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That would be false advertising, therefore illegal. I'm sure smaller sites get away with it.

• detaro 6y ago
  Do you have a source on that? (It's not exactly uncommon to be obviously fake, e.g. travel sites that show you they sold more rooms in a hotel in the past week than the hotel has)
  • jfk13 6y ago
    They may have truly sold more rooms than the hotel has... just not all for the same night.
  • luplex 6y ago
    IANAL, but I'm pretty sure that straight out lying about having customers in order to make your product seem better than it is is actually illegal, it feels like it should be covered by the following law in Germany (German): https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/uwg_2004/__3.html https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/uwg_2004/__3.html I would classify it as a dishonest practice, and it would be illegal.
• alasdair_ 6y ago
  >false advertising, therefore illegal. I understand that it seems like this SHOULD be illegal but I am not sure it actually is.