The company ABC-Telecom has been fined for unfair advertising

Ministry of Economic Development has fined a company ABC-Telecom", is engaged in the sale of mobile phones. The amount of financial sanctions against the offending entity is 3.7 thousand manats.

As the official portal of the Ministry of Economic Development said, during a regular check in the store Contact Electronics owned by the company ABC-Telecom they revealed the deception of customers through misleading advertising. Thus, there was a violation of the State Service of antitrust and consumer protection, effective since December 26, 2009.

The committee said that from early January until June 1, the country imported 43 thousand 427 mobile phones worth $ 2 million 309.6 thousand total volume of the local market exceeds 100 million manat. Approximately 40% of vehicles sold - pure imitation of the world mark.

According to the Director of the Center for Economic Research Togrul Ghalib, the case with the company ABC-Telecom is a single one and is intended to show the coverage of interest and service of the antitrust officials of MED. Only in one of Baku, according to our calculations, there are at least 700 points of sale, and almost every of them, except the distributors, violated trade rules by selling poor quality products, providing low-quality services to clients.

Most frequent are cases when phones are imported into the country by small wholesalers in the guise of disassembled components, which reduces the cost of levying taxes. Here they collect and sell them. About half of the machines on which it is written Nokia, Samsung and so on, are made in China and other countries in Southeast Asia, where production costs are much lower than in Finland, Hungary or South Korea.

Moreover, retail prices for mobile phones in our country are 2-3 times higher than in the CIS countries, not to mention the producers. It speaks about the size of windfall profits that are in the pockets of unscrupulous sellers and hit the interests of buyers.

Approximately 70% of the mobile phone market sales account for Baku. Most of the phones are oversold at least the second time. Most of the phones offered to buyers have been repeatedly repaired, and most of the batteries are really "dead."

Today, it is not a problem to cheat the local consumers. And for the most part the Antimonopoly Service just simulating activity is to blame. There is a very low percentage of the finds of lost and stolen phones, which creates prerequisites for multiple resale of stolen equipment, the expert said. - 17D-