Commission To Investigate Safety Warehouse “The Drop” Event
The Commerce Commission has opened an investigation
into representations made by Greenback Ecommerce Limited
trading as The Safety Warehouse in relation to the “The
Drop” event of 5 December.
The investigation will be into whether any representations about the event breached the Fair Trading Act 1986 (FT Act) which prohibits misleading and deceptive conduct. The FT Act is one of the Acts enforced by the Commission.
As at 12m on 9 December the Commission had received nine complaints about the matter, including two complaints referred to it by NZ Police.
As the investigation is now underway the
Commission will make no further comment at this time and
will not be providing
interviews.