Holiday ads on Facebook turn into holiday fail for customers

SALT LAKE CITY — The Better Business Bureau has a warning as we head into Black Friday deals and the holiday season: Be careful what you purchase from social media advertisements.The ads you see scrolling on your phone may not be what arrives at your front door. Take it from Susan Stankye.Back in October, the Connecticut woman described coming across a beautiful sea glass miniature Christmas tree on Facebook.”I go all out for decorating for Christmas, and they would look perfect in my bathroom which has other sea glass,” Stankye told FOX 13.Buy two for just under $40, she indicated the advertisement said, and get free shipping.”So I ordered them, and I figured, ‘Wow, what a good deal!'” she recounted.Debbie Nuckols in Virginia figured the same thing when she set her eyes on an ad for a kid-sized dinosaur. For her, it was the perfect Christmas gift for her twin grandsons.”It showed the little boy bouncing on it, and it interacting with the little boy like it could talk to it and it would react, you know, in certain ways,” Nuckols said of what the ad video portrayed.While there weren’t any reviews that Nuckols could find of the product,  » Read More