I can think of some really stupid marketing efforts. One that comes to mind is when Verizon used to put telephone bill inserts in telling you about all the benefits of Caller-ID, the prices and requesting you call them to order the service.Of course, when you called, they said, yeah, well, we don't offer caller-id in your area! Now, your phone bill contains your phone number, the phone companies exchange and who better would know if you could get Caller-ID or not and include relevant marketing materials or not.
Verzion chose rather than to market their services, to simply spend mega bucks on a PR campaign to piss off people!
Now not long ago I had the bright idea of signing up with, reviewme. A complete waste of my time, as they declared that The website is a suspected fake, among other detracting factors and told me to take a hike.
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