Do you think that misleading advertising, like claims of properties and effects that are not really present in the product, should be legally treated as fraud?

I don’t understand how they couldn’t be. I, for one, am sick of the way they are allowed to photograph and represent food compared to how they sell or serve it.

Yes.

I think a lot of products use loopholes in that nothing they say is a lie but it can be taken to mean more than it actually does. False advertising is wrong, but for advertising that can be misleading or something but is still not making any lies, I don’t think it should be counted as fraud.

@Bri_L

I remember seeing something about photographing food and how you can’t even eat the food in the pictures because it’s glued together and sprayed with wax and such to make it shiny. Weird.

@DominicX A lot of it is plastic too.

@DominicX – True. I’ve seen it done. All the tricks. Tricks like shortening instead of vinilla ice cream. that type of thing.

Don’t you love what they promise on the box for dinners or in MacDonalds then what you get.

@Bri_L I adore the WTF moment when I pull that dinner out of the box and see the things that used to be veggies and all that good stuff.

I was just thinking about this tonight! Particularly regarding ‘supplements’. Since they’re not regulated by any government agency, there is no real control over what they can claim. I saw an ad on TV tonight for some supplement that ”BURNS BELLY FAT”, and thought what a crock of shit that was. How would it know the difference between belly fat and ass fat?!?

Yes, it is very wrong and should be prosecuted.

So what’s the deal on those male enhancement pills? Could you imagine the lawsuit? I mean, who takes pictures “before”?

Absolutely. My favourite bugbear is computers/software.

For example, take your favourite music software/PC and compose your heart away – be the creative musician you always knew you could be.

Er, no. Learn all about incompatible driver issues, become fluent in bios settings and be hopeful that they may address the problem in the next ‘patch’.

Oh ok, so next time I buy a car then I’ll just hope that the ‘soon to be released’ update will resolve the ‘engine not revolving’ issue shall I? I don’t think so.

I do get annoyed at having to pay hard earned money to effectively be a beta tester.

AC.

@avvooooooo – HAHAHAHA. Yeah, it’s like a surprise!

An outright lie or claim about a product is fraud to me. If something is misleading in how it is worded, but does not outright tell an untruth I would let it slide I think. Like gas companies will say, “there is no better gasoline for you car on the market.” That is because they are all the same, with some very slight variation of some brands that put its own additives. Gas is highly controlled by government standards, gas trucks from Mobile, Exxon, and others pull up to the same central place to load up on gas and deliver to gas stations. So, there isn’t better gasoline at the station down the street, true, but the advertiser saying that isn’t better either.

What I dislike as an advertising practice are the radio spots (especially about car dealerships and sales) where after they give the sales pitch, they talk extremely fast at the end when they tell you about the limitations and special circumstances regarding the deals. So much so that you can’t really understand what they say and it ends up being more irritating than anything else.

@Bluefreedom the radio spot or commercial is done that way, because they are forced by laws to include those disclaimers/warnings. You see it with cars, loans, pharmaceuticals, etc. But, an ad is to sell the product. They prefer to not even have that stuff at the end. Imagine if they said it at normal speed, the commercial would probably be only 20 seconds of selling its’ product and 10 seconds of warning.

Yes,they should be drawn and quartered !