Gold bar scheme: 120 fear they may lose $40m

[yeokiwi]

sometimes it is not just ignorant and greed at play. some peole who have been conned by trickster claimed that they have been "mesmeried'/"hynotised" too. not sure about that but one thing for sure is that some of these tricksters are such smooth talkers. try attending some of these hard push sales programs like share-vacation and you will know what i mean. My wife nearly got conned into buying a $5k vacuum cleaner. she felt 'obliged' to buy to get her off her back.

Hard selling normally comes with inducing guiltiness into potential customers for wasting their times in explaining and the sales person will also throw some sarcasms to tickle the prides of customers.
Frankly speaking, it is extremely irritating.

I had been to time share talk by Marriot Vacation and the promoter used the following tricks after we rejected the offer:
1) showed dejected face => why waste my time..
2) lamenting that we had given such a good offer a pass...
3) showed us photo album of those who bought the package => see.. so many people buy, u silly couple..
4) started to ask how much was your budget => once you offered any amount, they would structure a deal immediately and made it your fault if you rejected it later.
5) restructure the price of the package
6) offered even more freebies
7) when all else failed, asked tha manager to come for next round of talk..

why we went for the talk? they offered $200 taka vouchers if we attended the talk..haha
not too bad for 1.5 hr of time. I thought we were the fastest to get out. Many of them were still stuck.
Lastly, quite a nice training session to handle these hard sell promoters.