An example of mis-sold services would be between 2010 and 2013 Santander mis sold investment plans and didn’t explain the investment opportunities to mostly pensioners, most of which were advertised as well established and would double back their money, but in reality were not even proper companies and a lot of the people never saw their money again. When the incident was found out, Santander reimbursed those out of pocket, but this also lead to an increase in …show more content…
In this specific case, customers of Curry’s were told that they must buy an extended warranty with their purchase or they were sold a warranty without them even knowing. If Curry’s deliberately withheld the information that customers do not have to buy a warranty, but had in fact lied to customers and told them that they must, then that is a breach of regulations of the misrepresentation act of 1967. This was classed as negligent misrepresentation, because the store workers said that they thought it was true, though some cases have been found as fraudulent misrepresentation, as they knew it was an incorrect statement when it was