Paragraph 4 of Article 14 of the Price Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) stipulates that business operators shall not use false or misleading price means to trick consumers or other business operators into trading with them. This kind of illegal price behavior is usually called price fraud, also known as deceptive price expression, which refers to the behavior of operators using false or misleading price forms or means to deceive and induce consumers or other operators to trade with them.
10 Performance of price fraud
According to the price fraud found by the State Planning Commission in the markets where price fraud is prohibited, there are mainly the following forms: 10:
1, false price tag;
2. Two sets of prices
3. Fuzzy pricing;
4. Exaggerated price tag;
5. False discount;
6. Fuzzy gift sales;
7. Concealing the additional price conditions;
8. Fictional original price;
9. Failure to fulfill the price commitment;
10, quality and price do not match, quantity and price do not match.
13 price fraud
The Provisions on Prohibiting Price Fraud promulgated by the State Planning Commission came into effect on June 65438+ 10/day, 2002, and the following 1 3 price behaviors were identified as price fraud:
1, price tag, price list, etc. Indicate the product name, origin, specification, grade, texture, pricing unit, price, etc. Or service items, charging standards and other related contents are inconsistent with the actual situation, and as a means to trick consumers or other operators into buying.
2. For the same commodity or service, use two price tags or price lists at the same trading place at the same time to attract customers at low prices and settle accounts at high prices.
3. Use deceptive or misleading language, words, pictures, units of measurement, etc. , induce others to trade with it.
4. The marked market lowest price, ex-factory price, wholesale price, special price, preferential price and other prices indicate that there is no basis and no comparison.
5. The discount range of marked goods or services is inconsistent with the actual situation.
6. When selling processed products, the prices of processed products and processed products are not indicated.
7. When selling goods and providing services by giving away the price, the name and quantity of the given goods are not truthfully marked, or the given goods are fake and shoddy goods.
8. When the purchase and sale of goods and the provision of services are subject to price additional conditions, the additional conditions are not marked or marked vaguely.
9. Fictitious original price, fictitious reasons for price reduction, false discounts, lying about price reduction or upcoming price increase to trick others into buying.
10, the purchase and sale of goods and services are not fulfilled or not fully fulfilled before the price commitment.
1 1. Deceive consumers or operators into trading with them by falsely indicating that the purchase and sale prices are higher or lower than those of other operators.
12, through doping, adulteration, shoddy, shoddy, shortage and other means. The quantity or quality is not in conformity with the price.
13. falsely claiming that the prices of goods and services subject to market adjustment are government-set or government-guided prices.
Legal responsibility of price fraud
According to Article 7 of the Provisions on Administrative Penalties for Price Violations, if an operator, in violation of Article 14 of the Price Law, uses false or misleading price means to trick consumers or other operators into trading with them, he shall be ordered to make corrections, his illegal income shall be confiscated and a fine of less than five times his illegal income shall be imposed; If there is no illegal income, a fine of 50,000 yuan to 500,000 yuan shall be imposed; If the circumstances are serious, it shall be ordered to suspend business for rectification, or its business license shall be revoked by the administrative department for industry and commerce.