Crazy Marketing Claims in Ads

robertw486

Glad I saw this bump, since I had a screenshot I've been forgetting to post.





Sadly yet another woman on the street that I'm not supposed to talk to. I admit she was always cute and maybe a bit flirty even before she lost weight, but these cardiologists and my catty wife are preventing me from getting to know the neighbors.

John772016

springlering62 wrote: »

It’s an ad for barefoot shoes.

For the record I’m sitting here right now in barefoot shoes, and have worn them almost daily for years.

Sadly, no effect on weight, unless you count wearing them to walk the dog or walk to yoga!

Is your PT also amazed?

I've seen a ton (no weight pun intended) of these 'wonderful shoes/inserts' recently; they're inundating social media with them; I'm not sure why, when I'm not trying to lose, I'm 'suggested' how much this 'shoes', 'inserts', etc can help me with the weight I want to lose.
Will they help me with companies trying to rip me off with crap? I'd love help with that

AnnPT77

Not exactly what I was thinking of when starting the thread, but I also find ads like the one below kind of a cultural oddity. Is this whistling past the graveyard? Don't get me wrong, I like and eat pizza so I'm not dissing that, even though the one I circled wouldn't be my main choice . . . but the naming of this one seems . . . hmmm. Far from the first time seeing something similar.

nossmf

There's a hamburger joint in Las Vegas which advertises itself as heart-attack inducing due to its ultra-greasy content loaded with cheese and bacon and whatnot, with the staff wearing emergency medical personnel uniforms. One customer actually had a real heart attack while there; reportedly he survived, and now gets free food for life from the place.

Alatariel75

nossmf wrote: »

There's a hamburger joint in Las Vegas which advertises itself as heart-attack inducing due to its ultra-greasy content loaded with cheese and bacon and whatnot, with the staff wearing emergency medical personnel uniforms. One customer actually had a real heart attack while there; reportedly he survived, and now gets free food for life from the place.

LOL I've been there. It's hideous. I believe they used to weigh bigger people as they came in and if you were over a certain weight (350lb maybe?), you also ate free.

paperpudding

@ Ann - maybe kid does so much cardiac exercise that he needs to eat back the amount of calories in a meal lovers pizza?????

springlering62

Your phone is listening.

The kids bought an Ivar shelving unit at IKEA yesterday, brought it in and were chattering to me about it while they assembled it. I got a Temu ad in my feed for shelving.

Then one said “we’ll go to town tomorrow and buy the hammock”.

No joke, I then got a Temu ad for a double, unflippable hammock for $1.78. Not a typo.

Husband and I were laughing about the quality for $1.78. I had just paid that for the cheapest thinnest plastic drop cloth!

nossmf

My wife wanted to get a replacement cat tower, because our existing one was starting to get pretty ratty from the cats scratching at it over the years. Her phone dinged with an ad for a cat tower which only cost $10 (our current one was over $100). She ordered it, was quite happy to put it together...and after only two weeks, the top-most tower has already broken off, because the construction materials used were so light weight they couldn't handle the torque from a large cat jumping on/off. Fortunately I had convinced her to keep the original tower, but now she knows we'll buy the next one from a pet store, not thru some online ad which magically appeared in response to her spoken desires.

Alatariel75

springlering62 wrote: »

Your phone is listening.

The kids bought an Ivar shelving unit at IKEA yesterday, brought it in and were chattering to me about it while they assembled it. I got a Temu ad in my feed for shelving.

Then one said “we’ll go to town tomorrow and buy the hammock”.

No joke, I then got a Temu ad for a double, unflippable hammock for $1.78. Not a typo.

Husband and I were laughing about the quality for $1.78. I had just paid that for the cheapest thinnest plastic drop cloth!

Did you hear that there was a massive fire at the Temu warehouse? 48,000 square feet of merchandise was destroyed, the loss has been valued at upwards of $58!

SurferGirl1982

chris_in_cal wrote: »

AnnPT77 wrote: »

I'll probably delete the thread.

What's this? I just looked at old threads I've created and don't see an ability to 'delete' a thread I created. How does one do this?

@chris_in_cal I'm using the website version (vision problems). But if I want to delete one of my posts, I click on "Flag" at the bottom and then click "Report" and then select "This is my post and I want to delete it". As far as deleting the entire thread, I'm not sure how to do that. But it would be up to the creator of the thread.

@AnnPT77 I actually own the book, "The Women's Health Big Book of Exercises". I find it a very good book. I've had it so long, it's probably a bit outdated. But it's been my bible for years. Yes, you are correct that the man's version has basically the same exercises as the women's version. But I guess, if you're a guy, you don't want to be doing exercises being performed by a women? Makes sense to me.

SurferGirl1982

I just discovered this thread tonight. So I have not had a chance to look at all the posts.

Oh, BTW, I did notice people talking about ads with celebrities seemingly endorsing certain products. That was pretty much debunked several years ago. Just like people steal other people's images to use in catfish schemes. Many of these questionable products were doing the same and saying that the celebrities were endorsing their products.