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Originally Posted by manaboutown
Anybody getting solicitations from brokers offering free dinners? I seem to get about one per week. According to The Wall Street Journal many "troubled" brokers cluster in areas inhabited by relatively well off senior citizens. Free dinners are one way to mine for the gold. Brokers refer to the dinners as "platelickers". How Troubled Brokers Cluster, Often Among Elderly Investors - WSJ - WSJ |
We get them all the time - straight in the recycle bag. We made a huge mistake a couple of months ago, we fell for a seminar put on by a company who we thought were in some way attached to the Fire Department in TV! They were actually selling smoke alarms and carbon monoxide alarms which are hard wired into the home and attic. They sounded like a really good idea and we were stupid enough to let the salesman come to the house afterwards to see our property and give us a "really good price" for our safety. He wanted us to spend upwards of $7,000 and we could not get him out of the house ................ never, ever again, will I be taken by anyone.