A Spoonful of Sugar: ROGUES INVENT PROFITS.Byline: Alan Sugar Sir Alan Michael Sugarton or Sir Alan Michael Sugar (born 24 March 1947 in Hackney, East London) is an English businessman. After leaving school at 16,[1] Sugar started selling car aerials and electrical goods out of a van he had bought with his savings of £100. Dear Sir Alan I AM writing to say you are so right when you warn people not to part with money to invention companies. My husband and I devised a device that helps with my day-to-day care and we have been in contact with one of these companies. However, they have been hassling us with telephone calls ever since. Maria Scriven Rhyl, Denbighshire I AM sorry to read about your health, being partially deaf /blind and paralysed. Effectively you have come up with something that has assisted your husband to move you around - out of bed into a wheelchair as an example. One of your friends was so impressed with this device they suggested you contact an invention company they had heard about. It seems to me this was one of the worst things that ever happened in your life as you are now being pestered by a person who keeps calling. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. your husband, this company phones outside of business hours BUSINESS HOURS. The time of the day during which business is transacted. In respect to the time of presentment and demand of bills and notes, business hours generally range through the whole day down to the hours of rest in the evening, except when the paper is payable it a bank or by a at 9pm. They have a special kind of script, which goes along the lines of: "We have studied your invention, it's fantastic. Whatever you do keep it secret and don't tell anybody about it, it's so good. We specialise in making sure we can bring it to the market, so please send us some money." These people are highly trained, they don't make any promises in writing and the paperwork they send is cleverly worded, which effectively covers their backsides. However, the spiel spiel Informal n. A lengthy or extravagant speech or argument usually intended to persuade. intr. & tr.v. spieled, spiel·ing, spiels To talk or say (something) at length or extravagantly. they come out with are those they say on the phone, which is always very hard to prove if you had to take them to court. Once again I am sorry to hear about your experience, especially somebody elderly and disabled like your good self. I urge all Mirror readers to warn their friends and family about these unscrupulous rogues. They don't care if they take money from disabled and underprivileged people.Sir Alan says |
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