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Whatever happened to caveat emptor? (See also the ppi "scandal")
I was sold PPI for my credit card just before I was about to leave my job to go travelling. It was the first credit card I planned to use rather than leaving in a draw because it came with an account.
The sales guy who signed me up during my lunch break for the accounts and card told me it would cover me in the event of fraud or if something unexpected (like being unable to access the Internet) happened to stop me paying off the card that month.
I probably should have read all the terms. But short of someone telling me I'm not sure how I would have independently known, or ascertained that credit cards cover you against fraud anyway.
Fraudulently mis-selling is bad. Building a whole area of your business that deliberately overlooks mis-selling and tacitly encourages it is really bad.
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Draw your own conclusions about the bloke buying a "genuine" battery charger from some place in Hong Kong off ebay but there's so much to hate about this article on the BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55317414
The sensationalizingness of the article itself, the bodgit-and-scarper lawyers with an eye to the main chance, the campaigners who want ebay (and other selling platforms) to be responsible for their own greed and stupidity.
Whatever happened to caveat emptor? (See also the ppi "scandal")
And before anyone wades in, I do appreciate it must be utterly heartbreaking to lose your home in that fashion, whatever the reason. And to lose your cats to a fire too