#AdAlert Viator – an online platform where consumers can book tours and other travel experiences with other companies – claims to offer free cancellation.
But what this unqualified marketing doesn’t tell you is that free cancellation is not a site wide perk
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But what this unqualified marketing doesn’t tell you is that free cancellation is not a site wide perk
truthinadvertising.org/articles/via...
Viator’s Free Cancellation Claims -
This is not a sitewide perk.
truthinadvertising.org
November 12, 2025 at 3:33 PM
#AdAlert Viator – an online platform where consumers can book tours and other travel experiences with other companies – claims to offer free cancellation.
But what this unqualified marketing doesn’t tell you is that free cancellation is not a site wide perk
truthinadvertising.org/articles/via...
But what this unqualified marketing doesn’t tell you is that free cancellation is not a site wide perk
truthinadvertising.org/articles/via...
#AdAlert Cans of AriZona blueberry white tea claim that the product contains “100% natural white tea.”
What does this really mean?
truthinadvertising.org/articles/ari...
What does this really mean?
truthinadvertising.org/articles/ari...
AriZona Blueberry White Tea: '100% Natural White Tea' -
Be wary of “natural” claims.
truthinadvertising.org
November 12, 2025 at 3:26 PM
#AdAlert Cans of AriZona blueberry white tea claim that the product contains “100% natural white tea.”
What does this really mean?
truthinadvertising.org/articles/ari...
What does this really mean?
truthinadvertising.org/articles/ari...
#AdAlert Cascade advertises that its “free & clear” dish detergents are formulated without “unwanted ingredients” like chlorine bleach, dyes and heavy perfumes. But the dishwasher pods and gel aren’t really free and clear of all unwanted ingredients.
truthinadvertising.org/articles/cas...
truthinadvertising.org/articles/cas...
Cascade ‘Free & Clear’ Dish Detergents -
What does this marketing term mean?
truthinadvertising.org
November 12, 2025 at 3:24 PM
#AdAlert Cascade advertises that its “free & clear” dish detergents are formulated without “unwanted ingredients” like chlorine bleach, dyes and heavy perfumes. But the dishwasher pods and gel aren’t really free and clear of all unwanted ingredients.
truthinadvertising.org/articles/cas...
truthinadvertising.org/articles/cas...
#AdAlert Mario Badescu’s Rosewater Facial Spray:
Rosewater ingredient claims wilt upon a closer look
truthinadvertising.org/articles/mar...
Rosewater ingredient claims wilt upon a closer look
truthinadvertising.org/articles/mar...
Mario Badescu’s Rosewater Facial Spray -
Company’s rosewater ingredient claims wilt upon a closer look.
truthinadvertising.org
November 3, 2025 at 2:52 PM
#AdAlert Mario Badescu’s Rosewater Facial Spray:
Rosewater ingredient claims wilt upon a closer look
truthinadvertising.org/articles/mar...
Rosewater ingredient claims wilt upon a closer look
truthinadvertising.org/articles/mar...
#AdAlert Quality Inn & Suites Corpus Christi: Images on the website show a well-kept property with clean rooms and palm leaf-covered huts. Our reader said what she found was a hotel in “complete disrepair, completely opposite of the pictures.”
truthinadvertising.org/articles/qua...
truthinadvertising.org/articles/qua...
Quality Inn & Suites (Choice Hotels) -
Guests say online pictures are misleading.
truthinadvertising.org
November 3, 2025 at 2:51 PM
#AdAlert Quality Inn & Suites Corpus Christi: Images on the website show a well-kept property with clean rooms and palm leaf-covered huts. Our reader said what she found was a hotel in “complete disrepair, completely opposite of the pictures.”
truthinadvertising.org/articles/qua...
truthinadvertising.org/articles/qua...
#AdAlert Spirit Halloween Costumes
There’s something a little more trick than treat about many of the costumes advertised on Spirit’s website.
truthinadvertising.org/articles/spi...
There’s something a little more trick than treat about many of the costumes advertised on Spirit’s website.
truthinadvertising.org/articles/spi...
Spirit Halloween Costumes -
What you see on the website may not be what you get.
truthinadvertising.org
October 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
#AdAlert Spirit Halloween Costumes
There’s something a little more trick than treat about many of the costumes advertised on Spirit’s website.
truthinadvertising.org/articles/spi...
There’s something a little more trick than treat about many of the costumes advertised on Spirit’s website.
truthinadvertising.org/articles/spi...
