{"id":16488,"date":"2012-11-28T00:15:02","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T08:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/?p=16488"},"modified":"2022-03-04T16:46:44","modified_gmt":"2022-03-05T00:46:44","slug":"why-i-refuse-to-get-upset-by-subtly-deceptive-advertising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/id16488-why-i-refuse-to-get-upset-by-subtly-deceptive-advertising.html","title":{"rendered":"Why I Refuse to Get Upset By Subtly Deceptive Advertising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/deceptive-ad.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-16508\" title=\"deceptive ad\" src=\"https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/deceptive-ad.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"328\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/deceptive-ad.jpg 396w, https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/deceptive-ad-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/deceptive-ad-300x296.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 328px) 100vw, 328px\" \/><\/a>Last weekend I was lured to an online calendar website with the following promise: &#8220;Everything up to 60% off!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sixty percent!<\/p>\n<p>While I was visiting there I found a calendar that was on sale for $13.49 &#8212; $1.50 off the regular price of $14.99.<\/p>\n<p>Now, after taking a couple of minutes to do the math, I became a bit put off because, let&#8217;s face it, that&#8217;s only 10% off &#8212; not 60%.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s when I realized the website had pulled a fast one on me.<\/p>\n<p>The advertisement said everything was <em>up to<\/em> 60% off. And there&#8217;s a big difference between &#8220;up to 60% off&#8221; and &#8220;60% off.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The truth is, if I had paid closer attention, I wouldn&#8217;t have fallen for one of the oldest advertising tricks in the book, which is why I really can&#8217;t be <em>too<\/em> upset. They got me fair and square.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, I like pulling fast ones myself; I always have.<\/p>\n<p>When I was about eight-years-old, I woke up early one morning and put salt in the sugar bowl. I&#8217;ll never forget watching my dad spit his first gulp of coffee that day all over the kitchen table.<\/p>\n<p>As a dad, I love pulling pranks on my kids too. Of course, now that they&#8217;re both teenagers, being a successful prankster isn&#8217;t as easy as it used to be. The days of watching them jump out of their pants after they open an envelope of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2Cfnr9pR7P0&amp;feature=related\">rattlesnake eggs<\/a>&#8221; are long gone.<\/p>\n<p>Years ago, an old girlfriend and I bought a lottery ticket after the jackpot had reached some ridiculous sum. No, I can&#8217;t remember exactly how big the grand prize actually was &#8212; but let&#8217;s just say it was a billion bucks. Or so. 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Get our ticket, Sweetheart, and let&#8217;s see if we won!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah right!&#8221; she said. &#8220;We never win anything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re probably right, but let&#8217;s see.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And with that, my girlfriend grabbed our lottery ticket off the counter and then waited for me to read her the winning numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, instead of reading the actual <em>winning<\/em> numbers printed in the newspaper, I began announcing <em>our<\/em> ticket numbers which, unbeknownst to her, I had written down while she was still sleeping.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;16,&#8221; I said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;27.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Uh huh.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;31.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Really?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Then we just won $5,&#8221; I said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Good, keep going.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;32.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Shut. 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Are you crazy?&#8221; I said, raising the newspaper up to shield  my eyes from our &#8220;winning&#8221; lottery ticket. &#8220;Don&#8217;t show me that ticket now. For God&#8217;s sake! You&#8217;ll break <a href=\"https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/id3176-100-words-on-why-luck-is-so-overrated-2.html\">our string of luck<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I then gave my girlfriend, one last dramatic stare before I called out the last number, phrasing it as a question for added effect. &#8220;Forty-nine?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And with that, my girlfriend was, without question, the happiest girl on Earth. 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