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<blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 4473101" data-attributes="member: 18280">I think you are getting a little more hot under the collar than you should be from my posts.&nbsp; If not, you are coming off that way.&quot;Corporate evil&quot; and &quot;consumer rights avenger&quot; are your words, not mine.&nbsp; I merely pointed out the movie trailer as an obvious example of where advertising takes place before there is a product to sell.&nbsp; Trying to push that analogy any further is...well, pushing it.But, since you asked:&nbsp; If Spider-Man 4 was adverted as a 3-hour movie, but was only 2 hours long, I believe there would be complaints.&nbsp; This is, perhaps, not much different than producing a product in which you advertise 1/3 more page count than you deliver.&nbsp; It doesn't mandate &quot;corporate evil&quot;, but it is a case where false or misleading advertising might cause one to buy a product one might otherwise avoid.&nbsp; Especially if there is no rapid correction once the mistake is learned, and there is no willingness to compensate the consumer.Negligence isn't co-equal to evil, you know.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />RC</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Raven Crowking, post: 4473101, member: 18280"] I think you are getting a little more hot under the collar than you should be from my posts. If not, you are coming off that way. "Corporate evil" and "consumer rights avenger" are your words, not mine. I merely pointed out the movie trailer as an obvious example of where advertising takes place before there is a product to sell. Trying to push that analogy any further is...well, pushing it. But, since you asked: If Spider-Man 4 was adverted as a 3-hour movie, but was only 2 hours long, I believe there would be complaints. This is, perhaps, not much different than producing a product in which you advertise 1/3 more page count than you deliver. It doesn't mandate "corporate evil", but it is a case where false or misleading advertising might cause one to buy a product one might otherwise avoid. Especially if there is no rapid correction once the mistake is learned, and there is no willingness to compensate the consumer. Negligence isn't co-equal to evil, you know. ;) RC [/QUOTE]

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