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Don Lapre commited suicide in jail. 'Get rich informercial guy'

 
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Don Lapre commited suicide in jail. 'Get rich informercial guy'
I remember during the Clinton era I saw his late night commericials and I was in the seventh grade back then... I was thinking damn I'm gonna be rich if I use his classified ads method and my dad will be proud. I saved up my money which took quite some time cause I was kid, well when I had enough I ordered his classified ads bullshit and when it came in the mail and I saw the package I was so excited. When I opened it and read it I found out it was some bullshit scam and on top of that his workers would call me asking me for 750 bucks to open a 900 number. I wanted to punch this fucker in the face for ripping me off but its kinda sad how he went out. According to the news he got arrested for fraud cause he ripped off 220k people and he couldn't handle the stress so before his trial began he ghosted himself today. Sorry if my typing is all messed up I'm not using a keyboard to type. Oh yea his classified ads bullshit wasted my money.
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Karma is a bitch.
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What goes around comes around.

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Karma is a bitch.
 Quoting: DoomThis


Yes that's true and unfortunately for some she's not a pretty one.
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RIP snakeoil salesman, RIP
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Wow!

Well what a load of bad karma can bring ya down to.
[link to www.cbsnews.com]

Now, lets just think about this and the relationship to TV?
Now think of some really shitty low grade magazines with bogus ads...? Just saying, seems like there's a lot in common these days. Infomercials all over the place and we are paying for this crap?
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Wow!

Well what a load of bad karma can bring ya down to.
[link to www.cbsnews.com]

Now, lets just think about this and the relationship to TV?
Now think of some really shitty low grade magazines with bogus ads...? Just saying, seems like there's a lot in common these days. Infomercials all over the place and we are paying for this crap?
 Quoting: Pilatus


Yep more getting their pockets lined along the line of his scam than just him.
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I bought his stuff too, and I too was let down. But I'm conflicted about how to feel about this. I really ought not have pursued quick wealth like that. "Wealth gained hastily will dwindle, but whoever gathers little by little will increase it." (Proverbs 13:11)

Thanks for the news OP.

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Good riddance to bad rubbish.
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I got cheated by his scams in the late 90s.

I didn't lose TOO much money, and now look at it as a learning experience.
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10/03/2011 12:27 PM
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i remember this guy, pt barnum would be proud of this sheister
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i wonder if his celly ,sidewaysbubba had anything to do with this
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what method did he use to "ghost himself"?
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pwned
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I got cheated by his scams in the late 90s.

I didn't lose TOO much money, and now look at it as a learning experience.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1124145


Ditto. Exactly the same with me. I was young and naive.

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I remember this guy on TV when I was in my early 20's... I almost picked up the phone to buy his scam. Back then I was naive and stupid... glad I didn't buy his crap.

Sadly he is the reason why people need to be critical and skeptical of everything in this world.
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I bought his stuff in the 90's as well.

From what I remember, everything in it was pretty obvious, but then again, I already had experience with copywriting and placing ads. There was one bit of value -- He provided a report with tons of newspapers to contact and place ads in.

Remember, this was waaaay back, like before the Internet was mainstream or ebay was around.

Was he overcharging for the value provided?

Probably, but I wouldn't think it was illegal, as many others overcharge for useless crap too.

As far as the vitamin claims go, I have no clue.

I felt more scammed from purchasing the no money down real estate courses of the time, as most of them were based on finding people in deep shit with assumable loans, which was borderline impossible.
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Being younger and naive i actually believed him but only because you can't look like Don Lapre and women like THAT crawling all over you, unless you have money
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ya know, I bought his stuff in 90's too,
but I have forgiven the guy long time ago($40, who gives the s**t)
life is too short to hold grudges

nice family, sad
[link to www.donlapre.com]

RIP Don
hf
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I got taken for $40 by Lapre back in the 90's when I was young and stupid and before the internet became big enough to investigate creeps like him.

Karma's a bitch.
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bump
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RIP snakeoil salesman, RIP
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1647732


I must have a sense for this but right off the bat I could see he was abulshit artist

No different than:

Clinton

Obama

Hitlery

Neo Cons in general.

They all seem dirty and trying really hard to make believe that they are being honest but at the same time they are almost bursting out laughing in disgust at who they are conning. They really seem like they feel like their victims deserve to be conned.

None of them are really very good at it at all.

At least not to me.
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Kevin Trudeau, another GRQ huckster, just got sentenced to ten years for his scamming ways.

The karmic wheel never stops spinning.
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Re: Don Lapre commited suicide in jail. 'Get rich informercial guy'
No offense to anyone who fell for this scam in the 90's (God knows we all fall prey at some point in our lives), but anytime someone says you have to buy something before they'll show you the product is hiding something. It made my scam-sensors ping like crazy back then and still does to this day (Courtney Brown, anyone?).
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Anybody remember Tom Vu? Never bought anything from this guy, but always kinda liked him, seemed to have a good sense of humour and played up to peoples desires. Cool rags to riches background story as well.

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Why are you undigging this up? this is 2011.
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03/18/2014 12:33 PM
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Why are you undigging this up? this is 2011.
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It was linked at the Treuadeau (sp)thread and misposted.
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RIP snakeoil salesman, RIP
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what happened to Miss Cleo

CALL ME NOW!!!
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here's another one
lmao

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here's another one
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