Sentences with phrase «people ripped off»

I see a lot of people ripped off by debt settlement scams, before they come to see me.

I hate seeing people ripped off by investment firms, or their dishonest governments.

It was hordes and hordes of people ripping off and taking advantage of banks borrowing money they knew they couldn't afford to pay back.

I have just sent an e mail to the BBC for the Watchdog programme as they have a bit called Rogue Traders where they investigate dodgy people ripping off there customers.i want.

«It's right that the fines imposed on them should go towards helping the people they rip off and hard - pressed local advice services.»

Be wary though, I have seen some people rip off the sold sign and take the item out in their arms.

So... they are making a killing on people ripping us all off.

It seems a shame that he only enters the headlines when people rip him off.

Not exact matches

Crabill says they fall into three categories: disgruntled 35 - 45 year olds (like me) who see cable as a fundamental rip - off and now refuse to pay for it; low - income or penny pinching folks who decide they can't afford $ 100 cable bills; millennials who like TV, but don't understand why people would sign up for a cable contract in the first place.

«More and more people are starting to pay attention to the fact that Uber rips drivers off,» Evdakov said.

An introduction to negotiating with people who are about to rip you off: To be taught by a repentant used - car salesman.

MORE: Tsarnaev and Ibragim Todashev murdered three people in drug rip - off in Waltham, Mass. to avoid being identified, sources say — NBC News (@NBCNews) May 22, 2013

Always take care of the legal stuff first so other people can't rip you off.

People of a certain disposition will put it down to oil companies ripping off consumers, but we're not yet at that point.

Rising prices for assets seem to make most people better off, unless they are renters, or ethnic minorities, or immigrants, or come from large families and don't inherit a home of their own, or get sick and need to pay for medical care, or get fired, or get their pension fund ripped off or otherwise fall outside what most people think of as the bell - shaped curve of good fortune.

Yes, there are Primerica reps who rip off their customers, putting them in products that aren't suitable or who use expensive loans to get people into RRSPs.

Consumer advocate Christopher Elliott, who has made a name for himself by helping people to avoid getting ripped off by airlines, hotels, and other travel companies, says that travelers who behave this way aren't merely unethical, they're thieves.

And frankly I think it's a good trend in the sense that if you want to legitimize a new form of money it has to be regulated to some degree so that people won't get ripped off by fraud, like people selling Bitcoin they don't actually own or you know this kind of thing.

President Trump is starting to do the things that many of the people worried about before he got elected (tax reform convinced many that he would not ruffle markets): Amazon under pressure as the White House is Tweeting up a storm about the company ripping off the USPS and not paying enough taxes — Today, Pres Trump said the US is giving a subsidy to Amazon — He noted that the company has the money to pay for additional USPS shipping rates; — Commented that the post office continues to lose «billions» due to Amazon.

We have been really concerned about the rent seekers, the people who have just been on the margin ripping off the system

Some people might argue that this is considerably low compared to other exchanges out there, while others might claim the maximum that's charged on credit card is a rip - off.

While he basically ripped off the «Hell's Coming With Me» speech from Tombstone... he fancies himself an economist because he found a way to make people pay him $ 18 million per film in which the central plot is about a country or world having to save him from himself...

How many times do Christian and Muslim «leaders» need to be found guilty of ripping people off, molesting children, and / or encouraging ignorance and aggression for the stupid sheep that follow them to smarten up?

Hypothetically speaking, what if some people flog you with a cat of 9 tails whip until you have so much flesh ripped off that you are a living, breathing, walking zombie and then make you carry a massive cross about 5 miles and then nail you to that cross?

No Jamie it wouldn't, coca heads will do what ever it takes to get their next high, Wall Street types rip off the American people over and over.

Boehner and its cronies in the republican party are just puppets of the oil companies and other corporations to help them ensure they keep ripping off the american people.

My opinion is atheists feel no guilt for say ripping off other people, or even killing them, since they have no fears of repercussions.

Its aim is to show how a variety of persons and groups, some highly respected, some little more than rip «off artists, have exploited the Holocaust for political and financial ends.

If the spikes were driven through the hands, the weight of the person would cause the nail to rip through the hands and the victim would fall off the cross.

It eats at my heart to know of on - going situations where people are getting ripped off.

That leads on a pathway too permanent inner happiness.you people think you solving the world with your limited areas of buisness and criminal justice degrees or phony rip off international banking degrees.there is more education and technology but have not solved global poverty so sad.and most of you commit suicide which makes you a selfish sob and the root cause of it is false hope and GREED

And for ripping off how many people of there life savings and dragging the name of Christianity and god through even more mud than usual and he gets a small stroke?

You realize, of course, that every person who has ever been cheated also had a degree of «faith» in the person who ended up ripping them off.

However... binding people to stakes and burning them, pelting them with rocks, ripping limbs off via drawing and quartering, holding under water to see if they live (in which case they are a witch and must then be burned), the list goes on and on and on.

The tax collectors in Luke 3:12 were notorious for ripping people off and for taking more than what they were supposed to.

Jesus grew up and was unique because he did not ever sin once even though he cursed at a lot of people he did not like and ripped off a pig farmer by sending a massive lot of demons into his pigs and never paid him back.

Don't let anyone tell you that person giving to such an organization is doing so in order to rip off the government.

Carma is coming back to haunt this guy for ripping off those people who were foolish enough to believe in him and send him money.

That these guys maim innocent kids and rip people's faces off with piano wire and fly planes into buildings... well... we can't deprive them of a few zzzzzzzzzzz's to see where the bombs are hidden, now can we?

We give tax exempt status to faith based groups to do their spiritual work — not to rip people off to support a fanatic cause.

Remember that He whipped the moneylenders out of the temple because they desecrated His Father's house by ripping people off in it?

I'm sorry but that was a blant Chris Tomlin rip - off... might have to call the Christian Copyright people.

And I bet none of those healed had any kind of health insurance with huge rip - off insurance companies who charged them ridiculous premiums and then said they wouldn't cover whatever their illness was, or had limits on what they would pay, or gave payoffs to crooked politicians to keep people from getting decent health care at reasonable prices, or forbade them from buying the medications they needed from anywhere they were available, or even had forms to fill out.

Sure he'll prob rip my head off, but I'm guessing he's one of those big people that are just pure coward.

The money people at Arsenal are draining the club ripping off fans and telling lie after lie contradicting themselves in the process and they get away with it year after year..

There aren't many games in which you can rip a person's jaw off, take a selfie, and post that to a fake version of Facebook.

One man rips off his shirt and sits cross-legged in the dirt, apparently finding peace as thousands of people rush past.

Anyway, we know Arsenal give up easily and they do nt like kissing peoples arses, we also know Zenit are greedy twats that are trying to rip off some dumb club.

but I could not in good concious allow some person to rip off a part of my child for, what i think is a stupid reason.

Doing anythng for the first time will always make people nervous, best to treat that first fair like a band - aid, grab it by the corner and rip it off quickly.