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** Disney's own timeshare program, the Disney Vacation Club, is advertised as "Disney's Best Kept Secret". Again, this is what ''the advertisements'' say. The ones that Disney paid for themselves in the first place, and then plastered all over their own theme parks. It's almost like they're not actually trying to keep the existence of this program a secret at all...
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* Ads for a carefully-unspecified product online love to claim that "<Retailer> (frequently Amazon) hates it when members do this, but can't stop them!" They're trying to imply that there's some clever trick you can do to get a lower price from that retailer, but the FridgeLogic there is obvious -- if Amazon (or whoever) noticed customer behavior that they didn't like, they could ''absolutely'' stop it. What's actually being advertised is a browser extension that's crammed with adware and spyware that purports to show you if a product you're browsing is available for a lower price elsewhere.
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* ''Film/SawX'': Cecilia Pederson and her father Finn pose as doctors who designed a revolutionary cancer cure, which they claim the pharmaceutical industry is trying to suppress in order to keep making money on expensive treatments that simply prolong people's suffering. [[SubvertedTrope In truth]], they're [[ConMan con artists]] who put on an elaborate show for their patients but don't actually do anything, and had already been run out of their home country of Norway after their scam was exposed there. When [[PoeticSerialKiller John Kramer]] finds out that the treatment he spent thousands of dollars on and flew down to Mexico for was nothing but {{snake oil|Salesman}}, he kidnaps Cecilia and her assistants, a bunch of local hoodlums who she hired off the street to pose as doctors and nurses, and forces them into [[LifeOrLimbDecision his traps]] -- some of which [[KarmicRetribution required using the medical knowledge they falsely claimed to have]].
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* ''Film/SawX'': Cecilia Pederson and her father Finn pose as doctors who designed a revolutionary cancer cure, which they claim the pharmaceutical industry is trying to suppress in order to keep making money on expensive treatments that simply prolong people's suffering. [[SubvertedTrope In truth]], they're [[ConMan con artists]] who put on an elaborate show for their patients but don't actually do anything, and had already been run out of their home country of Norway after their scam was exposed there. When [[PoeticSerialKiller John Kramer]] finds out that the treatment he spent thousands of dollars on and flew down to Mexico for was nothing but {{snake oil|Salesman}}, he kidnaps Cecilia and her assistants, a bunch of local hoodlums who she hired off the street to pose as doctors and nurses, and forces them into [[LifeOrLimbDecision his traps]] -- some of which [[KarmicRetribution [[SymbolicMutilation required using the medical knowledge they falsely claimed to have]].
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* ''Film/SawX'': Cecilia Pederson and her father Finn pose as doctors who designed a revolutionary cancer cure, which they claim the pharmaceutical industry is trying to suppress in order to keep making money on expensive treatments that simply prolong people's suffering. [[SubvertedTrope In truth]], they're [[ConMan con artists]] who put on an elaborate show for their patients but don't actually do anything, and had already been run out of their home country of Norway after their scam was exposed there. When [[PoeticSerialKiller John Kramer]] finds out that the treatment he spent thousands of dollars on and flew down to Mexico for was nothing but {{snake oil|Salesman}}, he kidnaps Cecilia and her assistants, a bunch of local hoodlums who she hired off the street to pose as doctors and nurses, and forces them into [[LifeOrLimbDecision his traps]] -- some of which [[KarmicRetribution required using the medical knowledge they falsely claimed to have]].
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* ''Film/SawX'': Cecilia Pederson and her father Finn pose as doctors who designed a revolutionary cancer cure, which they claim the pharmaceutical industry is trying to suppress in order to keep making money on expensive treatments that simply prolong people's suffering. [[SubvertedTrope In truth]], they're [[ConMan con artists]] who put on an elaborate show for their patients but don't actually do anything, and had already been run out of their home country of Norway after their scam was exposed there. When [[PoeticSerialKiller John Kramer]] finds out that the treatment he spent thousands of dollars on and flew down to Mexico for was nothing but {{snake oil|Salesman}}, he kidnaps Cecilia and her assistants, a bunch of local hoodlums who she hired off the street to pose as doctors and nurses, and forces them into [[LifeOrLimbDecision his traps]] -- some of which [[KarmicRetribution required using the medical knowledge they falsely claimed to have]].
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* An increasingly common presence on the web is how the cost of various services such as equity release, retirement homes, funerals or whatever "might surprise you", suggesting that you are surely paying a great cost for these things now and you would save hundreds or possibly thousands if you just click on this link. These are quite often location-based so you can see an advert extolling the virtue of the cheap service in your home area only to see the exact same advert with a different location if you travelled somewhere, casting doubt on the validity of these apparently cheap services in the first place.
* There are types of health-related adverts that have a tendency to promote a particular food as beneficial for your body and especially if you suffer from a particular disease or ailment like diabetes or arthritis. They often AppealToNature by detailing how this wonderful "new and natural" approach helps fight the root cause of your problem without any modern medicine or procedures, because ScienceIsBad obviously and "Big Pharma" companies don't want you to know about this simple treatment. While changing your diet can be helpful for some conditions, there are many that cannot be helped by food alone and absolutely require some type of procedure or medicine if you actually want to get better. Also, the food in question changes every other day and you should take it every night before you go to bed. If one believed the adverts, you would eat absolutely nothing but these foods. [[EverythingIsTryingToKillYou Except we are then told they cause cancer and we shouldn't eat them,]] apparently depending on what day of the week it is.
* There are types of health-related adverts that have a tendency to promote a particular food as beneficial for your body and especially if you suffer from a particular disease or ailment like diabetes or arthritis. They often AppealToNature by detailing how this wonderful "new and natural" approach helps fight the root cause of your problem without any modern medicine or procedures, because ScienceIsBad obviously and "Big Pharma" companies don't want you to know about this simple treatment. While changing your diet can be helpful for some conditions, there are many that cannot be helped by food alone and absolutely require some type of procedure or medicine if you actually want to get better. Also, the food in question changes every other day and you should take it every night before you go to bed. If one believed the adverts, you would eat absolutely nothing but these foods. [[EverythingIsTryingToKillYou Except we are then told they cause cancer and we shouldn't eat them,]] apparently depending on what day of the week it is.
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** Likewise, if your friend brags about the amazing gas mileage his car will soon get and shows you the copper-coil-in-a-Mason jar rigging he just installed under the hood, hold onto your monocle for this one: your friend is an idiot.[[labelnote:explanation]]More than likely this is a Meyer cell, a quack device that purports to run your car entirely from water with no extra energy input. Like all perpetual-motion devices, this can't possibly work, and a legitimate version would need a sizable battery and constant topping off with water to function properly, at which point an actual EV would be a better deal.[[/labelnote]]
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** Likewise, if your friend brags about the amazing gas mileage his car will soon get and shows you the copper-coil-in-a-Mason jar rigging he just installed under the hood, hold onto your monocle for this one: your Your friend is an idiot.[[labelnote:explanation]]More than likely this is a Meyer cell, a quack device that purports to run your car entirely from water with no extra energy input. Like all perpetual-motion devices, this can't possibly work, and a legitimate version would need a sizable battery and constant topping off with water to function properly, at which point an actual EV would be a better deal.[[/labelnote]]
