For a class I am taking, I need to find some sort of example of misleading advertising. I am really lazy right now, and I don’t feel like rifling through the paper. Does anyone have any good examples that I can use?
Thanks in advance.
Misleading advertising…Hmmm…How about M-Life?
Last year (or was it two years ago), I remember seeing M-Life commercials on during the superbowl, and having NO idea what the product was. I actually thought it was some sort of life insurance thing.
That’s not misleading…that’s a teaser. Nothing wrong with that.
Doesn’t this count as a homework thread?
I cry “HOMEWORK!”
Its like crying “SHENANIGANS” it just doesn’t sound quite so out of date.
Is there some sort of negative connotation attached to a homework query that I am not aware of? Please enlighten the ignorant.
There’s a sort of unwritten rule that the board doesn’t help with homework. I don’t know how it developed.
It’s simple - don’t ask other people to do your homework for you. It’s your homework, you’re meant do it.
Personnally i just like taking the smug “i don’t have to do homework anymore but you still do - ha ha” attitude.
Oh yeah, and the whole “developing your own knowledge on your own initiative” thing. That too.
Point of order, you’re not lazy. You’re unmotivated. There’s a difference.
If you were truly lazy, you wouldn’t have logged onto the internet, typed out an entire query, and then sat around waiting for an answer. That takes a lot more energy than flipping through the pages of a newspaper.
No, you’re unmotivated. You just don’t wanna do your homework. Buck up soldier. This assignment will build character and put hair on your chest.
Its not that I don’t want to do it, sir, its just that I have always found the sdmb a great source for information. It isn’t that I cannot do my homework on my own, or that I cannot find what I am looking for.
Its a compliment to the fact that people on here are of a fairly high caliber, and their ideas are quite good, and I can learn alot. I wasn’t looking for someone to do my work. I was looking for suggestions on where to look to do my work.
By the way Francesca and Enderw24, thanks for that fine, but ultimately incorrect, analysis.
I apologize for my inability to work singularly, and I will restrict my expansion of knowledge from the boards in the future.
It was the phrase
that I reacted to. It sounds and awful lot like “I am lazy and can’t be bothered to do the work myself. Could someone else please do it for me?”
Your assignment was to find examples of misleading advertising. You weren’t asking for suggestions on places you could go to find examples, you were just asking for examples. You were asking people from the boards to do exactly what your assigment asked you to do. That’s not expanding your knowledge, it’s getting someone else to do your work for you.
Sorry, I should’ve have been clearer in what I asked. Meatros managed to help superbly. I did the research, I found what he/she was talking about, and I did the write-up for it. Sound like somebody else was doing the work?
Fair enough. I apologise for sounding snarky.
Francesca, its no big deal. One thing I have found about the internet is that it is often difficult to get across what one is trying to say. Or maybe that is just my own problem.
Grr… I thought I’d see a good discussion on the effects of advertising or counter culture type groups such as “culture jammers” or perhaps the evolution of advertising/marketing, such as the effects of credit cards upon retail prices or maybe the psychological patterns that some large oligopolys use.
Or maybe I’m just bored.
Nope, you’re just lazy and unmotivated. 
OK, here’s an example for you all. There have been numerous instances where car dealerships will advertise some low low offer for a striped down model of a popular car. The problem is that they don’t have that model on the lot. They’re using that low figure to get you onto the showroom floor where they can wow you with a suped up car with all the extras. You ask to see the advertised car and they’ll change the subject or distract you with another car.
It’s false advertising, it’s misleading, and it’s illegal.
Also known as the “Bait and Switch” method of propaganda.
But c’mon… Let’s leave a little work for him.
First of all, about the not-doing-other-people’s-homework rule: I’m more than happy to assist people if they need a bit of help, and if I absolutely can’t find something, I’ll come here for help.
As for the OP, try this: http://www.gurl.com/connect/bbs/bb.epl/gurlV3/default?SessionCookie=79943150-1-0-40E
At the bottom of it, it says “other clips about clips”- you should be able to find more there. Hope this helped!
~monica