# Most Egregious Examples of False Advertising **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 22, 2005, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-egregious-examples-of-false-advertising/295725 "2005-03-22T15:56:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ea5d25/32.png) [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-egregious-examples-of-false-advertising/295725/41 "2005-03-24T13:44:04Z")
I was at a bar in St. Catharine’s, Ontario, and a pretty girl from Michigan told me very explicitly just what she’d do to me later on that night. Then she passed out. I called the Ontario BBB as soon as I finished my long walk home. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ea5d25/32.png) [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-egregious-examples-of-false-advertising/295725/42 "2005-03-24T13:45:37Z")
[disclaimer]No, I did not leave her there- the walk home was from her hotel, where she got tucked in and her roommates were alerted. [/disclaimer] ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-egregious-examples-of-false-advertising/295725/43 "2005-03-24T19:13:01Z")
> [@cricetus](#): > > (Looking into pants, seeing no change). > > Sadly, no. So, I’m not going to get Bigger ba11s and peni$? ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-egregious-examples-of-false-advertising/295725/44 "2005-03-24T21:35:40Z")
> [@Seven](#): > > Many times you’ll go to Fry’s to check out this $699 laptop only to find they only had one, it’s the demo model and it is missing a few keys. > > Or they’ll have a “great” sale on a video card that starts friday (no rainchecks, etc, etc). When you arrive friday at noon to buy one up you’re told they’ve sold out. Fry’s computer system lets the salespeople look up how many they had at the start of the day and how many have been sold. If you ask the sales rep how many they started with that day, many times the answer is ZERO. Their after-Christmas sales are almost refreshingly honest, by comparison. The prices advertised are ridiculously low, but the quantities are all “limited to supply on hand.” That translates into several hundred geeks lined up outside Fry’s on the 26th, all eager to rush into the store and pick up 512MB USB Flash RAM drives for $10… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-egregious-examples-of-false-advertising/295725/45 "2005-03-24T21:45:10Z")
Suzanne Sommers advertizing the Thighmaster. We are supposed to believe that the Thighmaster gave her that body. Yeah, I remember back when she had that enormous cottage cheese ass. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-egregious-examples-of-false-advertising/295725/46 "2005-03-24T22:25:05Z")
> [@Seven](#): > > Fry’s Electronics! Fry’s is definitely shady, although in their defense, I’ll say that the lack of product on hand may just be a slipshod logistics system. I worked at an Oshman’s/Sports Authority store a while ago, and every week we’d have sales published in the Sunday paper. Routinely, people’d show up on Sunday to get this great sale deal, only to find that we didn’t have, hadn’t had one of those in months, and had no idea when we were getting one. Of course they got irate, and rightly so. The kicker was that almost invariably, the truck with said sale items would show up on oh… Thursday of that week, 3 days before the sale was over. And, because us wage-slaves didn’t get any kind of cargo manifest, just a pile of shit to stock on the shelves, we frequently didn’t get far enough through the pile until the sale was over. Not our fault, not a bait & switch, but definitely a craptastic way of running things. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-egregious-examples-of-false-advertising/295725/47 "2005-03-25T09:32:48Z")
> [@KRM](#): > > So, I’m not going to get Bigger ba11s and peni$? If by ‘Bigger’ you mean smaller and ‘ba11s and peni$’ you mean wallet, you most certainly are. > [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > “One size fits all” > (Given my 14AA feet, my 38" sleeves, and my XXXL, gloves this is a particularly eggrious lie!) “One size fits all who don’t happen to be nicknamed ‘Refrigerator’.” 😉 In the dying mall just outside my dying town, there’s a store called Athlete’s Foot. That’s either egregiously false advertising or the one thing that will survive the collapse. ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-egregious-examples-of-false-advertising/295725/48 "2005-03-25T09:56:14Z")
The farm that I camped on the last time I saw Phish at Deer Creek (Camp Timberho!) had a huge sign at the entrance that said, “HOT SHOWERS!” Friends, there is no colder water in the universe than what came out of those showerheads. I guess they figured that the Phish crowd wasn’t really into the whole cleanliness thing, and that no one would notice. For the most part, they were right. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-egregious-examples-of-false-advertising/295725/49 "2005-03-25T15:47:27Z")
“Eat a Snickers and date supermodels!” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-egregious-examples-of-false-advertising/295725/50 "2005-03-25T17:15:20Z")
Can anybody help me remember if [Keebler’s Club Crackers](http://www.kelloggs.com/keebler/products/club.html) used to have four stacks of crackers in the box. I recently bought a box and I thought it looked a little smaller in the grocery store, then got home to find only three stacks of wrapped crackers inside. I have a hunch that manufacturers are shrinking the volume of product in each box _and_ raising the price at the same time. My deoderant (Dry Idea) now has a [sticker on the cap](http://pics.drugstore.com/prodimg/26192/200.jpg) that says “New Look!”. I don’t see anything different except for the sticker; I have a nagging suspicion the bottle is a tad smaller than it used to be. ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-egregious-examples-of-false-advertising/295725/51 "2005-03-25T17:43:24Z")
> [@Ignatz](#): > > As Scarlett76 suggested: “Serving Suggestion”? Not for the sandwiches **Sublight** spoke of. Those consist of a filling placed diagonally between two square slices of bread. They are cut diagonally to show the filling and wrapped in a transparent package. Although I used to buy them regularly anyway. It never bothered me because I never assumed the entire sandwich will be filled, unless it’s from an upscale bakery. ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-egregious-examples-of-false-advertising/295725/52 "2005-03-25T18:02:13Z")
“Goes on dry” ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-egregious-examples-of-false-advertising/295725/53 "2005-03-25T20:53:48Z")
Be careful when buying ice cream. The half gallon containers are going away, being replaced with 1.75 quarts. It looks the same size and shape, but you’re paying the same price for less ice cream. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-egregious-examples-of-false-advertising/295725/54 "2005-03-25T21:06:36Z")
> [@Patty O'Furniture](#): > > My deoderant (Dry Idea) now has a [sticker on the cap](http://pics.drugstore.com/prodimg/26192/200.jpg) that says “New Look!”. Who cares what your deoderant bottle looks like? 😕 “Ooooooh, your deoderant bottle looks so cute! Take me, you fiend!” ---
**Author:** ![Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dark_Side_of_the_Floyd)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-egregious-examples-of-false-advertising/295725/55 "2005-03-25T21:11:39Z")
> [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > “The industrial revolution was neither industrial nor revolutionary, discuss.” I got a question like this for my AP Euro class. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2005, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-egregious-examples-of-false-advertising/295725/56 "2005-03-26T07:07:34Z")
**Pepperidge Farm Puff Pastry Sheets** They don’t have a picture of the actual pastry sheets, on the box. I guess sheets of raw dough would be boring. Instead, they have various pictures of the yummy treats you can make with them. This wouldn’t be a problem if the local grocery store would stock them with the other dough. But they’re stocked with the frozen yummy treats! I’ve witnessed many customers eagerly reach for the chocolate drenched delight, pictured on the box. Only, to have their faces fall with disappointment when they realize, it’s just dough. ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2005, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-egregious-examples-of-false-advertising/295725/57 "2005-03-26T12:53:42Z")
**Fox News** It is not now, nor has it ever been “fair and balanced.” and as for Bill O’ providing a “no-spin zone”, if you believe that you’re also probably watching for the Easter Bunny so I won’t take up any more of your time. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-egregious-examples-of-false-advertising/295725.md?page=2)