Got a call that I won (filled out the ballot at the rib fest once you enter)
They tell you you will win one of these 5 prizes 1) vacation getway 2) TV 3) Laptop 4) $1000 giftcard (furniture) 5) $1500 cash.
They get you into a room at a cheap hotel, tell you turn off your cell phone, and give you a 1.5-2 hour presentation about how they can give you all of these discounts on various products and services and save thousands of dollars which raised red flags (but not deals) when they said you could get trips for $499 that would cost $2000 with pricing guaranteed for 25 years for these various trips, or 2% above dealer invoice on cars, low interest rates on mortgages and consolidation of debts to lower interest rates (which you don't need them to do), etc, etc along with naming name brand companies like The Brick, banks, etc but then a lot of companies we hadn't heard of and all of these comparisons of savings, etc.
They wanted an investment of $7250 I believe in order to participate in the savings which screams pyramid scheme so there was no way we were getting into that but it is unfortunate we had to wait until that time to see this. I was going to get up and say this was a scam When they did their sales pitch and saw that we weren't interested they quickly actioned us to leave the room before the others so they could work on them and then they got us to draw a ticket out of a drum that had "#1" written on it which corresponded to the vacation getaway (which you need to pay $49 to use and it is only accommodations in a cheap ***** hotel I'm thinking and not worth the paper it is written on). I imagine that the drum only had the #1 tickets in it and nothing else and once you sign up they say sorry you only get #1.
Anyway stay away from these scammers. If you get a call saying you won do not go its a scam!
Milton Rib Fest organizers you should be ashamed of yourselves for having these guys there.
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