Boohoo Fined €2.3 Million by French Watchdog for Deceptive Discounts
The British fashion retailer Boohoo has been fined €2.3 million by a French consumer watchdog for misleading customers with false discounts and deceptive sales practices on its website.
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France fines UK fashion site Boohoo over fake sales
Boohoo has been handed a €2.33 million fine by France's anti-fraud and consumer agency, which found the UK-based online retailer had falsely promoted clothes and other items as discounts.
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Fashion site also broke rules on labelling by using terms ‘leather’ or ‘suede’ for synthetic products The British online fashion seller Boohoo has been fined €2.3m (£2m) by France’s consumer watchdog for deceptive practices such as offering fake discounts. The Manchester-based firm, whose parent company renamed itself Debenhams Group last year, was found to have exaggerated its discounts, giving shoppers a false impression of the savings they were making, according to the directorate-gen...
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The French regulator found 95% of the listings analysed failed to comply with its rules, with 40% offering no price reduction and 48% raising prices.
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