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Mikalina · Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2011 9:06 am Post subject: Accurate Advertising

Is is 'legal' for companies to advertise using old photos which are no longer relevant or information which is now inaccurate? How long do they have to change their websites before they infringe some sort of advertising law?

For example, if a website says that it has four new teachers, three from England and one from the US, but, in fact, one of the teachers left after only three weeks with the company, one went on holiday and never returned after two months and one walked out due to the aggressive and bullying tactics of the administator after three months.

For example, if the photo shows two people who had already left the company and four who subsequently left, plus endless odd bods who are to be found hanging around admin offices all over Kurdistan.....

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

Sorry... I can't imagine that it would be enforceable. In what country? Besides, "truth in advertising" is the perfect oxymoron. I have always lived under the better idea of "buyer beware."

I would guess that the vast majority of these employer websites don't show actual people there at the time. Often they are stock photos. Many end up showing administration people teaching a class. Laughing

Then you have the problem of lack of updating the rest of it.

I'd just forget the idea of some possible revenge. The best you have is to visit all the EFL websites regularly and see if anyone is asking about them... that is when you can give your experience.

VS

johnslat · Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2011 3:14 pm Post subject:

Dear Mikalina,

"Legal? We ain't got no legal. We don't need no legal! I don't have to show you any stinkin' legal!" (slightly amended quote) Very Happy

Regards,
John

Mikalina · Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2011 10:20 am Post subject:

Yeah, Johnslat - but I'm British and it's just not cricket.....

I workd with one Brit who was totally outraged by the parking of cars on the pavement in Moscow - it inconveniencd the pedestrians and was just not right! Don't think she ever got over it.

Funny what upsets our sense of right and wrong. In the Middle East, if I had �1 for every time I heard "...but that's not true...."

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

The one that I got so tired of hearing was "this isn't how we do it where I come from" Laughing

VS

johnslat · Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2011 2:53 pm Post subject:

Dear veiledsentiments,

To which, my standard reply was - "In case you haven't noticed yet, you're not where you come from anymore. Welcome to Wonderland."

Regards,
John aka The Mad Hatter

Badar Bin Bada Boom · Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2011 9:44 pm Post subject:

"I'm British"?? I suppose that means you don't get race riots. Or serial killers. But I know what you mean--a sort of self-effacing humor. Me--I'm from Connecticut. We never had slaves where I came from. But all America is accused of having owned slaves 150 years ago. In the Gulf Middle East, slavery went on until 1965 or '70. On and on--you get my drift. One thing's for certain: there is no analysis going on by indigenous personnel in the Middle East.