Credit furniture stores flout hire-purchase law

"Where goods are offered for sale on hire-purchase terms or by way of credit sale or on any other terms as to deferred payment, the amount of any deposit, each instalment and the frequency of the instalments, the total number of instalments and the total amount to be paid by way of deposit and instalments shall be displayed," the section says. 

Richard Harriman of the Consumer Watchdog, who is also the Managing Director of Business and Enterprise Solutions (BSE), says they have written to all the stores that sell on credit several times outlining these legal requirements.