This is getting ridiculous. For those of you who don't tape every TV show so you can fast forward through commercials, you're innocently listening to an ad (with, typically, a minimum of attention) and then at the end, they put this fast talker on to race through all the conditions that surround the "deal" being advertised. With minimal attention, you barely internalized what the product was and maybe - maybe - hear one or two words the fast talker said.
But somewhere, someone (a nervous lawyer) convinced them that by doing this, they would be magically protected from idiots who would go ballistic if they found out the conditions of the deal at the time of purchase.
Drug ads in magazines are worse - a full page ad about some wondrous drug followed by TWO pages of warnings and conditions. And these are prescription drugs - you would have to consult your doctor about them anyway, and you should get the scoop directly from him or her, not some ad. On TV, these, too, use the fast talkers.
I'm all for "deals" on products and wondrous drugs, but watching these guys kowtow to idiot mentalities is just depressing.
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