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[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Fun fact, it's illegal to say something is on sale when it isn't lower than their normal price, so they'll use weasel words you can watch out for.

"Compare to", "originally", "Hot Deal", "Special Buy", "[Insert holiday] special", etc.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Illegal where? I doubt that's a federal law in the US.

[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

going off memory, I believe it depends on region, but yes federally I don't think it cares as long as the price is correctly shown and the "was price" is not higher than it had ever been listed as

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