Admap Direct: Greeks Bearing Gifts

Tom Rayfield

In this light-hearted article, Tom Rayfield outlines his bad experience of being invited by a company to have a look at a range of timeshare holidays which, in return, would qualify him for a free gift.

Greeks Bearing Gifts

Tom Rayfield

As the wife said, 'First the good news darling. The airbag on our car works really well ...'.

It has taken me a great many years to realise that, if something sounds too good to be true, it almost certainly is. I won the same Prize Draw four times last year. On each occasion the mailshot convinced me that I had won 40,000. There was no small print. On each occasion I received a 'lucky silver-plated four-leaf clover' brooch, about the size of a 10p piece. They don't seem to work very well.

Then, a...

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