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Retired Forums => Legal Controversies Forum => Topic started by: Matthew Chan on May 03, 2012, 03:55:30 AM
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In 2007, I was contacted out of nowhere by "Incredible Discoveries", a South Florida infomercial company offering to promote my real estate investing books. It was one of the weirdest experiences I ever had over the phone. It felt very sleazy feel to me and presented by a slick telephone salesman. They had a terrible reputation which I later discovered.
Although, I was never victimized by "Incredible Discoveries", I spoke to a lot of unhappy people. A lot with some venomous things to say. Some were quite happy to speak with me and offer me leads and information. There was a ton of legal cases in the Broward County Clerk of Court system which made for very scary and ugly reading.
I feel lucky to have only had a passing encounter with them. The information I assembled was well-read to the point where an associated company, O2 Media, complained about what I reported and attributed it all to a single, disgruntled employee. That was entirely nonsense, of course. I could not have gotten so much legal controversial material from one person.
They tried to reach out to me a couple of times but from what I saw in public records, they were not people I wanted anything to do with or would ever trust. It seems at least once a year, someone feeds me information regarding these folks. I must be doing some good because I have gotten quite a few "thank you's " over the years.
Surprisingly, most of the information I found is free and out in the open online in the State of Florida if you knew how to find it. I got tired of the persistent emails and phone calls asking what I thought. I thought to myself, what a bunch of idiots. Figure it out yourself! There is more than one infomercial company in this world. Why would anyone let themselves get cold-called and let themselves get sucked into paying someone tens of thousands of dollars over the phone without being checked out?
I got tired of the negative traffic to my personal website so I moved it here to ELI where we discuss copyright trolls and other legal controversies. Again, my experience here in reporting helped the ELI project in 2008.
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