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The 3rd Offence: Aggressive Commercial Practices

A commercial practice engaged by a trader in relation to a consumer is aggressive if, in its factual context, it significantly impairs or is likely significantly to impair the average consumer’s freedom of choice or conduct in relation to the product concerned through the use of harassment, coercion or undue influence; and it therefore causes or is likely to cause the consumer to make a transaction decision that consumer would not have made otherwise.