Online clothing label and retailer A&S Labels Pty Ltd (trading as Tiger Mist) has paid penalties of $26,640 after the ACCC issued it with two infringement notices for allegedly misleading consumers about their right to return faulty items.
Tiger Mist made statements on its website between at least November 2021 and February 2022 that consumers could only return a faulty item by contacting Tiger Mist within 30 days of receiving their order and that the product must be returned in its original packaging. The two infringement notices were issued in relation to statements made on the Returns page of the Tiger Mist website on 21 February 2022.
“Under the Australian Consumer Law, a consumer’s right to a remedy for a faulty product is not limited to a specific time period, and consumers do not need to return the faulty product in its original packaging to obtain a refund, replacement or repair,” ACCC Commissioner Liza Carver said.
Tiger Mist typically markets to younger consumers through social media posts.
“The ACCC was concerned that Tiger Mist’s representations may have misled some consumers into thinking they were not entitled to return a faulty product when that was not the case,” Ms Carver said.
The first statement on the Returns page of the Tiger Mist website was:
