I read a guarantee on a “help you get funded website” whose name I won’t mention until I create a “wall of shame.” They charge a lot of money for fully guaranteed results. This sounds good until we read the guarantee which says if you don’t get funded in a year, you can list with them for another year. That’s the entire guarantee.
While it is true that they have a guarantee, it is misleading.
I stumbled on many other misleading things recently.
Our user-base has doubled every month for the past year …
… we now have just over 2,000 users.
Our town has the fastest growing economy in the country this year …
… after 5 years of economic collapse.
The elected official is committing adultery …
… he and his spouse have been separated for years, and his wife introduced him after the breakup to his new girlfriend.
We are rated well above all our competitors …
… in a survey of our most loyal users.
All the graduates of our program quickly got jobs in their field …
… the graduation rate is vanishingly small and succeeding at a paid internship is a graduation requirement.
If it is purposefully misleading, even if it is somehow technically true, I’ll call it a lie.
And that’s the honest truth.
