You can see 70% discounts on most boutique clothes and accessories shops and everybody knew that its not real but consumers still love even the illusion of discount and jump on them. Same with groupon, consumers are looking for illusions to spend money on, after all its not the product they bought that pleasures them but the feeling they get when they buy that product.
> You can see 70% discounts on most boutique clothes and accessories shops and everybody knew that its not real but consumers still love even the illusion of discount and jump on them.
It's straight-up illegal in every country where consumer protection laws have teeth.
If some people who live in countries with little or no consumer protection have been defrauded by businesses for so long that they have come to expect it as a matter of course, that's an argument that the practice is more than ripe for banning, not that it should be allowed to continue unhindered.
Since when is it the job of the state to protect consumers from misleading advertisements in boutique clothing stores? This sort of thinking is what leads to the nanny state.
