re: Which of these scams did your parents/grandparents fall for?

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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.

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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.