This week: The end of the hard sell
When the regulator fined Carphone Warehouse £29m this week, the real target was the use of high pressure sales techniques in insurance.
The Financial Conduct Authority found that sales advisers had pressured customers into taking out Geek Squad insurance, by telling them it was compulsory, or it was “sold on the basis that it could be
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