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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Corporate Governance – LEG 500 August 21, 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. The fact that Betty drove three hours in one-hundred degree heat has no bearing on whether or not the dealer must perform in accordance with the published advertisement. Betty chose to drive three hours based on the advertisement because she wanted the truck
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advertising a pickup truck for an attractive price lured Betty to the dealership. Betty drove three hours to the car dealership to get three thousand for her used pickup truck and to purchase the pickup truck advertised in the ad. Betty was baited by the advertising for a product at a low price. Betty discovers that the pickup truck advertised in the newspaper ad is not available and is switched to a higher price product. Tony did not show Betty the advertised pickup but a more expensive truck. In
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Assignment 4- Bait and Switch Mohammed Baba Law, Ethics, and Corporate Governance John Rodgers Strayer University September 02, 2011 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. Introduction: Bait-and-switch is a form of fraud, most commonly used in retail sales and car dealership but also applicable to other contexts. First, customers are "baited" by
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Bait and Switch Does the fact that Betty drove three hours in one-hundred-degree heat have any bearing on whether or not the dealer must perform in accordance with the published advertisement? The fact that Betty had drove three hours in one hundred degree weather to the venue in which the car is being sold, has no bearing on whether the dealer must perform in accordance with the published advertisement. Generally, ads are not offers but invitations for offers. Advertisements include sales promotion
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28, 2010 1. Betty drove three hours in one hundred degree heat. Explain if that fact has any bearing on deal 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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May 26, 2011 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 reality Betty driving three hours in one-hundred degrees heat for a vehicle doesn’t really have any bearing at all, for the dealer to perform in accordance with the published advertisement. We have all heard the saying “Read the fine lines”, advertising the truck didn’t guarantee Betty that she was going
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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 in one-hundred degree heat does not have any bearing on whether or not the dealer must perform in accordance with the published advertisement. What does have bearing is that the sales representative spoke with Betty and did not tell her that there was only one truck at the advertised
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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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Assignment #4- Bait and Switch By: Charlene Allen LEG5000: Law, Ethics & Corp. Governance Jamie Davis Smith August 21, 2011 The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) was created in 1914. Its purpose was to prevent unfair methods of competition in commerce. Over the years, Congress passed additional laws giving the agency greater authority to police anticompetitive practices. In 1938, Congress passed a broad prohibition against unfair and deceptive acts or practices. Since then, the Commission
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