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Air purifiers and spotlights were recently the focus of ASA cases where advertisers including B&Q claimed to sell more cheaply than others. But was it the same product and what…

An Interflora promotional email announced free delivery for Mother’s Day but an asterisk said the offer only applied to standard, next day deliveries. A late, but dutiful daughter charged £5…

For possibly the first time, an ASA complaint report reveals that as the BACC’s paymaster, ITV sometimes ignores the TV ad vetting body’s opinions. Unfortunately for ITV and Ryanair’s ‘£0′…

In June 2005 we reported on a ‘70% off our previous price’ offer that landed retailer Officers’ Club in court on misleading price indication charges. Now the Office of Fair…

Effective July 2005 a CAP Help Note imposed a clear regime for use of the word “free.” This applied mainly in the context of parts of a package of products,…

The Interactive Media in Retail Group has written to manufacturers like Philips and Sharp about an alleged 10% mark up on wholesale prices charged to etailers compared with high street…

31 months after publication of the government’s draft revised Code of Practice for Traders on Price Indications, the final version has at last replaced the original Code, published in 1988.…