The Arkansas Deceptive Trade Practices Act has been set up to resolve consumer grievances that arise from various everyday trade transactions.
- The consumer protection laws cover a million topics ranging from trade contracts, debt collection, identity theft, telephone sales, check cashing, etc.
- Under the Arkansas consumer law, written warranties are not required for any purchases; however, written representations are necessary in case of verbal assurances that are beyond the standard warranty provisions.
- The law lies down that all Arkansas consumers are entitled to receive an annual credit report free of cost from the credit bureau listing their credit card transactions.
- In prescription drugs, pharmacists are to provide information on the availability of a generic form of medicines and their present costs.