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Selling it
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Just think: $12.3 million for a hfksd, jsaj, and all that other stuff! We’ll call Realtor Name at 614-000-0000 right away.
No one’s laughing
This month’s nominee for offensive sales pitch: the 911 Funny Path Car, described on the box as "funny children’s toys." A reader said he found the product in China.
No, really, read all about it!
Apparently, the Kansas City Star—a newspaper, after all—realized that the top envelope sent the wrong message. The bottom envelope, our reader said, arrived later.
Or try a cold shower
A reader’s friend bought this interesting product in Morocco. She didn’t say whether it worked.
Packaging run amok
A Massachusetts reader ordered four address-label rolls at the same time. The photo shows what she received. (The labels are those little rolls in the center of the table.)
Never say diet
A reader was happy to see Caribou Coffee’s description of Lite White Berry: an "indulgence without the guilt." But after gaining 10 pounds in a month, she looked up the drink’s nutritional stats online—520 calories and 32 grams of fat for one version. "When I found this out, I cried," she wrote. "Then I got angry. Then I thought of you guys." A Caribou rep said the company has decided the fat and calories are too high to call White Berry "lite" anymore.
What’s old is new
How can a company claim a product is "original" and "new"? A customer-service rep at Kraft Foods told us that Kraft had changed Miracle Whip’s formula, "but consumers didn’t like it, so we went back to the original tangy taste."
