Help! Hair-toy sellers try to deceive me!! :)

[SwordWomanRiona]

Some days ago I was browsing in a shop, and they had this little section with some hair-toys and combs and brushes. So (of course! :)) I went over to see what they had.
One look at the brushes and I had to shudder - that kind of metal brushes that tear your hair off shudder:. Then I went on to look at the elastics, and there was one box with some elastics inside and the following lettering outside:
'Elastics without metal, so that they don't tear your hair off'. Or something like that.
And I think, well, they are beginning to make hair toys here that are good for one's hair - because I know too well how difficult it is for me to find elastics without metal in them. So I go on to look at those elastics 'without metal'...and they all have this big piece of metal, clearly visible!!
:dizzy: Mind adjusting to the quizzical situation... I read the lettering in the box again...'Elastics without metal'...but with metal :bigeyes: So...Excuse me?! Why do you say they haven't metal when they obviously have metal?! :nono: Why are they trying to deceive me?
Any similar situations? :D

[spidermom]

I have never seen that. Maybe they were refilling a display box with a different product without noticing that it was a different product. Or who knows - maybe they were trying to be deceptive, but with a difference so obvious, well - it didn't work, did it?

I like to use those soft little rings. I don't know what they're called, but they remind me of fluffy bathrobe material. I buy really small ones for the ends of braids. I don't make ponytails, so I don't need bigger ones.

[FluffSpider]

You know those annoying stores which sell all kinds of ugly, kitschy jewellery? They usually carry scarves as well. That's where I find my metal-less elastics. They sell them at dirt cheap prices, and they last OK. (which is weird when you think that they sell scrunchies for their price equivalent in gold.)

[celebriangel]

It's funny, I was chatting to a Claire's accessories employee once, and I picked up a clip that looked like a less-bent ficcare clip, and she said "oh, those things are so great, they hold so much hair!"

Um...my hair is BSL and I can't do a thing with the clip! It's pretty, though, so I slide it into already complete dos for fanciness.

Weird, huh? It didn't even look like her hair was particularly thin.