Kleenheat charged $25,000 fine for false advertising
Wesfarmers-owned Kleenheat Gas has paid fines of $25,200 after the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) issued two infringement notices for alleged false and misleading representations it made about its gas prices in its advertising.
The advertisements – which claimed new customers in Western Australia could “save 35% on gas charges” – ran on TV, radio, Spotify, billboards, bus panels and via email.
One of the ads which the ACCC alleged made false representations
It’s about time someone copes a hit… not so clean after all.
$25K fine for a large company? Oh, please whip them with a feather! … that’ll learn ’em all right! It is well past time that everyone understood that these are not “contracts” at all as the T&C’s always allow retailers to jack up the prices on both gas and gold-plated-electricity. Why call them contracts?? The “customer” cannot change the terms, but the retailer certainly can. A *very* one sided so-called “contract” if you ask me. Go to ALL the offers (gas & gold-plated-electricity) and look carefully at the T&C’s. Then do some googling on how they all jack up prices after the honeymoon period. You usually wind up worse off after 12 months. All of these “free market” lies are a big crock of sh*t foisted upon us because of incompetent (or worse) politicians! These same politicians who are hell bent on shipping jobs off overseas by ensuring that local industry cannot compete because of some of the worst gold-plated-electricity and gas prices in the world, coupled with increasing unreliability of supply. Why worry about industrial “cyber attacks/espionage” from certain nation states when the real damage is coming from within directly on manufacturing infrastructure.