SURPRISING STUFF
Continuing to report on the phony ads coming across the television screens of the nation.
How about 14 milligrams of a gold nickel for $9.95? Oh, add $6 or so for shipping. That’s about fifteen bucks. How much is 15 milligrams of 24 carat gold worth at gold’s present value? The value is about $.75, or seventy-five cents. How is this legal? Well, it’s called caveat emptor or buyer beware, in English. The company that puts out these very expensive ads can afford to do so because the payout to them in profits is so huge. They count on being able to handle the few authority agencies that might complain by saying that there’s a collector value to buying the coins, these coins so small that a dropping one might call for quite some time examining the living room carpet to find.
How about some of that really awful life insurance offered in ads to people attracted to ‘old folks’ kind of television programming? Colonial Penn, a company that should have been put out of business many years ago, is still robbing the public. Ten bucks a month because price is the only important thing in the purchase. No medical questions. All you have to be is old. Oh, they don’t tell you that the policy you are paying $120 a year for is only worth $400 if you die, which means you have to die in less than three years to give anything at all to your beneficiary. If you live longer, you just keep on paying and going ever deeper in the hole on the ‘policy.’ What an insult to most credible American life insurance companies.
The equally idiotic but very profitable (for the purveyors of this crap) are still at it, as well, selling fruit and vegetables in tiny little pills that only the very dumbest part of the watching population might believe have anything in them of value at all. Balance of Nature is the name of this crappy lying company supplying these expensively idiotic supplements.
