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From: rs55611@ihuxk.UUCP (Robert E. Schleicher)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Too Good To Be True // High Pressure Real Estate Sales
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Date: Fri, 18-May-84 12:48:22 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 18 12:48:22 1984
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Referring to the promotional come-on described in detail by Mats Wichman,
the high-probability prize (from the small print) was the "sport boat".
Sounds pretty good, until you see that it's retail value is $69.95
(again, in the small print), and therefore, the cost to the company is probably
in the $20 range.  I called them up when I got the same promo, and they
finally admitted that tyhe sport boat was actually a small, cheap radio-
controlled boat about a foot or so long.

Bob Schleicher
ihuxk!rs55611
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Naperville, Ill.