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What is consumer protection?
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... Consumer Protection INTRODUCTION What is consumer protection? A customer is someone who pays for goods or services. Protection means to prevent them from being harmed or damaged. As a consumer the law gives you consumer rights. TASK 1 Why do we need consumer protection? Well, let me tell you what will happen if the consumer protection doesn't exist: * Companies will mislead you. * Companies will sell faulty goods by mistake or deliberately. * Companies might sell goods that endanger the consumer. * Companies will take advantage of you. Example if consumer protection did not exist: If you buy a chocolate from a newsagent, it turned out to be out of date and you would like to refund it, if he doesn't want to refund it than you couldn't do nothing about it but this isn't very important whereas if you buy a car which in the meter it says it has 5,000 mileage but the real mileage














