{"id":30006,"date":"2015-08-12T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/en\/categories\/law_order\/html\/2015\/08\/20150812_155804.shtml"},"modified":"2015-08-12T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T04:00:00","slug":"4-arrested-for-sales-coercion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/2015\/08\/12\/4-arrested-for-sales-coercion\/","title":{"rendered":"4 arrested for sales coercion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/images\/home\/Categories_generic_icons\/Law_and_Order\/Crime_02.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Customs officers have arrested three women and a man for contravening the Trade Descriptions Ordinance by using aggressive sales tactics.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Customs &amp; Excise Department received complaint that a woman's credit card was charged without authorisation for another 10-year membership to a fitness centre worth $38,000 on top of the 10-year membership she subscribed to earlier.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The transaction was made when the salesperson collected her credit card and identity card, claiming it was for discount purposes.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Although the victim refused the new membership, staff allegedly forced her to sign the credit card receipts, insisting the processed amount could not be cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One salesperson and three managerial staff of the fitness centre were arrested and have been released on bail.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The department's Group Head of Unfair Trade Practice Investigation, Hui Wai-ming, reminded consumers to refuse to sign any documents if they have no intention to purchase a service.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Consumers should not casually provide an identity card or credit card to any salesperson before making a transactional decision, he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/images\/home\/Categories_generic_icons\/Law_and_Order\/Crime_02.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Customs officers have arrested three women and a man for contravening the Trade Descriptions Ordinance by using aggressive sales tactics.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Customs &amp; Excise Department received complaint that a woman's credit card was charged without authorisation for another 10-year membership to a fitness centre worth $38,000 on top of the 10-year membership she subscribed to earlier.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The transaction was made when the salesperson collected her credit card and identity card, claiming it was for discount purposes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Although the victim refused the new membership, staff allegedly forced her to sign the credit card receipts, insisting the processed amount could not be cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One salesperson and three managerial staff of the fitness centre were arrested and have been released on bail.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The department's Group Head of Unfair Trade Practice Investigation, Hui Wai-ming, reminded consumers to refuse to sign any documents if they have no intention to purchase a service.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Consumers should not casually provide an identity card or credit card to any salesperson before making a transactional decision, he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-chinese-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30007,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30006\/revisions\/30007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}