Oil company fined £51,000
The largest national oil company in the UK has been fined £51,000 for overcharging customers in Carmarthenshire and neighbouring counties for heating fuel.
Some 400 customers complained after either being charged more than they were quoted or paying more than they expected after not having been given a quote.
GB Oils, which trades under at least 44 different trading names including OJ Williams, is a division of the massive conglomerate, the DCC group.
The company pleaded guilty at Ammanford Magistrates Court yesterday (Monday) to 17 offences under section 6 of the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008.
The company admitted that it had misled consumers by failing to provide the necessary information in relation to the true unit price of heating oil and had committed offences as the failure to provide this pricing information had caused consumers to make transactional decisions that they would otherwise not have made.
Carmarthenshire County Council brought the pro...