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KALANZAR

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Bad business practice during a recession

Sun Aug 9, 2009 9:54 AM EDT
business, advertising, recession, fraud, credit-card, sucker, buyer-beware
By kalanzar
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If you listen to the radio now days, you will hear advertisements that are at best, misleading. The airways are clogged with verbal cholesterol of empty promises and downright lies. You can barely listen for more than 15 minutes without hearing the words "bailout", "government authorized", or "new laws - credit cards".

In the days of old, this kind of advertising was frowned upon. But no more.

You can get your credit cards crammed down with information that the credit card companies do not want you to know. In actuality, you can call your credit card company, explain your situation and they WILL work with you. This is a long standing fact, not a new law that has brought this about. These "professional negotiators" are using information that has always been there.

You can also call the "government authorized help line" to find foreclosed homes. Even though the specialized list that you are going to get is months out of date and you will stand little chance of finding any homes that are for sale at the unbelievable rate of 99 dollars a month as they state. Just FYI, you can get the same list by visiting most larger mortgage companies or banks. If you are really intent on getting one of these foreclosed homes, just visit your local county clerk and BE NICE, they will show you how to get the information for your area.

Finally, Get skinny with no exercise, become better endowed or "please your mate" with our FREE offer. The offer is free, they will ship you your pills which do not require FDA approval because they are for the most part, all natural. And what they fail to mention is that changes in your diet would have the same effect. The FREE offer is great except that you are going to pay a high rate for "shipping and handling". Even Ebay has outlawed this practice, but it is alive an well in the world of business.

So before you pick up that phone and make the call to get a list, a credit card repair or lose some weight, remember that the OLD stories are the best stories. "if it sounds to good to be true... it probably is". But more-so, remember the words of PT Barnum. "There is a sucker born every minute"

Christopher Klein
Memphis TN

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Michael the Great

Those $99 houses are all in Detroit, no doubt.

    Reply#1 - Sun Aug 9, 2009 3:00 PM EDT
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