A while back I got a newspaper ad about a deal where you can get 50 old timey mint condition stamps for only two dollars. They were all between 1 to 5 cent stamps from the1950s I think. I thought it was a good deal if for nothing else than for the novelty of it. So I paid and bought it. A bit later, I received the stamps in the mail as advertised but also received some additional stamps along with a little pamphlet about their “stamps-on-approval” program. Of course at the time I didn’t bother reading it, dismissing it as advertisement and just assumed they accidentally sent me extra stamps. A few weeks later I get a letter from them stating that they were awaiting a payment for the stamps they sent me. As it turns out, they had sent me extra stamps intentionally as a part of their marketing campaign with the intention that I either like them enough to buy them, or send them back in case I don’t. However, it is actually illegal in the United States to send people things and force them to buy it (I think that’s why Amazon usually tells you to just keep a package if you received it by accident). This is called unsolicited merchandise. Which means I am under no obligation to pay for something I did not order. I am actually familiar with this tactic as I’ve experienced this before with a coin collection company. But at least with them, they sent me return postage so that I could mail the coins back to them. But this stamp company didn’t… which is ironic. So I ignored their letter. I’m not just gonna spend my own money to buy a stamp to send back stamps I didn’t buy in the first place, and in the process give them a new stamp. It’s a conspiracy! They do this so that they can leech more stamps off of people when they send back their unsolicited merchandise (probably not really, but it would be funny if that were true)! A few weeks later, I received a letter once again. This time with an angrier tone. This time threatening they would pursue “legal action” if I did not pay for the stamps I “stole” from them. Big talk for a bunch of losers who engage in merchandise scam over a few dollars worth of stamps. In cases like these, you break out the good ol’ complaint letter to the Tripple B. The Better Business Bureau. Found the company already had multiple people complaining over the exact same issue I was having. So I decided to hop on and add my grievances onto the BBB complaint board. They stopped sending me letters after that… The BBB do not fuck around.