Larry Craig Quotes

What I've learned in 40 years of consumer reporting is that the market is imperfect, and some people get ripped off.

So, I'm getting less chips, paying the same amount of money. Is that legal for them to do this?

What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.

It's very easy for trusted companies to mislead naive customers, and life insurance companies are trusted.

It is flagrantly dishonest for an advertising agent to urge consumers to buy a product which he would not allow his own wife to buy.

In New York, the former lack of real competition allowed taxis to extract excessive charges, regardless of the poor service.

The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.

Do not inflate prices one to another.

It's not a long-term business model to take advantage of your consumers in ways that are not sustainable.

The only airline I avoid like the plague is Ryanair. I don't like that, when you book, there are then all of these little extras to pay for, and you end up paying more than just flying with British Airways.

People have been upset in the past about pay-per-view fights because they got sold a lie or an illusion that was not real.

There's nothing more damaging than an irate moviegoer who hasn't seen what the film trailer promised.

If I pick up a book with vampires on the cover, I want there to be vampires. If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling.

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.

Hey, if we didn't overcharge for our product - guess what - people wouldn't have to buy used games.

It's clear price gouging... The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever.

Sports fans have been mistreated for a long time. They have overpaid for inferior food and they have had poor service.

The big print giveth, and the fine print taketh away.

Any seeming deception in a statement is costly, not only in the expense of the advertising but in the detrimental effect produced upon the customer, who believes she has been misled.

The American people fear there is some gouging going on.

I know how tough it is to stand up to powerful forces that prey on consumers.

I've spent a lot of time trying to understand how all the big cosmetics companies get away with the placebo science and unscientific claims.

Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you.

Can advertising foist an inferior product on the consumer? Bitter experience has taught me that it cannot. On those rare occasions when I have advertised products which consumer tests have found inferior to other products in the same field, the results have been disastrous.

There is actually quite a lot of crossover between the quacks and drug companies. They use the same tricks and tactics to bamboozle people into buying their pills, but drug firms can afford to use slightly more sophisticated versions.