Unsolicited

Incentives don't work on me. I hate coupons, resent 7-11 point-collection schemes, freak out at checkout when asked if I'd shell out an extra dollar for a totally useless home improvement knick-knack. And I find the routine of tearing away all the receipt-con-lotteries that kept cluttering in my pocket and on my desk extremely annoying.

I can understand there are people in this world whose lives would descend into a purposeless limbo if deprived of these marketing gimmicks to fill up the lonely hours and minutes, but please would somebody tell the MBA's in corporate spires, that for a number (albeit small) of consumers, your ploys are not just fruitless, but downright cheap, and backfiring like hell.

Just try to leave us alone.