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Author: I don't do wombats
Date: May 16, 2008 16:31

Has anyone else noticed the Suzuki car ads in the newspaper claiming
driveaway prices and then you read the fine print at the bottom and it says
"plus $2200 dealer delivery"
I don't know where they went to school but that is not a drive away price
and either the ACCC is asleep at the wheel or no one has told them.
I plan to remedy that one on Monday.
How do the car makers continually get away with anything and if I was to
advertise a price that was in anyway not true they would be on me like a ton
of bricks.
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Re: ACCC Not Doing Their Job         


Author: veritas
Date: May 16, 2008 19:09

I don't do wombats wrote:
> Has anyone else noticed the Suzuki car ads in the newspaper claiming
> driveaway prices and then you read the fine print at the bottom and it says
> "plus $2200 dealer delivery"
> I don't know where they went to school but that is not a drive away price
> and either the ACCC is asleep at the wheel or no one has told them.
> I plan to remedy that one on Monday.
> How do the car makers continually get away with anything and if I was to
> advertise a price that was in anyway not true they would be on me like a ton
> of bricks.

They won't know until someone tells them...... So?
>
>
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Re: ACCC Not Doing Their Job         


Author: Noddy
Date: May 16, 2008 20:58

"I don't do wombats" hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Has anyone else noticed the Suzuki car ads in the newspaper claiming
> driveaway prices and then you read the fine print at the bottom and it
> says "plus $2200 dealer delivery"

If they advertise a price as "drive away", then that's the price you should
pay to drive it out the door. You're well within your legal rights to walk
into a dealer, plonk down the "drive away" price and collect a new car.
> I don't know where they went to school but that is not a drive away price
> and either the ACCC is asleep at the wheel or no one has told them.

They may be onto it right now for all you know.
> I plan to remedy that one on Monday.

Good for you.
> How do the car makers continually get away with anything and if I was to
> advertise a price that was in anyway not true they would be on me like a
> ton of bricks.

Only if someone complained.
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Re: ACCC Not Doing Their Job         


Author: Saab C900 Viggenist
Date: May 17, 2008 00:37

"I don't do wombats" hotmail.com> writes:
>Has anyone else noticed the Suzuki car ads in the newspaper claiming
>driveaway prices and then you read the fine print at the bottom and it says
>"plus $2200 dealer delivery"
>I don't know where they went to school but that is not a drive away price
>and either the ACCC is asleep at the wheel or no one has told them.
>I plan to remedy that one on Monday.
>How do the car makers continually get away with anything and if I was to
>advertise a price that was in anyway not true they would be on me like a ton
>of bricks.

It's just like the service stations selling E10 in place of standard ULP and
putting the E10 price up on the main price board with really tiny text
underneath saying that you 'may' be buying fuel with 'up to' 10 percent
ethanol.

So it's not just new car sellers doing these tricky marketting scams.

Craig.
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Re: ACCC Not Doing Their Job         


Author: Snapper
Date: May 25, 2008 02:28

Noddy wrote...
> Only if someone complained.
>
> There'd be *hundreds* of businesses doing things that are illegal as far as
> trading practices go every day, be it intentionally or accidentally, and the
> only reason they continue to do so is because the public, by and large,
> aren't aware that they're not supposed to be doing it.

I read about something that they refer to as the Ninety Percent Rule (or
something like that).

It goes along the lines of 90%% of small businesses fail in their first year. 90%%
of a business's custom is repeat business and 90%% of customers who have had a
bad experience never return and never complain.
> Organisations like the ACCC have a limited ability with regards to
> monitoring. They don't have the capacity sit around and watch every business
> activity that takes place on a daily basis to ensure it's being done by the
> book. They act in response to complaints rather than monitor the market
> themselves, and the best way to get them into gear on an issue is to draw
> their attention to it.
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Re: ACCC Not Doing Their Job         


Author: Noddy
Date: May 25, 2008 05:46

"Snapper" y7mail.com.invalid> wrote in message
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> Perhaps it should spend some dough on mobs like Media Monitors to scan
> newspapers and television ads for such "discrepancies". Not do it every
> day, but
> say have a blitz every now and again.

That'd be fine, but all Media Monitors does is look at adds, and
irregularities associated with advertising standards. They can't tell you if
the advertised item is selling for the correct price in the store as they
don't check to see if it is.
> Thing is, when a consumer does have a whinge how many see a satisfactory
> (to
> them) outcome?

I have no idea, and I think the ACCC or Consumer Affairs would be the people
to direct that question to. Bearing in mind, of course, that these
organisations exist to ensure the laws of fair trading and proper business
laws are being adhered to. I'm sure a lot of people complain on a daily
basis, and not every single one of those complaints is likely to be the
result of a bad business practice.
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