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:
I guess the fact that they’re still advertising it and it’s over can be seen as deceitful but they’re not about to trash the catalogs because of it. Like I said I’m not a fan and don’t shop there but at the end of the day we’re all big boys and sadly you have to watch your back. If enough people would stop shopping there they would maybe change, we can only vote with our money.
If the flyers were made before the decision to end the free shipping option, then that would be true. That is the sort of thing the disclaimer notice protects against - the cost to reprint the flyers may be too cost prohibitive.
However, if CW is continuing to print NEW flyers after ending the free shipping and still advertising the free shipping on those new flyers, then that is false advertising. It is their responsibility to advertise correct information to a reasonable extent.
Not changing a flyer that was just printed in bulk a month ago for a sale if reasonable - no false advertising.
Repeatedly reprinting bad information on different flyers is not reasonable - it is easy enough to remove those two words "free shipping" from the first page of a new print job. To not remove those words is falsely advertising.
