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Re-activateIn this month's installment of Selling It:
| A chair with an existential crisis |
Birthday jumble |
| The new flavors of medicine |
A loaded potato gun warning |
| This game rocks |
Aloha, koala |
| The importance of a single letter |
So . . . what should the owners do with this object?
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"When we bought this banner from Walmart," writes a Massachusetts reader, "we sort of expected it to say, well, 'Happy Birthday.' "
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A Texas Walgreens was clearly excited about those new flavors.
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Thank goodness this potato gun is "completely harmless." Unless you're an animal . . . or a person. Maybe it's harmless when used on potatoes.
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Back in February, we mentioned a reader who bought a similar game only to find that the "colorful playing pieces" advertised on his box were clear glass. Now this, from an Arizona reader. "The rocks play just about as well as the glass," he writes, "but lack the style."
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Lands' End may have forgotten where koalas live. Hint: It's not in the Aloha State.
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This CVS might want to buy a "p" lest shoppers flock to another drugstore.
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If you spot something that makes you chuckle, causes your jaw to drop, or leaves you confounded, send it our way:
E-mail: sellingit@cro.consumer.org
Fax: 914-378-2911 (attention: Selling It)
Mail: Consumer Reports, Attn: Selling It, 101 Truman Avenue, Yonkers, NY 10703
This article appeared in the December 2013 issue of Consumer Reports magazine.
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