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Is this even legal, given false advertising guidelines? They have provided an advertisement for products by a company that doesn't exist. I don't know the legal

Is this even legal, given false advertising guidelines? They have provided an advertisement for products by a company that doesn't exist. I don't know the legal details, but I am questioning whether this is actually permitted in the U.S. if you go by the letter of the law.

mindfulhack 8y ago
My thoughts exactly. I agree that companies should to have the freedom to be able to test markets to optimise their systems designs (free trade is important), but surely a multi-billion-dollar company can use a real business and spend a little extra dough to test their system without breaking the law. This seems lazy, and legally it should be investigated. And this doesn't look good for their brand either, now that we live in an age of 'fake ads' swinging entire US elections.
oh_sigh 8y ago
I am not an expert in this area, but none of the ads I watched seem to actually advertise anything. There is basically just a picture of a pizza and a saying like "The tangy sweetness of fresh mozzarella" https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFfnLmpHEyLYLqHdyOmVElmy_5isisklx https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFfnLmpHEyLYLqHdyOmVE...
- daeken 8y ago
  For this to be false advertising, there would need to be an offer that's extended to customers. For instance, "$10 large pizza" would be an offer: give us $10 and we give you a large pizza. If they failed to follow through on that deal (by, say, not accepting money and not giving pizzas) then that would be false advertising. There's no such offer in these ads, or anything that could even be remotely construed as an offer. This is not an advertisement for chocolate cake: https://tastesbetterfromscratch.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Dark-Chocolate-Cake-5.jpg https://tastesbetterfromscratch.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/...

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Is this even legal, given false advertising guidelines? They have provided an advertisement for products by a company that doesn't exist. I don't know the legal

by marzell 8y ago

mindfulhack 8y ago
My thoughts exactly. I agree that companies should to have the freedom to be able to test markets to optimise their systems designs (free trade is important), but surely a multi-billion-dollar company can use a real business and spend a little extra dough to test their system without breaking the law. This seems lazy, and legally it should be investigated. And this doesn't look good for their brand either, now that we live in an age of 'fake ads' swinging entire US elections.
oh_sigh 8y ago
I am not an expert in this area, but none of the ads I watched seem to actually advertise anything. There is basically just a picture of a pizza and a saying like "The tangy sweetness of fresh mozzarella" https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFfnLmpHEyLYLqHdyOmVElmy_5isisklx https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFfnLmpHEyLYLqHdyOmVE...
- daeken 8y ago
  For this to be false advertising, there would need to be an offer that's extended to customers. For instance, "$10 large pizza" would be an offer: give us $10 and we give you a large pizza. If they failed to follow through on that deal (by, say, not accepting money and not giving pizzas) then that would be false advertising. There's no such offer in these ads, or anything that could even be remotely construed as an offer. This is not an advertisement for chocolate cake: https://tastesbetterfromscratch.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Dark-Chocolate-Cake-5.jpg https://tastesbetterfromscratch.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/...