The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has kicked off legal proceedings against telco Amaysim in the Australian Federal Court, claiming false and misleading marketing claims concerning discounts on its energy brand.
According to the ACCC, Amaysim’s Click Energy breached Australian Consumer Law by representing to Victorian and Queensland customers between October 2017, when it launched services, and March 2018 that they would be able to obtain discounts of between 7% and 29% by paying their bills on time.
The ACCC says, those discounts were applied to Click Energy’s market offer rate, which were higher than the power company’s standing offer rates.
“When compared with Click Energy’s standing offer rates, the discounts were much lower than advertised,” the ACCC’s chairperson, Rod Sims, said in a statement. According to Sims, in some cases there was no discount at all.
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