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re: Which of these scams did your parents/grandparents fall for?
Posted on 2/14/24 at 10:38 am to Drewco
Posted on 2/14/24 at 10:38 am to Drewco
My mother made it all the way to Walmart to buy gift cards because the “geek squad” repair guy messed up charging her and he was going to get in trouble. Luckily the Walmart cashier was wise to it.
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Posted on 2/14/24 at 10:43 am to CAD703X
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Tupperware parties.
That's what my dad's crew called it when they would get together out at the lake and drink beer. Mighty confusing for young JR.
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 11:15 am to CAD703X
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Kirby. Oh man. I thought my dad was going to hide in the bushes and beat the shite out of that guy. We might be the only family who got a refund on that.
Still a thing. We had one at the house about a year ago. My senile old daddy let them in the door and when my wife and I got home at nearly 10 PM they were all in the living room having a very friendly conversation. They had vacuumed the whole house and had been high pressure selling my dad for about 5 hours apparently. They started in on us when we got home and I told them we had a vacuum cleaner and were going to go upstairs to bed and would most likely be busy fricking for about 45 minutes (that was an exaggeration) and would be pretty sleepy after that and I was prone to bad behavior if my sleep was interrupted and there was a respectable arsenal upstairs that could be used to facilitate that bad behavior. According to my dad they stayed about 2 hours after that, packed their shite and left.
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Tupperware
The women in my family when I was a kid thought more of a Tupperware bowl and lid than they did any person in their home. Had a fire broke out and anyone of them had to choose between an orange Tupperware bowl and lid or the 3 month old baby lying asleep in its crib she'd be standing outside the inferno hollering for someone to save the baby...all the while clutching that bowl as if it was the holy grail...
Posted on 2/14/24 at 11:26 am to CAD703X
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Tupperware parties. Geez those plastic bowls were expensive. We were required to treat them like fine China.
I still have some a bunch of tupperware that was my grandparents and parents.
Far superior to most other crap.
Posted on 2/14/24 at 11:36 am to CAD703X
My grandmother/aunt fell for the "Cocomo is in jail for a drunk driving arrest and needs $500 for bail" scam.
Nevermind that I have never been drunk once in my life, or that it was an unknown number. But my aunt went straight to the bank to withdraw money and was about to call them back with instructions on what to do with it...that's when she had a moment of clarity and called one of her sons (my cousin) and he called me and I was sitting at work, most likely on TD.
I told her that I was appreciative that she dropped everything and wanted to bail me out, but next time just call or shoot me a quick text to avoid a ton of headaches.
It amazed me that she almost fell for that, and opened my eyes to just how many people these assholes get money from.
Nevermind that I have never been drunk once in my life, or that it was an unknown number. But my aunt went straight to the bank to withdraw money and was about to call them back with instructions on what to do with it...that's when she had a moment of clarity and called one of her sons (my cousin) and he called me and I was sitting at work, most likely on TD.
I told her that I was appreciative that she dropped everything and wanted to bail me out, but next time just call or shoot me a quick text to avoid a ton of headaches.
It amazed me that she almost fell for that, and opened my eyes to just how many people these assholes get money from.
Posted on 2/14/24 at 11:47 am to CAD703X
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World Book Encyclopedia.
Not a scam.
This was the Internet of that era. Helped get me and my siblings through many a school project
Posted on 2/14/24 at 11:47 am to alphaandomega
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I still have some a bunch of tupperware that was my grandparents and parents.
Far superior to most other crap.
For the uncultured among us who don't know no better they were damned good products. Virtually indestructible. About the only thing that ever happened to one was it got left at a potluck or an all day singing and dinner on the ground. This usually only happened when the lady it belonged to took drunk and forgot to get it before going home...
Posted on 2/14/24 at 11:54 am to ConfusedHawgInMO
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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.
