EPTNutella loses $3.5million lawsuit - Page 8
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PassiveAce
United States18076 Posts
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MountainDewJunkie
United States10341 Posts
On April 28 2012 09:44 Tewks44 wrote: I think people are missing the important part of the story here. The Nutella ad claimed that 2 slices of bread with Nutella, a glass of milk, and a fruit was considered a "balanced breakfast." For anyone who thinks "balanced breakfast" means anything but "healthy" then please explain what else "balanced breakfast" could be interpreted as. The problem is the 2 slices of bread can only have 10 grams of Nutella each to be considered part of a "balanced breakfast." Considering the ad depicted two slices of bread covered in Nutella (thus implying the image was the "balanced breakfast" described), yet one serving size if 57 grams, it seems that this commercial was intentionally manipulative. I personally thinks this is a ridiculous lawsuit, but you gotta at least see the other side of the argument. I agree. The manipulation of language and common association ("balanced breakfast" ==> healthy) is obvious. Nutella is tasty shit, but it's basically garbage, and probably shouldn't be consumed by adults or children. | ||
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Equity213
Canada873 Posts
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Talin
Montenegro10532 Posts
On April 28 2012 09:49 liberal wrote: They never once used the word healthy. They never made a single health claim in the ad. My god they even put in print on the ad that you should have a small amount as part of a balanced breakfast, and we still claim there is false advertising somewhere? Isn't the whole purpose of fine print to avoid frivolous lawsuits like this? Do people seriously think this company deserves to be sued because they showed too much spread on a piece of toast? I believe that a company should be sued for as long as there is even the smallest, most convoluted argument that can make a case for it. Especially when it comes to advertising. It basically serves the purpose of cleaning up the trash and forcing if not honesty, then a situation where people who write ads will measure the words they use and triple-check the statements they make 50 times over before committing it to make sure there's nothing false or misleading that could be read from it. There's no drawbacks to being as strict as possible about it, and there are plenty of benefits to it. So I see no reason why they should be cut any slack. | ||
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dAPhREAk
Nauru12397 Posts
On April 28 2012 09:53 Equity213 wrote: Anything that takes money from big evil corporations and generally makes like miserable for a business man is good. I dont really care about anything else. I just like seeing rich people suffer. ~end sarcasm justice for all, except those we dont like! User was warned for this post | ||
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Talin
Montenegro10532 Posts
On April 28 2012 09:56 dAPhREAk wrote: justice for all, except those we dont like! Companies aren't people. | ||
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lodeet
United States147 Posts
On April 28 2012 09:43 obesechicken13 wrote: False advertising is stupid. Glad to see nutella take a hit although it tastes good. It's not like all the money goes to the lady either. They do 2.5 million in damages to society, they pay the price. After spending a few weeks in China watching the advertisements there, I just got so sick of people preying on the uneducated to make quick money. I remember this one advertisement for a brain strengthening helmet. Sure most people in China know to stay away from that, but a few, especially the ones moving to cities might buy some and permanently damage the minds of their children. South Park recently had an episode on the jewelry channels and how they tried to make money off of senility. I don't want our advertising to become like that. You don't think we are already there? The whole purpose of adversiting is to get people to buy your product. Ads have been misleading for a really long time. It's a sales tatic. If you look closely at most ads they don't actually tell you anything important about the product but rather mislead you into creating your own ideas about what the product is. All the real important details are withheld. They are usually available too but most people are too lazy to do the research to find out the truth. The point of adversiting is to make a product look or seem desirable not to give facts. To trick you into think you are being patriotic by buying this product to establish a certain "status" since our whole social system is based on your "status". You're no one if your not in debt driving the nicest car owning designer brands and living in a dream home. | ||
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floor exercise
Canada5847 Posts
These are the types of commercials I see for nutella all the time here They are always marketed to children as a breakfast meal, which is just ridiculous and stupid. I am kind of glad they got sued, but I wish the money went somewhere other than into the pockets of dumb parents | ||
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dAPhREAk
Nauru12397 Posts
lol. in america, corporations are treated the same as people for lawsuits. boo yah http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood | ||
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Skullflower
United States3779 Posts
On April 28 2012 09:52 PassiveAce wrote: Yo I eat nutella almost every day, can I get some of this money even if I know its not healthy? If you want at most $20 sure why not | ||
