Group awards
citations for
misleading ads
WASHINGTON (AP) — From
Erector sets to cars to models in a la
dies-wear catalog, consumer groups
complained Wednesday about adver
tisements they said were misleading.
They staged a mock awards ceremony,
announcing the winners of 10 dubious
achievement citations.
The companies fought back, de
fending the ads as accurate.
“It makes me wonder who put them
up to this,” complained Fred
Hammond of Volvo, criticized for an
ad comparing the handling of its sta
tion wagon with that of a BMW sedan.
The Consumer Federation of
America singled out a Volvo ad sug
gesting the car is faster and handles
better than the BMW. The consumer
group contended the cars were not
tested equally.
Hammond noted the group echoed
a BMW complaint, taken to binding
arbitration with the Better Business
Bureau’s advertising division and dis
missed because the bureau found the
Volvo ad fair, responsibly done and
accurate.
On the toy tront, Meccano lnc.
drew criticism for an ad showing a fire
truck built using its Erector set. The
U.S. Public Interest Research Group
complained it took more than 13 hours
to build the truck, which then did not
run as quickly as the ad implied it
would.
She added that the instructions sug
gest beginning with simple projects and
working up to something like the fire
truck, the most complicated project.
One ad listed this year resulted in a
$25,000 fine to United Airlines, for
failure to disclose the comparison fare
in ads in February promoting a 40 per
cent discount.
The disclosure was dropped inad
vertently, spokeswoman Connie Huff
said, and appears in ads now being run
by the airline.
Other ads criticized included a
Procter & Gamble ad for the artificial
fat Olean, a Nationwide Insurance ad
implying it offers hurricane protection
when it is cutting back on sales in
coastal areas, the Lane Bryant catalog
for using thin models to sell clothes in
plus sizes and the Connecticut Light
& Power direct-mail ad to New Hamp
shire customers, implying it produced
environmentally friendly hydroelectric
power when nuclear power was used.
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The second show of the evening
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