Confusion

Recently we received a letter from Netflix (for we are members of their service) saying that if we have been members since such and such a date, we could receive a membership upgrade free of charge directly resulting from the law suit recently brought against them. This law suit was brought against them because they falsely advertised their services, saying that one could receive "unlimited" dvd rentals and receive them "next-day" or in "one day", which makes me beg the question: why only Netflix? And aren't people smart enough to know better?

Netflix provides certain movie rental services (which some of you already know). For instance, you can pay $9.95 a month to receive 3 dvds at a time. This does not limit you however, to only renting 3 dvds a month; you can rent as many as possible in a month, but you only receive 3 at a time. In that sense, I suppose it could be considered as unlimited amount---3 at a time.
As to next day or one day shipping, since we live in southern California, we do tend to receive them in one day, because there's a Netflix shipping office near where we live. For us, it's one day. But I suppose that isn't always the case nationwide.

I admit, this can be considered as false advertising, but is one going to take up a law suit against Lancome for advertising a mascara that will lengthen your natural eyelashes, but show in that same ad a woman with eyelashes extending past her eyebrows? Those can't be her natural eyelashes. Can't that be considered "false advertising" as well?

The truth of the matter: People should not be filing bogus lawsuits against companies unless they've been injured in some real manner (I believe it's a waste of the court's time; like they have enough of it anyway...) and certain companies should learn to insert disclaimers into their ads, or just tell the truth.


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