What company is totally guilty of false advertising and why?

Mine. I work at a furniture store full of salespeople. I work in the office and hate most to all of them. The owner/boss/micromanager is a former salesperson. So the whole store is designed to make customers work a little bit to get normal prices, normal service, etc.

If you do the financing (we say 32 months interest free but only actually give 12) our salespeople show you the part of the price tag that says "finance price" instead of cash price. They always give you the cash price in the end, though, because it's designed explicitly for salespeople to have a discount they can give without fucking their commission.

The real kicker is the new tags my dumbass boss rolled out. They will say "everyday low price" as a random number like $1135.71 and the cash price is 'discounted' 30% to $795. I tried explaining that makes it super obvious that we made the 'discounted' price first and that the discount is artificial, but he said to do it anyway. Correct me if I'm wrong, but making artificial discounts like that is illegal.

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