After choosing a category, they get descriptions of the models offered by several dealers, with links to each dealer. Visitors can order appliances through the portal, which forwards the information to the dealer. The dealer is responsible for posting the disclosures. The dealer is advertising in a catalog by virtue of the content it maintains on its own site. Q. A website offers information about a variety of appliances and recommends specific models.
Consumers can click on an icon to get information about online dealers who sell the appliances.
They also get information from the dealers' websites, displayed in a frame on the page, that they can use to place an order. The dealer is responsible for posting the disclosures because he is offering the appliances on his website. Click on Business Guidance. The FTC works for the consumer to prevent fraudulent, deceptive and unfair business practices in the marketplace and to provide information to help consumers spot, stop and avoid them. The FTC enters Internet, telemarketing, identity theft and other fraud-related complaints into Consumer Sentinel , a secure, online database available to hundreds of civil and criminal law enforcement agencies U.S. and abroad.