Wasting Money

We're considering spending some time in Florida this winter. So, I was pleased to see the special travel magazine in the NY Times today. My wife is interested in Sanibel and four Sanibel places had joined in a full page ad. Since we're just looking now, I went to their web sites. Or, I should say that I tried to go to the web sites listed in what had to be an expensive ad. One site could not be found via IE or Firefox. The search feature of a second site was in a loop that focused on bookings starting today. Did these organizations actually try to see how well their webs sites worked?