Hell you never had to pay a dime for the things after the penny the first order cost...all you had to do was send another penny and the stupid bastards would send you 10 - 12 more, whatever the deal was at the time. Everybody I knew as a kid did it time and time and time again. They'd send you all kinds of nasty letters threatening all manner of ill shite but what were they going to do to a 13 year old kid, sue them? Garnish their wages? Tell your parents? I know full well what my Dad would have told them..."y'all ought not to have sent them to him. He ain't got a job, has no money and y'all ought to have known better. What kind of moron sends a 13 year old 10 albums for a penny?".
Posted on 2/14/24 at 11:56 am to CAD703X
Rainbow vacuums. If you had of these you were rich rich. I’m convinced my mother died still coveting a Rainbow.
Posted on 2/14/24 at 11:58 am to AwgustaDawg
My parents... avon, encyclopedias and tupperware.
Me columbia house, ran that many times
Think we are still using some tupperware ;)
Me columbia house, ran that many times
Think we are still using some tupperware ;)
Posted on 2/14/24 at 11:58 am to RobbBobb
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World Book Encyclopedia.
Not a scam.
This was the Internet of that era. Helped get me and my siblings through many a school project
I don't know how anyone in the 70s wrote a report for school without plagiarizing the set of encyclopedias their mama and daddy got at the piggly wiggly by paying a penny a volume for every $25 worth of groceries bought. And by plagiarizing I do not mean paraphrasing; I mean copying word for word. We had all 26 volumes PLUS the full color atlas and the dictionary. I was more interested in that Atlas than I was my dad's playboy collection until I was 13 or so....
Posted on 2/14/24 at 11:58 am to AwgustaDawg
I remember my mom talking with the Fuller Brush salesman. I was amazed at the big selection of brushes in his suitcase. He had a brush for every need.
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 12:02 pm to CAD703X
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Tupperware parties.
I completely forgot about these holy shite
Posted on 2/14/24 at 12:04 pm to SpotCheckBilly
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My uncle was tricked by the asphalt gypsies.
I was working in my shop in New Mexico one afternoon and a F250 diesel 4 WD with about a 6 inch lift and all manner of fancy shite came spooling up the driveway with 2 men in their mid 20's. The driver had a South Carolina Gamecock hat on. They started in with their spiel about having some left over asphalt from a job 'round the corner and would I be interested in paying them a little cash to bring it over and spread it on my gravel drive. I asked them if they were from Murphy's Village and the gravel they sent flying backing out the driveway hung in the air for several minutes. I am sure they went back to the gypsy camp and told tall tales about the man in New Mexico who guessed where they were from....
Posted on 2/14/24 at 12:06 pm to Pax Regis
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Rainbow vacuums. If you had of these you were rich rich. I’m convinced my mother died still coveting a Rainbow.
Way overpriced? Yes
Scam? Not really
My Rainbow is over 20 years old and still works like new.
Posted on 2/14/24 at 12:06 pm to CAD703X
My grandmother switched long distance providers every 12 days
Posted on 2/14/24 at 12:08 pm to jcaz
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Cutco Cutlery
Like World Book and Kirby, may be overpriced, but the products were legit.
Posted on 2/14/24 at 12:10 pm to Weekend Warrior79
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My family did the Avon shite for a while.
My middle sister became an Avon Lady and at the time they would ship the shite and you'd pay them later. Idiots. She was 17 years old. She ordered about $1000 worth of the stuff under various names and when it came she sold it at a local flea market for about $500. She managed to do it 4 or 5 times until they refused to ship anything to our address. Had we had someone we trusted with a different address she'd have done it a bunch more. That stuff was so marked up they never bothered to try to collect, fat lot of good it would have done them.
May be an urban myth but supposedly an Avon lady in Augusta, Georgia made a couple of million dollars selling Skin So Soft to the Southern Company while they were building a nuclear power plant in Waynesboro (just south of the gnat line) Georgia. Apparently she was doing the same thing but they came after her and eventually collected some of the money.
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