"Despicable, Manipulative Advertising Piece"

Got mail yesterday urging me to buy jewelry for MY LATE WIFE WHO DIED OVER 2 AND 1/2 YEARS AGO (photo above). Click on photo to enlarge and read.

Below is the actual envelope this ad came in, the only alteration is where I blocked out my address. (Again, click on the photo to enlarge and read.)

Note how this pathetic, manipulative ad NAMES THE NAME of my late wife on the outside of the envelope AND inside!!  Their plan is to hope that the WIFE sees the envelope and pressures the hubby into buying the piece for her to "prove his love."  THEY NEVER STOP TO CONSIDER THAT THE WIFE THEY'VE LISTED MIGHT HAVE PASSED AWAY AND MY NEW WIFE AND I MIGHT BE HURT BY READING THE ENVELOPE.  Thankfully, it was I who brought the mail in yesterday, not my new bride.

This piece is from the DANBURY MINT and it came to my new, correct address (which is THREE different addresses since I ordered from them), so if they can keep track of my changing locations, they can't keep track of who I'm MARRIED to now??  Seems simple enough.

Furthermore, I don't "wish" I told Beth I loved her years ago...I did tell her, every single day she was alive. But these greedy ____-__-_______ have no right top try to 'guilt" me into buying something using these tactics. It goes to show you how advertisers view consumers who are in the "Christmas Fog" that they create by moving "The Christmas Season" earlier and earlier.....but BY GOD'S GRACE I AM NOT LOST IN THAT PHONY FOG.

I immediately called the Danbury Mint's Customer Service Rep yesterday (they hung up on me the first time as soon as they knew why I was calling, but I persisted.)  The woman  I eventually talked to was very apologetic and I was as nice as could be, considering I was angry (still am, ever after sleeping on it.) But I promised her I would BLOG about this incident, so I am...writing things out helps me to calm down, you see.  (Can't you see how CALM I'm getting?? Lol) And, after advising the Rep that Danbury Mint should have their LAWYERS look over their junk mail before they send it, I then showed my new wife the ad and explained how outraged I was and how I handled it by taking initiative to call them.  We are both in shock that these people could be so insensitive.

Recently I've written here about the commercialization of Christmas and how retailers will stop at nothing to feed America's sin of  Covetousness.  This despicable, manipulative and harmful advertising is just one more example of that.  In the past week or so, I've also written about uncaring, unreliable and unethical people whose actions affect others negatively.  Again, what happened yesterday is just another instance but it combines elements of "all of the above".  Do you suppose everyone's premature preoccupation with Christmas has ANYTHING to do with this "anything goes" mentality??

................I think you know what I think about THAT one, Lol!!