Unfair business practices encompass fraud, misrepresentation, and oppressive or unconscionable acts or practices by business, often against consumers and are prohibited by law in many countries.
Examples are:
- Resetting an odometer of a used car to show less mileage than is actually on the car.
- Representing a pair of boots as "real leather" when they are actually fake.
- Selling clothing or any other product as a certain brand when it is not that brand
- Requiring the customer to pay part of the added cost when a mistake was made by an employee that raised the price of a repair
- Raising the price of a good in order to sell it a regular price, but representing to the customer that it is a "sale" price.
