CHOICE's guide to your shopping rights

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  • Updated:21 Dec 2012
 

01.CHOICE Summer Shopping Guide

choice-guideThe CHOICE Summer Shopping Guide provides you with all the information you need over this busy period when it comes to your rights. 

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Whether you plan on shopping up a storm in-store or online, make sure you read this handy guide before you pay for warranties you don’t need or fall into one of the many online shopping traps. There are plenty of handy tips wrapped into one useful guide. 

This guide covers topics such as:

  • Refunds & your rights Don’t take no for an answer.
  • Warranties & your rights Should you buy that extended warranty?
  • Online shopping Browse, choose, click – done! But there are some traps to beware
  • Digital downloads Work around the pricey roadblocks that online international traders set up for Aussie shoppers
  • Interest-free deals Buy now, pay later – in spades. So what are your alternatives?
  • Gift cards The gift that can keep on taking
  • Managing your debt Get the debt monkey off your back once and for all

Your online shopping rights

If you've purchased gifts from Australian or overseas websites  protected by the same Australian Consumer Law as those who have bought gifts in store*. This means all you're entitled to a refund, replacement or have the product repaired if it is faulty, doesn’t do the job it is supposed to or does not match the advertised description. 

Refunds and replacements

CHOICE also reminds shoppers that the person who bought the faulty present does not have to be the same person to take it back.

Season’s greetings and happy shopping from all of us at CHOICE.

* Contained in a schedule to the Competition and Consumer Act 2010.

 
 

 
 

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