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From owner-skeptic@listproc.hcf.jhu.edu Wed Aug 20 07:14:45 1997
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Subject: FWD: Consumer Reports & a psychic claim
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The following is quoted from the September, 1997, issue of
_Consumer Reports_, in the regular feature "Selling It" on
humorous/erroneous marketing claims:
Crystal Clear?
The card below [pictured in the magazine], "from the desk of Dianna
Spencer, director: American Assn. of Psychic Advisors," offers Ali
Goldberg 10 free minutes with a "real, genuine psychic!" It reads,
in part: "Dear Ali, This is important!...Ali, I have been a world
famous psychic astrologer for over 20 years....Dear Ali, there ARE
real psychics!...Ali, you will be shocked!" The only person shocked
was the recipient of the card, a [_Consumer Reports_] staffer who
says there is not now and never has been an Ali Goldberg living at
her address. Some psychic.