#AdAlert Quality Inn & Suites (Choice Hotels): What you see is not what you get
Guests say online pictures are misleading.
truthinadvertising.org/articles/qua...
Guests say online pictures are misleading.
truthinadvertising.org/articles/qua...
Quality Inn & Suites (Choice Hotels) -
Guests say online pictures are misleading.
truthinadvertising.org
October 29, 2025 at 2:31 PM
#AdAlert Quality Inn & Suites (Choice Hotels): What you see is not what you get
Guests say online pictures are misleading.
truthinadvertising.org/articles/qua...
Guests say online pictures are misleading.
truthinadvertising.org/articles/qua...
#AdAlert Solitaire Clash: Can you really make bank playing solitaire on your phone?
truthinadvertising.org/articles/sol...
truthinadvertising.org/articles/sol...
Solitaire Clash -
Can you really make bank playing solitaire on your phone?
truthinadvertising.org
October 22, 2025 at 3:01 PM
#AdAlert Solitaire Clash: Can you really make bank playing solitaire on your phone?
truthinadvertising.org/articles/sol...
truthinadvertising.org/articles/sol...
#AdAlert TideWe: Don’t get lost in this outdoor company’s dubious origin story.
This outdoor retailer claims that its origins as a company trace back to a hunting trip the two founders took deep in the woods of western Wisconsin. We took a closer look.
truthinadvertising.org/articles/tid...
This outdoor retailer claims that its origins as a company trace back to a hunting trip the two founders took deep in the woods of western Wisconsin. We took a closer look.
truthinadvertising.org/articles/tid...
TideWe -
Don’t get lost in this outdoor company’s dubious origin story.
truthinadvertising.org
October 22, 2025 at 2:58 PM
#AdAlert TideWe: Don’t get lost in this outdoor company’s dubious origin story.
This outdoor retailer claims that its origins as a company trace back to a hunting trip the two founders took deep in the woods of western Wisconsin. We took a closer look.
truthinadvertising.org/articles/tid...
This outdoor retailer claims that its origins as a company trace back to a hunting trip the two founders took deep in the woods of western Wisconsin. We took a closer look.
truthinadvertising.org/articles/tid...
#AdAlert If you’re in a travel emergency, RushMyPassport claims it can get you a passport in as little as 24 hours. But does this passport service live up to its name?
truthinadvertising.org/articles/rus...
truthinadvertising.org/articles/rus...
RushMyPassport -
Does this passport service live up to its name?
truthinadvertising.org
October 20, 2025 at 2:33 PM
#AdAlert If you’re in a travel emergency, RushMyPassport claims it can get you a passport in as little as 24 hours. But does this passport service live up to its name?
truthinadvertising.org/articles/rus...
truthinadvertising.org/articles/rus...
#AdAlert Ghost Girls: This Halloween season, beware of one spooky decoration that is delivering more tricks than treats.
truthinadvertising.org/articles/gho...
truthinadvertising.org/articles/gho...
Ghost Girls -
The Halloween ‘haunt’ that isn’t.
truthinadvertising.org
October 14, 2025 at 1:50 PM
#AdAlert Ghost Girls: This Halloween season, beware of one spooky decoration that is delivering more tricks than treats.
truthinadvertising.org/articles/gho...
truthinadvertising.org/articles/gho...
#AdAlert Titleist
In what could eventually end up being the plot of “Happy Gilmore 3,” the plaintiffs in a class action allege that Titleist engaged in Shooter McGavin-like behavior in an effort to unload golf balls that weren’t selling well.
truthinadvertising.org/articles/tit...
In what could eventually end up being the plot of “Happy Gilmore 3,” the plaintiffs in a class action allege that Titleist engaged in Shooter McGavin-like behavior in an effort to unload golf balls that weren’t selling well.
truthinadvertising.org/articles/tit...
Titleist Golf Balls -
Lawsuit accuses company of duping consumers into buying “unwanted” golf balls.
truthinadvertising.org
October 14, 2025 at 1:44 PM
#AdAlert Titleist
In what could eventually end up being the plot of “Happy Gilmore 3,” the plaintiffs in a class action allege that Titleist engaged in Shooter McGavin-like behavior in an effort to unload golf balls that weren’t selling well.
truthinadvertising.org/articles/tit...
In what could eventually end up being the plot of “Happy Gilmore 3,” the plaintiffs in a class action allege that Titleist engaged in Shooter McGavin-like behavior in an effort to unload golf balls that weren’t selling well.
truthinadvertising.org/articles/tit...
