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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Prestoninanus, post: 840512, member: 20205&quot;]Selling tat for an outrageous price isn&#039;t in and of itself fraud. Although I admit that the marketing guy who sells those overpriced painted plates or dolls you often see advertised in magazines, and describes them using words like &#039;delightful&#039; may well be lying through his teeth because he doesn&#039;t believe it himself, but he is still expressing a subjective opinion, because some people may indeed find those ridiculous knick-knacks to be &#039;delightful&#039; in their own opinion, and customers aren&#039;t going to buy them unless they hold that opinion, so what the ad writers are doing could simply be described as marketing.</p><p>&nbsp;However, its when they use misleading terms like &#039;investment&#039; that they cross the line to commit what is, IMHO fraud (morally speaking, if not legally). If the premium is so high that there is no chance in Hell that they will ever appreciate in value enough to make a profit from reselling, then that person is being dishonest and deceptive, because describing something as a &#039;good investment&#039; and implying that it will appreciate in value is not simply marketing, it is ripping people off...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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