Hi ,I thought your readers would love to know Marie Callender’s is celebrating National Pie Day on January 23 with their Perfect Pie Trio offer starting at $9.99. Marie Callender’s also introduces its NEWEST pie, the Peanut Butter Chocolate Cake Pie available for a limited time.Is this something you are interested in covering in your stories or round-ups?Additional information is available online at mariecallenders.com, but please let me know if I can provide you with high-res images.
The first couple of times this happened, I replied to say that I have no desire to provide unpaid advertising for a national chain, and that I wasn't going to make any special effort to try whatever their new deal is on my own dime, unless of course it was something I'd be really interested in anyway. Plus I take my own pictures, horrible though they may be at times. Either they don't read the replies or they don't care, because I continue to receive these exciting offers for opportunities to shill for them. Frankly, I'd find the whole thing a little insulting if it wasn't for the fact that it's obvious they've never even looked at my website. In discussing it with my roommate, I said something to the effect that if they would provide me with a gift card sufficient to cover the expense of whatever they're trying to get me to push, I would at least try it myself and write about it. Though of course I would make it clear that I was compensated for doing so.
The Universe, it seems, is not without a sense of humor...
