thomasjbest@hotmail.com (Thomas J Best)
The Director
Dear Sir or Madam,
I have recently received brochures from your organisation advertising
the 'Purification Rundown'.
The premises on which this so-called 'treatment' is based are clearly
false. The promises held out in the brochures are clearly fraudulent.
Your organisation is engaged in deceptive advertising. It is selling
products and services which are worthless and harmful to the physical
and mental wellbeing of anyone foolish enough to purchase them.
It has been doing so for many years.
I am compelled by the provisions of NSW legislation governing trade
practices to make this complaint to you before pursuing the matter
with the appropriate agencies.
Unless your organisation undertakes to refund all monies to those
persons who have ever undertaken this so-called 'treatment', and
to compensate those whose physical and mental health has been
damaged, I shall forward a formal complaint to the Department of
Fair Trading. I shall allow you three weeks from the date of this
letter to publish notices in The Sydney Morning Herald and The
Australian, notifying that your organisation has ceased offering
the 'Purification Rundown' and that full refunds and compensation
are to be paid to all persons requiring them.
If you wish to contact me directly, do so only by post, email or
telephone. Should you, your organisation, any agencies of your
organisation, any agents directed or hired by you or your organisation,
or any adherents of your organisation attempt to enter or approach my
home, follow me, or contact my family, colleagues, clients, or
neighbours, I shall bring charges against the perpetrators.
Yours faithfully,
Thomas J Best Telephone: nnnnnnnnn
Two weeks left for the cult to get going on its public
amends project. In the meantime, here's an excerpt from
the Fair Trading Act, Sec 4:
"dangerous' means likely to cause death or to cause injury
to the body or health of a person, whether .... likely to
be caused directly or indirectly and whether or not because of
(a) a failure to include... instructions
Seems to me that the Purification Rundown qualifies as 'dangerous'.
How do you suppose these Sections of the Fair Trading Act might be relevant?
42. Misleading or deceptive conduct
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