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I'm turning 65 this year. So my Facebook account is flooded with ads for Medicare pitchmen. But the most aggressive one is this lady from TheMedicareCoach.com that wants me to sit through one of her FREE webinars to learn all the traps I need to avoid when I make my Medicare decisions. She is VERY persistent and her main hook is that she is different because she's not an agent.
So I listen in to one. My first attempt I had to jump off after 1/2 hour because it was a full on sales pitch about her knowing more about Medicare than anyone else. More than agents because they just want a quick commission. More than the 1-800 Medicare people because they are too busy to care about you. More than the SHIP people because they just don't understand anything. Blah, blah, blah, …
But they wore me down again with all the ads. I had to see what her angle was. She just keeps pitching that she doesn't make any greedy commissions like agents do. So her information would be a lot better. So I commit to sit through the whole thing. And yesterday I finally did. It took two entire hours before she finally gets to the point. During that two hours she touches on all the normal topics just like any agent's presentation but acting like everything she says is stuff agents would NEVER tell you because they work on commission. Gasp!
Then at the end comes the real pitch. She gives us the opportunity to have a personal one on one call (up to 45 minutes) with her (or one of her trained associates) to sort out all of our Medicare decisions for the one time low low price of $1297.
You heard that right! For only $1297. I can get a 45 minute personalized phone conference with someone who doesn't work on commission to sort out my Medicare decisions. Wow! That sounds like a real bargain because she explained to me that if I make the wrong decision, it could cost me up to $8000 per year every single year and I will be trapped with my decisions forever and can never get out.
She did toss out there almost as a little side comment that the only form that they can't do for us is the actual enrollment form into an insurance plan. But that's the only thing that we will have to go off and do elsewhere.
She claims they have been doing this for 10 years and that they are one of the largest Medicare advisory companies in the nation and have enrolled, lots, lots of famous people, celebrities, athletes, and lay people all over the country.
Do you think anyone is actually falling for this stuff? Or is it just some new angle some one is trying out to see if they can pull it off? It's very polished and high dollar looking. I just can't believe all the ways that people come up with to separate seniors from their money. If this works, this might be the way of the future.
And if I signed up today during the webinar, I would actually get a 12 month review it actually no cost at all. And if we want to include my spouse at the same time, I can include them for only an additional $650. Wow!
So I listen in to one. My first attempt I had to jump off after 1/2 hour because it was a full on sales pitch about her knowing more about Medicare than anyone else. More than agents because they just want a quick commission. More than the 1-800 Medicare people because they are too busy to care about you. More than the SHIP people because they just don't understand anything. Blah, blah, blah, …
But they wore me down again with all the ads. I had to see what her angle was. She just keeps pitching that she doesn't make any greedy commissions like agents do. So her information would be a lot better. So I commit to sit through the whole thing. And yesterday I finally did. It took two entire hours before she finally gets to the point. During that two hours she touches on all the normal topics just like any agent's presentation but acting like everything she says is stuff agents would NEVER tell you because they work on commission. Gasp!
Then at the end comes the real pitch. She gives us the opportunity to have a personal one on one call (up to 45 minutes) with her (or one of her trained associates) to sort out all of our Medicare decisions for the one time low low price of $1297.
You heard that right! For only $1297. I can get a 45 minute personalized phone conference with someone who doesn't work on commission to sort out my Medicare decisions. Wow! That sounds like a real bargain because she explained to me that if I make the wrong decision, it could cost me up to $8000 per year every single year and I will be trapped with my decisions forever and can never get out.
She did toss out there almost as a little side comment that the only form that they can't do for us is the actual enrollment form into an insurance plan. But that's the only thing that we will have to go off and do elsewhere.
She claims they have been doing this for 10 years and that they are one of the largest Medicare advisory companies in the nation and have enrolled, lots, lots of famous people, celebrities, athletes, and lay people all over the country.
Do you think anyone is actually falling for this stuff? Or is it just some new angle some one is trying out to see if they can pull it off? It's very polished and high dollar looking. I just can't believe all the ways that people come up with to separate seniors from their money. If this works, this might be the way of the future.
And if I signed up today during the webinar, I would actually get a 12 month review it actually no cost at all. And if we want to include my spouse at the same time, I can include them for only an additional $650. Wow!
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