It is estimated that in 2021 an average person might be exposed to as many as 10,000 ads per day. It seems like a lot, but when you think about it, ads bombard us on social media, TV, billboards, and even inside our fortune cookies. We get so used to them that we don’t even notice.
One would like to think that marketing and advertising should bridge the gap between the seller and the buyer; make people trust the product and encourage them to use it. But their words often sound too good to be true. And they often are. If you see a big sign yelling “Everything’s 30% off”, it might be designed to make you miss the small line at the bottom where it says that the offer applies to a handful of selected items only. Congratulations, you’ve just encountered false marketing.
This time, we will check out a few ‘sometimes ridiculous, other times alarming and infuriating’ marketing techniques that evil businesses use to take advantage of us and manipulate customers into buying more stuff. Continue scrolling and see these examples for yourself!
#1 Trashy Company
#2 Man, That’s Really Cheap… Oh
#3 Packaging For These Markers
#4 And During A Pandemic
#5 I Have An Ad In My Fortune Cookie
#6 Bought A Chicken Pot Pie Thinking It Was The Size Of The
Outer Tin Before Cutting Into It And Seeing This Monstrosity.
#7 So Basically Every Price
#8 New Cereal Box Is 11% Taller With 1.6% Less Cereal
#9 That Would Explain Why My Ankle Hurts.
#10 This “Dual” Camera Smartphone Doesn’t Have Two Functioning Cameras
