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- kinglenster, on 10/11/2007, -5/+65Microsoft Works
- DCB360, on 04/11/2008, -0/+43My damn "Guess Who?" set never started to talk.
- logicalnoise, on 10/11/2007, -1/+26Never jacked into the matrix with my ps2. Though I did catch the rabbit I decided to finally give that poor bastard some trix.
- Dracker, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2310 of our favorites? I haven't heard of many of these.
What about Verizon and its Bluetooth false advertising for the Motorola v710 a couple years back? - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+19The one that comes to mind for me is the Vista Ultimate Extras. What bloody extras !!?1
- logicalnoise, on 10/11/2007, -1/+13there's plenty of extras you have acess to numerous language packs.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11Unfortunately I only speak 2 languages...
- Ramble, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10Yea, and there's no damn Klingon patch. Why the hell did I waste all the time only to find out MS has screwed us over?
- freehunter, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9Let's see, it is posted on an American run website, and submitted to another American run website, where the majority of visitors to both sites are from America. Besides, the submitter just copied the headline from the news site, and it is the NEWS SITE'S favorites, not the country of origin's favorites. Belive it or not, not everyone has the money to move to another country just to watch their commercials and determine which are fake just to appease a minority of users on a website that is not their own. I don't see articles from Europe being marked "Europe only".
- totallyAMAZING, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7How much research do you think someone making a completely useless "top 10" list is going to do? Doing this world wide would actually require some work.
- JRumph, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7I ended up getting over $400 in free stuff from Verizon because of that.
- orangester, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9What about McDonald's Hamburgers being 100% beef? Biggest lie I've ever heard.
- masonreloaded, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Expected to see Blockbuster's entirely untrue "NO MORE LATE FEES!" slogan. Keep it more than a week after the due date and you are charged $1.25 "restocking fee" and after 30 days are charged the full cost of the item. So if it is late.. you have to pay fees..
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6mirror?
- reed311, on 10/11/2007, -3/+9Yeah, man, it's not like this site was created by Americans.
- crushallcakes, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5How about those iPhone commercials where they show the NYTimes homepage and tell you that you get the regular old internet, then they show the spot where the flash video player, making you think that you could watch it, when in fact you can't. That's a pretty good one.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -3/+8HAHAH WOW NO ONE HAS EVER MADE THAT JOKE BEFORE! YOU SHOULD BE ON TV YOU'RE SO FUNNNY HAHAHAHAHHAHAHHA
- freehunter, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5It is the website's favorites, not yours. You are entitled to your own opinion, but that doesn't make theirs false.
- spyrochaete, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Scott Adams summarised the job of Marketing very succinctly:
http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/07/08/070915_turd.jpg - WiZZLa, on 10/11/2007, -2/+610 of Our Favorite Recent False Advertising Incidents
July 9th, 2007 by admin
All marketers are liars, sure, but there are your run of the mill vaguely deceptive campaigns and then there are the whoppers. The lies so blatant someone actually gets sued for misleading or false advertising. It takes a special kind of company and ad agency to pull that off, here are a few of our favorites from recent memory (Click on the company name in pink for more information about each case):
Carrefour
The second biggest retail chain in the world (only WalMart is bigger) was recently fined millions for false advertising, including false pricing.
XM Radio
The satellite radio company was recently sued because of deceptive ads that say the network does not run commercials.
Microsoft vs Palm
Microsoft was accused by the FTC of lying about the usability of palm devices that competed with its own products.
Nike
Nike was accused of lying about conditions in their factories overseas. California’s supreme court agreed.
Splenda
Splenda has long tried to mislead consumers into equating their false “made from sugar” strapline with a safe and healthy product. The long term effects of Splenda are still not known and the company was sued for false advertising.
Shell Oil Company
Shell was told by the Dutch government to stop saying the byproducts of their petroluem products are used to “grow flowers”.
GlaxoSmithKline
GSK was sued in Australia for lying about the Vitamin C content of one of their products.
