Edmonton sales company fined $15,000 for operating in Red Deer without a license
An Edmonton-based, door-to-door sales company must pay $15,000 for three tickets it received from The City of Red Deer for operating without a business license.
A number of complaints about Eco Global were reported to The City and RCMP in 2016 by Red Deer residents, stating sales representatives were coming to their doors to sell residential hot water heaters and water filtration systems while misrepresenting themselves as being associated with The City.
Eco Global applied for and received five business licenses in October 2016. Those licenses were revoked by The City just days later based on the volume of complaints received and the context of the concerns identified. The company appealed the revocation in November 2016 but The Red Deer Review and Appeal Board upheld the decision to have the business licenses revoked.
More complaints were reported by residents in December 2016 when Eco Global representatives were found to be going door to door once again, targeting primarily seniors with aggressive sales tactics and misleading residents into thinking Eco Global was there on behalf of The City or Province.