So i got this phonecall

[sss]

well... i get this phone call..some chick says i have won 1 of her 4 garunteed prizes...

all i have to do is goto this hotel and sit through their 1 hour presentation thingy


i win either

1. 1000 cash
2. cellphone
3. holiday for 2
4. something else

its from Futurevest Lifestyle Centre


whats the deal with these things??

[Pios]

Dare I say ...

There is NO such thing as a free lunch ..

[rainy]

I dunno, but it sounds like horsecrap to me. Noone gives away a cellphone or a holiday just for listening to a presentation.

[sss]

well yes... but i am wondering what the catch is... someone must know.. my dad does but i dont feel like asking him... he goes overboard about these things

[Pios]

They invite you there, make you look/listern to crap for a hour then sells you some crap then you MAY get a free holiday in a rat infested place in somalia

[sss]

well im sure someone must know the actual facts about this stuff

[stoke]

The holiday prize is real ... you'll get a 2 night stay in a good hotel off season .
All you'll have to do is provide the money for tickets + visa + food + drink.

The money/cellphone prize they give to peeps that they place in the group specifically to do some "insider trading".

All you have to do is pitch.
Listern to their sales pitch.
Do a 1 on 1 interview where they do a more intensive sales pitch at your face.
Then they give you your prize and enter your details in for the next moron who wants to do something similar.

I am the proud owner of 5 days in Maritius during july.
I have booked it for 2010.

[sss]

well i guess i'm not going!

[Sminty]

Good decision...my wife dragged me to those things once...what an absolute waste of time.

[sss]

what did u win?

[gus]

Yes, I got phoned three months in a row saying each time how lucky I was to have won one of the four prizes above. The first two times I was polite and said I could not make it. By the third month I got pissed of and told them I must be the luckiest person in the world to win every month and told them to get lost. They did not bother me again.

[Alluvium]

4. something else



something else like a free pen, or a kick in the testies ...

[Scooby_Doo16]

4. something else



something else like a free pen, or a kick in the testies ...


LOL, would love to see some ones face if they got those. :rofl:

[Megnut3025]

lol... I dragged Punky off to one of those seminars once... Well...lets just say I rather have stayed home and pulled my toenails out one at a time before I ever went to another one...
They do give you a free 2 night stay (which we never used because it has to be out of season only on the 3rd weekend of every 4th month and not in a leap year...ie... N E V E R!)after about 3 hours of waffeling in your ear about timeshare and blah blah blah blah.... Thankfully my brain goes into standby mode if it doesnt hear anything about BF2, Cars or Food after about 2 minutes so it was all pretty much wasted on me :p

So now when they phone I am very friendly and instead of going myself I kindly give them 5 of my friends numbers that I know would love to go!! :D ... Sorry SSS Won't give your number out again!! :yipes: ... Oh but Ummm Stoke you and TG & Bass & Fivel can all expect calls soon ;)

[GeroW4lll]

Yea they try to sell you time share or some holiday club that works increadably similar to time share. There's a Southpark episode about this. It's called aspen. You never leave alive unless you sign up. Well in the SP you didn't. My mom dargged my dad to one of those onece and signed up for it and she won the privalage to pay a lawyer thousands of rands in legal fees to get rid of them. Take this advice: Don't let them get you! Interpol didn't catch Carlos the Jaccal. He was caught by a timeshare/holiday club company! When they draged him away there was still a letter in his mailbox saying you may already have won.....

[stoke]

Any time Meg ... The last one I wnet to with me ex wife we both stood up and coaxed everyone into leaving half way through the first pesentation. It was our second one and we went with the sole aim of doing that. It was awesome.

They have not called me since.

[spAc3dd]

You go there for an hour and they waste your time. Then they have a draw to see what you win and it's usually some self-catered lame weekend away that you'll never use...

[sss]

well i didnt bother... instead i went to the mall

[Megnut3025]

@sss... good man... I'd rather go to the mall anyday...more specifically to the movies and Mugg 'n Bean .... over one of those stupid presentations!! :)