I don't know where you got that bizarre piece of information,
It should alarm you that you don't know where that fact came from - since it came directly from their very site. It should alarm you that you now realize didn't bother to read up on something you bought in to and know what what is actually is.
but it is completely misleading,
I certainly do not dispute that this company is being misleading in its claims.
Top right in picture lists the current search "shell count" (33) and the number of bottles (735) that have been cleaned from beaches in my name.
No it doesn't.
Not in that screen grab, at least. That screen grab shows only numbers, without labels. And without delving into the fine print you are
guessing what they actually represent.
That's how they dupe naive readers - by posting cool-looking numbers and hoping you won't read the fine print.
It's called puffery.
Puffery: futile speech, typically of a seller, which does not give rise to legal liability. In a circular manner, legal explanations for this normative position describe the non-enforceable speech as a statement that no "
reasonable person" would take seriously anyway.
It is what used car salesmen are doing when they say "This baby was driven by a little old lady a half mile to church and back once a week.
No court in the land will let you sue for such a claim. You, as a prospective buyer, have an
obligation to ignore such vague claims and go get a CarFax report, which tells you explicitly what
exactly the car has been through.
I don't know if you're old enough to remember letters from Publisher's Clearing House. Their letters used to say (paraphrased):
You're a Winner! $2 million dollars!*
*
is what this letter would say of you had signed up
We learned never to trust the bold claims -
always read the fine print. There's no way you're a Boomer without learning this lesson.
The total number of bottles cleaned currently stands at 67,670,668 bottles.
Yep. Via clickthroughs.
I am proud that I have contributed
Except that you
explicitly admit you have never done so:
have NEVER used any of the 4 listed sponsors.
You are a fool if you don't read the fine print of claims you participate in.
Yikes, I hope for your sake you have someone who has Power of Attorney over your finances!
