what you're attempting to do is remove ALL, every single shred of, responsibility for the buyer to be careful of what they buy. why are you trying to create a class of people with no ability to think for themselves?
I'm suggesting honesty in business. Knowledge in business. Integrity in business rather than a bunch of scam artists running around and society glorifying them.
That's why there are laws against claiming a certain product cures diseases unless it has been tested. That's why Real Estate agents require licenses.
There's no shortage of wanna-be entrepreneurs.
People scream when social programs are suggested to help the needy but when it comes to a contractor doing shoddy work or someone selling a defective product, if they manage to make a living cheating people, they are admired.
Why are there such things as LLC companies anyway or a business owner's private holdings separate from their business? Why should their responsibility/liability be limited if it's shown their actions caused damage?
What incentive is there other than open a business, scam as many people as possible, then fold up the business?
Years ago, I attended a trade show (in the spring) looking for replacement windows for a building I had purchased. There were a number of companies offering good quality, brand name products. I took a couple of business cards while there.
Later I phoned a government number which issues licenses to home improvement companies. The government keeps track of who owns the company and if there are any complaints filed against it.
One company advertised it had been in business for over five years. When checking on it the company had been owned by a "Mr. Bob Smith" and then a Mrs. B. Smith and prior to that by a Mr. M. Smith and previously by a John Smith.
Follow the scam? The company installs windows with a 10 year warranty. Sounds great. Even if the company goes out of business the windows are a national brand so, no problem.....or so it may appear.
Well, every year, after the spring and summer rush, the company folds. Out of business. It didn't have any assets as it consisted of a guy with a pick-up truck and his buddy. The company goes bankrupt. The name is then "sold" to the wife or the son or the uncle and next spring the business is up and running, free of all warranties.
I chose what I believed was a reputable company. It checked out and, like I said, the windows were a national brand so I couldn't go wrong, or so I thought. Well, as fate would have it one window had a problem. I phoned the company I dealt with and, upon inspection, they advised me to call the company which made the windows as the window was defective.
The window manufacturing company sent a rep and I was told the window was fine. It didn't operate properly because it was installed incorrectly. Thanks and have a good day!
I called the installation company and they insisted it was the window. Fortunately, my wife had suggested we hold the equivalent of the cost of one window for 30 days until we were sure all the windows worked.
To make a long story short the installation guy was paid for 14 of the 15 windows because it wasn't worth it to him to remove and re-install the defective window. We never paid him and he really didn't care. We've since sold the building so I have no idea how the other windows are holding up.
That's small business. That's small business with laws that protect the incompetent crooks. So when it comes to sob stories concerning the struggling entrepreneur and how government regulation is a burden on them you can see why I hold a different view.
Where is the logic and decency to be able to open and operate a business without proper know-how and when a problem arises just fold it up and walk away? Is that really what makes a society great?