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Top 100 Ways To Know And Avoid Selfish, Greedy Businesses
By lighthouse
Below are fifty ways to know a selfish, greedy business, however we would like some of your suggestions. Please feel free to make your suggestions, for inclusion to this list, in the comments form below.
1. You have lost your job and you are 5 months behind in your mortgage payments, and after numerous calls to the bank, they still will not work with you on a resolution or on a restructuring of your loan.
2. The sandwich you just bought is really a salad with 2 pieces of bread.
3. When you buy a book they want to sell you a bookcase.
4. When the prices of crude oil are going down, and the gas prices are going up!
5. The peanut butter you are eating is contaminated, even after the recall.
6. A small soft drink costs $4.50, or more!
7. Your debt reconciliation assistance wants to charge you $5000.
8. When you’re late on your payment, they charge you a late fee. (As if that is really going to help anything.)
9. The bank that gave you a loan for a house, knowing in advance that it was overpriced, forecloses on the house, collects the insurance, then gives your credit a bad name, and sells the house yet again!
10. A car dealer sells you a car that you can’t afford to put gas in, and then they fly by lear jet to ask the government for financial assistance.
11. Your free credit report requires you to supply your credit card information for a 7 day trial of an advantage service that is of no advantage, (except to them, if you forget to cancel it).
12. Any company that manipulates supply, in order to say that oil demand is high.
13. A rental deposit of 1000 dollars is used to paint the walls that were not painted before you moved in, and to repair the bathroom sub floor pet urine damage, even though you did not have a pet.
14. The person you are dealing with believes that making money is the most important thing in life.
15. A property management firm wants to charge you $100 for fixing the closet doors that have already fallen off the hinges 3 times since the last repair they made.
16. The fire safe you bought won’t open anymore without a rubber mallet!
17. The fire safe company offers you 10% off on a new safe instead of making good on their product.
18. The potato chip bag itself is worth more than it’s contents.
19. The cheese you are eating is made out of edible plastic.
20. The fountain drink is 80% ice cubes and they charge for refills.
21. The so-safe insurance company declines your medical benefits, but pays to put it’s name on a stadium.
22. The gas station closest to the freeway is 15 cents higher per gallon than the one 3 blocks away.
23. The no-fuss daby business opportunity you payed $50 for now wants to charge you $2000 of no fuss classroom instruction.
24. A financial advisor tells you to buy his book so you can learn how to get rid of debt, inside the book it tells you to work 6 jobs!
25. The store you are working for gives you quota’s to reach, even when nobody is coming in the store.
26. The slot machine you just pulled the lever on flushed like a toilet.
27. The company says to improve your love life you need to flaunt your assets more, and then they show you some provocative attire from $100 and up.
28. In the mail you receive a letter from Yakmo clearing house telling you that you may have won, even when you have not even entered anything yet.
29. In your email you get an email on how to get rich quick in 7 easy steps. You pay $100 for each step and now you have learned the formula, (the hard way).
30. You sign up to get your internet for $15 a month for the first 6 months thru the bundle package. During this time your telephone costs $35. After the 6 months expires your internet now costs $35 and your telephone $15.
31. You decide to add a line to your existing cell phone, thinking you could do it easily for $10 more a month. Your next bill reflects the additional $10 charge and the brand new 2 year contract that you knew nothing about!
32. Any drug company that promises relief for your existing medical symptoms, but adds in 20 new side effects such as loss of hearing, kidney disease, blindness, profuse vomiting, heart palpitations, and brain damage.
33. Any grocery store that offers 5 cents off gas, but first jacks up their prices 10 cents to make up for it.
34. The brand new printer you just bought cleans itself out of printer ink weekly.
35. Any plumber who tries to sell you some miracle liquid that is supposed to keep your pipes together.
36. A company that makes imperfect software and then tries to sell you upgrades of imperfection every 3 years instead offering free fixes, (also known as upgrades).
37. Any gym that says you owe money, after you have already cancelled your membership, threatens to give your credit a bad name, but has no documentation on hand to show their accuracy. (Make sure you keep your cancelled membership reciepts)
38. Any so called Christian service that does not know who their savor is.
39. If a doctor scheduals you for weekly appointments, charges you for your visits, spends five minutes with you and says; "it’s nice to see you, come again in 1 week.
40. When a new appliance requires you to purchase an extension to a 90 day warranty.
41. The second pizza, on the 2 for 1 pizza deal, has 3 pieces of pepperoni.
42. When the big hamburger has twice as much bread as it does hamburger.
43. When you’re laying on your death bed and the credit card company calls you at the hospital to collect.
44. The taco you have ordered is comprised of 95% lettuce.
45. Did I mention when the CEO of a company flies by lear jet to ask the government for financial assistance?
46. Any person who goes around adding comments to sites like this one with the sole intention of financial gain.
47. A peanut butter maker who takes the fifth amendment instead of taking ownership and being responsible.
48. A property management firm, or bank, that does not yet realize that poor fico scores may be the result of a poor economy.
49. Anyone who is unwilling to realize that bad things happen to good people and that everyone needs a second chance, even the stigy self-centered ones who are running businesses and have not learned the lesson yet.
50. Any business that suggests that investing your money into their slot machines will pay you dividends.
51. When you order a hamburger at a drive-thru, and your wife takes the wrapped hamburger out of the bag with her finger and thumb, and asks you if you ordered a cookie!
52. When the Postal service you used, (PUS), calls you to tell you that your package has been returned due to a wrong address, instead of calling you before they shipped it back, so they can charge you to ship it again.
53. Your flat tire requires 4 brand new rims, a brake job, and a new muffler.
54. When you are looking for a jewelry gift expecting to pay about $700, the salesperson shows you the 5000 dollar jewelry, and tells you how easy it is to get credit with their company.
55. Companies who require money for services not yet rendered, and never return to complete the job.
56. Your doctor prescribes a medication for you to take 5 times daily, but your insurance will only pay for 3.
For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs. 1 Timothy 6:10
"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. "But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal; for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Matthew 6:21
Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry. Colossians 3:5
Greed is dangerous because it leaves no room for God. When we are satisfied with our possessions, we don’t have any need to be satisfied with God. That’s a very dangerous place to be.
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