Are All Advertising BS?

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Well it does get me slightly miffed with the amount of get out clauses ,excuses, companys use now days when they advertise some product only to be told after you brought it its not the same .When will this change or will it get worse. i could list many adverts, promotions which at first look great but are just bs once purchased .Is this the future of retail?
 
I think you'll find companies explain every single tiny detail regarding their products, after all they'd get completely smashed by trading standards for false advertising otherwise.
 
Didnt buy anything just sick and tired of this is the cheapest (when its not) this is that and its not it is getting rather silly.
 
Can you throw in any examples?
Trading Standards, amongst their other roles, are always on the look-out for false/Misleading advertising.
For that very reason there really isn't that much of it out there.
Sure companies make the odd mistake, list something very cheap and then don't honour that price, but that is just allowing for humans - we make mistakes.
 
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dgmug said:
Well it does get me slightly miffed with the amount of get out clauses ,excuses, companys use now days when they advertise some product only to be told after you brought it its not the same .When will this change or will it get worse. i could list many adverts, promotions which at first look great but are just bs once purchased .Is this the future of retail?

Skyfall said:
Please list some lol

Unless they fall into OcUK no competitors rule.
 
LizardKing said:
broadband providers and mobile phone contracts are worse with there advertisement bs
Not forgetting insurance providers!!
Yes, there are a few internet providers out there that advertise 'UNLIMITED BROADBAND' but in 1pt text hidden in a page 5 levels deep 'subject to fair use' which is 50gb a month.

And to the OP; I find in my line of work that its not the company that has falsley advertised it is the customer that is either too stupid and/or ignorant to know what it is they are buying.

If I had a penny for everytime someone said to me "terms and conditions, no-one ever reads those" or "you expect me to read through all of that" lol
 
The fair use broadband thing does bug me specially when you ask on the phone - and they can't give you an answer to what "fair use" is!

Surely fair use is subjective anyway, if the company can't even put a figure down in black and white.

Rich
 
Zefan said:
I think you'll find companies explain every single tiny detail regarding their products, after all they'd get completely smashed by trading standards for false advertising otherwise.

Hah, don't be daft. Many companies are very deceptive with advertising their products. Some are good, and go into great detail where others very often mislead buyers with loose descriptions and out of context measurements and they often get their door hammered down by trading standards, it happens all the time.

It's part of retail culture, but, it is something most buyers easily spot and avoid and it's usually dense people who fall into obvious product traps.
 
DJLOREY said:
"It doesn't work like that.."

"Stop carping on"

What gets me is the price you see in a shop is the price you pay, but online so many places have £xx.xx (£xxx.xx inc VAT)

It's not a huge problem, but it would be so much better if they just gave one price.
 
Zefan said:
I'm not being daft, most do.

You just have to actually read/look in to it, not take the front of a box for granted.

There's still a lot of products out there that have been worded or described deceptively. Very often it's imagery that's the culprit. I think a major fast food chain recently had its legs slapped for grossly mis-representing what their burgers looked like.

Trading standards have a pretty much full time job trying to squash them all, so yeah, there's plenty out there but most customers have a bit of vigilance and common sense and sidestep most of the obvious gimmicks and warped descriptions.
 
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