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Cranky Girl

I'm up early with acid reflux and looking for something to read... the kitchen counter has been cleared off except for a postcard and a letter, just some junk mail sent to my mother. I couldn't resist reading the postcard.

First, it's the crappiest thing I've ever seen. The creator had clearly just learned how to use bold type and "word art" in Microsoft word. It starts with "NEREIG has become...AREI-WIN". Oh yes, that's a *much* catchier acronym. Good work.

They're apparently trying to get real estate agents to sign up for their miserable one-day seminar. I know this only because there's a tiny cartoon of a house with a dollar sign price tag hanging off of it, and on either side of the picture is the text "Don't lose" and "Don't miss this!!!". I can't put my finger on it, but there's something amazingly professional about those three exclaimation points. What's more convincing? A paragraph full of bad grammar and elipses (...):

Don't be fooled by imitators...learn from the best, other courses in this area have been developed after the principles have taken this course...don't get the watered down version...get it straight from the source!

That's right. Principles. This and more crummy text is crushed into a box which starts to fall right off the card.

The little postcard is so cluttered it took me quite a long time to even notice the title: "Winning with Real Estate Foreclosures". They got all carried away trying to convince me not to go to those other courses (??) that they forgot to tell me the name of the dumb thing. I'm guessing my mother is not a AREI-WIN member, though there is a "special price for this seminar of $395.00 discounts for AREI-WIN members!" Discounts? And is it $395.00 off or what?

You think I'm cranky now, wait until chemo starts monday. :P

posted by Jen at 3:54 AM