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justine wrote:

I received a Xmas card from a person in my extended family. This is someone i only see at graduations and marriages. I've never sent a card to her for anything. Birthdays, Xmas or whatever and vise versa. I received a Xmas card from her this year. Enclosed were 2 of her business cards. Earlier in the year, she passed her real estate exam as i am reminded with every form letter i get in the mail asking for her business. Now she's advertising in Xmas cards. WTF?!

I may be the only person that feels this way, but Xmas cards are not the place to advertise your business, in my opinion.

So you got junk mail from your family. That's bad.

some people write a little letter to go along with the christmas cards they send out.  maybe she was just too lazy to write a letter and sent along a business card instead.  kinda like a "this is what I've been up to this past year" thing.

Donkey Butter wrote:

some people write a little letter to go along with the christmas cards they send out.  maybe she was just too lazy to write a letter and sent along a business card instead.  kinda like a "this is what I've been up to this past year" thing.

No. She already sent several of those letters out, accompanied with pleas for my (and anyone i know) business.

perhaps this is the year to send her a Christmas card, with her business cards neatly tucked inside.  if that doesn't get the message across then nothing will.

postage due....

I recall reading an article in the LA Times about the California real estate market a while back, and they reported some numbers like there are over 400,000 licensed real estates agents in California and there were (in 2004?) 660,000 home sales; thus there were on the average about 1.3 sales per agent that year. I imagine that there are quite a number of agents who make no sales for quite a while.

It doesn't excuse including the business cards, but it may explain the desperation.

I just got an emailed Xmas card this morning from a "friend" that was basically an advertisement for his radio show.  It said something like "listen to my show and hear my Christmas message!"
UGH.

It could be worse, I used to work in a commericial photo lab and had to print the owners christmas cards.
The card was always a picture of his kid having a great time at some vacation spot they went to.
Then I would get the very card I printed in the mail

A couple months back I received something akin to this.  It was from someone that I was friendly with in high school (her brother was in my class, she was a year behind us).  I saw who it was from and thought, "Hey, how cool.  I haven't heard from her in over ten years!"  Then I opened it up and the letter started going on about how great it was to have found my address and have the opportunity to reconnect.  So far, so good. 

Then the letter went into the trials and tribulations of her life (unexpected pregnancy, breaking up with the sperm donor, the struggles of raising a kid on her own).  I began thinking to myself, "this is odd, I wonder where she's going with this."  Then I found out. 

The next paragraph told of her incredible feat of putting herself through real estate school (or whatever you have to do to become a realtor), and how she's hoping that by reconnecting with old friends she can drum up some business.  Those weren't her exact words, but the gist was the same.  To this I had to laugh.  I'm putting myself through law school, paying for it as I go--no loans, just using money that I've saved over the past decade or so.  I wonder if she wants to compare bills. 

Last, but not least, was the enclosure of her business card.  The piece d'resistance, I suppose.  I nearly lost consciousness, my eyes rolled so far back, and with such gusto.

I was very off-put by this letter.  Any residual fondness that I may have had for her went straight out the window and fell face-first into a steaming pile of excrement that one of my dogs had just deposited just for this occasion.

In fact, I am going to need the services of a realtor in her area sometime in the next year.  But I doubt I'll be calling her.

Why that's just awful!   OUTRAGEOUS!   I feel for you, I really do...

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