ANPC announced during this day that it applied new fines to stores from all over the country that during BLACK FRIDAY 2021 had promotions for their customers, and below you have all the details provided by the Romanian institution.
"The Black Friday Special Command continues its actions!
Another 18 economic operators, who managed sites and stores with direct sales and who announced special discounts during the most active period of the year, were checked.
From this point of view, they have been controlled by the Special Black Friday Command – established for the first time this year by the National Authority for Consumer Protection (ANPC) – to ensure that they comply with the legal provisions regarding discounts and promotions.
Irregularities were found in 16 of them, contravention fines totaling 154.000 lei were applied and 17 proposals to order the measure to stop the unfair commercial practice.
The economic operators sanctioned were:
- Flanco Retail SA, Galati
- Altex Romania SRL, Galati
- Staer International SA, Galati (website and store)
- Dan Capitan SRL, Galati – (bambooda)
- Bibilel SRL, Galati – (bibilel)
- Quasar Comex SRL, Focșani (maxxonline)
- Romferm SRL, Focșani – (romferm)
- Optical Investment Group SA, Piatra Neamț
- Pet Product SRL, Piatra Neamț
- Flanco Retail SA, Tg Neamt
- Jysk Romania SA, Romanian
- Jysk Romania SA, Piatra Neamt
- DM Drogerie Markt SRL, Romanian
- Robest Com SRL, Piatra Neamt
- Studio Moderna SRL, Piatra Neamț
- Ado Capricia SRL, Piatra Neamt – (capricia)
- BNP PARIBAS PERSONAL FINANCE SA PARIS, Bucharest Branch (from the premises of the Dedeman Bacău store)
ANPC commissioners found the following deviations:
- there is no information that clearly and unequivocally indicates the date on which the offer ends and the fact that it refers to available stock;
- the reference price displayed on the website was not the lowest price practiced in the last 30 days, through the incorrect way of calculating the reduced price creating the premise of the existence of a specific price advantage, consumers being determined to make a trading decision that they would not would have taken it if he had known the reality;
- publication of unreal characteristics of the products offered for sale on the site, deceptive commercial practices;
- inconsistency between the information displayed on different pages of the same site;
- displaying the phrase "super quality at a super price", without having the possibility to verify the specific advantage of the price or the quality of the products;
- the bank presents the payment commission to merchants 0 lei, as an advantage, within the offer promoted by black friday, under the conditions that all card users, regardless of the issuer, benefit from this regulation."
