Posted on 05/20/2012 4:53:04 AM PDT by Kaslin
Why doesn’t the government just say, “We need money”?
Stick em up is more like it!!
It will cause the price of my Skechers to go up to pay for these greedy lawyers.
I call this a McDonalds Problem. Everybody who wants to complain about the state of the American diet attacks McDonalds, because they are the high-profile, short-hand target. You say "McDonalds", and everybody knows what you mean.
Meanwhile, Wendy's may sell just as many hamburgers, and be responsible for just as much of the problem, but they are never attacked by name.
Sketchers got so big, they got the McDonalds Problem treatment. All the same, they will pay this $40 Million fine and laugh all the way to the bank.
Then don’t buy ‘em. I don’t understand why anyone would fall for an advertisement as ridiculous as that Sketcher promise anyway
These are the same idiots who fell for the arrogant’s pos occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave Hope and Change promises
Well, it *was* false advertising, if Skechers knew their claim was bogus. I wish the FTC would go after these homeopathic “cures” next.
Proven by the number of “victim’s” groups who’ve been whining the last few months that zero hasn’t done anything for them.
The government has taken over most of the rackets. They took over lotteries and shakedowns. They have their hands in drugs and gunrunning. All those 1940 gangster movies are a metaphor for government.
Bought my first pair of Skechers, two weeks ago. didn’t buy them for the ‘toning’, but they are extremely comfortable if you are on you feet for hours at a time.
Got them at Ross Dress for Less for $13.50, with a suggested retail price of about $80.00.
I don’t believe Sketchers held a gun to their heads and demanded that they buy the shoes.
Agreed, don’t have Skechers, but have had 5 pairs of rocker bottom shoes, and that’s all I wear. MBT and Cogent are great, Dr Scholls are too thin and hard. The calf muscles do get a good work-out if you over exaggerate your movement.
My wife wears them all the time and she’s on her feet all day. They are the best thing for her back pain and her legs are very muscular. She’s on her 5th pair and will wear nothing else if she has to be on her feet.
I would not ever buy this shoe on the basis of this ad. I would probably not even like this shoe. However, Schechers does make a very reasonably priced shoe that seems to be of good quality as a walking shoe.
Now, my purchase of a Schecher shoe will include a cut for the greedy lawyers.
I would not ever buy this shoe on the basis of this ad. I would probably not even like this shoe. However, Schechers does make a very reasonably priced shoe that seems to be of good quality as a walking shoe.
Now, my purchase of a Schecher shoe will include a cut for the greedy lawyers.
That is a good buy, but my point was not to buy anything because of what the advertisement says. The best thing is not to pay attention to ads in the first place
Didn’t Birkenstocks make the same claim decades ago? But then again, I suspect Birkenstock is a large contributor to left-wing causes, and so is exempt from such petty constraints as truth in advertising.
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