Locutus65
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| Free Amish heater in Houston Chron. NOT FREE
Today's Chron had a full page color ad on the last page of section A. After reading the ad, which states you can receive 2 FREE Amish heaters I called the number. In the ad it states that if you want to build your own hearth you will have to pay $249.99 for each heater, however if you want to get the Amish build hearth the heaters are free. When I called, it right away sounded like a sales pitch. After listening to the lady she finally said that each heater is free but the Amish built cherry and oak hearth would be $249 each!!! I said well that isn't exactly free is it? She said the heaters are free. Well, I see this a SCAM. Even the Amish are resorting to scamming people now. That is just terrible.
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McSummation
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Round Rock, TX | The "rest of the story" is that these aren't Amish heaters. The hearths are Amish built, but the heaters are simple electric heaters from China. |
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Looks like this is quite common:
»todstrohblog.blogspot.com/2008/0···cle.html
»www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%2···e+Search
said by Locutus65  :Even the Amish are resorting to scamming people now. That is just terrible. Eh, that's a bit far fetched. I don't think the Amish have the resources to pull something like this off. I doubt they can afford these full page color newspaper ads from selling handmade blankets and what have you ... |
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Locutus65
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Well, considering that they are charging $250.00 for a small wooden 'hearth' for this heater I'd say they could easily afford the ads. I bet the hearth has no more than $40.00 of materials (probably not even that much).
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MysticGogeta
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Locutus65
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| said by MysticGogeta :The question would be who the hell buys this at 250 dollars and why do they have to trick customers to do it. My thoughts exactly.
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McSummation
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Round Rock, TX | reply to MysticGogeta
The Amish do word work like this for hire. But, I thought that the company that is marketing this is some east Asia scam artist. |
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