I thought contesting would be a mild, simple little hobby. However since starting this experiment at the beginning of last month, I've been inundated with urgent emails asking me to please take action or fail my family and destroy their bright futures.
Publishers Clearing House was a personal favorite of mine since I was a little kid and dreamed of Ed McMahon with his wide smile appearing at our front door with a bouquet of brightly colored balloons. Now I'm worried someone from PCH will actually show up at my door, and I'll make sure it's bolted and call the police. An example of their pushy PR-mails is below.
The one email I opened from PCH as an experiment was a maze of instructions. I had to go through four pages of ads, for magazines that I am a sucker to buy, but didn't, and it was so sad, asking me to reconsider, over and over, and are you sures and you are failing your children right now by not opening and responding to this email!
XXXXX, your Official Document 382 is
enclosed!
Your failure to act NOW
could cost you a Life-Changing fortune ready to
be awarded
Publishers Clearing House will
soon take a "Special Early Look"
for a winner from Giveaway No.
49OO. And,
if the Mcgee number from
this very Notice matches the
winning number drawn, you will
win $1O,OOO.OO A Week For Life
this November.
PLEASE BE AWARE that
this is the ONLY notice you will
receive regarding
YOUR forthcoming Prize Number
from this Bulletin.
TAKE ACTION BEFORE IT IS TOO
LATE! (This was one of many untruths from PCH.)
P.S.
the Prize Patrol will personally
award a life-changing Prize
and the winner will be announced
during NBC Nightly News with
Brian Williams so the whole
country can share in the
excitement!
However, the travel and home decor contests have been fun, with breezy, wistful emails piling up in my account tempting me to places my beat-up SUV can only imagine taking us to and dreamy kitchens that make you want to whip out the butter and start baking your way to a new life.
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