Reply #29: i posed as wealthy for abt 15 years

[pitohui]

i can't tell you how many comped hotels, meals, air tickets, even shopping "sprees" i used to get, esp. in vegas

i didn't pay for a meal or a room in a casino destination until the last couple of years, and some of these suites were just unbelievable

they'd do things like leave you a huge gift basket in your room or tickets for a party etc.

i wish i coulda kept it going, it was quite an eye opener

at one party, the party favor was actually you opened the envelope and there were hundred dollar bills in there -- tacky, i guess the host ran out of time to actually buy a gift, but hey tacky is OK with me!

those were the days my friend...

on the other side of it, rich people don't tip well, middle-class or folks who have worked in the service industry tip well (as a generalization), rich people think $ is wasted on the workers i guess, also they often fail to pay their bills on time, their credit rating isn't important to them because they can always borrow money anyway (hey they're rich) -- i know several people put out of their small business because a rich person or business wouldn't pay their bill

i don't extend credit to the rich, they can pay me either in cash upfront or by credit card thru paypal, but if they're rich, i'm not giving them credit because then they have the item (or service) AND you have no way to ever collect the cash short of threatening legal action which takes way too long