Consumer protection refers to the laws designed to aid retail consumers of goods and services that have been improperly manufactured, delivered, performed, handled, or described. Such laws provide the retail consumer with additional protections and remedies not generally provided to merchants and others who engage in business transactions, on the premise that the consumers do not enjoy a sufficient bargaining position with respect to the businessmen with whom they deal and therefore should not be strictly limited by the legal rules that govern recovery for damages among businessmen. The overarching goal is to protect individuals and the interest of the public in general from unfair and misleading activity in business and commerce (such as false advertising and deceptive trade practices) and scams perpetrated by criminals (such as identity theft and pyramid schemes) that harm a substantial number of consumers.
Bat Cave is an unincorporated community in Henderson County, North Carolina, United States. It is part of the Asheville Metropolitan Statistical Area. The community was named after Bat Cave Mountain, which in turn was named for a cave at the foot of the mountain which is inhabited by a multitude of bats. The town is located on the Broad River at 35.451N and -82.287W with an elevation of approximately 1,460 feet. Bat Cave is roughly a forty-minute drive east of Asheville in the Blue Ridge Mountains by way of state highways that wind through the mountains. Although it is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 28710. Bat Cave is serviced by an all volunteer fire department. Bat Cave has a Bimonthly community paper called "The Bat Biz"