are there any solid instances or events of consumer exploitation by advertisements?
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almost any of the current drug ads
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If you are marketing any product, you must persuade your audience to purchase that product over other products.  \n\nPersuasion is one thing, manipulation is quite another.  \n\nManipulation implies that there is a deliberate attempt to mislead a customer or falsify information.\n\nFor example:\n\nPersuasive:  Our product contains ingredients that have been shown to lower the risk of heart disease when included as part of a healthy diet.\n\nManipulative: Our product will cure heart disease, lower cholesterol and make you lose weight.  If you don't eat our product you will die, and probably soon, of a heart attack.\n\nPersuasion is ethical, manipulation is not.\n\nYou can question whether a customer ought to be persuaded to spend money on your product (cigarettes, lottery tickets, luxury items) when there are other things they could spend it on, but that is your personal choice depending on the product and your own personal ethics regarding it.\n\nIt is great to question whether a specific marketing tactic is ethical or manipulative - there have definitely been examples of manipulative or unethical marketing campaigns, but you really can't paint all marketing techniques with the same brush.
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You're advertising, and that's against the rules.  2 points for me though!
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has published this consumer alert entitled “Take This Scheme and Stuff It: Avoiding Envelope-Stuffing Rip-Offs.” <http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/alerts/stuffitalrt.htm>
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It's a violation of the guidelines to advertise here.
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The networks and stations that air the ads are the gatekeeper for advertisements.  They often decide something isn't fit for showing.   The FCC would step in only if there were complaints.
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It' seem that you make advert for them ?
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Yes, I remember the ad -- or rather, the big flap about it after the Gore campaign contacted the New York Times about it and it was suddenly front page news in all the major media.  I also remember thinking how silly all the fuss was.   A few things to note:\n\n1) The first news outlet to draw attention to the "RATS" screen and discuss the matter was FOX News!  This was more than two weeks before the New York Times article.   And no one in the major news outlets saw any problem with the NY Times making it front page news (and others running all sorts of stories on it) as soon as the GORE campaign contacted them  (contrast their response to the NAACP ad mentioned below!!)\n\n2) The "RATS" screen was precisely ONE frame out of 900 in a 30-second commercial.  It displayed for 1/30 of a second, and there is no evidence any viewer could even NOTICE it unless they were slowing down and freeze-framing it!\n\n3) There is little basis for the claim that it was attempt at sending a "subliminal message", esp. that "Democrats are rats"\n    a) the larger word in question was not even "Democrats" but "Bureaucrats" --  the full line was "Bureaucrats decide", a criticism of Gore's healthcare proposals (that they would take the decisions away from doctors and patients)\n\n   b) few if any even believe that this type of "subliminal message" (reaching and prompting the 'unconscious mind' without the person's knowing it) works.  Claims about their successful use in devious ad campaigns turn out to be urban legends\n\n   c) the producer of the ad immediately explained that it was HIS idea, not the Bush campaign's.  He said he chose to do it as a "visual drumbeat" to accentuate the line.  There is no record in his work of the sort of "gimmicks" that a "subliminal message" would involve\n\n4) Gore was immediately available to talk to reporters about this 'unprecendented' ad.  He and many other Democrats were appalled, and went on and on about this ad... even after the election. \n\n   But, curiously, they were all curiously SILENT about a much more important ad put out by the NAACP in the closing weeks of the 2000 -- the famous "lynching ad". Remember THAT one?!\n\n    The ad, run in areas with high black population, criticized then Governor Bush for not supporting a hate-crimes bill in Texas. It featured a pickup draw dragging a chain down a dirt road.  This was to call to mind the means of the vicious murder of James Byrd in Texas two years earlier.  Then we heard the voice of Byrd's daughter telling us that when Bush failed to support the bill "It was like my father was killed all over again." \n\nThe message was not explicit -- not "subliminal" but VERY obvious! was that Bush was perfectly OK with lynching and didn't care about the death of a black man.\n\nWhat the ad failed to mention was that the two people principally involved in the murder were sentenced to DEATH (under a law that Bush supported and the NAACP does not!!)  third man was given a life sentence.   And nothing in the hate-crimes law would or could have made their sentences more severe!!\n\nAgain, the response from the Gore campaign (and national Democrats) to THIS despicable ad.. . .   NOT ONE WORD of CRITICISM!!!  (I believe they tried to make a point that it the Gore campaign and Democratic National Committee were not part of making the ad . . . but still, NO criticism.)\n\nSo, just who was it that was about 'winning at any cost' ?!\n\n(It was actually about the time of the Byrd ad that I began paying close attention to the campaigns.  Then, during the six-week post election legal battles I watched everything I could, read the court decisions, etc. ...  and was thoroughly appalled at Al Gore's truly "win at any cost" slash-and-burn tactics...   and since then at all the DEBUNKED cla
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Those that do are advertising
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I can try, McDonalds and others like Burger king take the advertising to a new level. they use the new movies coming out as their tools. like ice age 2 ect, they make cups,\nnapkins & market toy's from movies ect. Look at there profits? I'll bet they make more than our gas stations-LOL\nI wish I could advertise my Children's books like that.
