Buyers of experience goods cannot recognize product features until they haveused or consumed the goods. In contrast, buyers of search goods are able to recognize product features by simple means, before using or consuming the goodsand ro decide whether the goods saris' their needs. Accordingly, false or misleading advertisement is more useful for experience goods. Purchase frequency ofa product, on the other hand, has direct impact on consumers' ability to counterthe false advertising strategy. Hypotherically, die higher the purchase frequencyof a product, the lower the possibility that talse advertisement will be used byfirms as sales strategy. This study employs data. from the Fair irade Commission of Taiwan to empirically examine the a.bove inferences. These inferencesare conspicuously supported by the evidence.