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Business > Advertising Has the prevalence of false ads led people to become jaded?

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I agree about becoming suspicious of advertising. My suspicion comes from working in retail part time for awhile. One of the gimmicks of the store was if you found the same model for sale at lower price within a certain time frame, this retailer would give you back the difference in cash. What the consumer didn't know was the supplier of this product sold different models to different retail chains. So even if the specs were dead on exact, because of a digit difference in the model number,no cash backs were ever rewarded. Another reason is all the disclaimers and small print you see on the...

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