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I'm taking your question seriously. I don't think that that's happened to me in the way that you're implying - like "The Manchurian Candidate," for example. But I do think that we are all susceptible to mind control through the media. Not the evil-scientist, direct-to-the-brain kind of thing, but I'm manipulated by television programming and advertising all the time. It changes my life in measurable ways as well as insidious ones.\n\nThink of how television commercials are set to be louder than the program you're watching, so that you won't be able to escape them when you walk out of earshot of the TV. (The fact that most TVs now allow you a setting to compensate for this only shows that the manipulation actually exists.) \n\nElectronic manipulation probably doesn't look like the mind-control movies. It looks like bright lights, snazzy ads, peer pressurized consumer campaigns, airbrushing, makeup, computer graphics, and web addresses that catch my attention and funnel me over to the computer, where I turn my attention away from the physical world, towards the electronic one.
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Well there are certain things which runs in the background but are extremely critical to proper functioning of the system.\nIn your example the purpose of the ad gets a major setback. Imagine those who are not that well acquianted with the language and interpreting the ad totally wrong.\nMy answer is yes.
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advertising, I think......................
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The toilet paper ad, the one that shows peoples butts and tells you how clean they are, I mean come on they might as well do before and after shots, and then they put little kids butts on there, they need not put a disclaimer saying not intended for the pleasure of pedophiles........\n\nAnother one that irritates me is the goldfish ad here's the cute little goldfish swimming around smiling at you and then you bite it's head off.\n\nI do like the one with the puppy at camp and the insurance ad where the people are driving down the road and all of a sudden they hit another car. That ad grabs your attention and makes you think.
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Introduction\nTHE PROCESS of development along with the expanding globalisation and liberalisation process has increased the number of consumer related issues. Consumer protection has earned an important place in the political, economic and social agendas of many nations. In India, the Government has taken many steps including legislative, to protect consumers. \nEducation is a life long process of constantly acquiring relevant information, knowledge and skills. Consumer education is an important part of this process and is a basic consumer right that must be introduced at the school level. Consumers by definition include all citizens who are, by and large the biggest group, who are affected by almost all government, public or private decisions. The most important step in consumer education is awareness of consumer rights. However, consumer education is incomplete without the responsibilities and duties of consumers, and this influences individual behaviour to a great extent.\n\nDefinition\nConsumer awareness is making the consumer aware of His/Her rights.\nConsumer awareness it a marketing term. It means that consumers note or are aware of products or services, its characteristics and the other marketing P's (place to buy, price, and promotion). \n\nUsually commercials and ads increase consumer awareness, as well as "word of mouth" (a comment from someone you know about a product or service). \n\n   Need :\nwe need it so we will not be misled by producers,it explains if what we buy is worth to our money..and not harmful to us and to environment .\n\nMany people are ignorant of their rights to get protected against the exploitation by so many others. So when there is a forum for such redress of grievances there seems to be no such exploitation by many; and becomes a rare one. So in order to get a clear picture of the level of exploitation of consumers, the awareness is required. \n\n\nRole of producers\nproper labeling, full information, health warnings, handling information, expiration date, etc. keep to requirements, norms, standards\nlabelproducts according requirements, providing true facts\nThey have to produce and deliver the goods/services of rght quality at right price at right time at right place at right quantity with right face\n\nIf they are providing a service they should  carry it out with due skill and care. They must also make sure that any materials they provide as part of this service are fit for the purpose.\nIt is also illegal for a supplier to cut off, or threaten to cut off, supply to a reseller (wholesale or retail) because they have been discounting goods or advertising discounts below prices set by the supplier.
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marketing ploy to trick people into buying their product
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Ads affect my purchases rarely, but at least they promote wide spread name recognition for various products.  I like the continuing story lines, like for Sonic, and of course the gekco.  Remember the "Where's the BEEF" lady? \n\nIn my case, I have looked for and bought the occasional grocery product I've seen and heard about on television.  Coupons from newspapers and flyers were helpful while our family was growing up and I was trying to save money, but eventually I realized that I almost always only used coupons on products we already used and liked.\n\nCome to think of it, it was an ad on Yahoo! while I was looking for one of my groups that tipped me off about Yahoo! Answers.  So that kind of internet advertising works.