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Re-activateA funeral home that's plugging pizza, an ad for flowers that bug, and other product claims that gave our readers pause.
In this month's installment of Selling It:
Flea-powered Flowers | Do They Serve Tombstones? | Lashing Out | Not-So-Quick Quinoa | See more Selling It items
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The flowers in this ad, sent in by a reader in Guymon, Okla., look lovely. They seem more like a threat once you start reading the description, which seems more plague-like than pastoral.
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Getting a group together to contemplate their mortality can be a tough sell, which may be why this funeral chapel mail ad, sent in by Sharon Drury of Surprise, Ariz., looks more like a pizza shop coupon.
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"I guess the lash inserts are extra!" marveled Robert Zavod of Haddam, Conn., at the small print in this ad, which reveals that Katy Perry's lashes were given a boost far bigger than you will get using just the mascara she is plugging.
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Though this package, sent in by Marta Hiegel of Fairfield Bay, Ark., boasts that the side dish is "ready to eat" in 15 minutes, the cooking instructions are half-baked.
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This article also appeared in the December 2015 issue of Consumer Reports magazine.
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