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Read the small print adverts thread.
Anonandon
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Right now the world of ads is cluttered with 1221% APR and 72% of 54 people noticed an 18% reduction in wrinkles. It's just a load of boswellox. So, if you notice some iffy small print on an ad post it here.
To get the ball rolling Easyjet are offering 150,000 seats at £29.99. That's one way, not unreasonable, but based on two people flying together at the same time. So effectively that's 75,000 seats all leaving from Faro or Baku no doubt.
To get the ball rolling Easyjet are offering 150,000 seats at £29.99. That's one way, not unreasonable, but based on two people flying together at the same time. So effectively that's 75,000 seats all leaving from Faro or Baku no doubt.
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I'll give you my favourite and it's something that should be banned.
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"Not Game Footage."
If it ain't, why are they allowed to use it to try to sell kids computer games?
I also think the font type used for these straplines is chosen to be hard to read as well as very small and only appearing briefly..
saw one last week for "Build your own Millenium Falcon"
Small prints says 100 issues at 8.99 a pop..
Be cheaper to actually try and build a real one!!
Currently one running for "build your own 3D printer"
It would take two years and silly money
Cheaper to buy a current cheap model and you can actually USE it, not wait two years
(plus the final two parts are priced at £15, because they contain the circuit boards, so whole thing useless for ages)
Love it!
First of all they said they surveyed 92 people. Why not stick around a bit more and survey 100?
Apparently after getting into stick about the info given the companies are now giving proper info onscreen but it's obvious that viewers are not taking it in and the companies must be laughing at flogging their expensive crap to idiots.
39 out of 93 people surveyed agreed that our product improved their hair/complexion.
WTF? That's not even half. Over half the people who tried it though it was no improvement and not worth buying?
Nice one, me and the wife just had a chuckle at this.
Am I right in remembering, "Contains mild violence?"
Maybe they did and all of the last eight of the 100 thought it was crap?
(In the past, I've worked advertising).
Dave Gorman did a great show on Dave about just this sort of thing not long back.
Cos the main shops doing this, r failing and failing fast! - don't forget your warranty!
or half price anti virus, or free usb lead worth £14,99 ish let me tell ya the lead costs about 40p and that was years ago, i have no idea what they get them at cost price! nor in fairness do i know what they ask for them now! but still,
this is why most of the big shops are failing, and they will fail - shame really cos what does the uk have without the retail sector?
May? It bloody better had!
Or a packet of dry roasted nuts I was given on a British Airways flight. The packet said "may contain nuts". I would have been so disappointed if it hadn't!
Is it actually a real 3D printer? I thought it was building a model of a printer
As far as I'm aware, as long as goods have been advertised at a higher price for twenty-eight days in the preceding six months, they can can include the said item in a "Sale."
I don't know if they can still get away with the fact that it was only available in one store, say in the Outer Hebrides.
I've found that in some instances, that an item advertised "on-line" by a major company, can be cheaper "in-store."
They rely on the non fact that many people can't be assed to get off their backside and go and look in a shop for something.
It's like having an ad for a Mini with footage of a Ferrari and a note saying "Not Actual Car".
I remember a warning on the Hitchcock film Rebecca (I think) when it was on Film 4.
"Contains strong language"
Modern Life is Goodish, the show is still available via UKTv player. Well worth a gander.
On internet sites, where you have to tick "Accept terms and conditions,"
if you instead actually click on the box to read them, "it'd take you all day."
They can, and do, offer the higher price in one store only. I was reading the small print in-store at Sports Direct a few months ago and it stated that the higher price had been offered at one named store between specific dates.
Not really how it's supposed to work but it's within the rules.
Also, they only need to OFFER the item at the higher price, they don't need to have actually sold any at that price and they don't have to revert to offering the item at the higher price after the sale.
Dave Gorman did a show about this too!!
Yes the law on retailing is that goods displayed are actually "on offer." You can offer to buy, but the retailer is not obliged to accept your offer.
This protects retailers from customers "price switching" which has always been a problem.