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importantly, the commodities to be advertised are genuine and their prices fair. Sometimes, while a commodity is of inferior quality, the advertisement is full of lavishing praise on it, if under such a circumstance, an eminent person comes to help make the advertisement, the advertisement could, if anything, be temporarily successful before it turns the brand of the commodity in question notorious and, more disastrously, ruins the reputation of the eminent person thereafter. It is precisely for this reason that the eminent persons are well advised to think more than twice before he/she agrees to appear on a commercial.