City Fitness is facing legal action over allegedly misleading membership pricing that concealed a 3% transaction fee, affecting nearly 200,000 customers and prompting the Commerce Commission to enforce fair trading regulations.
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Oh, and that's right. When the Commerce Commission investigate these, and then for those that go to get taken through the Auckland district court or wherever, um uh it's it's all proportionate, it's fully investigated. Uh so if there's a genuine mistake and it's hasn't been repeated for many, many, many years, um, then that is that is taken to account and the breaches uh or penalties will reflect that. Uh we know there's always room for error, uh, but we also know there's always there's always room too, where people where some entities sometime uh look at the cost of the breach, and at the moment there's a maximum uh penalty of six hundred thousand, and some could think that that is the price of doing business. I'll I'll I'll pay off the breach and I'll take the risk. Uh so we're just lifting the lifting the breach uh uh the penalties to a maximum of uh five million dollars, and that'll be a big deterrent.
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strengthening consumer protection through harsher fines
Cameron Brewer: Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister on the harsher penalties for misleading pricingstronger consequences for deceptive practices
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