PROFECO Getting Ready for Holy Week

The Consumer Federal Protection Office (PROFECO), will be demanding prices of products to be visible to clients, sales receipts to be given and scales, or any other instrument used, be calibrated. Failure to comply with this mandate will carry fines of between 10 and 500 thousands pesos (about US$600 and 33,000) depending on the infraction.

For the coming vacation period, which is Holy Week, The Consumer Federal Protection Office (PROFECO), will have a special operative in the state’s tourist areas, with the purpose of avoiding abusive practices against customers.

The above was confirmed by Federico Vazquez Chavez, federal delegate in Nayarit, who also said that supervision and verification in Playa de Novillero, San Blas, Guayabitos and Bahia de Banderas is going to be reinforced. He also said that they will keep on checking commercial behaviors, making sure customers are aware of the price of items that receipts are given and that tipping is not made mandatory.

PROFECO authority said that they will keep an eye to make sure official Mexican rules are followed. He said that the most common infractions usually have to do with not honoring reservations and/or contracts, like it is the case in hotels, and that fines go from as low as 10,000 pesos to as high as 50,000 pesos, depending on the kind of infraction.

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