Surrey Sleep Products, Inc.
Volume 73 · 73 F.T.C. 523
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Surrey Sleep Products, Inc., 73 F.T.C. 523 (1968). Consumer Law Library, https://consumerlawlibrary.org/decisions/v073-0034
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IN THE ~:fA TTER OF SUR.R.EY SLEEP PR.ODUCTS, INC., ET AL.
'ORDER , OPINION, ETC., IN REGARD TO THE ALLEGED "VIOLATION OF THE FEDERAL TILA..DE COMMISSION ACT Docket 8695. Complai:nt, July 1966-Decision, 111Jril 1968 Order requiring a Long Island City, N. , manufacturer of mattresses and box springs to cease using deceptive guarantees in the sale of its mattresses and other articles of merchandise, SURREY SLEEP PRODUCTS, INC. , ET AL. 523 516 Syllabus instrument of indebtedness executed by a. purchaser, and with such conspicuousness and clarity as is likely to be observed and read by such purchaser, that:
Any such instrument, at respondents' option and without notice to the purchaser, lnay be discounted, negotiated or assigned to a finance company or other third party to which the purchaser will thereafter be indebted and against which the purchaser s claims or defenses may not be available. 8. Failing to clearly and fully reveal, disclose and inform customers of all terms and conditions of a sale and of any installment contract or promissory note or other instrument to be signed by any customer.
9. Failing to deliver a copy of this order to cease and desist to all present and future salesmen or other persons engaged in the sale of respondents' products or services, and failing to secure from each such salesman or other person a signed statement acknowledging receipt of said order.
1 t is further ordered That after the acceptance of the initial report of compliance, respondents shan submit a report to the Commission once every year during the next three years describing all complaints respecting unauthorized representations, all complaints received from customers respecting representations by salesmen which are claimed to .have been deceptive, the facts uncovered by respondents in their investigation thereof and the action taken by respondents with respect to each such complaint.
1 t is further ordered That the respondents herein shall, within sixty (60) days after service upon them of this order, file with the Commissiona report in writing setting forth in detail the manner and form in which they have complied with this order.