Dow Chemical
A subsidiary of Dow was sued for lying about the saftey of one of their pesticide products.
Jamster
Falsely marketed ringtones to children by calling them “free” in television commercials but charging the kids when they downloaded them.
Philip Morris (now Altria)
Sued for lying about the health dangers and addictive properties of its products. - falstaff, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Oh my gosh! I thought I was the only one with a favorite recent false advertising incident!
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5I ***** HATED JAMSTER!!!!
'nuf said. - SonicAD, on 10/11/2007, -9/+13Buried because the submitter IMs me trying to get me to digg his stories every so often, acting like a friend.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Yes we love it, you figured us out.
- seanc6610, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6Next time, please make sure the mirror you post even exists, douche.
- MaynardJK, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Hooves, tongues, and brains can still technically be 'beef'
- filmneye, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4this link didn't work for me, and judging by the other comments here, it seems that this article link is a bit of false or misleading advertising.
- Cubsguru, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4http://www.falsus.com.nyud.net:8090/index.php/10-of-our-favorite-recent-false-advertising-incidents/
Took a couple of minutes but finally loaded - bacon_skoda, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Does any of those girl scout cookies contain real girl scouts?
- bacon_skoda, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3but it's not called late fees.
- spyrochaete, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3In America the company is called "100% Pure Beef".
- oscarsonthepond, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Wow...never before have I been so let down by an article. That was one of the most uninteresting things I've ever read in my entire life.
- amsoell, on 04/20/2009, -0/+3That's a great idea! We should make false advertisement illegal!
Thanks, Earl, what would America have done with you? - boxmonkey, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5Furthermore, if I was visiting a European site and saw a title like this I would expect it to be about European adverts. I certainly wouldn't be offended that European wasn't in the title to warn me off.
- det0r, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Apparently in NZ where they refer to the burgers as "100% NZ beef patties", the company which makes the patties is actually "100% NZ beef" (rather than the patty itself being purely beef from NZ), so it isn't really 'false advertising', it's just misleading ;P
- aliengoods, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Hoof is beef, just not the part you were thinking of. And to bust them on the 5% rat in each burger, you first have to prove they knew about the rats.
- Reziarfg, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4They are. Sorry to burst your conspiracy theory bubble.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2 The chicken nuggets,however,are another story.
http://www.alnyethelawyerguy.com/al_nye_the_lawyer_guy/2007/03/so_what_really_.html - paistywhiteboy, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3He contacted me over aim about this story as well. I'm lead to wonder to what frequency this is done to game digg
- alexforcefive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2except it wasn't more than 25 years old
- Matteos, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2They hate us! They really, really hate us!
- ronin691, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2( Missing from list )
Microsoft
Ultimate Extras were acknowledged by the software giant as worthless
source: http://windowsultimate.com/blogs/announcements/archive/2007/07/02/update-on-the-windows-ultimate-extras.aspx - djspanky, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Vonage commercials make me laugh. They say it is easy to setup then why are their thousands of complaints regarding all the issues with the crappy service?
- RevEng, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I hear lots of people saying that you can call any part of the cow "beef", but is there some established criteria for that? I'm quite certain that at least here in Canada there are rather stricts standards for saying something like "100% beef".
- khyberkitsune, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Dell offering a "Software upgrade to SB Audigy" for an onboard realtek soundcard. My lawsuit is still going.
- otatop, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Exactly. No major rental outlets have "late fees." Hollywood Video has "additional rentals," Movie Gallery has "instant replays" and Blockbuster sells you the movie after it's a week overdue, but lets you return it for a restocking fee for 30 days.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1STOP POSTING MORON
- accessviolation, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2All marketers will stretch the truth and manipulate facts to get people to buy a product. Was that soft enough for you? Who's my special wittle guy?
- JaybeasCorpus, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Care to back that statement up with some examples? Do you even know what fraud means?
- oscarsonthepond, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1This is one of the funniest comments I've ever read.
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