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re: Which of these scams did your parents/grandparents fall for?
Posted on 2/14/24 at 8:10 am to CAD703X
Posted on 2/14/24 at 8:10 am to CAD703X
those deals where you would pay $10 bucks or something for a CD and then get 5 for a penny. but then they charged S&H for each one.
And then you had to buy 10 more full priced within the year or they'd charge you $200 or something.
And then you had to buy 10 more full priced within the year or they'd charge you $200 or something.
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Posted on 2/14/24 at 8:18 am to 3nOut
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those deals where you would pay $10 bucks or something for a CD and then get 5 for a penny. but then they charged S&H for each one.
And then you had to buy 10 more full priced within the year or they'd charge you $200 or something.
My dad actually scammed those clubs (BMG, Columbia House, etc). He built an incredible collection of music and helped me start my own collection and never payed the full price or fines or whatever. I can't remember what the trick was...whether it was simply cancelling after the freebies were sent or what. But I do remember packages arriving with a bunch of random people's names on them so I think he was creating accounts with other names attached to circumvent the process.
Posted on 2/14/24 at 8:27 am to 3nOut
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those deals where you would pay $10 bucks or something for a CD and then get 5 for a penny. but then they charged S&H for each one.
And then you had to buy 10 more full priced within the year or they'd charge you $200 or something.
Yeah, they are still trying to collect from R. G. Bargie and Bill Melater.
Posted on 2/14/24 at 10:47 am to 3nOut
Columbia House and BMG are why I have most of my ridiculously huge CD collection. If you paid attention you almost never paid full price and if you did you could use coupons to get more freebies. I bet for every 1 I paid full price for I would get at least 2 for free.
Before the days of file sharing and streaming it was a godsend for a kid from the middle of nowhere.
Sidebar I always wanted to be the guy that wrote the descriptions for the CDs... Arkansas metal savants bring the thunder with whiskey soaked vocals and tales of debauchery.
Before the days of file sharing and streaming it was a godsend for a kid from the middle of nowhere.
Sidebar I always wanted to be the guy that wrote the descriptions for the CDs... Arkansas metal savants bring the thunder with whiskey soaked vocals and tales of debauchery.
Posted on 2/14/24 at 12:00 pm to 3nOut
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those deals where you would pay $10 bucks or something for a CD and then get 5 for a penny. but then they charged S&H for each one.
And then you had to buy 10 more full priced within the year or they'd charge you $200 or something.
I took advantage of several of those Columbia House/BMG “x” number of albums for a penny deals and never, ever bought another thing.
Posted on 2/14/24 at 12:11 pm to 3nOut
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Columbia House
Still have the jingle stuck in my head 25+ years later.
Posted on 2/14/24 at 12:33 pm to 3nOut
It was well known that you could ignore the requests for o purchase or more and their collection notices. Columbia/BMG didn’t care because there were so many people falling for the scam that they didn’t have to bother with jumping through legal hopes to get a person to fork over a couple of hundred bucks to complete the membership.
Posted on 2/14/24 at 3:39 pm to 3nOut
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Columbia House
My cousin lives in a trailer park that had all the mailboxes at the road. He would put random names and the addresses of people in the trailer park to get the cassettes. He did it during the summer one year so he could be around when the mail passes. There were 20-30 trailers in the park and he used pretty much every address but his.
My brother found out about that but we didn't live in a trailer park so he just used our address. My mom found out and made him use his own money to pay the rest so it wouldn't "ruin his credit" at 15 years old lol.
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