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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
^^^^ I'm sure that they would be glad to sell you either.... or both.
...We soon were seated next to another couple at a table for four. Nice. However it was soon apparent that they were shills and we were the mark...
Interesting. Never thought they'd team up two-on-two. A few plants in the audience maybe, but your own personal shills? Wow!
I wonder how much they pay the shills. Maybe a good side hustle there...
Actually, at the two of these I've been to (one time share, one annuity sales pitch) I actually felt bad for the other couples seated near us. Especially if they ask questions. Maybe I still feel it's rude to contradict the presenter who just bought me dinner. I don't want to come out and say "this is BS" so I'll say something like "I don't really see how the numbers would work for us."
I guess they count on us marks being polite like that.
Reading this thread makes me think of Darrow Kirkpatrick’s blog post on determining what you time is worth: https://www.caniretireyet.com/financial-simplicity-what-is-your-time-worth/
He does it to help decide whether to spend time on financial mgt and other tasks. But, one does give up time for these ‘free’ dinner pitches, or other such offers, so it seems applicable.
I have never attended a ‘free dinner’ sales pitch; the 2-4 hrs for $100-$150 (for 2 people) never seemed like a good investment of our time, knowing we wouldn’t be buying. However, up the ante enough and you’ll get my interest. For example, offer me 5 nights in a $2000/nt 2BR/2BA oceanfront suite on Maui @ $500/nt for listening to a 1.5 hr timeshare pitch, and I’m in. . That’s $2,500/hr for me plus same for DW. Not sure I’d do the timeshare thing again but, I was pretty happy with deal at the time and, $2,500/hr is a bit more than I made while working.
In Orlando Florida there are many time share presentations where a free good meal is offered and usually includes free tickets to Disney or Universal. 2-3 hours of time but worth it. Someone in the group always get suckered into buying into one of the sales pitches.I enjoyed reading this article. The content will not surprise anybody here.
"We went to a steak dinner annuity pitch. The salesman wasn't pleased".
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/30/...dinner.html?smid=tw-nytimesbusiness&smtyp=cur
But how was the steak?
I got invited !!!
This is terrific as it's been the first time in many years (if ever) to get invited.
It's also a sign our neighborhood has gone up in value ? As I heard they only send the invites to certain area's.
It's for Ruth's Chris Steakhouse. . I've never been there ... ymmmm !!
I got one today that's a little different.
Free dinner at a local restaurant "Immediately following our digestive health seminar."
There's a list of digestive system symptoms, along with the suggestion to "Learn what you can do to restore your gut function, naturally and WITHOUT DRUGS"
I got invited !!!
This is terrific as it's been the first time in many years (if ever) to get invited.
It's also a sign our neighborhood has gone up in value ? As I heard they only send the invites to certain area's.
I was seated upfront at the Fisher presentation; and my questions to Fisher were about their fees ...