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A few weeks back I took my wife in to a hearing aid specialist as her old hearing aid was chewed up by our dog. The technician did her best to steer us toward a pair of $3000. hearing aids and away from the less expensive pair that had been advertised. We left and spent 1000.00 elsewhere.

Another time I was making funeral preparations for my mother, I am one of those who thinks it's foolish to bury money, the funeral director kept pushing me to buy a casket with a gasket. He said they were guaranteed to keep water out and help preserve the remains. I asked if there would be a refund if the gasket gave out. He then realized that I wasn't some poor grieving soul that would buy snake oil.

Have any of you had to deal with up-sellers? Share your stories.
 
Funeral services upselling was one of the worst as I remember. And I think it finally caught up with their industry when a lot of people saw how they were being scammed.
 
peeonme said:
A few weeks back I took my wife in to a hearing aid specialist as her old hearing aid was chewed up by our dog. The technician did her best to steer us toward a pair of $3000. hearing aids and away from the less expensive pair that had been advertised. We left and spent 1000.00 elsewhere.

Another time I was making funeral preparations for my mother, I am one of those who thinks it's foolish to bury money, the funeral director kept pushing me to buy a casket with a gasket. He said they were guaranteed to keep water out and help preserve the remains. I asked if there would be a refund if the gasket gave out. He then realized that I wasn't some poor grieving soul that would buy snake oil.

Have any of you had to deal with up-sellers? Share your stories.
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Is incineration more expensive? Would you face a curse if you just went cheaper, no matter the will of the deceased?
 
peeonme said:
. . the funeral director kept pushing me to buy a casket with a gasket. He said they were guaranteed to keep water out and help preserve the remains.
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"Preserve the remains? " There's your red flag right there.

Would you really dig up your dear departed mother's corpse just to check the gasket?
 
^ Selling is not about services or products, guarantees or benefits, but about mind games as excuses to overcharge.
 
I just rented a car in Dallas for the weekend.

Now, what you YOU think?

:LOL:
 
I think I ranted about this before, but I had an experience recently with someone at a cell phone store who aggressively tried to up-sell me. It's not like I have a flip phone because I am unaware that the smart phone was invented. It's because--for the moment, at least--a flip phone is all I need. My phone needs, in fact, are--surprise, surprise!--making an occasional phone call. I have a computer to handle my Internet needs. I neither need, nor desire an ability to run apps. My life is not hopelessly incomplete with an inability to post to social media--which I don't really use (apart from discussion forums)--my every move when I'm out running errands. ("Just stepped into the grocery store. The kumquat display looks so enticing!")
 
Going back in time... I remember when getting an audio system (my last--probably last ever :cry: --new audio system) in the early 1990s that there were suggestions (altough not active upselling) that supposedly were better, but--you guessed it!--added cost. I went along, but looking back, some suggestions probably weren't the best choices.

A couple of years before that, I got my first--and probably last :cry: --new computer, and it was interesting how much of the software the store promoted was $$$$, like M$ Word and M$ Excel. I resisted, but it was frustrating trying to make choices when all they apparently new was $$$$ products.
 
I had a mid-size car reserved for this weekend, but they didn't hae any in stock, so they had to upgrade me.

I've been driving around in a honking Pallisade for two days.

Shoved a couple of lil cars off into the ditch last night. No idea what they were or why they didn't see me coming.

"Tank, tank, tank, tank, tank . . . "
 
belamyi said:
Is incineration more expensive? Would you face a curse if you just went cheaper, no matter the will of the deceased?
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It's a matter of conscience and of course money. In some circles religion plays a part as well. I couldn't "double cross" a person that had entrusted me by making me the beneficiary of their life insurance policy by having them cremated rather than buried if they expressed a desire to go traditional on their funeral.
 
me203 said:
Going back in time... I remember when getting an audio system (my last--probably last ever :cry: --new audio system) in the early 1990s that there were suggestions (altough not active upselling) that supposedly were better, but--you guessed it!--added cost. I went along, but looking back, some suggestions probably weren't the best choices.

A couple of years before that, I got my first--and probably last :cry: --new computer, and it was interesting how much of the software the store promoted was $$$$, like M$ Word and M$ Excel. I resisted, but it was frustrating trying to make choices when all they apparently new was $$$$ products.
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You are SO anti-American :mrgreen: 🤜🤛 That's why one must pay less taxes to the Fdral, to be able to be heavily taxed by the Corp.
 
NotHardUp1 said:
I had a mid-size car reserved for this weekend, but they didn't hae any in stock, so they had to upgrade me.

I've been driving around in a honking Pallisade for two days.

Shoved a couple of lil cars off into the ditch last night. No idea what they were or why they didn't see me coming.

"Tank, tank, tank, tank, tank . . . "
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Maybe they were Europeans renting European cars for their holiday.
 
peeonme said:
It's a matter of conscience and of course money. In some circles religion plays a part as well. I couldn't "double cross" a person that had entrusted me by making me the beneficiary of their life insurance policy by having them cremated rather than buried if they expressed a desire to go traditional on their funeral.
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Exactly: then why complain about costs.
It's the same pampering of "I want a birthday party for my friends" literally down to the grave.

Wait, you said it was all because they had left you money... so if there was nothing but their bare sentimental, not legal will, and you had to pay for it... we would do it anyway too, wouldn't we.
 
belamyi said:
Maybe they were Europeans renting European cars for their holiday.
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Europeans can drive?!!! When did they get cars?

And why would they go to Texas in August? Can't they barbecue their own sheep?
 
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