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The Governor's Office of Consumer Affairs in Georgia is suing one of the biggest local automotive dealers Bill Heard Enterprises Inc. for the deceptive advertising campaign to Georgian residents. Over 10,000 sent ad fliers were designed to look like General Motors recall notices, asking to bring their vehicles to Bill Heard dealership to check whether they qualify for a free service recall. The advertising scheme was designed to get more customers, but was not authorized by General Motors. If the court rules against the automotive dealer, it will have to pay a total fine of $50 million ($5,000 per each of 10,000 ...
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The staff of the Federal Trade Commission today released a "Report on Weight-Loss Advertising: An Analysis of Current Trends." The report concludes that false or misleading claims, such as exaggerated weight loss without diet or exercise, are widespread in ads for weight-loss products, and appear to have increased over the last decade. The Commission also announced that it will hold a public workshop on November 19, 2002, to explore the impact that these ads have on public health and new approaches for fighting the proliferation of misleading claims for weight-loss products. Many marketers, the report states, use false ...
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Additional laws apply to ads for specialized products like consumer leases, credit, 900 telephone numbers, and products sold through mail order or telephone sales. And every state has consumer protection laws that govern ads running in that state. According to the FTC’s Deception Policy Statement , an ad is deceptive if it contains a statement – or omits information – that: Is likely to mislead consumers acting reasonably under the circumstances; and Is “material” – that is, important to a consumer’s decision to buy or use the product. ... Read More
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Classmates.com has agreed to pay up to $9.5 million to users who say they were duped into paying a $15 subscription fee in response to the site's deceptive advertising scheme. Founded way back in 1995 -- the pre-historic Web 1.0 era -- Classmates.com was one of the first social networking sites. Today, it's perhaps best known for its cheese-tastic ads -- usually involving old yearbook pictures and a little quip along the lines of "She married him?!" But it was a different marketing tactic that led a California man to file a class action lawsuit against the site for false advertising: after he signed up ...
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An HIV-positive woman let a drug company take pictures of her for an HIV patients’ magazine, but was shocked to later find the pictures and details about her situation had been published on the Internet without her permission, she says. The Union County, N.C. woman filed suit in federal court in Charlotte on Thursday against pharmaceuticals giant Roche Laboratories and ad company Gerbig, Snell/Weisheimer. She signed a release form agreeing to publication of the pictures, but contends the contract didn’t allow the kind of broad exposure they received. She says photos of herself and information about her sexual history ...
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I'm just curious as to whether anyone has ever gotten a sandwich from Subway that even remotely resembles those shown in their TV commercials and print ads. They are always shown as these huge sandwiches full of meat and other toppings. I have never, ever seen a sandwich like that come out of any of the Subway shops I have ever been to. There is always more bread than toppings and the shops seem to go out of their way not to put much meat (or anything else) on the sandwiches. They in no way even remotely resemble what you see in their advertising. yeah i agree i have never gotten a sandwich that ever looked like the ...
i can't seem to find website at all that i can research all the Android applications from my pc before deciding to access the market with my phone. . . that is just lame. As this market grows there will be many more applications available but who really wants to drain battery power on their phone trying to research all of them with the little information they offer. I need to be able to look into these applications in more depth from my pc before getting on my phone but the Android Market only shows the "Featured Apps" I agree completely with GarettPony. We need a PC accessible version of Android ...
