Renters and homebuyers have been turning up to properties to find a very different reality from the ads. There’s even a name for it: ‘housefishing’.
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Showing one product, but pairing it with the price of a different product, is common on online shopping sites. It’s not just wasting your time: it can be illegal.
Behind the illusion of prestige and luxury is cheap, poorly manufactured clothing from Chinese factories.
A loophole in the Electoral Act means it’s perfectly legal to lie to voters – as long as it doesn’t happen during official election campaigns.
The government says changes to the unit pricing code will help ensure shoppers are not the victims of inflation by stealth when buying everyday products.
A push to overhaul laws to stamp out land banking is part of a Government bid to crack down on anti-competitive and unconscionable conduct by supermarkets.
Woolworths and Coles face potentially massive fines if they are found guilty of misleading shoppers over the price of hundreds of products.
While the ACCC failed in a similar case against Google in 2013, there are some key details in this one which could give it more leverage.
A new study looked at advertising and purchase data for children’s drinks and suggests that ads and pricing strategies contribute to sweetened children’s drink purchases.
In short, it’s because the texts do not constitute ‘advertising’ – a good reason for the legislation to be revisited and widened.
Top contributors
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Professor of Law (consumer protections and credit law), The University of Melbourne
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Director of Marketing Initiatives, Rudd Center for Food Policy and Health, University of Connecticut
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Monash University
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Professor of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor of Marketing, University of Technology Sydney
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Lecturer in Marketing, RMIT University
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Law & Justice; Lead, UNSW Public Interest Law & Tech Initiative, UNSW
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Director, Master of Business Administration Program (MBA); Co-Director, Better Consumption Lab, Deakin University
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Lecturer in Law, Sydney Law School, University of Sydney