#AdAlert Jess Stewart (aka Micro Bakery Girl)
On Instagram, Stewart claims that operating your own micro-bakery could earn you hundreds to thousands of dollars a month and help you pay for groceries, a car payment or even a mortgage.
truthinadvertising.org/articles/jes...
On Instagram, Stewart claims that operating your own micro-bakery could earn you hundreds to thousands of dollars a month and help you pay for groceries, a car payment or even a mortgage.
truthinadvertising.org/articles/jes...
Jess Stewart (aka Micro Bakery Girl) -
Will you really make thousands of dollars a month as a home baker?
truthinadvertising.org
October 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
#AdAlert Jess Stewart (aka Micro Bakery Girl)
On Instagram, Stewart claims that operating your own micro-bakery could earn you hundreds to thousands of dollars a month and help you pay for groceries, a car payment or even a mortgage.
truthinadvertising.org/articles/jes...
On Instagram, Stewart claims that operating your own micro-bakery could earn you hundreds to thousands of dollars a month and help you pay for groceries, a car payment or even a mortgage.
truthinadvertising.org/articles/jes...
#AdAlert Factor: 50% Off Your First Box
Unboxing this meal kit company’s enticing offer.
truthinadvertising.org/articles/fac...
Unboxing this meal kit company’s enticing offer.
truthinadvertising.org/articles/fac...
Factor: 50% Off Your First Box -
Unboxing this meal kit company’s enticing offer.
truthinadvertising.org
September 30, 2025 at 2:09 PM
#AdAlert Factor: 50% Off Your First Box
Unboxing this meal kit company’s enticing offer.
truthinadvertising.org/articles/fac...
Unboxing this meal kit company’s enticing offer.
truthinadvertising.org/articles/fac...
#AdAlert Memory Defender: Your best defense against deceptive AI? A little research.
truthinadvertising.org/articles/mem...
truthinadvertising.org/articles/mem...
Memory Defender -
Your best defense against deceptive AI? A little research.
truthinadvertising.org
September 24, 2025 at 2:38 PM
#AdAlert Memory Defender: Your best defense against deceptive AI? A little research.
truthinadvertising.org/articles/mem...
truthinadvertising.org/articles/mem...
#AdAlert Wendy’s Menu Prices on Food-Ordering Apps: The surprising way you may be paying more for delivery.
truthinadvertising.org/articles/wen...
truthinadvertising.org/articles/wen...
Wendy's Menu Prices on Food-Ordering Apps -
The surprising way you may be paying more for delivery.
truthinadvertising.org
September 24, 2025 at 2:37 PM
#AdAlert Wendy’s Menu Prices on Food-Ordering Apps: The surprising way you may be paying more for delivery.
truthinadvertising.org/articles/wen...
truthinadvertising.org/articles/wen...
#AdAlert FitOn advertises that you can work out for free with its fitness app. However, those who “sign up for free” on the FitOn website soon learn that if they want access to all the app has to offer, they are going to have to pay.
truthinadvertising.org/articles/fit...
truthinadvertising.org/articles/fit...
FitOn’s Never-Ending Sale -
If it’s always a sale, it’s never a sale.
truthinadvertising.org
September 18, 2025 at 1:48 PM
#AdAlert FitOn advertises that you can work out for free with its fitness app. However, those who “sign up for free” on the FitOn website soon learn that if they want access to all the app has to offer, they are going to have to pay.
truthinadvertising.org/articles/fit...
truthinadvertising.org/articles/fit...
#AdAlert Dinty Moore Beef Stew: Where’s the beef?
A consumer told us that Dinty Moore Beef Stew “resembles nothing like what’s on the label.” We put it to the test.
truthinadvertising.org/articles/din...
A consumer told us that Dinty Moore Beef Stew “resembles nothing like what’s on the label.” We put it to the test.
truthinadvertising.org/articles/din...
Dinty Moore Beef Stew -
Where’s the beef?
truthinadvertising.org
September 18, 2025 at 1:47 PM
#AdAlert Dinty Moore Beef Stew: Where’s the beef?
A consumer told us that Dinty Moore Beef Stew “resembles nothing like what’s on the label.” We put it to the test.
truthinadvertising.org/articles/din...
A consumer told us that Dinty Moore Beef Stew “resembles nothing like what’s on the label.” We put it to the test.
truthinadvertising.org/articles/din...
#AdAlert Domino’s $6.99 Pizzas - - Why advertise a price that no consumer will pay?
Domino’s requires that you buy two pizzas for that price. Which begs the question: If you have to spend $14, why advertise the $6.99 price?
truthinadvertising.org/articles/dom...
