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Consumer advice information

  • Product safety in rented accommodation for tenants
  • Misleading and aggressive practices: rights of redress
  • Phone scams
  • Agents and agencies
  • Unfair terms in consumer contracts and notices
  • Supply of digital content: your consumer rights
  • Timeshares and holiday clubs
  • Problems with purchases overseas: who to complain to and who can help
  • Distance marketing of financial services: your rights
  • Responsible pet / animal ownership
  • Keeping pigs as pets
  • Supply of digital content: what to do if things go wrong
  • Unfair trading practices
  • Rail travel: your rights
  • Problems with flights
  • Competition scams
  • Dating, health, psychic and work scams
  • Cost-of-living scams
  • Guarantees and warranties
  • Look before you rent
  • Homeworking schemes
  • Holidays
  • Holidays and travellers with disabilities
  • Hiring goods
  • Gas and electricity competition
  • Environmental claims

Information provided by the Chartered Trading Standard Institute. The county council is not responsible for this information.

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