Free Dinner
By Fishmomma
@Fishmomma (11377)
United States
April 28, 2017 6:34pm CST
Several times a week I receive offers for free dinners and wanted to know how many people on Mylot would go to the free dinner. The dinner is free for two people and food can vary depending on which location you select and this particular offer is good at Marie Calender's or Mimi's Cafe. You have to sit through a seminar and have 5 different date choice that are different at each restaurant and the seminars are in different cities, so can decide how far you want to drive.
I am not going, as hate pushy people and they don't like to hear no. The food won't be free, if I have to sit for hours listening to somebody tell me why I need to spend money for whatever they are selling now. I wanted to know how many other people receive these letters every week?
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@Fishmomma (11377)
• United States
29 Apr 17
I do get time sharing offers; however, they can't even tempt me with dinner, so they rarely try that offer. I did get an offer for four Disneyland Tickets and my husband was surprised when I turned it down. Tickets are almost $100 now, so yes it would have been a nice day to get away; however, the traffic was the reason I turned it down.
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@Fishmomma (11377)
• United States
30 Apr 17
@JudyEv I think many went to that one. Some of the places make the offers thinking I'll buy because of the high perk and that isn't the case.
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@JudyEv (325584)
• Rockingham, Australia
29 Apr 17
@Fishmomma That seems a very generous incentive. I should imagine they would get a lot of takers with an offer like that.
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@infatuatedbby (95001)
• United States
29 Apr 17
I don't do them. I get those in the mail.
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@Fishmomma (11377)
• United States
29 Apr 17
Over the years I have received a lot of them. Its sure a lot of postage for these companies.
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@infatuatedbby (95001)
• United States
29 Apr 17
@Fishmomma they want to lure some people in to these events!
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@Fishmomma (11377)
• United States
29 Apr 17
Many years ago I had to be at a seminar for work and we received a good meal. In my case, I didn't receive the high pressure sales pitch, as my boss received the pitch and I enjoyed the free meal.
@Courtlynn (66921)
• United States
29 Apr 17
I don't and I'm glad I don't as i wouldnt go either so no point in recieving.
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@JohnRoberts (109857)
• Los Angeles, California
29 Apr 17
I did one of those a few years ago. Wasn't too bad. You listened to the sales pitch (it was a medical thing) then a decent meal. You have to sort of be vague and act like you were interested and pondering when they come around to you.
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@Happy2BeMe (99399)
• Canada
28 Apr 17
I wouldn't go either. I don't like to feel pressured and I can't tolerate pushy people.
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@Fishmomma (11377)
• United States
29 Apr 17
I have done a few over the years for work; however, I'm fine with a night that means take notes and have good food. I just don't enjoy them when I'm not getting paid.
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@StartFlatBoke (222)
• Portland, Oregon
13 Oct 18
We mostly live on Social Security, so those free dinners are a great night out and we do one or two a month if we can. The last one was a pitch on some training to learn how to get rich flipping real estate, but the cheapskates only fed us a box lunch with a ham sandwich and a bag of popcorn. However, they did give us a bonus of $250 at Starbucks we can use for $20 a month if we jump through some hoops. I like the ones that try to get us to use them as financial advisers and feed us Salmon Filets or Prime Steaks. But even better are timeshare pitches that give us prepaid debit cards for $100 or more and yes we did buy from them.
@workathomefan (8957)
• Prairieville, Louisiana
1 May 17
I have food stamps so I get a lot of free dinners in my apartment.
