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I received a letter via my mailbox with no return address and my address and name were type written. The postmark was from a Southern California city. I am in Northern CA.
Upon opening this suspicious envelope, enclosed within was a full page advertisement for a weight loss product. The page was made to look as though it had been placed in a newspaper and cut out. At the top of the page written by hand, and in pen was my name and a short note that read:
[My name]
TRY IT, IT WORKS!!
Talk about strange! I thought WHO would be so rude and chicken s**t to send this to me from a city unknown to me. I tried to think about what friends I have that would be so downright rude and thank goodness came up empty handed.
I am slightly over-weight but not enough that anyone I know would be concerned or should really care. BUT, it DID bother me enough to e-mail the company to ask what paper it had advertised their product in on the date that was available on the page. However, the newspaper name was not present with the exception of " aily News"....on either side. On the opposite side of the page was another unrelated advertisement....
As you may of guessed, I received NO reply to my query. I also had a postal friend put a trace on the bar code on the envelope. In the mean time I mentioned this to friend who told me she had read in Ann Landers that these weight loss clinics somehow obtain your mailing address and then make it appear that a friend has cut out an ad and mailed it to you as a "subtle" message that you need to lose weight, in hopes you will take the message to heart and try the product!!!
Sure enough, the ad was never in a newspaper and the barcode traced it to the company within the ad!! I can't believe it! What an unfair demeaning way to try and boost sales!! This could really cause some[i/] people a lot of heartache in their relationships/friendships. And play an ugly role in lowered self-esteem. What if they started throwing out accusations amoungst friends for possibly being the ones who sent it to them! Or could even mentally and emotionally trouble them thinking poorly about themselves!
I was able to find the answer, but what about for the people who receive this who are trully over-weight and are already troubled about being over-weight?? Never knowing that it was just an unscrupulous company that sent these out blindly with an intent to scam them into using their lousy product??
I hope, if there is anyone else out there that has received a simular anonymous letter like this...reads this post and will put their mind at rest.
But, my question to the law board issss....just how legal is this type of "advertising"? What can be done to stop the cruelty in it all??
Thanks for any input!!
I received a letter via my mailbox with no return address and my address and name were type written. The postmark was from a Southern California city. I am in Northern CA.
Upon opening this suspicious envelope, enclosed within was a full page advertisement for a weight loss product. The page was made to look as though it had been placed in a newspaper and cut out. At the top of the page written by hand, and in pen was my name and a short note that read:
[My name]
TRY IT, IT WORKS!!
Talk about strange! I thought WHO would be so rude and chicken s**t to send this to me from a city unknown to me. I tried to think about what friends I have that would be so downright rude and thank goodness came up empty handed.
I am slightly over-weight but not enough that anyone I know would be concerned or should really care. BUT, it DID bother me enough to e-mail the company to ask what paper it had advertised their product in on the date that was available on the page. However, the newspaper name was not present with the exception of " aily News"....on either side. On the opposite side of the page was another unrelated advertisement....
As you may of guessed, I received NO reply to my query. I also had a postal friend put a trace on the bar code on the envelope. In the mean time I mentioned this to friend who told me she had read in Ann Landers that these weight loss clinics somehow obtain your mailing address and then make it appear that a friend has cut out an ad and mailed it to you as a "subtle" message that you need to lose weight, in hopes you will take the message to heart and try the product!!!
Sure enough, the ad was never in a newspaper and the barcode traced it to the company within the ad!! I can't believe it! What an unfair demeaning way to try and boost sales!! This could really cause some[i/] people a lot of heartache in their relationships/friendships. And play an ugly role in lowered self-esteem. What if they started throwing out accusations amoungst friends for possibly being the ones who sent it to them! Or could even mentally and emotionally trouble them thinking poorly about themselves!
I was able to find the answer, but what about for the people who receive this who are trully over-weight and are already troubled about being over-weight?? Never knowing that it was just an unscrupulous company that sent these out blindly with an intent to scam them into using their lousy product??
I hope, if there is anyone else out there that has received a simular anonymous letter like this...reads this post and will put their mind at rest.
But, my question to the law board issss....just how legal is this type of "advertising"? What can be done to stop the cruelty in it all??
Thanks for any input!!