Showing articles tagged with 'Small business'
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Furniture maker Ben Purchase has been fined $4000 without conviction, after pleading guilty to failing to comply with requirements to provide information as part of our investigations into his business.
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An unregistered Melbourne builder is facing criminal charges after allegedly accepting more than $100,000 in payments from consumers for building services he did not provide.
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From 9 November, changes to the Australian Consumer Law ban businesses from proposing, using, or relying on unfair contract terms in standard form contracts with consumers and small businesses.
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Consumer Affairs Victoria this week issued a public warning about a Melbourne-based removalist service, Ajanvi Pty Ltd trading as My Moovers.
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The Director of Consumer Affairs Victoria, Nicole Rich, has issued a public warning to consumers about furniture removalist company Ajanvi Pty Ltd, trading as My Moovers.
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A former conveyancer has been ordered to pay $5000 in fines and more than $44,000 restitution to the Victorian Property Fund after being found guilty of continuing to work as a conveyancer without a licence.
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In Touch Fashions & Gifts Pty Ltd and its director have agreed to pay $1,000 to the Victorian Consumer Law Fund. They acknowledged offering items for sale that did not meet mandatory information standards.
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Consumer Affairs Victoria has launched a disciplinary inquiry at VCAT into estate agent Tsun Ngai Lee. Mr Lee, 60, of Caroline Springs, trades under the business name Ably Realtor Worldwide Agency.
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Estate agency Property Express Pty Ltd and two of its former directors have lost their licences, after misleading clients about property prices.
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A former Cobden estate agent has been sentenced to three months’ jail after pleading guilty to almost 40 charges relating to mismanagement of his clients’ money.