1-900-9099-CRY

  Ok today I thought I would write about a 1-900 number commercial. Back in the 1980s and early 1990s there were tons of ads on TV for 1-900 numbers. Practically every celebrity that was popular back then had their own 1-900 hotline. Then there was the random 1-900 numbers for stupid crap such as Creep Phone and yes, a Santa Claus hotline. But no 1-900 number has to be stupider than this one I am writing about today.

 

The Number shown in the video is different because it might be an earlier version of the number.

  If you are wondering if there really was such a thing as a 1-900 number for crying, you'll be shocked to find out that it really did exist. 1-900-9099-CRY was the hotline you would call to make you cry. Ok let's get this thing straight, the only thing you'll be crying about is how much you were charged for calling this 1-900 number on your phone bill. That's right you had to pay a whopping $2 for the first minute and $0.45 for each additional minute. Geez it sounds like a scam right? It in fact is a scam because when you called 1-900-9099-CRY you got a prerecorded sob story that would supposedly make you cry when you listened to it.
  Now if you called this number, you needed to get your head examined. This was a total waste of $2. Who called things like this? I don't even want to know who did call these stupid gimmick hotlines because they are total idiots who did call them. As PT Barnum once said, There's a Sucker born every minute.

Gobs and Gobs of Free Stuff

This Book is a scam

  Yesterday I went to my church to drop off a huge donation of books and housewares items that my brother and sister and law had stored in our attic. While I dropped off the items I happened to stumble across a book by Matthew Lesko. The book was titled Gobs and Gobs of Free Stuff!. So I bought it for a $0.25 along with Sweatin' To The Oldies 1 & 2 on VHS for a total of $1. Anyway Gobs and Gobs of Free Stuff! is a very misleading book. For instance the book has free toys on the cover. When you look up toys in the index, toy safety comes up, not toys that are free.
  Basically this book is about free government information such as pamphlets and brochures and resources found on government websites. So if you bought this book at retail you got ripped off big time. Every Matthew Lesko book is a scam of some sort. Free Money books are so stupid because the free government grants are basically for certain regions of the USA such as certain cities in certain states. So if you bought any book by Matthew Lesko, you should feel ashamed of yourself.