Is This Okay With You?
I don’t know, I guess I have a bit of a critical eye when it comes to ethics. We received an advertisement in the mail the other day from a local realtor. She was advertising before and after pictures of a house. Now we all know that when you go to sell your house, you want it to look the best it can. It is not uncommon to make improvements so it has “curb appeal.” I’ve even heard of someone who spray painted a sink so it didn’t show the rust (which I think is a bit sneaky). There are some things that are acceptable, of course, like the curb appeal approach, but, this advertisement went to far, I think. It crossed a line into deception. The picture of the house on the left has a brown front yard. The same house on the right has a full, beautiful, green front lawn. Here’s my problem . . . the green lawn was photo-shopped into the picture. The advertisement boasts of their in-house photographer who can make “brown grass green and grey skies blue.” They brag ab