Assets, Inc.
Volume 57 · 57 F.T.C. 533
deceptive advertisingdebt collection
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Assets, Inc., 57 F.T.C. 533 (1960). Consumer Law Library, https://consumerlawlibrary.org/decisions/v057-0068
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In Tue MATTER OF ASSETS, INC., ET AL.
ORDER, ETC., IN REGARD TO THE ALLEGED VIOLATION OF THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION ACT Docket 7874. Complaint, Apr. 28, 1960—Decision, Aug. 81, 1960 Order requiring a concern in Hoboken, N.J., to cease obtaining current information on delinquent debtors by use of the trade name ‘‘Trans-American Express Agency” and deceptive “skip-tracing” forms which represented that it was an express agency holding valuable property for debtor recipients and that the information requested was to be used to make delivery—for receipt of which information a pack of chewing gum was sent the debtor. Mr. Harry E, Middleton, Jr., supporting the complaint. No appearance for respondents.
ASSETS, INC. , ET AL. 533 530 Syllabus ceeding as to all of the parties hereto; and that said order therefore should be, and hereby is, entered as follows: It is ordered That respondent The Herst-Allen Con1pany, a corporation, and its officers, employees, agents and representatives, directly or through any corporate or other device, in or in connection with the offering for sale, sale or distribution of any of its products in commerce, as "conm1erce is defined in the Clayton Act, as amended, do forthwith cease and desist from: Paying or contracting for the payment of anything of value to or for the benefit of, any customer of respondent as compensation or in consideration for any services or facilities furnished by or through such customer in connection with the. offe-ring for sale, sale or distribution of respondent's products, unless such payment or consideration is made available on proportionally equal terms to all other customers competing in the distribution of such products. DECISION OF THE COl\DIISSION AND ORDER TO FILE REPORT OF COMPLIANCE Pursuant to Section 3.21 of the CO1mnission s Rules of Practice the initial decision of the hearing e~aminer shall, 011' the 31st day of August 1960, become the decision of the. Commission; and accordingly:
It is ordel? That respondent The Herst-Allen Company, a corporation, shall, within sixty (60) days after service upon it of this order, fi)e. with the Commission a report in 'writing, setting forth in detail the manner and form in which it has complied with the