According to reports, recently, the Seventh Session of the Standing Committee of the Thirteenth National People's Congress of Heilongjiang Province deliberated and adopted the Resolution on Strengthening the Protection of Consumer Rights and Interests in the consumption of Health Products for the elderly. According to the resolution, health care products purchased by people over the age of 60 through conference marketing can be returned within 7 days without any reason.
This is indeed a good rule of "warm heart". In reality, some lawless people often deceive the elderly to buy "high-grade health care products" through conference marketing and other means. When the elderly wake up, or when their children find out, returning these "heavenly price health care products" has become almost impossible. Previously, an old man in Qingdao, Shandong Province, under the temptation of a "health lecture", bought "magic health care products" of nearly 100,000 yuan, and then jumped into the sea because there was no way to refund. Laws and regulations of "seven days no reason to refund", for the elderly to provide the possiblility of restoring the loss.
In fact, the local legislation still has the basis of the supreme law. China's Law on the Protection of the Rights and Interests of the Elderly stipulates that it is the common responsibility for the whole society to protect the legitimate rights and interests of the elderly. The Law on the Protection of the Rights and Interests of Consumers clearly stipulates that "when dealing with consumers, operators should abide by the principles of voluntariness, equality, fairness and good faith", and consumers should enjoy the right to know and choose independently .Not including "ordered by consumers" and "fresh and perishable" by consumers, "the operators sell commodities by means of network, television, telephone and mail order, and the consumers have the right to return the goods within seven days from the date of receipt without giving any reasons". It is not difficult to see that this provision is in line with this spirit.
However, only depending on a law is not enough to crack down on "health care products of high price". For those who make up their minds to deceive the elderly, it is usually "shoot a gun for a place," until the elderly perceive that the health care products purchased fake, and then take the law to the door to calculate accounts, which is likely to be empty. Many deceived elderly people, convinced of a set of allegations against lawless people, refused to listen to the persuasion of their families, and after waking up, it had already passed the statutory of "protection period". Therefore, while perfecting the regulation of " refund of indemnity without any reason", we should also strengthen the control and enforcement of marketing fraud and avoid the levitation of legislation.
From a deeper point of view, cracking down on fraud of health care products and safeguarding the consumption rights and interests of the elderly should also play a good game to deal with the "aging". According to the media survey, the annual sales of nutrition and health care products in China exceed 200 billion yuan, of which the consumption of the elderly accounts for more than 50%. Behind the high consumption of health care products for the elderly is the arrival of an aging society.
These lonely old people are the main targets of the " health care products of high price ". With the increase of age and the decline of health level, their hope and dependence on health care products become more and more intense, and the lack of safegarding knowledge and information skills, lack of individual judgment, weakness of children's advice, determine that they are easy to be deceived for illegal business hunting. At the same time of strengthening special law enforcement, providing fraud prevention, legal aiding and other fine services. we should improve the social security system for the elderly, help them integrate into the society, enhance their sense of security, and make health products fraud without market.
