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- Magazine article from: Consumer Reports April 1, 2006 700+ words
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...A reader was pleased to see that he could win big bucks in Pepsi's recent Play for a Billion Sweepstakes. Then he found a gotcha. Deep in the Official Rules was this statement: "The Policy shall provide for payment of the One Billion Dollar Prize over...
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...you squint, you can identify that country. Yes, next time you're in Liberia, you can go on a spending spree. The other gotcha: Once you sign up for a coin, you're enrolled to receive the company's presidential coin series. You can examine the...
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- Magazine article from: Consumer Reports January 1, 2005 700+ words
...free phone number. "I actually read the first four lines," Linda wrote us, "wondering who the sender might be, before realizing the GOTCHA." Too bad Linda missed J's nervy signoff: "Wish you were here." [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]
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...conversation went something like this: Selling It: Hi. I'm wondering about these...Consumer Affairs: That must be a typo. Selling It: But I have the boxes here. (A discussion...didn't know they made that change. Selling It: So you think it might be a marketing...
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Our quick scan of a document entitled "Civil Air Patrol Intro to Space: Placing a Satellite in Orbit" leads to the conclusion that it requires a tad more thrust than could be mustered by this toy rocket, which goes "200 feet into the sky."
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Three readers and candy fans noticed that a box of Nips shrank from 5.5 ounces to 4 ounces, but that the price they paid was the same for new and old. What really galled them was the addition of the boxed blurb. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]
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"This Crest is specially formulated to help prevent staining," the label says. Yet the active ingredient, stannous fluoride, "may produce surface staining of the teeth." "Questions?" the box asks. You bet. We called the number provided, which has a recorded explanation: "Current FDA regulations
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The readers of Selling It have been on the watch for warnings--silly or senseless ones, that is. Take, for starters, the caution at right. Other...
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"I know they're referring to the TV show," a reader wrote about the catalog copy selling this costume kit, "but, ahem, it was about a war." [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]