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05-16-12, 01:35 PM | ||
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It might not take additional monies away from the companies, but it just goes to show that consumers are not required to be smart or savvy in anyway. They can go on auto-pilot and OOPs when something doesn't jive in the end, the consumer gets to take some money and the product all while saying "shame on you". No... shame on the consumer. It's like the old saying if someone told you to jump off a bridge would you? What if they said jumping off that said bridge would help you lose 10 pounds? That's up to you, Mr./Mrs Consumer to be a little wiser than their catchy claims. If I make a poor choice or a bad purchase it's on me, not the company and they shouldn't have to pay for my naivete. But in this day and age, society seems to want to point fingers elsewhere instead of self reflection. So the shoes didn't give you the butt of a gymnast, you use/used them just the same. You live, you learn, it's life, and your mistake. People learn from personal mistakes and hopefully won't buy into outrageous claims next time. If they do, then sucks to be their bank accounts and that's where the bottom line should end, not with a company giving mass refunds. This is my personal opinion. Not everyone will agree and I respect that.
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05-16-12, 02:37 PM | ||
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And yes. In general I am against consumer protection laws. Serious illness/injury aside, I think most of the laws complicate the system.
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No. They are doing what they do. That is to draw a consumer in to purchase their products. They aren't making you buy the product. No one is taking your credit card from you or holding you at gun point. I think most people understand that the claims made in advertisements can be taken with a grain of salt. You (general use of the word) and you alone, have the choice to say "no thanks" or "oh I cannot live without that", the company can't make that choice for you, although they hope you'll decide to fork over your dough.
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Without consumer protection laws and penalties for companies who sell products based on dubious claims like these, Coca Cola would still have cocaine in it, lord knows how much worse the meat-packing industry would be (remember the Jungle?), etc. Yeah, there are problems with our regulatory systems, but my goodness, if there was NO oversight whatsoever, we'd be back in the 19th century. For there to be ANY credibility in science/medicine, there have to be bodies in place that make sure that false claims are investigated and that companies can't just write whatever in the heck they want to on a package.
I don't think we should be blaming the consumer. Yes, most of us who have made fitness somewhat of a priority perhaps know better than the average consumer, but a lot of folks are really busy with whatever that they have going on in their lives and maybe thought that these shoes would at least be a small change they could make and make a difference in their health/fitness. I don't even know why I wasted my time typing out this, because most of the time I feel like it doesn't matter. |
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