raz opened this issue on Feb 04, 2005 ยท 17 posts
logansfury posted Fri, 04 February 2005 at 11:39 AM
OMG!!! This was an ACTUAL telemarketting scam!! Back in the late 80's early 90's in Las Vegas was the WORST time in history for complete scumbags to say ANYTHING to sell anything with little to no regulation of the industry whatsoever. Just before the federal agents started busting down the doors of boiler room operations and arresting people, one of the myriad of companys selling bunk vitamins at about 700%-1000% above retail cost to unsuspecting seniors thru thier credit cards, figgured a play on words would keep them in the clear. They guarenteed that anyone that bought some kind of "platnum vitamin package" - basically anyone that got hustled into spending over $5,000.00 on vitamins - recieved a "40 foot yatch" as a prize which was in fact about a 12" long toy boat with 40 barbie-doll feet glued along the railing. Sigh.