Watchdog Misleading Womens ads

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Munter

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31,319 posts

243 months

Thursday 16th September 2010
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Err... we all know the ads are fake. We'd know without the disclaimers in tiny print.

She's airbrushed, with extensions, and false lashes and and and.

Are women that dumb that they don't realise. Or are watchdog running a non-story?

Shaw Tarse

31,544 posts

205 months

Thursday 16th September 2010
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Not the first time Watchdog have run a non story!

oldbanger

4,316 posts

240 months

Thursday 16th September 2010
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9 out of 10 women* said they preferred it to any other brand ....

  • from a poll of 10 women seen buying said product in the local Boots

Munter

Original Poster:

31,319 posts

243 months

Thursday 16th September 2010
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oldbanger said:
9 out of 10 women* said they preferred it to any other brand ....

  • from a poll of 10 women seen buying said product in the local Boots
210 women who purchased the product said they chose it over another product.

It just didn't need reporting. They do a good bit on Kwik Fit. Then that! It just irritates me.

<grumpy old man>

Puggit

48,544 posts

250 months

Friday 17th September 2010
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I have no problem with them stating '80% more shine on your lips' - and then comparing it to lips without gloss.

What were we supposed to think - they were comparing it with coal dust on the lips?!