More old-school deceptive selling from CRN

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CRN, the company that will do anything to avoid admitting they simply sell publicly available real-estate foreclosure listings, is either ignoring our wrath or pleased by the publicity, because their latest radio spots dust off yet another nostalgic deception technique: The reverse-psychology sell not seen since, oh, a couple of years ago, when a weight-loss junk-product maker warned us NOT to try it if we only have 5-10 pounds to lose! (Our telemarketers will thoroughly investigate and won’t sell it to you!) Devoted readers of the more arcane AdFreak items will recall CRN’s earlier campaign: using

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