Assignment #4- Bait and Switch By: Charlene Allen LEG5000: Law, Ethics & Corp. Governance Jamie Davis Smith August 21, 2011 The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) was created in 1914. Its purpose was to prevent unfair methods of competition in commerce. Over the years, Congress passed additional laws giving the agency greater authority to police anticompetitive practices. In 1938, Congress passed a broad prohibition against unfair and deceptive acts or practices. Since then, the Commission
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to reveal Mrs. Betty Algur. She is our multi-talented stock actress and appears, this time out, as a sixty-year-old farmer's wife. She has been driving most of the morning to reach this unfamiliar auto dealership. Her trips to "civilization" are limited, and she has the wide-eyed look of a tourist, combined with the happy expression of someone who has finally reached her destination. REACTION SHOT on Tony, as he sees her come in. He stands at his desk, smiling. Tony Long trip? Betty Honey, you don't
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Assignment # 4: Bait and Switch [pic] Law, Ethics, and Corporate Governance 1. Betty drove three hours in one-hundred degree heat. Explain if this fact has any bearing on whether or not the dealer must perform in accordance with the published advertisement. The fact that Betty drove three hours in one hundred degree heat may not necessarily have any bearing on whether or not the dealer must perform in accordance with the published advertisement. However
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also a link that will allow you to print the script of the video. Write a four to five (4-5) page report that answers the following: 1. Betty drove three hours in one-hundred degree heat. Explain if this fact has any bearing on whether or not the dealer must perform in accordance with the published advertisement. 2. When Tony said over the phone “three thousand dollars firm,” explain whether or not he was making an offer that, if accepted, would bind the dealership in contract. 3. Explain
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Communication Law: Bait and Switch Betty drove three hours in one hundred degree heat. Explain if this fact has any bearing on whether or not the dealer must perform in accordance with the published advertisement. No I don’t think it really mattered if Betty drove three hours in 100-degree heat whether or not the dealer must perform in accordance with the published advertisement. If the dealership advertised the car at a cheaper price it should not have mattered whether Betty came from around the corner
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script of the video. Betty drove three hours in one hundred degree heat. Explain if this fact has any bearing on whether or not the dealer must perform in accordance with the published advertisement. The statutes responsible of regulate advertisements are the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Lanham Act, and these are the ones whose can determinate the issue whether the customer has the right to claim the published advertisement since the fact that she drove many hours in uncomfortable conditions
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Bait and Switch Name Professor Law, Ethics, and Corporate Governance Date Betty drove three hours in one-hundred degree heat. Explain if this fact has any bearing on whether or not the dealer must perform in accordance with the published advertisement. The amount of time it took for Betty to travel to Rally Motors is no more significant than the weather and temperature. Because Betty experienced a great deal of inconvenience traveling to the dealership through extreme heat for an extended
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Introduction When Betty saw the advertisement in the newspaper for a truck at Rally Motors, she made a decision from that point that she will make a purchase. When she made the call, she was told by Tony “I will give you three thousand dollars firm for your truck”. The amount for the trade in and the price for the truck is what prompted her to drive down to dealership so that she could make the purchase. When she arrived, Tony was trying to get Betty to look at other trucks, when she
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Betty drove three hours in one hundred degree heat. Explain if this fact has any bearing on whether or not the dealer must perform in accordance with the published advertisement? Under the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) consumer protection rights there are laws, rules and procedures on how to buy a used car, make payment options and rights to warranties, but there no laws that requires a car dealer to be responsible for the means or ways you as a buyer of reaching his or her place of business. That
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ASSIGNMENT #4 - “BAIT AND SWITCH” LEGAL 500 Betty drove three hours in one-hundred degree heat. Explain if this fact has any bearing on whether or not the dealer must perform in accordance with the published advertisement. The bias of advertising has existed as long as advertising has. Advertising is the art of applying bias to sell. It is the designed to make something attractive, to make something desired, or needed through the act of creating simple psychological games. The creation of fallacies
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