The Consumer Advisory Services give companies guidance on consumer law issues and advice for resolving disputes with consumers.
Follow these steps to get your question dealt with without unnecessary delay.
1. First check if you can find an answer to your question
Concise info packages on consumer legislation
The Consumer Ombudsman’s guidelines contain information and practical advice regarding the application of the provisions.
The Consumer Ombudsman´s Guidelines
The Consumer Ombudsman´s Guidances
2. If you cannot resolve the issue, contact the Consumer Advisory Services.
The Consumer Advisory Services can help you with:
- disputes concerning goods or services between a consumer and a company. The Consumer Advisory Services provide information on such
- issues as compensation for a defect, contracts and payments
- consumer law issues that concern the application of legislation on marketing or contract terms.
For example, companies can ask for guidance in situations where
- a consumer’s demand seems unreasonable and not in line with the principles of the Consumer Protection Act.
- a dispute between a company and consumer concerns a new issue for which existing consumer protection principles do not provide a clear interpretation.
- a company is unsure of whether its contract terms or marketing comply with the Consumer Protection Act.
The Consumer Advisory Services will only examine individual disputes on the consumer’s initiative and mediate in them if the preconditions for this are met. In these situations, the company is given an assessment of the issue, and they can direct the customer to contact the Consumer Advisory Services.
The Consumer Advisory Services do not handle
- disputes between businesses. In such cases, you can contact your industry association for advice
- disputes related to buying and selling between private individuals (exceptions to this rule include disputes related to sales and rentals of homes).
- disputes between a housing company and a resident
- trade in securities and shares
- issues related to state and municipal services.
Contact information
Consumer advice gives guidance in Finnish and Swedish. Therefore persons wishing to consult an advisor in some other language must get an interpreter at their own expense. Read more about the duties of consumer advice.
If your problem is already being handled by the Consumer Advisory Services and you have received the direct contact details of an expert, contact the person handling the case directly.
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Consumer Advice Telephone Service
Telephone service is open normally Monday–Wednesday and Friday 9 am – noon, Thursday noon – 3 pm
09 5110 1200 (only in Finnish)You can contact the Consumer Advisory Services by telephone at 09 5110 1200 (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday 9–12, Thursday 12–15.
Please make sure you have the relevant documents at hand when calling the Consumer Advisory Services. Calls are answered in the order in which they were made.
Call charges
All calls (including queuing) to telephone numbers starting with 09 are charged at domestic rates. The charge is determined on the basis of the caller’s subscription contract. The calls are usually included in call packages.
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Consumer advice online contact form
(Normally 24 h)
Advisor will respond by telephone within a week. You will most likely receive a reply by a phone call.
An expert will get back to you by telephone or e-mail within five working days. As a rule, they will contact you by telephone. The call will come from a number with the initial digits 029, or it may come up as a call from an “unknown number”.
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