The "ITS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE" thread, based on Robert A. Heinliens concept:

"THERE AIN'T NO SUCH THING AS A FREE LUNCH".

(T-A-N-S-T-A-A-F-L)

What "RIP-OFFS" do you know of?

(True life, first person stories, please)

WE can't substantiate or verify anything that begins with the words"

"I have heard..."
"My friend told me..."
"It is rumored that..."

And so on.

Any Person or Persons using "Art Bell" as a reference will be crucified without jury trial procedures.

An old line from a Kris Kristopherson song comes to mind:
"Who do I screw, to get out of this place?"
(Soundtrack to the movie "SONGWRITER")

What has happened to you, things you were sold, ideas, or business suggestions, that turned out to be far more beneficial to someone else than they were supposed to be to you?

Or just plain ways you got robbed...

(?) Legally, come to think of it.
(He says, disgustedly)

 

any job oppertunity that is home based and arrives via email, Hell, acctually 99.7% of email offers.....

this price this guy is paying for his truck

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/s...d.php?t=433774

 

Primerica.

Lost 200$

Beware the red umbrella!

 

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I'm sure I've been taken for a few bucks, but I can't remember any off the top of my head right now.

But, I have been sucked in to talking to telemarketers a few times. One lady called saying I won a pair of hockey tickets, all I had to do was book an interview with a salesperson for a timeshare. ... Uh, yeah. Like that's gonna happen. If I already won the tickets, why should I work for them? After 10 minutes of trying not to be rude, I set an appointment for a Sunday in January. (This was October) So January rolls around, the lady calls back to confirm my appointment. Not a good time to be calling, as we're on the way out. The lady wouldn't take the hint. I didn't even want the hockey tickets anyway, so get bent, leave us alone. Then she tries to pull a guilt trip. "You made a commitment to Sunday, you have to show up to get your tickets." "I DON'T WANT THE STUPID TICKETS, I'M NOT COMING TO YOUR STUPID TIME SHARE SEMINAR!!! GIVE THEM TO SOMEONE ELSE, I'M LATE FOR ANOTHER COMMITMENT." "Okay, thanks for your time, can I rebook your appointment?" That's when I hung up.

Yeah.

I got sucked into another timeshare thing in Mazatlan. Right off the boat, there's a booth with a bunch of people offering "free" taxi rides into town. All you have to do is attent a 5 minute presentation. Fair enough. 5 minutes. But when we got there, it was a 2 hour wait for the 5 minute presentation. Try to leave? Not gonna happen. I offered 5 times, to pay for the cab if we can just leave. "uh, we can no do that senyor" Finally, the guy says "I get de manayer" And the manayer says for us to leave, we gotta pay the taxi. Ya think?

Never again. (timeshare I mean.) Do I have a sign on my forehead that says "I got time for everything you're selling?" I'll have to change it to "Don't call me, I'll call you"

 

Paying the Canadian Government Taxes.

They Peed away six billion on a gun registry that has yet to save it's first life. In My lifetime, it will still be yet to save it's first life.

What a scam.

 

It occurs to me that I'm still waiting to get a statement from the collection agency that Cingular sent after me when I told them to just shut down the cell phone account (this was because of additional charges that I disputed).

I can pay off the amount easily, and be done with it - but I suspect the agency they sold the account to is even less scrupulous than they were.

In brief - though I never noticed any interruption in service, apparently the phone was turned off, and then they raked off thirty bucks for turning it back on out of a regular monthly payment. This went on for a month or two, until I found myself looking at a truly extraordinary amount due.

And then I said hell no, we're not playing this game anymore. Send me a closing statement that specifically states that the phone will NOT be turned back on, with or without additional charges for doing so.

No such statement arrived. After the first month, I began to recieve calls from a collection agency who wanted money paid over the phone by credit card, or from a checking account. I told them I needed a statement sent by mail for my records, and to verify that they were legitimate. They claimed that Cingular had not provided them with my address when they took over the account. They also announced that they were levying an eighty dollar one time service charge.

I gave them my address, verified it was correct, and have still not recieved anything in the mail from them at all.

That was at least three months ago.

This is the era of Identity Theft. There is no way I will read off credit card numbers, account numbers, or any other such thing to just anyone who calls me up on the phone!

Cingular. "Raising the Bar"... Yeah, sure. Whatever you say.
I don't think so.

For one thing - I was not interested in a High Jumping competition, just a simple telephone.