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Crazy Marketing Claims in Ads

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  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 9,114 Member
    edited March 8

    amen.!!!! We bought in an area about ten years ago. We’re in easy walking distance of everything except a grocery store- shops, restaurants, bars, bike path, gym, yoga, several parks. After the neighborhood built out and people finally noticed we were there, we became red hot - as did much of the rest of the town’s historical districts. We’re an easy commute to a major city.

    It’s trickled off, thankfully, but we were deluged with offers to buy, via text, email, snail mail, door hangers, people stopping us when we took the dog out, people knocking on the door, even neighbors soliciting via Facebook for friends who wanted in to the neighborhood .

    it reminded me of the traumatic period of “blockbusting” we went through when I was a young teen in the 70’s Literally all my friends and neighbors except for a couple abandoned ship within a twelve month period . Before internet, but the level of phone calls and door knocks was mega mega

    The ones I absolutely hate are the mailers where they’ve screen shotted the house via Google maps, and mail us RE or insurance offers. Getting a letter with a photo of your home is absolutely an invasion of privacy, and gives me the full body heebie jeebies. I tear them to shreds, they make me so angry.

    I know there’s a way to blur out your home on google maps, but jeez, why should I have to go down yet another unecessary rabbit hole?

  • AmunahSki
    AmunahSki Posts: 255 Member

    Have we had this one yet?

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    Is it me, or do these ladies look very AI generated?

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    I eat a fairly Mediterranean diet. I took the ‘survey’ in the interests of research… from 75kg to 65kg (175lb to 143lb), and it gave me this:

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    Their ‘no.diet diet’ predicts losing at an average rate of 1.25kg per week (2.75 lb).

    In contrast, my actual weight loss journey last year, and I can tell you it took me 231 days (33 weeks), losing at an average of 0.3kg a week (0.6 lb). I think that was pretty fast enough for someone of my height (164cm, or 5’4.5”)

    I’m not sure I could have lost it any faster, as I was on a net 1350 calories - anything less could have affected my health, I have no doubt.

    Please, don’t let them suck you into paying for this nonsense!

  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,387 Member

    Amunah - I lost about same as you and 10kg took me 10 months on 1460 net calories.

    would be crazy to expect that in 6 weeks.

  • Corina1143
    Corina1143 Posts: 4,295 Member
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    30 pounds a month. Make your own probiotic pumpkin seed drink. I'm in. I love 🎃 seeds!

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 9,114 Member

    @AmunahSki my first thought was the gals looked just alike!

  • AmunahSki
    AmunahSki Posts: 255 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48523544#Comment_48523544

    Scarily alike… the same slightly smaller left eye, and not one freckle, beauty spot, blemish, scar or wrinkle between them… like they rolled off some freaky conveyor belt, all smooth and perfect…

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 9,114 Member
    edited 4:11PM

    my absolute favorite skeezy ad so far:

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    you gotta admit. It certainly grabs your attention.

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