Two Sydney roofers have been bit by the consumer watchdog after trying to use a hailstorm to put their prices up on Facebook.
“I think this latest storm is the perfect opportunity for the roofers of Sydney to increase pricing across the board as a standard that doesn’t decrease!” Mr Burtenshaw, a director of Sydney roofing company ANZ Roofing, wrote on Facebook.
“If any roofers go in and do this work for that kind of square metre rate you need an uppercut,” he commented under Mr Burtenshaw’s post, before suggesting new standard prices. The two roofers and their companies have now accepted a ruling from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission that their Facebook interactions were a concerted attempt to fix prices.
“The roofers acknowledged that messages of this kind were likely to amount to an attempt to fix prices, and acknowledged that in some circumstances the conduct could raise concerns under the new law which prohibits concerted practices which have an anti-competitive purpose or effect.”Source:Supplied“Any attempts to take advantage of people whose homes were damaged in natural disasters like hailstorms is something the ACCC takes extremely seriously.
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