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I love "Caveat Veditor", but its a little pretentious for something I'd wear out and about.
It kind of reminds me of the OBX stickers on all of the burb-boxes here in the northeast. It implies 'I'm cooler than you 'cause I know what this means and you don't.' and somehow implies a secret little clique of 'knowers'.
Its a tough choice
The thing that doesn't work for me about "Brand Killer" is The Consumerist is not just about about punishment, but it's about transparency and accountability. I vote for the Latin "Caveat Venditor", b/c I think it's spot on in terms of The Consumerist's purpose and mission. But I take wikkit's point about its pretentiousness. Maybe on the back, where it says "consumerist.com", above that it could say "(let the seller beware)" -- a little translation for those less versed in ye olde languages.
There's a stretch of beaches along North Carolina's coast called the Outer Banks (OBX) that has become a fairly popular vacation desination. The stickers seems to have started a fad among the minivan crowd for plastering seemingly nonsensical acronym's across their posteriors. RB (Rehoboth Beach, Delaware) seems to be another popular one.
Mauvaise
As c-side said, caveat veditor is the perfect slogan for consumerist.
Its spot on for the content. Do I really want to walk into a store
sporting a shirt with Latin gibberish on it though? I'm either going to
be:
A) an ass because no one knows what it means
B) an ass because someone had to ask what it means
or C) witty
My guess is A) and B) will be more common in the stores I frequent.






Caveat Venditor and Brand Killer are great! I wanna vote twice...