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"The perfect gift," "Everyone's favourite" and other lies
vyle
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I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this, but I get really annoyed by adverts that claim something is "the perfect gift," or about CDs that feature "Your favourite songs," and similar.
Surely this must fall under wrongful advertising?
"This CD is the perfect gift for Father's Day," Really? My dad hates Michael Buble!
"Ant and Dec, everyone's FAVOURITE duo."
Not quite, I prefer Morcambe and Wise.
"The best of Westlife, featuring ALL YOUR FAVOURITE SONGS!"
No! Unless Westlife have done a cover of Master of Puppets, that claim is an outright lie!
Why do companies get away with telling us what our favourite things are? How do they know what a 'perfect' gift is? If I bought the item in the advert as a gift and the recipient hated it, could I sue the advertiser for wrongful advertising?
It's stupid, it really is. Anybody else got similar gripes about adverts?
Surely this must fall under wrongful advertising?
"This CD is the perfect gift for Father's Day," Really? My dad hates Michael Buble!
"Ant and Dec, everyone's FAVOURITE duo."
Not quite, I prefer Morcambe and Wise.
"The best of Westlife, featuring ALL YOUR FAVOURITE SONGS!"
No! Unless Westlife have done a cover of Master of Puppets, that claim is an outright lie!
Why do companies get away with telling us what our favourite things are? How do they know what a 'perfect' gift is? If I bought the item in the advert as a gift and the recipient hated it, could I sue the advertiser for wrongful advertising?
It's stupid, it really is. Anybody else got similar gripes about adverts?
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You mean you didn't LOVE their cover of Mandy?!"The best of Westlife, featuring ALL YOUR FAVOURITE SONGS!"
No! Unless Westlife have done a cover of Master of Puppets, that claim is an outright lie!"Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art."
-- Eleanor Roosevelt0 -
OP - I can see your point. OH would fling a 'perfect gift' copy of Michael Buble back at me :rotfl:eyelinerprincess wrote: »You mean you didn't LOVE their cover of Mandy?!
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http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=BzFF3safYjQOP - I can see your point. OH would fling a 'perfect gift' copy of Michael Buble back at me :rotfl:
*Runs from the thread screaming*:eek:
*hides before she gets things aimed at her head*"Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art."
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How about those free DVD's and Cd's which the Daily Mail gives away and which it describes as "perfect stocking fillers" ?
I don't think anyone would appreciate being given a load of free tat as a Christmas present.What part of "A whop bop-a-lu a whop bam boo" don't you understand?0 -
Comes down to advertising puff.
On the subject of "free" DVDs, one newspaper was offering one - for £8.99 P&P. I think for that price it is either:
9ct gold,
extremely large,
made of lead or
simply a blatant ripoff!0 -
Oh and it also reminds me of that old chestnut of someone who shopping for kitchen knives.
He picked up a box upon which were the words "The sharpest knife in the world". He complained as, on the other boxes, unsurprisingly, they also claimed to be the sharpest knife. His complaint was that they cannot all claim to be the sharpest knives in the world. Equally unsurprisingly, the complaint was kicked out (or laughed out - cannot remember which).
Think it was more a case of the complainant not bein the sharpest knife in the box....0
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