False Advertising by Camping World & Good Sam
Any attorneys out there? I recently renewed my membership with Good Sam club because they offered free shipping from Camping World. This was the only reason I renewed. Two weeks ago, I received a n...
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Farmboy666 wrote:DownTheAvenue wrote:
Back to the subject of the thread:
This is very typical of anything from Camping World Holdings, which also includes Good Sam. The company is all about generating revenue without regard to building any relationship with a customer. The customer, to thm, is merely a source of revenue to be mined or exploited.
To the OP: I am an attorney, and if the pictures of the catalogs are correct, the disclaimers allow them to be deceitful. They in essence offered you free shipping and then immediately revoked the offer. Legal? Probably. Ethical? Absolutely not!
I am not a fan of CW but if they put it right there in writing for you to see how is that deceitful?
It is deceitful, in my opinion, because they lure in a customer with the headlines of free shipping when they never had the intent of offering free shipping. Then they continue to distribute catalogs with the free shipping headline when they no longer offer it.
It would not be deceitful if they had offered free shipping for some time, and then made a business decision to stop the practice and at the same time quit distributing information about the free shipping.
