1. Betty drove three hours in one-hundred degree heat. Explain if this fact has any bearing on whether or not the dealer must perform in accordance with the published advertisement. The issue is whether the customer has the right to claim the published advertisement since the fact that she drove many hours in uncomfortable conditions to the dealer expecting to buy the product advertised. The statutes responsible of regulate advertisements are the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Lanham Act
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script of the video. Betty drove three hours in one hundred degree heat. Explain if this fact has any bearing on whether or not the dealer must perform in accordance with the published advertisement. The statutes responsible of regulate advertisements are the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Lanham Act, and these are the ones whose can determinate the issue whether the customer has the right to claim the published advertisement since the fact that she drove many hours in uncomfortable conditions
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Bait and Switch PROF GREGORY SMITH LEG 500 11/30/2011 1. Betty drove three hours in one-hundred degree heat. Explain if this fact has any bearing on whether or not the dealer must perform In accordance with the published advertisement. Bait and switch is an illegal tactic in which a seller advertises a product with the intention of persuading customers to purchase a more expensive product (uslegal.com). The whole idea of bait and switch is simply to lure in customers. When the customer
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Betty drove three hours in one-hundred degree heat. Explain if this fact has any bearing on whether or not the dealer must perform in accordance with the published advertisement. The fact that Betty drove three hours to get to this particular dealer has no bearing on whether the dealership has to honor the published advertisement. However the dealerships ad was misleading. The advertisement was a major factor in Betty’s decision to endure the three hour drive. Just because Betty endured
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Communication Law: Bait and Switch Betty drove three hours in one hundred degree heat. Explain if this fact has any bearing on whether or not the dealer must perform in accordance with the published advertisement. No I don’t think it really mattered if Betty drove three hours in 100-degree heat whether or not the dealer must perform in accordance with the published advertisement. If the dealership advertised the car at a cheaper price it should not have mattered whether Betty came from around the corner
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protect consumers against unfair, deceptive, or fraudulent practices in the marketplace. The Bureau has seven divisions, each with its own area of expertise: • Advertising Practices protects consumers by enforcing the nation's truth-in-advertising laws. • Consumer and Business Education plans, develops, and implements creative national campaigns to alert consumers to their rights and to explain the science of compliance to industry. • Enforcement litigates civil contempt and civil penalty
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Switch 1) Betty drove three hours in one-hundred degree heat. Explain if this fact has any bearing on whether or not the dealer must perform in accordance with the published advertisement. In present day society, the average American consumer will go to great lengths in order to find some good deals throughout these economical times. Advertising can have a profound effect on people’s morals and their conduct as it relates to how they identify with their lives. Advertising has both short-term
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Betty drove three hours in one hundred degree heat. Explain if this fact has any bearing on whether or not the dealer must perform in accordance with the published advertisement? Under the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) consumer protection rights there are laws, rules and procedures on how to buy a used car, make payment options and rights to warranties, but there no laws that requires a car dealer to be responsible for the means or ways you as a buyer of reaching his or her place of business. That
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Law, Ethics, and Corporate Governance Date Betty drove three hours in one-hundred degree heat. Explain if this fact has any bearing on whether or not the dealer must perform in accordance with the published advertisement. The amount of time it took for Betty to travel to Rally Motors is no more significant than the weather and temperature. Because Betty experienced a great deal of inconvenience traveling to the dealership through extreme heat for an extended period of time, does not make it
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1. Betty drove three hours in one-hundred degree heat. Explain if this fact has any bearing on whether or not the dealer must perform in accordance with the published advertisement. Answer: No, the dealers need not to take care about the difficulties the people face on reaching the venue given in the advertisement. The people who read the advertisement must make sure that the advertisement meets the requirements that they are interested in. Whenever an advertisement is published, numerous people
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