Beauty was in the eye of several beholders on Wednesday, after a French magazine claimed that luxury goods companies PPR and LVMH Moet Hennessey Louis Vuitton had shown "signs of interest" in acquiring the prestigious cosmetics firm Clarins .

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The report emerged, he says, from a focus group in which numerous participants claimed to have felt unsafe when buying goods or services through Craigslist.

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Apacs says that chip-and-pin remains the safest method of payment for goods and services but was never claimed to be foolproof.

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He accused of using a scheme where goods are sold with VAT charged but not paid and then the VAT is claimed back.

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The 67-year-old claimed Mr Cooper had short-changed him and kept money that was meant to pay for goods and services.

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