After attending the an Oregon Bridal show I got a call saying that I had won a free vacation and $1000 dollars in gift certificates. I've read from peoples blogs and posts that you have to play a $100 deposit and taxes to get the trip. I was wondering what about the girt certificates. Will they really be handing those out or do I need to pay a bunch of money before I get those too?|||This is a scam. Basically this is a big, less reputable, tupperware party. The presentation that we went to was supposed to be 90 minutes, it was around 2 1/2 hours.
They give you a voucher for "$1000 dollars in gift certificates" It is actually about a thousand dollars worth of coupons. Which you have to pay 10% up front to the company to get. Then they will try to say that you will get $300 dollars wot of merchandise gift cards. WRONG - it is another scam. You have to send in money yet again to get discounts on merchandise. It is an online coupon program.
The worst of all is the vacation certificate. It really isn't worth the time and effort. You pay 10 dollars plus taxes and fees. Thos run about $40-$50 dollars a night per person. If you figure that most Hotels room rates include fees but not taxes. On the high end, for a $100 dollar room, you save $40 a night (taxes are around $7 to $10 a night so $40 - $10 = $30 dollars of savings per person). For a total, for a US stay of 2 nights, of $80 dollars. Now is that really worth 2 peoples time for 2 hours roughly works out to $20 dollars per hour per person. I get paid $29 dollars an hour, salary,at work. That is less than I get paid to work. Also don't forget the inital outlay of money.
They offer the all inclusive vacations because most, if not all, people that they bring to these seminars are plannig their weddings and do not make alot of money. They cannot take advantage of an all inclusive 3day/4night package outside of the country because they have to pay for their weddings and are low on cash. That is also after they sign for $2000.00 to $3000.00 dollars worth of cooking implements, china and stemware at the seminar. They know that very few people are going to put out any money for a program that they are unsure of to get back a "travel voucher" with blackout dates that has to be used one year from issuance.
Not to mention, you have to still pay your airfare and the stated taxes and fees (from where we live to Puerto Vallarta, that is $800 for 2). Taxes and fees for 2 people per night ($50 x 2 x 3 = 300). This "Free Vacation" is going to cost around $1100 dollars for us to take with them, for me to book the same trip to an all inclusive in Puerto Vallarta is $1,282.54 on expedia. They saved you a whopping 182.54 or $30.43 per night per person. They basically paid me my hourly wage to sit through a pots and pans seminar. No thanks.
This is a joke of a program. Like the other person said, if you have to pay money to get prizes you really have won nothing.
Also note that you send this to a Marketing Company (21 Century Marketing Concepts has the same address as National Health Styles Foundation). They will sell your name, and that money that they make from selling your personal information to other companies nets them more money.
Unless you are in the market for really expensive cookware, avoid going to these seminars. For a set of pans an pots you will pay from $2000 to $3000. The presenter was funny, but they are trying to cash in on young guillable couples and their families.
If you are planning a wedding, you should avoid these expenses. You have won nothing. The reward of at max $20-$30 dollars person and them selling your personal information. Versus coming out witha $2000-$3000 debt, plus them selling your personal information is not worth it.|||It is a marketing scam. It is not a "prize" if you have to PAY to get to go to their solicitation presentations. After you pay and go, your time is theirs to bombard you with intensive and pushy marketing presentations for you to obtain their services/goods. Many people come out with thousands of dollars worth debt for goods or services that they do not need just because you are trapped with a salesman that is telling that this is the way to "invest" in your household.
Be aware of trickery used on marketing scams that prey on naive couples that erroneously think that they have "won" something.
If you have to pay to go or to get your "gift", it is not a prize. If it is not free, then you have not won anything, do not be so gullible.
Good luck|||Usually not. You have to sit and listen to a 2-3 hours presentation where they try to get you to buy stuff.
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