Term Papers on The Question Of Whether Or Not Marketing Is Completely Unethical

Term Paper Title	The Question Of Whether Or Not Marketing Is Completely Unethical
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The Question Of Whether Or Not Marketing Is Completely Unethical

     The question of whether or not marketing is completely unethical is the
question most critics of marketing seem to be focusing their attention on.
Ethics provide the basis for deciding whether a particular action is morally
good or morally bad (Britt 553).  But, each individual develops different
opinions, moral standards, and values.  So, marketers will deal with similar
issues differently because there is no "correct" way to handle any given issue.
Marketers face various types of ethical issues in their everyday marketing
activities.  Such marketing activities that require marketing managers to
utilize their moral values ethically are advertising, packaging and labeling,
and global marketing.

     "Advertising is the most criticized of all micro-marketing activities
(McCarthy 643)."  What is considered as unfair or deceptive advertising is very
difficult to pinpoint, because times have changed and continue to change on a
day to day basis.  What one person may consider unfair or deceptive may not be
unfair or deceptive to another person.  There are no clear cut guidelines for
marketing manager's to go by, so they must utilize their own judgement based on
their own moral standards.  But, in the United States their is an administrative
agency that has the power to control unfair or deceptive business practices.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) was created in 1914 to prevent "unfair
methods of competition in commerce (commercial trade) and unfair or deceptive
acts or practices in commerce (Miller 590)".  The FTC issues guidelines that
define unfair practices and in some instances the FTC will investigate
widespread complaints to seek settlement of the complaint.  The FTC has also set
forth specific rules to govern certain advertising practices such as  bait-and-
switch advertising.  Bait-and-switch advertising occurs  when a seller
advertises a product at a very low price to lure in  consumers, but when
customers come in to purchase the product; the seller either doesn't have the
product available or the product is of very low ...

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