Pay! Play!

The Wall Street Journal reports today that the Federal Trade Commission is getting serious about forcing bloggers who receive gifts in exchange for coverage of products and services to disclose such relationships.

About time, say we at THE GESTURE! In keeping with the FTC's laudable spirit of openness, we now reveal our policies on trading gifts for coverage:

1) At no time has any manufacturer, retailer or service provider ever approached THE GESTURE about exchanging gifts for coverage.

2) At no time has THE GESTURE ever approached anybody about initiating such a relationship.

3) We feel really, really stupid for not coming up with this clever idea on our own, as we would like very much to receive gifts.

4) To facilitate such relationships going forward, we have created an Amazon Wish List. Click here to view it. We will update it frequently, so check back often for something in your price range! Include a gift note saying what you would like THE GESTURE to say about the product, or giving us permission to write our own review. Rest assured, our relationship will be fully disclosed, in extraordinarily laudatory terms.

5) E-mail us if your proposed gift is a service that can't be handled by Amazon. Ideas include but are by no means limited to massages, meals, pet grooming, and graphic design.

Thanks for playing!