How Marketers Trick Kids, and Why Parents Should Worry
Herb Weisbaum, Consumers’ Checkbook
In December 2016, a class-action lawsuit was filed against STS Vacations (a travel agency offering vacation packages, destination wedding packages, and travel insurance) for allegedly deceptively advertising Travel Guard travel insurance policies for emergency medical expenses, travel delay, trip interruption, and lost baggage when the advertised insurance did not actually exist, the travel agency had no business relationship with Travel Guard, and consumers did not receive any insurance coverage. (Hocker et al v. Student Travel Services, Inc. d/b/a STS Vacations, Case No. 16-cv-6574, E. D. PA.)
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Herb Weisbaum, Consumers’ Checkbook
TINA.org pulls back the covers on this company’s Made in USA marketing.
Brand partnerships worthy of a big “doom!”
Derek Kravitz, Consumer Reports
Here were some of the worst ads TINA.org investigated this year.