The worst sales promotion in history: Hoover's free flight fiasco
I'm just about old enough to remember this fiasco being reported week after week on Watchdog, the long running consumer rights show: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchdog_(TV_programme)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchdog_(TV_programme)</a><p>(Is there an American counterpart to Watchdog? The number of egregious anti-consumer actions that I hear about on the Internet suggests not)