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Talin
Montenegro10532 Posts
On April 28 2012 09:57 dAPhREAk wrote: lol. in america, corporations are treated the same as people for lawsuits. Yes, well. Plenty of things I could say about that, off-topic though. | ||
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Herper
501 Posts
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Silidons
United States2813 Posts
she says this for example, "this isnt fattening because it had 0 grams of fat" if you have any knowledge of nutrition, you will see how stupid that statement really is. | ||
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Teoman
Norway382 Posts
I don't think it is good that people become millionares of off basicly being dumb/slightly clever by just suing something obvious and i think that is something that the USA have to get through all of that "we can't change the law because someone in the far past said that it should be like that" stuff and start changing laws according to how the world works today. However, what i only hate about todays consumer society is the blatant lying and exagerating. The luring and the exploitation of fine arts like humour, just to sell a product or a service! I am sick of companys doing this, and i think it is fair that they feel the hammer of justice when they once in a while get caught with it. I want cleat objective advertising. I want to know what i am actually seeing instead of some over happy family eating burgers at mcdonalds, or drinking coca cola. I like the freedom in our society to buy what we want, but i don't like every company taking advantage of this freedom to use every means neccesary to make us buy their product, no matter the qualityor cost! Companys should advertise their product for what it is, wether it is unhealthy or not. And not use every luring tactic in the book to lure people into buying there product only. (slightly (quite) under the vodka influence while writing this, still think it turned out good :D will edit in the morning if i see a need for it) | ||
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xrapture
United States1644 Posts
On April 28 2012 09:57 floor exercise wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl22YOOCreE These are the types of commercials I see for nutella all the time here They are always marketed to children as a breakfast meal, which is just ridiculous and stupid. I am kind of glad they got sued, but I wish the money went somewhere other than into the pockets of dumb parents holy hell. that is the most misleading and blatant false advertising I've seen in a long time. "Something I can feel good serving my kids" lol wtf... | ||
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eFonSG
United States255 Posts
On April 28 2012 09:35 Marti wrote: THIS THIS And finally this : And please, for god's sake people stop it with the " lol only in america " every half decent country has laws against this and thank god they do, because without those nothing stops big companies from manipulating you. Which they already do for the most part. Yes the average person knows nutella isn't healthy. But a big company shouldn't be allowed to trick you or your subconcious into thinking it is. If you got told 100 times a day " nutella is healthy " you'd end up believing it. Edit : it's amazing how people just show up and comment without even reading what other posters have said, or sometimes without even reading the op. The youtube video alone must have been posted three times already. But its based off a random persons inference of what happened in the commercial. The commercial didnt say "Nutella is healthy, eat it". The ingredients are on the back on the container, sure there should be laws to prevent false advertising and holding big companies accountable. BUT there also should be protection for the companies from lawsuits like this one. The ingredients are clearly marked on the container, it should be the consumers responsibility to read the ingredients, especially without a real false advertisement. | ||
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hypercube
Hungary2735 Posts
On April 28 2012 09:58 Herper wrote: You should blame the system. Nothing she did was wrong. No, the system works fine in this case. Funniest part is that the article only creates additional negative publicity for their product. | ||
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Blennd
United States266 Posts
On April 28 2012 09:49 liberal wrote: They never once used the word healthy. They never made a single health claim in the ad. My god they even put in print on the ad that you should have a small amount as part of a balanced breakfast, and we still claim there is false advertising somewhere? Isn't the whole purpose of fine print to avoid frivolous lawsuits like this? Do people seriously think this company deserves to be sued because they showed too much spread on a piece of toast? Yeah we should make false advertising laws more lax. I mean, I'm sure corporations will be reasonable about it, right? | ||
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Mr. Black
United States470 Posts
This version of the commercial very clearly claims nutella is healthy. It is just as deceptive as a bait and switch. | ||
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pt
United States813 Posts
On April 28 2012 08:45 Roe wrote: What the hell is so damaging about nuttella that makes you need millions of dollars to fix??? fundraising for that time machine so she can prevent herself from buying it of course | ||
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