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Sharp-eyed Consumer Reports readers sent us another batch of confounding marketing maneuvers. You can't make this stuff up!
In this month's installment of Selling It:
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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 [at] cro [dot] consumer [dot] org
Mail: Consumer Reports, Attn: Selling It, 101 Truman Avenue, Yonkers, NY 10703
You apparently get the filet mignon of frankfurters when hitting off the tees at this Clifton Park, N.Y., golf course.
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This watch counts down the hours and minutes left in your life—a disconcerting thought, notes Ryan Murphy of Scottsbluff, Neb.
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Try again, says Dee Lawrence of Sunbury, Pa., one of several readers to send in this ad.
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Bill Rowley of Evergreen, Colo., flagged what looks like a math miss: 90 calories for one bar, 190 calories for two. General Mills is actually following FDA rules that allow calories to be rounded up or down to the nearest 10.
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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 [at] cro [dot] consumer [dot] org
Mail: Consumer Reports, Attn: Selling It, 101 Truman Avenue, Yonkers, NY 10703
This article also appeared in the January 2015 issue of Consumer Reports magazine.
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