Trump University - Yup, I attended (my experience)
I haven't mentioned this on this board because I don't really have a lot of details to give out but just for people who are curious, this is my experience.
I went to Trump University, but not because I wanted to, but because my aunt needed a driver. She paid thousands for these tickets (My aunt, uncle, and myself). I was in my late teen years or early twenties, I can't really recall the dates. However, the University is in fact in a hotel conference room.
When we arrived there were three "teachers" and we got some hand-outs that aligned with their powerpoint presentation. So they go into this stupid "get rich" mode that was not about facts but rather emotions. They went around saying what is your dream car, wouldn't it be nice to have a big house, did you know you can be rich, like us (the teachers) if you follow our advice. They went into basic real estate terminologies like foreclosures and REOs (Real-Estate Owned). Then they went into detail about how they, the teachers, are rich and they have awesome lives. They start to get into heavy real-estate jargon, which I honestly don't know anything about so I couldn't follow it to the T. Plus I was young and bored so I zoned out a lot. They told me that being in college will not result in wealth, etc. and laughed about it. Then they closed their class with this notion of buying a house, flipping it, and selling it within 5 days. At the end, they said you now know the possibility, who wants to learn and have personal consultation? The catch is you had to pay a fee of $10,000 or something to that extreme. It was a bunch of binders and videotapes/DVDs. The whole time we were not being given real "How To" lessons but rather "This can happen to you" type of lectures. I immediately thought, why pay thousands for this class just to pay even more thousands to actually get the real lessons. I knew it was fishy, but again I was young and could care less in the moment. My aunt didn't buy the personal consultation package, but in the end she felt she gained a newly found motivation to get into real-estate. In the end it was just a "you can do it!" self-help speech, with a promise of wealth if you buy that 10,000 dollar package. Also, yes, people came up to the "teachers" saying, I can't pay in full because of their financial situation, but they are willing to make a payment plan. So, people were taken advantaged of and I never really new how big of a scam it was until this election season.
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Half the buildings downtown are named DeVoss. (Okay, that's an exaggeration, but not much.)
As Dutch Reformed Church is basically homed in G.R. downtown rolls up the sidewalks on Sunday. They're Calvinists which means that they believe that no amount of good deeds save your sinful ass from eternal Hellfire; it's all predetermined at birth. And the DeVoss family have built their shitty Calvinist nightmare in G.R. on the backs of the AmWay suckers by the millions. If you sell this shitty, expensive soap, you'll become rich!
They all but own Grand Rapids, so maybe they are partially right. Then, there's the predestination part. Dun-dun-DUNNNNN! You're going to Hell!
Expensive too
I won't name the organization, but my brother encountered that kind of approach from a national blindness organization when he was losing his eyesight. He claimed it was big on "rah rah" speeches and insufficient on really helpful ideas.
It sounded like he received this kind of reaction when he finally stood up and asked for some real information at a local meeting (funny scene from a recent "Documentary Now!" episode about door-to-door globe salesmen)
