Question

How consumers are exploited?

Answer 1

False advertisement:

Producers make false claims and bogus presentations about their products in the media, [quality, price, grade], etc.
With a view to mislead the consumers [eg] A ‘pinch of Rin’ ad ’23 components of complaint ad

Duplication [Spurious goods]:

• Duplicates of popular brands of products are produced and sold.
• A consumer is not in a position to differentiate the duplicate from the original thus consumer is exploited.
• [eg] Watches – TITAN – TITTAN
• Shoes – ADIDAS – ADITAS

Product risk:

• Harmful and banned drugs, Electrical appliances with inadequate safety provisions are sold in the market.
• Such goods are dangerous and injurious to the lives of the customers.
•  eg: Electrical Gadgets with inadequate insulation.

Adulteration:

•  Adulteration is quite common in food articles.
•  It means mixing or substituting undesirable materials in food
•  It spoils the health of the consumer
•  It is a crime that cannot be pardoned
•  eg: Mixing of stone with rice
•  Mixing of water with milk
•  Mixing of brick powder with chili powder
•  Papaya seeds added to black pepper.

Selling at a higher price:

• The price charged by the seller for a product or service is not proportionate to the quality but at times it is more than the fair price.
• eg: Price printed in the book X 200
• But it is sold for X 240

Sub-standard:

• On opening a packed and sealed container one finds the contents with poor  quality and quantity [damaged and low weight]
  eg: Ice creams -Zandubalm – Colgate paste.