Baltimore Stereo Wholesalers, Etc

Volume 87 · 87 F.T.C. 216

Citation: 87 F.T.C. 216
Docket: C-2740
Decision: 1976-02-17
Document type: modifying order
Case type: consumer protection
Statutes: FTC Act (section 5)
Industry: stereo equipment sales
Outcome: modified
Relief: cease_and_desist; affirmative_disclosure
Commission counsel: Alan L. Cohen and Thomas J. Keary
Respondent counsel: H. George Schweitzer, Heffelfinger, Schweitzer & Rabil Washington, D
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Baltimore Stereo Wholesalers, Etc, 87 F.T.C. 216 (1976). Consumer Law Library, https://consumerlawlibrary.org/decisions/v087-0029

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86 F.T.C. 930 — STEVENS BEDDING WAREHOUSE, INC., ET AL cited_neutral

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IN THE ,HATTER OF STEREO EQUIPMENT SALES, INC. T!A BALTIMORE STEREO WHOLESALERS, ETC., ET AL.

MODIFYING ORDER, ETC., IN REGARD TO ALLEGED VIOLATION OF THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION ACT Docket C-27J.o Decision, Oct. 1975- Modifying Order, Feb. , 1976 Order modifying an earJicr order dated Nov. 19, 1975, 86 F. C. 930 40 F.R. 53552, by permitting respondents to omit the shipping weights of advertised items as long as respondents charge a flat percentage of the order price for shipping and handling.

Appearances For the Commission: Alan L. Cohen and Thomas J. Keary. For the respondents: H. George Schweitzer, Heffelfinger, Schweitzer & Rabil Washington, D.

ORDER REOPENING PROCEEDI:-G A:-D MODIFYI:-G ORDER TO CEASE AND DESIST By petition dated December 18, 1975, respondents have requested the Commission to modify its order of October 21, 1975 (86 F.TC. 930 J to permit respondents to omit the shipping weights of advertised items as long as respondents charge a flat percentage of the order price for shipping and handling. The Bureau of Consumer Protection has fied an answer wherein it advises that it does not oppose respondents' request. The Commission has duly considered respondents' request and has determined that it should be granted.

It is ordered That the proceeding be, and it hereby is, reopened. It is further ordered That the order to cease and desist be, and it hereby is, modified by striking Paragraph Four and substituting therefor the following:

4. Failng to disclose, in any brochures, flyers, catalogs, Jetters, oral representations or other solicitations of orders which provide the purchaser with the means to order merchandise from respondents, the shipping weight of any of the items of merchandise offered: provided however That the shipping weight need not be set forth on any items of merchandise for which the respondents charge a flat percentage of the order price for shipping and handling if that fact is clearly disclosed accordance with Paragraph 5 of this order.

MAl' PRODUCTS , I , ET AL. 217 217 Complaint

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