Friday, July 08, 2005
Rich, Very Rich!
No "real" lunch today ("Whatever I can rumage from the fridge.")
The editors, inspired by the Monz, engaged in a little investigative reporting today. For months our radio airwaves have been inundated by a commercial offering a foolproof real estate system by one "Dolff Daruss," a Brit (we think) who will teach us how to become "rich , very rich" (followed immediately by the sound of a cell phone ringing). So we dialed-up the toll free number to get our free tape, using the special MYL phone (which has caller-id blocked). The friendly young woman took our name and address. She seemed slightly put-off when we gave her a PO Box, but perked-up when she asked if we were novices to real estate (we are) and if we're interested in making money in real estate (oh yes, we believe that there is a real estate bubble and when it crashes we think there will be some real opportunities and want to know how to take advantage of them - yay!). She asked for our phone number and we helpfully gave her the MYL efax number, in case, you know, she wanted to fax us something.
Then she excitedly told us (summarizing here) how Dolff's system would work in good times and bad and how now he was providing a special computer program that would tell us how much money we could expect to make from any given property (residential or commercial) and how he had combined forces with Nightingale-Covent and packaged his program with N-C's real estate program and how for shipping and handling charges we would get the whole package to review for 30-days. We declined. Why? she asked with a hurt tone, when a mailer would be included to return the package. "Well, actually we're going to be kinda busy in the next month." But N-C are no fools, they were ready for us. "Actually we are offering you sixty days to review, so there's absolutely no risk." Oooh, clever. But we shamelessly blabbered that while we saluted such an upstanding policy, we are neurotic about feeling pressured and still needed to demure.
(pause) "So you're not really serious about making money, are you?"
"Actually, no, not right now -- as we told you, we think there's a real estate bubble and won't be doing anything until the crash. So...do we still get the free tape?"
We are told that we will, and if and when it arrives we will report. But one more observation: soon after Dolff hit the airwaves, we heard another dude hawking a real estate system on the radio and offering a free tape. We forget the name, but he had an American accent. And his ad also had a cell phone ringing. You don't think he's partnered with N-C too, do you?
No "real" lunch today ("Whatever I can rumage from the fridge.")
The editors, inspired by the Monz, engaged in a little investigative reporting today. For months our radio airwaves have been inundated by a commercial offering a foolproof real estate system by one "Dolff Daruss," a Brit (we think) who will teach us how to become "rich , very rich" (followed immediately by the sound of a cell phone ringing). So we dialed-up the toll free number to get our free tape, using the special MYL phone (which has caller-id blocked). The friendly young woman took our name and address. She seemed slightly put-off when we gave her a PO Box, but perked-up when she asked if we were novices to real estate (we are) and if we're interested in making money in real estate (oh yes, we believe that there is a real estate bubble and when it crashes we think there will be some real opportunities and want to know how to take advantage of them - yay!). She asked for our phone number and we helpfully gave her the MYL efax number, in case, you know, she wanted to fax us something.
Then she excitedly told us (summarizing here) how Dolff's system would work in good times and bad and how now he was providing a special computer program that would tell us how much money we could expect to make from any given property (residential or commercial) and how he had combined forces with Nightingale-Covent and packaged his program with N-C's real estate program and how for shipping and handling charges we would get the whole package to review for 30-days. We declined. Why? she asked with a hurt tone, when a mailer would be included to return the package. "Well, actually we're going to be kinda busy in the next month." But N-C are no fools, they were ready for us. "Actually we are offering you sixty days to review, so there's absolutely no risk." Oooh, clever. But we shamelessly blabbered that while we saluted such an upstanding policy, we are neurotic about feeling pressured and still needed to demure.
(pause) "So you're not really serious about making money, are you?"
"Actually, no, not right now -- as we told you, we think there's a real estate bubble and won't be doing anything until the crash. So...do we still get the free tape?"
We are told that we will, and if and when it arrives we will report. But one more observation: soon after Dolff hit the airwaves, we heard another dude hawking a real estate system on the radio and offering a free tape. We forget the name, but he had an American accent. And his ad also had a cell phone ringing. You don't think he's partnered with N-C too, do you?
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