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The amendments to the Consumer Rights Protection Law approved today stipulate that the State Service for the Protection of Consumer Rights may impose from 500 to 5,000. a fine of EUR.
129 Seimas members voted in favor of the amendments, none of them opposed or abstained. They will come into force in 2021. July 1
Delphi remember that a little earlier the Seimas decided to introduce a new obligation for traders. Beginning July 1, the seller must provide the buyer with information on applicable price reductions. Any notice of a reduction in the price of an item must indicate the previous price of the item. The above price will be considered the lowest price charged by the seller during the 30-day period prior to the price reduction. In cases where the price of an item is gradually reduced, the previous price is considered to be the price of the item before its first reduction. If the item has been offered to buyers for less than 30 days, the actual deadline for offering the item to buyers applies.
The provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to perishable goods or perishable goods.
“Merchants tend to abuse consumer confidence. During the quarantine, I had to deal with such discount manipulations more than once. Today, consumers are often misled because the discount is applied to the price increase. After Everything, in this case there is no discount, or it is smaller than it seems. Due to inflated prices, our consumers are used to “looking for” discounts. In turn, merchants are already used to offering buyers the illusion of a discount instead of real discounts. In many European countries, it has long been forbidden to deceive consumers with false discounts, “said then the Social Democrat Rasa Budbergytė.
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