{"id":2566,"date":"2012-11-14T20:58:08","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T01:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2566"},"modified":"2012-11-14T20:58:14","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T01:58:14","slug":"group-buying-sites-their-false-advertising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2012\/11\/14\/group-buying-sites-their-false-advertising","title":{"rendered":"Group buying sites &#038; their false advertising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just read that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coupang.com\/\">Coupang<\/a>, in South Korea, has been <a href=\"http:\/\/koreajoongangdaily.joinsmsn.com\/news\/article\/article.aspx?aid=2962378&amp;cloc=joongangdaily%7Chome%7Cnewslist2\">fined<\/a> for using false information by the Korean Fair Trade Commission to sell beef.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s amazing is that there was 117 million won (~USD$108,000) worth of beef sold at a 50% discount. The fine for false advertising, which is common in group buying sites as they beef up copywriting, was 8 million won (~USD7360).<\/p>\n<p>Guess they&#8217;re big, but everyone&#8217;s got to play by fair rules. I wonder how many other trade commissions look into whacky copywriting in other countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read that Coupang, in South Korea, has been fined for using false information by the Korean Fair Trade Commission to sell beef. What&#8217;s amazing is that there was 117 million won (~USD$108,000) worth of beef sold at a 50% discount. The fine for false advertising, which is common in group buying sites as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[25],"tags":[1237],"class_list":["post-2566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-group-buying"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-Fo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2566"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2568,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566\/revisions\/2568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}