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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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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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 and long-effects. The short-term effect of advertising
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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 advertising
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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. By law an advertisement is not a contract however, in most states the printed ad is technically an offer to sell in a specific vehicle at a specific price and if you take them up on the offer, then they have to sell it to you just as they advertised because you accepted the offer and were ready to pay the advertised
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Damien Brown LEG 500 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
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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 for three hours in one hundred degree weather has no bearing on whether the dealer must perform in accordance with the published advertisement. The dealer is required by legal guidelines to perform in accordance with published advertisement regardless of who the consumer is, where they come from or what they do
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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 actions to enforce all FTC federal court injunctions and administrative orders that address consumer protection issues, including advertising and
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ASSIGNMENT #4 - “BAIT AND SWITCH” LEGAL 500 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 bias of advertising has existed as long as advertising has. Advertising is the art of applying bias to sell. It is the designed to make something attractive, to make something desired, or needed through the act of creating simple psychological games. The creation of fallacies
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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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