks are very good at this, now. When they send a multi-page set of terms and conditions they precede it with an 'executive summary' of anything that is likely to affect the customer in the everyday use of their services.

bod1467

Agree completely. It may have been the Financial Services Act (?) that forced banks into doing this ... this same requirement should also be mandated in the new CRB.

hpuse

CRBill will change the way the traders write T&Cs.

For e.g. in my opinion goverment online copycats (if at all they exist post Oct-2015) wont be able to apply DSR exemption on 'services' started from a digital asset that was submitted online.

bod1467

They can't apply a DSR exemption even now.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Brilliant Hpuseless. I cannot wait until this campaign bring rejoicing in the streets as you remove the service providers from the Internet, single handedly,

Unfortunately, I feel that the humanoid specimen, who has long arms and short pockets shall remain indifferent to this.