Marty Tirrell....WTF????

iloveyoularrystation said:
So I have several marty stories. His numbers still in my cell phone from days of being a football score call in guy. But here's my story that really kinda let me know the kinda guy I was dealing with. One time on his show he had a contest where one winner a day from Tuesday to Friday would come in on Saturday to Toyota of des moines and have a 1 in 4 chance to win a new car. One of those deals where we each get a key and then whose-ever key starts it gets the car. I "win" on like Wed. that week, so I talk with my wife, we basically change the whole set of plans we had for the weekend, part of which involved one of our kids birthday parties, and rearranged everything so I could go to Toyota of dm on Saturday to try and win this car.

At the time we were really struggling, both vehicles were breaking down, and we needed a new vehicle so bad. 1 in 4 chance, new car, you move your schedule around ya know. The four of us who won were supposed to be there at like 8-9 am I don't remember at T of DM. I get there about the same time as one of the other dudes. The other two guys come late. Long story shorter, we wait, wait, wait some more only to find out Toyota of DM had no idea what we were talking about, hadn't heard of such a giveaway from them, despite Marty pubbing it all week on his show, they had no idea. Marty never shows, he's in Boston with his sick mom, were there over 2 hours waiting for him to return one of their phone calls, and finally he answers from one of the ladies there, says oh I had this emergency with my mom, had to go to boston, i'll make it right on Monday.

I go home, pissed we wasted our weekend, and changed all these plans. I call in on Monday and essentially the poor guy there who answers the phone (it wasn't tc) had no idea what was going on. They end up saying they'll give us all a 20 dollars gift card to some random barbecue place that was a sponsor. I share with them how 20 dollars in free food is not the same as a 1 in 4 opportunity to win a new car, and that's basically the end of it.

That interaction kinda let me know he wasn't the nice charming guy he is when you go to one of the games iwth him on a party bus.
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A chance at winning a car is a scam 99% of the time. Many moons ago when I was a lot younger, I had a card on my car for a drawing to win a truck. I figured what the hell, I got nothing going on. It was a sales pitch for a wholesale program where you can basically buy anything and everything at wholesale prices (even vehicles). You just needed to pay $1,200. Well, I wasn't too smart back then, but I was smart enough to know that shit was a scam. Obviously, never won a truck, but as I was leaving a young couple were signing paperwork to join the program. I drove by that place a week later and it was cleared out lol. Poor kids pissed away $1,200.

BTW, I don't know if this was the same Toyota dealership folks, but about 20/21 years ago, I had a Toyota dealership in DM try ripping me off when I had my car worked on. It's quite possible that dealership is just as douchbaggy as Marty.
 
tksirius said:
He would have been smarter to start a charity and pay himself a hefty salary like the vast majority of charities do.
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Or better yet, a church...

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TOTES LEGIT!!! NO TAXES!!!

PRAISE THE MF LAWD
 
Fryowa said:
What I can't get over is how fucking stupid people are. Like, can't-tie-my-shoes level stupid.

How do these idiot "investors" get tens of thousands of dollars to give to him in the first place if they're so dumb? I want to hear the conversation where this guy convinces a wealthy person he can buy tickets and sell them on StubHub to make money. The investors probably deserve to lose a little for not doing any homework. I don't get to sue my mutual funds if I lose my ass.
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I only invest in index funds. Nothing else. Not bonds, not individual stocks, not real estate (beyond my primary residence,) not managed bullshit. You know why? Because I believe in science, and ergo I believe in evolution, and an index fund is evolution in real time, where the herd is culled and the strong survive.

Science, bitches.
 
Fryowa said:
Yeah it’s a huge deal now. She was big into the biker scene and now they organize all kinds of poker runs, biker rallies, adult proms, all kinds of shit. Their scam is collecting money and giving some to families with problems, and though I don’t doubt they give money to people, she sure as hell got loaded somehow all of a sudden.

My sniff test for these low lives is if they get a way better lifestyle by running a “charity” than they had before, especially with no other job, they’re scumbags.

I used to run charity 5Ks and stuff like that until I got too jaded. Pay $35 for a T shirt and a number tag, and then I’d see there were like 315 or whatever entrants. Then you read somewhere afterwards, “We were able to collect $800 for Cancer Haters of America!!!” I’d much happier run a 5K where the organizers put on a damn good race cause they wanted to make a few bucks and were honest about it.
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I helped run a charitable organization (it's still going strong, we term limited ourselves in our by-laws) that raised and doled out hundreds of thousands of dollars per year.

Neither I nor any of the other board members ever took a solitary cent of compensation. Not a penny.
 
ThunderHawk said:
I only invest in index funds. Nothing else. Not bonds, not individual stocks, not real estate (beyond my primary residence,) not managed bullshit. You know why? Because I believe in science, and ergo I believe in evolution, and an index fund is evolution in real time, where the herd is culled and the strong survive.

Science, bitches.
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One of my finance profs made everyone read “A Random Walk Down Wall Street” by Burton Malkiel and it was the best thing I got out my college education other than an overpriced and probably unnecessary piece of paper.

My employer’s 401K account is managed by a local Edward D Jones puppet, and when I sat down with him the first time 16 years ago he went from super nice guy to total asshole in 5 seconds after I told him I want everything in no load index funds. His response was—and I quote—“So you don’t feel that my services are worth anything to you? You don’t feel that I can get you a better ROR long term?”

I said “You can probably get me a couple more points than an index fund, but it’s been scientifically proven again and again and again that any juice you get me is going to get wiped out by fees long term.” Never said another word to me in 16 years and he’s still the 401K manager. It’s fine with me, I get a little bit of a giggle knowing that zero of my admittedly small chunk of money is earning him credit to his next EDJ-paid for cruise or fishing trip or golf vacation.

If you haven’t read that book and you have even a small interest in how investing works at the minutiae level, read it. Most fascinating non-fiction book I’ve read and contrary to what everyone here thinks, I’ve read a bunch.
 
hawkeyebob62 said:
WTF?! So he was basically expecting Toyota of Des Moines to front somebody a car without talking to them? What tool.
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They were his main sponsor at the time. So it made a lot of sense. Didn't seem out of the ordinary because they were his legit sponsor. I mean he did his show out of their dang front lobby for part of the time. So..... yeah when they didn't know about it, that was really all kinds of stupid fishy
 
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