Display of car prices is a must for showrooms

January 10, 2015

Jeddah, Jan 10: The Ministry of Commerce and Industry has started implementing a recent Cabinet decision to compel car agencies and showrooms to display all information on each model offered for sale, including prices, aimed at ensuring consumer protection.

According to sources, the Council of Saudi Chambers received a directive from the ministry to instruct car agencies and distributors about the new conditions for vehicle sale.

It is not permissible to sell a vehicle or offer for sale at showrooms unless certain vital information is displayed on the vehicle under the new regulations, said the sources.

The regulations also stipulate that the mandatory trade data about the vehicle must be written in Arabic and English languages.

The data should include the price of the car, and all the information should be real and displayed at a prominent location in legible letters on the windshield of the car for sale. The new regulation is supposed to be in force after 60 days from the date of issue of the order.

The ministry officials will conduct inspections at the showrooms and distribution agencies to ensure that they are adhering to the new regulations and

penal measures taken against defaulters.

The ministry launched this year several regulations governing consumer-dealer relationships for post-sale services.

The regulations make it mandatory for dealers to provide a substitute car for each day of delay if the agent delayed the supply of spare parts, or if he violated the obligation to ensure the quality of manufacture.

The new instructions also considers it the obligation of a dealer to provide an alternative spare part of the same brand to the consumer for each day of the delay in the event of breach of the agent’s obligation to ensure the supply of spare parts in order to achieve the intended purpose of the spare part during the guarantee period ensuring the quality of manufacture.

The ministry also stressed that the consumer is not bound to conduct periodic maintenance of his car at the dealer. The guarantee remains valid even if the maintenance is done at another place other than the dealer, the source said.

The move is part of the ministry’s efforts to ensure consumer protection especially from exploitation or fraud and the ministry’s decision to regulate the car market by improving the dealers’ services, including the commitment to guarantees, maintenance, repairs and spare parts, consumers receive from car distributors, the source added.

In a related development, Ahmed Al-Ghamdi, director of Public Relations at the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry, demanded that the new regulations governing the sale of new cars be extended to the showrooms of used cars as well.

He pointed out that if the used car showrooms are compelled to publish prices of the cars offered for sale, customers could be saved from the clutches of speculators and unscrupulous brokers in the market, which is considerably larger than the market for new cars.

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Israel broadens airstrikes in Lebanon, killing displaced families without warning

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November 13,2024

Beirut: The Israeli army on Tuesday continued to launch attacks against civilians in Lebanon, targeting them in several areas without prior evacuation warnings.

However, 13 airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs in the space of only three hours were preceded by evacuation warnings.

The attacks caused no injuries but resulted in widespread destruction of residential buildings and commercial, medical and educational centers.

The airstrikes in southern Lebanon and Bekaa region, reaching Akkar in Lebanon’s far north, erased any hope of a near-term ceasefire settlement.

The strikes were accompanied by an announcement on Israel’s Channel 14 that “the Israeli army has expanded its operations in southern Lebanon to areas it had not reached since the beginning of the ground operation.”

About 50 days have passed since Israel intensified its hostile operations in Lebanon targeting Hezbollah. The death toll from these confrontations and attacks has passed 3,200, with more than 14,000 wounded.

For the first time, an airstrike targeted a mountainous area between Baalchmay and Aabadiyeh on the road leading to Aley, destroying a building housing displaced people.

The mayor of Baalchmay, Adham Al-Danaf, confirmed that “the airstrike targeted a residential building in the Dhour Aabadiyeh area.”

The initial toll from the Ministry of Health showed “five people killed and two injured.”

The raids that targeted Beirut’s southern suburbs for the first time in the morning, unlike nightly raids before, caused huge destruction. Those who evacuated their homes after Israeli warnings, used their phones to record the collapse of empty buildings in Sfeir, Haret Hreik, Bir Al-Abed, Mrayjeh, Laylaki and Hadath.

Israeli warplanes also targeted Tyre, where a strike on a building killed three people and injured many others, while a raid on Tefahta killed a man identified as Kifah Khalil and his family.

Attacks were widespread, with Yater and Zebqine subject to artillery shelling, a civilian being killed in Hermel, and further attacks on Bouday and an area between the towns of Srifa and Arsoun.

A raid on the town of Siddiqin killed two people and injured several others, while an attack on the Mechref farm led to one fatality and multiple injuries.

The search for those missing after an Israeli raid on the town of Ain Yaacoub in Akkar, in the northernmost part of Lebanon, continued until dawn.

During the operation, 14 bodies were retrieved, identified as those of residents displaced from the town of Arabsalim in the Iqlim Al-Tuffah area of the south, along with members of a Syrian family, a mother and three of her children. Additionally, there were 10 people in critical condition.

The targeted residence belongs to a Lebanese citizen, Hussein Hashim, who is reported to be a member of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party.

An airstrike on the town of Saksakiyeh in the Sidon region on Monday night resulted in yet another tragedy.

It appeared that the intended target was the Shoumer family, who just days before lost Hussein Amin Shoumer and his two sisters in a drone strike near Al-Awali River.

Israeli army spokesperson Avichay Adraee issued additional evacuation warnings for towns in the southern region along the Litani River, which, according to estimates from the mayors, are currently 90 percent uninhabited.

In the meantime, Hezbollah announced its continued efforts to “combat the intrusions of Israeli forces and to strike military installations and towns in the north.”

Hezbollah said in a statement that it confronted “an Israeli Hermes 450 drone in the airspace of Nabatieh and forced it to leave Lebanese airspace.”

The party also announced that it targeted “Kfar Blum settlement with a rocket salvo.”

On the Israeli side, air raid sirens sounded in areas of Upper and Western Galilee and in the town of Kiryat Shmona and its surroundings.

The Israeli army confirmed that “a drone exploded in Nesher, east of Haifa, without activating the air raid sirens,” and that “a drone launched from Lebanon crashed into a school in Gesher HaZiv, north of Nahariya.”

Israel’s Channel 13 reported the Israeli military’s assessment regarding Hezbollah’s military strength, claiming that the group currently possesses approximately 100 precision missiles, thousands of artillery shells, and hundreds of rockets. Additionally, it was highlighted that “there are around 200 Lebanese towns that remain unvisited.”

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