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Are you kidding? Everybody knows catfood is the only person in
RHP that you can trust your credit card number.

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Originally posted by Samir Shomali
Dear Sir
We do not mind seeing advertisements on this site until we are able to subscribe,hopefully very soon.
But there is a real problem when you allow crooks who hope to find naive people to take the bate. to advertise.
I have received an advertisement saying that I have been chosen as a winner for being visitor number 999,999 to a website. I h ...[text shortened]... rpose. It would cause unnecessary and undeserved damage to your good reputation.
Samir Shomali
You don't really believe that the things you see and hear in adverts, do you?
That's the whole point of adverts - to entice you to buy their product, click on their link or whatever. If the ad said - "click here although you have no chance of winning" - no one would go there, would they?

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My dear Samir Shomali... mate... buddy... amigo... do not worry, man.

You know you need it.

Go for it.

Pump that thing up and enjoy Christmas.

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Originally posted by Samir Shomali
Dear Sir
We do not mind seeing advertisements on this site until we are able to subscribe,hopefully very soon.
But there is a real problem when you allow crooks who hope to find naive people to take the bate. to advertise.
I have received an advertisement saying that I have been chosen as a winner for being visitor number 999,999 to a website. I h ...[text shortened]... rpose. It would cause unnecessary and undeserved damage to your good reputation.
Samir Shomali
Thats not fair,

I just visited the site and was visitor number 1,021,006 and I never got offered a prize

:'(

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Are you one of them?

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Originally posted by Hindstein
You don't really believe that the things you see and hear in adverts, do you?
That's the whole point of adverts - to entice you to buy their product, click on their link or whatever. If the ad said - "click here although you have no chance of winning" - no one would go there, would they?
true, but it is still deceptive. blatantly so...

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Originally posted by genius
true, but it is still deceptive. blatantly so...
Isn't deception the main point of ads?

For example, how many adverts claim to be the No 1 at something, or the worlds greatest/fastest/most powerful....
What's worse is when they quote statistics like "Guarenteed to reduce grey hairs by up to 83%". I mean, come on. What does that really mean?

Actually, mentioning grey hairs reminds me of a particularly lame ad we have here in England for a mens hair dye. The voice-over guy (VOG) proudly explains that following years of advancement in hair dye research, this new product is the first to feature "X-grey science" 🙄

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I agree that deception is the main point of ads. But this is true only concerning the quality of merchandise being advertise. It does not apply to "Companies" or people who offer nothing-no merchandise at all. They are only after your money.

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one time my kid clicked on one of those "catch the fly" ads on RHP, and Norton caught an attempt to install spyware from it.

altho, Samir, your post should probably go to the site ideas forum.

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Right. I noticed this too in the past. But it appears that they are not the only ones who do this. I have had attempts by companies advertising free screen savors, after which I had many serious problems with my computor, until I was able to detect and remove all spyware programs they installed without my knowledge.
Take care.

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Originally posted by Samir Shomali
Right. I noticed this too in the past. But it appears that they are not the only ones who do this. I have had attempts by companies advertising free screen savors, after which I had many serious problems with my computor, until I was able to detect and remove all spyware programs they installed without my knowledge.
Take care.
Screen savers suck!

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Very Funny!

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It seems we can form a big club or perhaps a nation of people all being visitor number 999,999 and winners!The ad reappeared on my computor two minutes ago announcing again that I am visitor number 999,999. They won't give up!