What are good examples of misleading statistics?
Nearly every crime statistic ever reported in the news is misleading.Most crimes have a very low incidence of occurrence, therefore, the variation as a percentage tends to be very high and this is often used to sensationalize news and scare people into spending money where they don't need to. For example, in a smaller community murders will be rare. So, if 1 happened the first year, then 2 happened the next year, the murder rate would be likely to be reported as increasing 100%! The inverse is true as well. If the number of murders went from 2 to 1, then the murder rate was cut by half! Sensationalized crime statistics are used to attract viewers to the news and fund programs that may not be helpful to the larger population or justify continued spending that may not be warranted or effective.Also, most crimes are under reported, so one would expect the crime rate to appear to increase in positive circumstances such as people receiving education about crimes or increasing trust in the police. When I was working with rape prevention education and domestic violence program evaluations, I always emphasized that if their programs worked, it would initially look like the crime rate was going up, not down, because more people would be willing to report the crimes.
Can legal action be taken against FlipKart for misleading consumers on Big Billion Day? Can an appeal be made in the court through the Advertising Standards Council of India, the Consumer Protection Act, or another mechanism?
You may file your complaint online with us at File Complaint Online against Police, Government, Brand. File FIR Online With us.. Here are steps you should consider while filing a complaint yourself:1. Report their Customer Care about your grievance by email and intimate them to resolve your issue within 3 days.2. If not resolved, write them notice stating unfair trade practices and other subject as apply to your case and send them notice under consumer protection Act. Write about your transaction detail and grievance in the notice however ensure your notice remain formal, to the point. Moreover, inform them how their poor services caused you mental harassment and demand compensation and to resolve issue within 15 days otherwise you will approach consumer court. Wait for another 15 days to resolve issue and if it remain unresolved then approach consumer court. Consumer court is Consumer friendly and reasonably helpful. 3. Create free blog, facebook page, group and post all facts and evidence regarding your issue. Spread your story online. Use SEO friendly words. Use #Google Adword Planner to find the best word so maximum people can read your story.4. Write same story on major online forum such as #mouthshut etc.5. Write public petition and get maximum people to sign it and when it reach to 50,000 member send it to consumer affair department, CC to Page on flipkar.com.6. Add your story to google review and other review site of Flipkart.7. Issue press release and submit to major newspaper editor online. The more you emphasis on your cause, more you get likes, promotions and support.8. Find VC and Investor of flipkart and write letter to them for ethical investment. 9. There are many other steps you can take including legal, social steps. you can involve and engage Government, International Organization in your cause to stress on Flipkart to act ethically. 10. Criminal Action under cheating, fraudulent, breach of trust may be initiated, depending upon the merit of the case under section 406, 420 of IPC and section of IT Act (Cyber Crime) may further apply. Seek Legal advice from your lawyer on it.Hello, since we post all answer to our Twitter and Facebook account, Flipkart.com has just replied to our answer hence if you wish to escalate your issue with them, go here: https://mobile.twitter.com/flipk...OrContact Flipkart.com with quora link of your question.Best of Luck.
How do I file a complaint about misleading advertisements?
Read: Mithil Vinod Sampat's answer to How do I register a complaint in consumer court in India? and Mithil Vinod Sampat's answer to What is the procedure followed in consumer court after filing the complaint till its disposal?.
Is it illegal if you dont remove posts from forums when you already sold your product?
Not illegal, unless you word it as though the product will always be available when it won't (so deliberately misleading). Think of it like newspaper adverts - if you look at last weeks paper, you would consider yourself lucky if an item you wanted from an old small ad had not been sold, but it it were a retailers advert, you would expect it to still be valid. It's down to the context of the ad and how you phase it. If it's a trade ad or implying a product is available, you should cancel it. An advert for a single item for sale is like a small ad - readers expect it to be sold after a while.
Can I lodge a complaint about advertisement of Santoor in consumer court?
2 scenario are there in this case:First:Are you a customer of santoor and faced any loss due to the advertisement they showed on TV? If not then you cant lodge complaint in forum. Because to sue any company or service provider you have to prove that you faced any loss and you are a customer of the same.Second:In case above answer is NO. then you can complaint against wrong content, ad etc to The Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI), as this is non government organisationOr if you want to go via government institution then Grievances Against Misleading Advertisements (GAMA) is the way. here is the link for more details https://consumeraffairs.nic.in/f... & Grievances Against Misleading Advertisements (GAMA)Best as per me is GAMA for complaints against ads.
What is the procedure to file a complaint against misleading ads?
File a complaint against misleading ads at Voxya, Online Consumer Complaints Forum. It is a unique platform to file a complaint against company to resolve quickly. It helps consumers to get a refund, return, replacement and compensation of their losses. It helps consumer in approaching district consumer court, state consumer court and national consumer court in India. The process of Voxya, consumer forum is very easy, a consumer from any state can file a complaint against at Voxya consumer complaint forum in India.Voxya Consumer ForumAnywhere AnytimeFor Consumer protection.
What Is Website Spam and/or Misleading or repeated words ?
What you've done is very good and you're not going to get 'penalized' in the search engine rankings. Search engine algorithms are very complicated and huge resources go into developing them so that they are as human like as possible in determining what is and what isn't a genuine site. Your Index page is very important as this is the door to your site and it's worth spending some time getting it right. Include within the text all the key phrases that people may use when searching for a site like yours. If it's an art site then include art, artists, artworks, art works, works of art etc. Think of related words such as illustrations, drawings, paintings, pictures, impressionism, cubist, and include these. There's no harm in effectively having a list of contents on your index page - this is a good way to include many keywords. There's many aspects to search engine optimization and some of my previous answers have addressed these... http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?... you should find some helpful tips.
Can i sue chipolte for feeding me pork?
No. The law is that nutrition information needs to be provided by the company and Chipotle's website clearly states that vegetarians should avoid their pinto beans: "You should avoid our pinto beans (they are cooked with a small amount of bacon) and our meats. Our cheese is made with a vegetable-based rennet, and our sour cream is 100% cultured cream. If your own personal vegetarian guidelines therefore allow you to eat these dairy items, then that's terrific. If not, then you should avoid them. Please note this information is different for those who choose a vegan diet." Ask a bunch of vegetarians/vegans online to send emails to Chipotle asking them to clearly label their pinto beans as containing pork. I went ahead and sent them an email asking them to label these in-store.