I just clicked the link to ZDnet to read the story and up at the top of the page is an ad for a Visa card promising "0.0% APR!". Little print to the left says "as low as" and "introductory". Marketing and advertising people routinely lie by telling the truth - they are trained to do this (I've been in the classes). They say the "good" things in great big print, and the "bad" things are tiny or omitted. Can you get a completely free PC? Nope! Can you get a 0.0%APR Visa? Nope! But that's what the big words say! Again, about the only recourses we have are to 1) Don't do business with people who use misleading ads AND 2) Let them know WHY you refuse to do business with them.
A story in a local paper today -online at: http://www.copleynewspapers.com/heraldnews/top/j08 money.htm I doubt that any serialization/watermarks would keep this sort of thing from happening. Someone who prints money that can't even pass at a high school concession stand isn't likely to care about a few odd marks in his copy.
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I just clicked the link to ZDnet to read the story and up at the top of the page is an ad for a Visa card promising "0.0% APR!". Little print to the left says "as low as" and "introductory". Marketing and advertising people routinely lie by telling the truth - they are trained to do this (I've been in the classes). They say the "good" things in great big print, and the "bad" things are tiny or omitted. Can you get a completely free PC? Nope! Can you get a 0.0%APR Visa? Nope! But that's what the big words say! Again, about the only recourses we have are to 1) Don't do business with people who use misleading ads AND 2) Let them know WHY you refuse to do business with them.
A story in a local paper today -online at: http://www.copleynewspapers.com/heraldnews/top/j08 money.htm I doubt that any serialization/watermarks would keep this sort of thing from happening. Someone who prints money that can't even pass at a high school concession stand isn't likely to care about a few odd marks in his copy.