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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lizjewel, post: 4295736, member: 13874&quot;][USER=147]@Marie Forjan[/USER] Am with you there, Marie! My 1970&#039;s experience with those two colors had to do with a refrigerator.</p><p><br /></p><p>My (1st) husband, a Swede like me, and I moved into our first home, a great 4-story stone and masonry colonial built 1927. It needed A LOT of work but we were young and ready for it. The electric box said 8 amp (not a typo) which took care of a few electric lights. We had to rewire and it took time.</p><p><br /></p><p>The first things we bought were a washer and a dryer. Next was a fridge, after the house was rewired to 200 amp. We had moved in in Nov so a cold pantry kept food fresh until the weather turned warmer in April.</p><p><br /></p><p>I found a Sunday newspaper ad for a promotion on a fridge, cut it out and we drove to Sears on the same Sunday to buy the fridge shown. It was white in a medium size we thought would be perfect for just two people who didn&#039;t need that much fridge space (we ate out a lot where we worked).</p><p><br /></p><p>Well, I had my first experience with <i>bait &amp; switch</i>; the fridge in the ad that I had in hand turned out to not exist. We were told it was &quot;sold out&quot;. It couldn&#039;t have been because we were inside the store when it opened on Sunday morning! We (I mostly) insisted loudly that we had come for THAT fridge at the bargain price of $200.00 (plus tax and delivery), and that it was the ONLY one we wanted.</p><p><br /></p><p>Too bad, that fridge did not exist, it was a <i>come-on</i> to be upsold to a more expensive model. I was furious. We had thought long and hard before arriving at the decision to buy this very fridge and didn&#039;t want to hear about any <i>bigger better and more colorful </i>models.</p><p><br /></p><p>After the manager was invoked (I guess I was a real <i>Karen</i> in those days, long before the term was coined), the store offered us a choice of the better fridges priced another hundred and up, for the same price as advertised for the (non-existant) white fridge.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now to the choice of color! We had really wanted WHITE like the ad showed but these better models were only available in Harvest Gold, Autumn Copper, and [you guessed it] Avocado Green.</p><p><br /></p><p>We disliked all three, what now? Well, we took Autumn Copper as the least offensive (to us) color choice and lived with it for as long as we owned that house, less than eight years actually. The fridge was alright and stayed hidden in the cold pantry with a door to the kitchen so we didn&#039;t have to see it except for adding and removing foods.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have fond memories of that fight about false advertising. I even called a friend of mine who wrote for the Sunday magazine of the paper that had the fridge ad. She <i>made hay</i> of our experience in an article that followed but kept our names and that of the store out of it. Some time thereafter there was less <i>bait &amp; switch</i> in appliance and furniture ads we were happy to note.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the years that followed I also tried hard not to own any other appliance or furniture in any of the named colors. Better they stay back there in the 1970s along with other mistakes I made back then![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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