Criticism to Pre-Paid Legal Services: the Case with Multi-Level Marketing

Want to get to the point? Jump straight to paragraph 3 of Part III.

9/2/2009.

Part I.

On Monday, August 3, 2009, while sitting with my laptop in the computer lab, a Black guy approaches me and asks me questions, like what I like to do for fun, how I get my money, all that, and so I say I'm unemployed. And he asks how would I like to make some money, and tells me to go to this website, to watch a video.

The video is all about how customers loves this company, Pre-Paid Legal Services. It was 9 minutes. He sat the whole time as I watched.

The Internet went down for me to see the 2nd video, so he calls someone and later he tells me to give him a call by the time I saw the 2nd video, which is the same boring bull shit. I remember asking him "So what's the point?" (of this video).

Shrug/sigh.

I was delayed to go to the auxiliary gym in the P.E. Complex at 1.

By sunset, I go back to the student union with my laptop, and call him, saying I'm about to watch the video, and he replies to call him back after I done finishing watching the 2nd video.

So when that happens, I call him, and he asks if I can come up Tuesday night to 4900 S. Lake Shore Drive, the Ramada Hotel, which I can't cuz I have night classes on Tuesday nights, and can do it when summer school is over. So he ends by telling me he'll get back to me.

Part II.

On Saturday, August 22, 2009, (this is 19 days later), while at the public library on Fullerton and Sacramento, I got a phone call from the guy at 2:12 p.m., where he asks what I'm doing at 7 o' clock tonight, and I say I got nothing planned, and what Blue Line station I live by, and I say I'm equally close to 3, and say they are Belmont, Addison, and Irving Park. And then, he tells me to go to the Irving Park station, to go south to passing downtown to go to the Kedzie-Homan station at 600 S., at by 5:30.

To meet him there. Then I go okay, how about I instead take the Kimball bus down to the train station and he goes okay. So I meet him at Kedzie and Harrison, right across from the police station and Cook County Court, at 5:38 p.m. On the cell phone he describe what shirts we were wearing. When I see him I go "You here to turn me in?"

Anyways, we walk down South for 3 Chicago blocks and he takes me to his house where I meet his grandma. Then we go outside. The thing starts at 7 so we got an hour to hang out. I ask if there's a McDonald's or Burger King around and he goes yea and we go to the McDonald's on Kedzie and Roosevelt 3200 W. and 1200 S., and I treat him to an angus meal.

Then we go back to the front of his house. By around 6:45, the thing was post-poned to 7:30, I saw a playground across the corner and ask if I could work on the monkey bars there and I do pull-ups/chin-ups. I ask what's there to do around here and he says there's Douglas Park so we walk down Albany to Douglas Park and back. Eventually we wait until 8.

Part III.

And when we go back inside, he goes on the Internet to the official company website to register me as a member.

As he I sit next to him an he using the keyboard, he asks me useless information like my name and mailing address and phone number (to fill in the forms on the website).

He also asks me for my social security number and debit card numbers, so I pull my card out from my pocket and read it to him as he types.

I saw the number $79 on the screen and I of course did not know whether it was going to me or coming from me.

The rest of the night is irrelevant, and I got a ride home.

Part IV.

The library and school is closed on Sundays, the next day, so I didn't go on the Internet, but on Monday, the 1st day of school, I see there is a charge on my account of $45.95, $1, and $1. It's like that the next day, but on Wednesday, the $45.95 charge was successful, and then a $79 was gone, too, making it a total of $124.95.

And so it follows, for the 4th time, I ask to cancel my debit card.

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To be updated later.

Story of Tuesday night, September 1, 2009, 7:30 p.m., and how it connects with the night of November 17, 2006.

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