Guess what's being advertised

[kirisutogomen]

If you read Chinese, don't spoil it for everyone else, although do comment about how much harder it is to read after I performed a simple alteration whose nature is obvious to you but may not be to non-Han-character-readers. If you can't read Chinese, guess what is being advertised in this image, and I'd be curious to know how obvious the nature of the alteration is to you.

Comments

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

I think it's reasonably obvious how it was altered, but I don't know what it's selling. Um, mail order brides?

[greyautumnrain.livejournal.com]

I'm illiterate in Chinese, but the characters look really wrong. Did you mirror reverse them or something?

[rifmeister.livejournal.com]

The alteration seems obvious. My first guess is that they were selling mail order brides, but now I think they're probably selling refurbished TI-994A computers.

[dcltdw]

Now that greyautumnrain points it out, it does look mirror-reversed.

I'd guess phone cards.

[chenoameg.livejournal.com]

I have no idea. Nor can I determine the alteration.

[mathhobbit.livejournal.com]

I dunno, "feminine products"? There seems to be a rectangle missing in the upper right.

[psychohist.livejournal.com]

Ironically, the few characters I recognize are virtually unaltered by your alteration. If I were fully literate, my reading speed might be somewhat affected on the other characters, but not by all that much. The low resolution of the picture would be a bigger issue.

[twe.livejournal.com]

I've got no idea what they're advertising, but the whole thing looks flipped left-to-right to me.

[twe.livejournal.com]

Oh hey, yeah, the phone symbol is flipped, so I'm definitely going with mirroring the entire image.

[nuclearpolymer.livejournal.com]

It looks like the kind of ad that gets put up for ice skating shows.

[ricedog.livejournal.com]

Without reading any of the comments, it looks left-right reversed.