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From: mem@sii.UUCP (Mark Mallett)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Congratulations! you have just won one of the following...
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Date: Tue, 25-Oct-83 00:18:06 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 25 00:18:06 1983
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I get offers of reward for visiting resorts, occasionally.  As a matter
of fact, I just got one a couple of days ago which offered a modular
stereo system in return for listening to a sales pitch.  It seems that
you people are talking about a slightly different offer, wherein
there is a LIST of POTENTIAL "gifts".  I've not seen one of those;
the ones I've seen have been very explicit.  I have never bothered to
take them up on it; but I may try this one, because:

Last year my brother followed up on one of those.  The offer claimed that
to be eligible, he and HIS SPOUSE had to attend.  He called them up
and explained that he was not married, but was told to go anyway.  He
went, got a tour of a time-share type resort, and was asked (of course)
to sign on the dotted line.  He declined.  When pressed for a reason,
he replied that his idea of a vacation was to take off into the woods
with a backpack.  They didn't have too much to say to that; anyway
he got a television set out of it.

Apparently there is a lot of pressure at the end of the pitch to sign
immediately.  Anyway, I can use a stereo system for the office.

Mark Mallett
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