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  • irishtimes.com - Posted: November 1, 2009 @ 5:00 pm

    So, sue them…

    Conor Pope

    We all know that companies sometimes make ridiculous claims about their products to convince us to buy them, right? Maybe we should just sue the bejaysus out of the ones that most spectacularly fail to deliver on their promises of whiter teeth, shinier, thicker hair, flatter tummies and hypnotic sex appeal. Just like Vaibhav Bedi is doing. The 26-year-old single man from India is demanding nearly €30,000 from Unilever to make up for the “depression and psychological damage” caused by the absence of any Lynx effect in its products of the same name. According to Ananova the poor fella failed to land a single girlfriend despite using Lynx for seven years. Who would you sue first?

    • 6 Comments »

    1.
    November 1, 2009
    6:46 pm

    Hah! I picked up a magazine at the hairdressers on Friday which had “All your beauty problems solved” on the cover. As if!

    Comment by Sue Townsin
    2.
    November 2, 2009
    12:25 am

    I’d start with Always, because no matter how many sanitary towels I use, I can neither ski nor windsurf; Girls Aloud eyelashes, because after an entire weekend wearing them, not one person mistook me for Cheryl Cole; More magazine, for promising me “the best sex of your life!” in every single copy; Tampera, because I bought the record, and my life wasn’t noticeably better. . . I could go on.

    Really I guess I’d sue Rhonda Byrne, because I read The Secret, am not filthy rich yet, and that’s an entire day of my life I’ll never get back.

    Comment by Rosemary
    3.
    November 2, 2009
    1:54 am

    Good luck to Vaibhav Bedi! I hope he wins his case then with the money he might attract a woman…

    Comment by Josie
    4.
    November 2, 2009
    4:58 am

    If Mr. Bedi isn’t happy surely Unilever will give him his money back. They do that. Don’t they? Biddy from Glenroe says they do.

    Comment by Primal Sneeze
    5.
    November 2, 2009
    1:22 pm

    Oh that’s easy: I’d sue Microsoft. Does it really need a reason? Well if you insist, coz they make such appallingly bad software and inflict it upon us and simply don’t care about the outcome.

    Comment by Chris Carpenter
    6.
    November 2, 2009
    3:48 pm

    L’Oreal, Oil of Olay, et al who promise anti wrinkle cream. Anti Wrinkle cream?? Does this mean that the goo in a pot can stop gravity? The only thing that stops the aging is death and anyone who sell products to insecure women promising them otherwise should not only be sued but shut down.
    I feel better now…

    Comment by Alison

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