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Ένας πολίτης που διαθέτει TikTok και Facebook υποστηρίζει ότι από τα social media τον παρακολουθούν μόνο οι Αμερικανοί ενώ το πρόβλημα είναι να μην τον παρακολουθούν οι ελληνικές υπηρεσίες. «Οι ελληνικές υπηρεσίες δεν μπορούν να έχουν πρόσβαση σε ένα κινητό τηλέφωνο. Πρέπει να το παγιδεύσουν. Μόνο οι ΗΠΑ θα έχουν γιατί εκεί κατασκευάζονται» λέει.
I just can’t sometimes with this country.
Maybe he thinks that “Made in China” means that the americans are putting porcelain inside the mobile phones 
What frauds, or lunatics. The market is the best arbiter of such issues. Maybe it is time for competitors to revive the famous, old “Where’s the beef?” commercial.
Yeah, but if they are all lying about the size of their product, then what is the market going to decide? Whose lies matter least?
In the last year (and earlier) a lot of brands that have been in the market for ever had to adjust their prices. Did they raise them? No. They simply sell less product in the exact same packaging. A box of 250g butter contains 200g butter, a bottle of 5lt detergent contains 4lt etc. They sell illusions.
I’m not talking about giant packaging disimulating dwarf quantities,which is a well known trick and nobody expects any different. If you see a perfume box as big as a cereal box, you know it’s decoration. I am m talking about using the old containers with less product inside.
Of course it is all legal, displayed on the packaging and so on, but the truth is that people are used to these products the way they are for decades and they simply pick them from the shelf without checking.
Cake recipes say “1 box of XYZ butter”, not “250 gr of butter”. You go and buy one box like you’ve been doing for the last 20 years for the exact same cake recipe and guess what happens.
Maybe it will decide to go vegetarian. Seriously, though, I will always choose the market over the government totalitarian food police.
Many products have indeed downsized rather than increase their price; however, mislabeling the contents in that way (fraudulent weight or count) is illegal in the the U.S., I think.
I think most of them changed the labels of the packages to reflect that, though.
I won’t argue against the idea in general, but I have to point out that for some things, there need to be standards and regulations set by someone that actually knows what is safe or not ( since safety facts are not a matter of opinion to be changed by the market and the buyers e.g. medication, water purity, building safety concerning plumbing and electricity, food being hygenic etc), but in this case it doesn’t seem to be a matter of quality control or food control.
It is just a good old case of blatant lying and over-beautifying the product so much that it bears no semblance to the real product. And if they are all allowed to do it, then the customers actually lose their ability to regulate, since there is no “honest option” to buy/choose, via which they could punish the transgressors.
Neither the article nor my experience indicate the existence of a problem of a sufficient magnitude to justify a lawsuit, which is why I concluded that the claimants are either frauds or lunatics. It reminds me of the guy who sued when he spilled hot coffee on himself.
Ah, I see what you mean now. I assumed that the lawsuit came from some consumer’s organisation or group (since the article wasn’t clear on it), but this being the States where people can ask millions for no reason, I looked into it and found that the other similar referenced cases are made by “concerned citizens” that ask 50 millions for a false advertisement. O_o oooooook 
my bad.
We had “Barbenheimer” and now we await “Exorswift”
I don’t think they caught that Frankenstein wasn’t an elevator pitch.
Somehow it reminds me of this:
That was… not smart, but I still feel sorry for these two people who probably had no idea what they were doing.
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