15 questions
Agency that is responsible for protecting consumers from unfair or deceptive business practices.
Federal Trade Commission
Better Business Bureau (BBB)
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Agency that protects consumers from dangerous products.
Environmental Protection Agency
Federal Trade Commission
Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)
Agency that enforces laws that protect the environment.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Cease and Desist Order
Better Business Bureau
A company's promise that the product will meet specific standards over a given time period.
Small claims court
Warranty
Competition
A situation in which there is only one company that sells a specific product or service.
Trading up
Redress
Monopoly
To seek and receive a remedy to a problem
Small claims court
Bait and switch
Redress
Pressuring consumers to buy a more expensive product than they intended.
Trading up
Bait and switch
Competition
Deliberate deception, designed to secure unfair or unlawful gain.
Cease and desist order
Limited warranty
Fraud
A nonprofit agency sponsored by local businesses that helps to resolve disputes between consumers and sellers.
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Walmart
Better Business Bureau (BBB)
Handles disputes involving smaller dollar amounts.
Small claims court
Better Business Bureau (BBB)
Arbitration
A contest among sellers to win customers.
Monopoly
Competition
Bait and switch
An unwritten guarantee that the product is of sufficient quality to fulfill the purpose for which it was designed.
Implied warranty
Verbal warranty
Limited warranty
If the price of a product is below the regular price, it is said to be on__________.
Sale
Retail Price
The wrong price
A specified period of time within which a consumer can back out of an agreement to buy something.
Limited warranty
30 day warranty
Cooling-off period
In 1962, which president established consumer rights laws?
President George Bush
President Donald Trump
President John F. Kennedy