Digital TV Changeover Scam
| Published: 26th August 2007 20:37 |
Consumers in Staffordshire are being targeted by a firm using confusion about the changeover to digital television to sign people up to unnecessary contracts.
The firm is cold calling local consumers saying that they are selling Sky digital boxes and aerials for a reduced price. The firm also asks people if they want to agree to further Sky packages or contracts.
However these 'digital boxes' are just a sales incentive the firm is using to sign people up to Sky subscriptions. Many people who have agreed to buy them but refused the offer of subscription have found themselves being signed up to unwanted contracts anyway.
Consumers should remember that they are under no pressure to accept offers that are made to them over the phone and should either just say ‘NO' or hang up the phone. Unfortunately if something looks too good to be true it probably is.
Staffordshire Trading Standards are advising residents that they are under no obligation to accept telephone marketing offers and that if they do accept any type of contract they have a cooling off period of 7 days in which they are totally within their rights to cancel.
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