Q.A person who buys goods exclusively for resale in his own shop is:
Option (b) is correct. The Consumer Protection Act, 2019 specifically excludes from the definition of 'consumer' a person who obtains goods for resale or for any commercial purpose — such a person is a trader dealing in goods, not an end-user the Act is meant to protect. Option (a) is wrong because it ignores this exclusion. Option (c) is wrong — the mode of payment (cash, credit, deferred payment) does not decide consumer status; the purpose of the purchase does. Option (d) is wrong — the online/offline mode of a transaction is irrelevant to whether the purchase was commercial; the 2019 Act recognises online transactions as consumer transactions, but that does not change the resale exclusion. (Note: had this same shopkeeper bought a single sewing machine, or similar equipment, solely to earn his own livelihood by self-employment, he WOULD count as a consumer for that purchase — the self-employment carve-out is the one exception to the commercial-purpose exclusion.)
(b) — Not a consumer, because goods bought for resale fall under the Act's 'commercial purpose' exclusion.
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