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Old 08-11-2017, 08:39 AM
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You have drawn a very poor analogy. If you own any mutual funds, ETFs, individual stocks, futures, options, etc. then you are using financial vehicles. This is just another one.

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Originally Posted by suesiegel View Post
This lesson was learned many years ago. WE used to send for FREE STAMPS advertised on matchbook covers and then the BILLS would just keep coming.

TRUTH, I did not learn the lesson the first time. I picked up a tear off thing for FREE LAND IN-that right-IN FLORIDA, from a NYC bus about 1958. If, you remember all the scams for FLORIDA SWAMP LAND in the 1950's and 1960's.
On this ad, you supplied your phone number. I was about seven when I sent in for MY FREE LAND. These guys kept hounding us on the phone. My dad finally got rid of them when he explained my allowance was TWENTY-FIVE CENTS A WEEK and they could not do business with a minor.