All the new products to save our skins, bones and internal organs are flooding the internet. First you have to guess the CATCHA code of numbers and letters that are interwined and really impossible to distinguish one symbol from another. So I keep trying and failing, trying and failing. Each time a new set of numbers and letters puzzle me. I finally give up.
Then, when I try to leave the page, a drop-down box appears with an offer to send me free samples of the pills. While I mull over the offer, their ROBOT has darkened my screen, except for the box that appears next with the message: PLEASE DON'T LEAVE THIS PAGE. I'm waiting for another message like, WE LOVE YOU! No chance. I'm out of there, even after a final deceitful message from the ROBOT: YOU MIGHT LOSE ALL YOUR EMAILS! STAY WITH US. WE'LL DOUBLE YOUR FREE PILL ORDER.
These sucker traps manage to defeat all the walls and other safety methods devised by the companies that are spreading their disingenuous wares on an unsuspecting public. There should be a course in all high schools and colleges: HOW TO AVOID THE SUCKER TRAPS ONLINE! And then how to defeat them. Once they get our plastic cards....only for shipping and handling...to obtain their free samples, you are automatically billed at an outrageous monthly fee for the next year.
Although I do resent having to keep my guard up constantly for the sucker traps, I remain amazed at how wonderful it is to send emails, receive them and use the word processing equipment for writing. My old typewriters have been abandoned, although the electric IBM lasted me 30 years until I ran out of ribbons. They weren't available anywhere I went. All sold out. Then I called The CEO of IBM in Armonk,NY, claiming to be "Dr. Rogers with his X-rays." The secretary put me right through, I explained my ploy and two days later a dozen ribbons arrived in the mail.
At this time, late at night, I've run out of ideas. I'm still miffed over the intellectual property usurping of my copyrighted "horse pants" by the Jimmy Kimmel Show and Shark Tank too. That subject will be dealt with in my next blog in a few days. So stay tuned.
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