Promotional companies to pay $1.8 million

Friday, September 2, 2005

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Attorney General Jay Nixon said Thursday that two companies that ran a promotion promising big rebates must pay $1.8 million to customers and the state. Nixon sued the companies in February, saying England-based Consumers Trust and its partner, Consumer Promotions Inc., of Lee's Summit, promised extravagant product rebates to consumers but then made the rebates extremely difficult to obtain. Nixon said the companies violated Missouri consumer protection laws with misleading and deceptive practices. Consumers nationwide were fooled into buying everything from cars to carpeting and even cosmetic surgery, after being promised they would get rebates for all or most their costs three years later, Nixon said.

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