Truck shop Bestdeals pleads guilty as regulator continues crackdown on mobile traders

Truck shop Bestdeals pleads guilty as regulator continues crackdown on mobile traders
Sophie Boot
By Sophie Boot Oct. 18 (BusinessDesk) - Truck shop operator Bestdeals 4 You has pleaded guilty to 19 charges of breaching the Fair Trading Act as well as the Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Act in Auckland's District Court. Bestdeals is the ninth mobile trader to be prosecuted since the Commerce Commission’s investigation into the industry last year. It will be sentenced on Dec. 16, the Commerce Commission said in a statement.  The company, which operates under the name Easylayby, operates a mobile business selling door-to-door i...