stumbled on this thread and it brought back bad memories from years back.
I was one of the poor suckers who actually bought one of Larry's ""dealerships"" from some employee name Fritz.
As others have said, I walked in looking for a job when the bait and switch took place. I was young (this was in the late 80's) and didn't know much, so talked my parents into cosigning a bank loan ($3,000 if I remember correctly) and dove in head first.
Almost immediately I found out just how rude and unprofessional they were. One time I called to ask Larry AKA Tony AKA Lance a specific question about the application of the TSP product, but instead he screamed at me because while talking to me he missed a ""real"" call from a ""real customer"" (This was just one example)
Things went downhill from there, until I finally cut all ties with TS and went solo. I paid off that loan for years. To an 18 y/o $3,000 + interest was a lot!
Back then the Internet was not really around so I could not do the kind of research one can do now. Hopefully karma (and sites like this) will catch up to all of them.
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