Are You A Reasonable Or Gullible Consumer Quiz?

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Are you a reasonable consumer? Businesses use the reasonable consumer defense to justify deceptive marketing practices like making consumers read fine print. Take this short quiz to see if you are a reasonable consumer.

Marketing Tricks: Selling Men And Women Identical Products

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When you shop for soap, shampoo, deodorant, and antiperspirants most stores have products “uniquely formulated” for men and men. In reality the only differences are fragrance, packaging, and price.

In this video:

• Marketing the same formula to men and woman. 00:41
• Unique fragrance, packaging, and marketing. 1:11
• How to become a personal hygiene specialist. 3:02
• Clinically tested — proprietary results. 3:37

Marketing Tricks: Doctor Developed Supplements

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In the U.S., dietary supplements is a $70 billion a year business. With thousands of varieties it can be confusing knowing which are beneficial and which are worthless or simply have a placebo effect. A growing trend is doctor developed dietary supplements. While ads state they are clinically tested, or use clinically tested ingredients, and proven to work, most supplements provide little or no health benefits. Unless verified by a third party, doctor developed supplements can be lower quality and cost more than verified supplements. After all, the cost of advertising their supplements is included in the price.

In This Video:

• Practicing supplemental nutrition. 00:53
• Supplements for your health or your money? 1:51
• Clinically tested on people, animals, or test tubes? 3:22
• Unverified potency and efficacy. 5:18
• Number 1 compared to what? 5:52
• Unproven Supplements For Chronic Conditions. 6:23

Why Free Products And Services Are Not Free

Most people love free products and services. Businesses offering them usually make money. After all, that is why a company is in business. Truly free products and services are a thing of the past. Today, free comes with hidden fees or auto-refill making them anything but free.

In this video:

• Why free is rarely free. 00:39
• Almost free shipping. 1:43
• Almost free samples and products. 2:20
• Almost free installation. 3:14
• Almost free income tax preparation and filing. 4:11
• Free financial account consolidation. 4:41

Marketing Tricks: For-Profit Clinical Trials

Clinical trials are used to check the efficacy of new drugs, surgical procedures, treatments, and medical devices. Usually testing the product or procedure against a placebo.

Today, for-profit companies customize clinical trials to guarantee positive results to help boost product sales and revenues. Advertisements can claim a product has been clinically tested to work even when it does not.

In this video:

• What are clinical trials? 00:33
• Types of clinical trials. 1:05
• For-profit clinical trials and testing. 2:14

Free Enterprise Quiz

Test your knowledge of American free enterprise with this short 10 question quiz.

Politics 101: Free Enterprise And The Art Of Deception

Free enterprise and deregulating businesses has opened the door to consumer fraud by placing the burden of separating marketing fact from fiction on consumers. In some cases, the result is a class action lawsuit that enriches attorneys more than it protects consumers. Even the right to sue for damages is being taken away by imposing binding arbitration.

In this video:

• The Fine Art Of Deception 00:32
• Product Of USA? 1:23
• Home Sweet Factory. 2:02
• Where’s The Pork? 2:21
• The Hole Truth. 2:39
• Same Brand Name, Different Recipe. 3:37
• The Incredible Shrinking Product. 4:53
• What You See Or Read Is Not What You Get. 5:39
• Regular Maintenance For High Reliability? 6:50
• What’s In A Name? 7:39
• Fee For Disservice. 8:25
• Quarts Versus Cubic Feet. 9:21
• Very Limited Lifetime Warranties. 9:51
• What You Do Not Know Will Hurt You! 10:16

Patented Dietary Supplements Facts & Myths

Dietary supplements in the U.S. are virtually unregulated. Supplement manufactures use a variety of marketing tricks to promote supplements and supplement ingredient quality, potency, and efficacy. One marketing trick is including patents in packaging and promotions. Patents do not guarantee quality, potency, and efficacy. A patent gives the patent holder the exclusive eight to make and sell and product.

In this video:

• What is a dietary supplement? 00:38
• What is a patent? 1:28
• Patented dietary supplements. 2:22
• Patented ingredients. 3:26
• Clinical proven versus patents. 4:03

The High Cost Of Low Quality

Everyone likes saving money. Buying low cost products is like the saying, “You get what you pay for.”

Reviews on Amazon and other online retailers confirm that low cost usually equals quality like it rusted after one washing. Suddenly, a bargain is no longer a bargain.

In this video:

• The high cost of low quality. 00:38
• Poorly made in America. 1:27
• Price before quality. 3:06
• Made in American from foreign materials. 3:47
• Marketing hype not help. 4:33

Marketing Tricks: It’s Only $19.99!

Reasons to avoid products advertised on television for $19.99? How sellers can offer two items for the price of one and free shipping.

In this Video:

• Why most TV offers are not available in stores. 00:46
• Paying a separate fee to double the offer. 1:51
• Free shipping is not free. 2:46
• Free extras are not free. 3:22
• Avoid auto-refill offers. 4:09
• You get what you pay for. 5:42

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