Consumer Tips: Before and After You Buy

Watch the video or read the transcript below for helpful information on what to do before and after making purchases.

"Consumer Tips: Before and After You Buy" (Windows Media Player, 15.5MB).

Read the text transcript.

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Building Your Buying Skills

Building your buying skills is an important step to becoming a well-informed and knowledgeable consumer. Find helpful basic buying tips you can use and apply today, and help build your buying skills.

• Build Your Buying Skills

"Build Your Buying Skills" was created by the Consumer Measures Committee (CMC), a joint federal/provincial/territorial committee. CMC provides a federal-provincial-territorial forum for national cooperation to improve the marketplace for Canadian consumers, through harmonization of laws, regulations and practices and through actions to raise public awareness. Another consumer information product developed by the CMC is the Canadian Consumer Handbook. The Office of Consumer Affairs at Industry Canada is the Secretariat for the CMC.