NCAC NEWS(Vol.21,No.1)
INDEX
Surveys
- Consumer issues involving personal import agencies that are difficult to solve
- The emergence of a new twist in multi-level marketing: A company not revealing to customers that it actually adopts pyramid schemes by introducing no referral fees before the contract conclusion:
- Safety of after-school care: assurance of safety expected and elimination of differences in the quality of childcare alongside introduction of insurance plans:
- Be aware of 'bank transfer frauds' citing a 'flash benefit payment':
Safety hazard information
- Waterproof electric carpet caught fire as a result of being 'exposed to water'
- Preventing accidents involving children playing with a small object that has been accidentally swallowed or has entered into a nostril, ear or eye:
Product testing
- Protecting children from suffering burns by touching an electric iron:
- The lid of a pressure cooker flew off causing burns:
Others
- 'Important consumer conflict cases' handled by NCAC's Conflict Resolution Committee: