According to chapter 2 section 6 of the Consumer Protection Act, untruthful and misleading information shall not be given in marketing or customer relationship if they might lead to the consumer making a purchasing decision or another decision related to the consumer good that he or she would not have made without the said information. The defendant’s marketing might have led to a confusion about the defendant’s normal prices and, by implication, about the actual benefit of the offered discount. Therefore, the practice had been against the Consumer Protection Act. There is a list in Annex I of Directive 2005/29/EC on commercial practices that are unfair in all circumstances. A false notification that the product is available only for a limited time or that it is available for certain conditions only for a limited time in order for the consumer to make the purchasing decision immediately, is included in the list. Consequently, the defendant’s practice had also breached the Directive.
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