Re: OT rant from hell (was: AirFX)

["Dennis Leas" <dennis@mdbs.com>]

> Personally I don't see the problem, companies make products to make 
>money,
> they advertise these products by sending a promo mag. I'd rather that 
>than
> the incessant covert advertising that you get on TV all the time.
>
> I may have missed the point of this thread  :-)

It's the overselling, overhyping that bothers me.  I don't watch TV so 
maybe
I need to be more desensitized.

I don't mind finding out about good products.  If they said, "We have a new
product we think you might like.  It does X.  It does Y.  It's useful for 
Z.
"  But instead they say, "Your life will be meaningless without our new
product.  Only we have the way to true enlightment.  All your work will be
worthless until you buy it (and priceless if you do)."  In particular, the
tone of the article was, "The world would have been deprived of Joni
Mitchell's further work if she hadn't bought one of these."  So it's hard
for me to take their ads seriously.

But maybe I'm exaggerating.  :D

Dennis Leas
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