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Red guy and Blue guy sitting at an empty lemonade stand.

Red guy: “maybe we should have a sale?”

Blue guy: “But we can’t go any cheaper!” while pointing to the “$1” price tag on the sign above him.

Red guy, while writing on a board, looks confused and replies: “cheaper?”

Final panel: The lemonade stand is rushed by hundreds of customers throwing cash and scrambling for lemonade, a fire breaks out, it’s chaos. In the foreground the sign Red was writing reads: “WAS $25, NOW ONLY $1”

by @loadingartist@mastodon.world (source)

  • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Illegal in the US too. Watch out for weasel wording to get around the laws though.

    “Compare to $25”

    “A $25 value”

    “Our lowest price ever”

    “Hot Buy”

    Notice how none of those actually say it’s cheaper than it was before.

      • alienzx@feddit.nl
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        1 year ago

        It can also be factually true. For example it’s their lowest price ever on model TX-56YB, only available on Black Friday.

        TX-56Y for the rest of the year has totally been cheaper.

        Walmart is the worst at this, which is why I would never buy a TV there.