(Prague, December 28, 2011) Discounts and sales have become popular among Czech consumers – in the spring, summer, autumn, winter time and within Easter and Christmas - and even without “total sales” and “bankrupt prices”. All though out the year you can find various discounts and advertisements say that some reach up to 80%. It is even hard to believe that sellers are so nice to their customers... Or is it just another way to get some more money for things which customers don’t really need and which they sometimes even cannot afford? The CTIA inspectors check whether discounted products are marked properly and what is the level of sale. “In the third quarter of the year we carried out more than 700 controls and found breaches of legally provided obligations in more than one third of the checked workplaces. So far, about 200 sanctions in the amount of more than 1.5 million crowns were imposed. Controls of post-Christmas sales have just started,” confirmed Jan Štěpánek, the Director General of the CTIA.