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Crazy Marketing Claims in Ads
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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.2 -
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
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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.
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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.2
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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.1 -
@ Ann - maybe kid does so much cardiac exercise that he needs to eat back the amount of calories in a meal lovers pizza?????1
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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!1 -
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.5
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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!10 -
chris_in_cal wrote: »
@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.0 -
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.0 -
Easily accesible AI that anybody can use has caused an uptick in these before and after ads, the man in the picture below never existed - I generated him in about 10 seconds with a prompt on Grok. The text I pulled out of thin air is totally true, honest.
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Easily accesible AI that anybody can use has caused an uptick in these before and after ads, the man in the picture below never existed - I generated him in about 10 seconds with a prompt on Grok. The text I pulled out of thin air is totally true, honest.
*Results may vary - so 1 day for me right?2 -
John772016 wrote: »Easily accesible AI that anybody can use has caused an uptick in these before and after ads, the man in the picture below never existed - I generated him in about 10 seconds with a prompt on Grok. The text I pulled out of thin air is totally true, honest.
*Results may vary - so 1 day for me right?
That is the $15,000 package. The disclaimer is almost the same.
*Results may vary. Price changes may not impact results.2 -
robertw486 wrote: »John772016 wrote: »Easily accesible AI that anybody can use has caused an uptick in these before and after ads, the man in the picture below never existed - I generated him in about 10 seconds with a prompt on Grok. The text I pulled out of thin air is totally true, honest.
*Results may vary - so 1 day for me right?
That is the $15,000 package. The disclaimer is almost the same.
*Results may vary. Price changes may not impact results.
Heh, exactly - 15k, and an extra bit in the small print about how 'ripped' may or may not be short for 'ripped off.'
@robertw486 - by the way, is your username tech related? I used to use 486 in some of my online names, but it turns out somebody else online was using it and let's just say I didn't want people confusing us. Sorry for the random question.1 -
Wow! That’s very professional!
@SurferGirl1982 now they’re using lookalike AI people for faux celebrity ads. I just got an ad for an “INSANE” pair of credit cards with a Jennifer Garner (Capital One’s spokesperson) lookalike. I did a doubletake, enlarged the photo, and it’s a dead ringer except for really big lips and a couple other minor feature changes.
The world is just getting crass.
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@springlering62 It's getting scary. The best thing to do is reach out to the companies yourself.0
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I figure the best thing to do, when companies use truly skeezy marketing - stolen images of celebrities, celebrity lookalikes, stupid claims with an asterisk and fine print - is not to deal with those companies at all. If they're cheat-y in their advertising, what other cheats and corner-cutting do they condone?
Mild exception for the asterisk thing in cases where it's essentially mandated, such as "past returns don't predict future results" in an investment prospectus that has a chart/stats of past results.2 -
Years back, saw a commercial from a lawyer which was essentially saying "Did you lose money in the stock market? You could be entitled to compensation!" Don't know how much this idiot had to do with the "past returns cannot predict future results" fine print, but wouldn't surprise me.1
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