My Gawd, Slim Fast just sent me this chicken-shit e-mail.

[RoadRunner]

July 21, 2004

Thank you for contacting us to share your comments about our relationship with Ms. Goldberg. We do read all e-mails and take them seriously. We also appreciate the opportunity to clarify our position.

Ms. Goldberg's remarks created a great deal of negative media and consumer attention and this affected Ms. Goldberg's ability to positively communicate our message of weight loss. Because of this, we decided to conclude the current advertising campaign. Slim Fast believes its decision in no way impacts Ms. Goldberg's freedom of speech, now or in the future.

Thank you for taking the time to voice your concerns.

Kathi Eckler
Consumer Support

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I sent "Kathi" this one back:

Kathi:

Thank you (I guess?) for your very non-informative reply. As I stated in my orignial e-mail to you, I will never buy Slim Fast again and I will never again recommend it to my friends. But you really don't care about your customers, do you?

Have a nice "right-wing" life.

<name redacted>

If any of ya' take a notion to write Kathi, her e-mail is [e-mail]

[ronnykmarshall]

1. Beep! Beep!

You GO Roadrunner!

[RoadRunner]

5. That's a damn fine roadrunner ya' got there, ronnykmarshall!

Thanks for that, I'll add it to my collection.

:hi:

[ronnykmarshall]

6. I love roadrunners.

The Roadrunner was favorite cartoon as a kid and our local college (Cal State University Bakersfield) had the RR as it's mascot.

[mermaid]

2. They Didn't Even Have The Gonads To Reply To Me...n/t

n/t

[Deja Q]

3. What weight loss? Synthetic vitamins and 17g of sugar is what they sell.

I see their point, but their product itself is still a sham and has nothing to do with valid, long-term weight loss.

[Gothic Sponge]

4. I wrote to Slim-Fast, but they didn't reply

I guess i'll have to write an angry letter to Atkins instead! ;)

[RoadRunner]

7. I just sent Kathi a second reply

Hi Kathi:

On second thought, I can't believe how ignorant you folks are. Don't you realize that the "negative media and consumer attention" you mentioned were the result of a write-in campaign by a right-wing hate group known as freerepublic.com?

Since your quarterlies are going to be off so much, you might have some free time. How about using some of it by going over there and seeing them brag about it?

What you don't realize is that these right-wing nutcases represent a miniscule percentage of consumers. You threw away your brand franchise for these jerks?

Enough, I give up. My original statement holds: I will never support your company again.

<name redacted>