We were contacted by "Ted" at Uniway to come in for a tour of the "showroom". We were promised 2 free gifts just for coming. The tour was supposed to take an hour. We were there for at least 2 hours. There were 2 other sets of people in our group. After the tour, Daniel (our slick, fast talking, and funny salesperson) split us up and began the hard sell. They wanted a mere $3195. For a membership to their buying club. If we had bad credit they would finance us for 24% a month.
When we told him we were not interested, Daniel became indignant and said, "Do you want to pay retail for the rest of your life?" We were like, "whatever" and made a beeline for the door. The "gifts" that we received were a worthless $500. On line shopping spree (all you pay is shipping which is about what each junk product is worth) and a $30. Voucher for dinner which was supposed to be filled out by our representative... Never filled out.
I am sad to say that I believe a young, obviously struggling single mom was taken in by all this. I wonder if this qualifies as predatory lending practices. It should be illegal.
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