Domino’s requires that you buy two pizzas for that price. Which begs the question: If you have to spend $14, why advertise the $6.99 price?
truthinadvertising.org/articles/dom...
Domino’s $6.99 Pizzas -
Why advertise a price that no consumer will pay?
truthinadvertising.org
September 18, 2025 at 1:42 PM
#AdAlert Domino’s $6.99 Pizzas - - Why advertise a price that no consumer will pay?
Domino’s requires that you buy two pizzas for that price. Which begs the question: If you have to spend $14, why advertise the $6.99 price?
truthinadvertising.org/articles/dom...
Domino’s requires that you buy two pizzas for that price. Which begs the question: If you have to spend $14, why advertise the $6.99 price?
truthinadvertising.org/articles/dom...
#AdAlert Domino’s $6.99 Pizzas
Why advertise a price that no consumer will pay?
truthinadvertising.org/articles/dom...
Why advertise a price that no consumer will pay?
truthinadvertising.org/articles/dom...
Domino’s $6.99 Pizzas -
Why advertise a price that no consumer will pay?
truthinadvertising.org
September 8, 2025 at 2:18 PM
#AdAlert Domino’s $6.99 Pizzas
Why advertise a price that no consumer will pay?
truthinadvertising.org/articles/dom...
Why advertise a price that no consumer will pay?
truthinadvertising.org/articles/dom...
#AdAlert America’s Best
Why your options may be limited in claiming this eyeglasses deal.
truthinadvertising.org/articles/ame...
Why your options may be limited in claiming this eyeglasses deal.
truthinadvertising.org/articles/ame...
America's Best -
Why your options may be limited in claiming this eyeglasses deal.
truthinadvertising.org
September 8, 2025 at 2:17 PM
#AdAlert America’s Best
Why your options may be limited in claiming this eyeglasses deal.
truthinadvertising.org/articles/ame...
Why your options may be limited in claiming this eyeglasses deal.
truthinadvertising.org/articles/ame...
#AdAlert Shopify: In a recent TV commercial, commerce platform Shopify encourages consumers to start their free trial today. But what the ad fails to mention is that the free trial only lasts three days.
truthinadvertising.org/articles/sho...
truthinadvertising.org/articles/sho...
Shopify's Free Trial -
Aspiring entrepreneurs may want to think twice before signing up for this enticing offer.
truthinadvertising.org
August 25, 2025 at 1:48 PM
#AdAlert Shopify: In a recent TV commercial, commerce platform Shopify encourages consumers to start their free trial today. But what the ad fails to mention is that the free trial only lasts three days.
truthinadvertising.org/articles/sho...
truthinadvertising.org/articles/sho...
#AdAlert CRWD: Can you really get paid to write reviews?
You don’t need to have a large social media following to make money reviewing products online, according to TikTok influencers promoting CRWD
truthinadvertising.org/articles/crwd/
You don’t need to have a large social media following to make money reviewing products online, according to TikTok influencers promoting CRWD
truthinadvertising.org/articles/crwd/
CRWD -
Can you really get paid to write reviews?
truthinadvertising.org
August 25, 2025 at 1:46 PM
#AdAlert CRWD: Can you really get paid to write reviews?
You don’t need to have a large social media following to make money reviewing products online, according to TikTok influencers promoting CRWD
truthinadvertising.org/articles/crwd/
You don’t need to have a large social media following to make money reviewing products online, according to TikTok influencers promoting CRWD
truthinadvertising.org/articles/crwd/
#AdAlert Playful Rewards
“How are people poor when an app like this exists?” asks a provocative ad for the mobile app Playful Rewards. But before you hit download, find out why this app may leave you waiting for your payday.
truthinadvertising.org/articles/pla...
“How are people poor when an app like this exists?” asks a provocative ad for the mobile app Playful Rewards. But before you hit download, find out why this app may leave you waiting for your payday.
truthinadvertising.org/articles/pla...
Playful Rewards -
This app may play games with your money.
truthinadvertising.org
August 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM
#AdAlert Playful Rewards
“How are people poor when an app like this exists?” asks a provocative ad for the mobile app Playful Rewards. But before you hit download, find out why this app may leave you waiting for your payday.
truthinadvertising.org/articles/pla...
“How are people poor when an app like this exists?” asks a provocative ad for the mobile app Playful Rewards. But before you hit download, find out why this app may leave you waiting for your payday.
truthinadvertising.org/articles/pla...
