I was sent this recently.
I have followed you for 20 years although recently after returning from living in Israel for ten years and returning to the states I have lost touch a bit. You crossed my mind and now I am reconnected and glad to have found you again.My daughter is just starting at [XXX University] in Pre-Med. It is a mere $54,000 per year and even with her scholarships I will be paying about half of that.
I noticed your manual about the 7 loopholes and going to school for $15,000 and I wanted to pick it up but I am wondering if it is still current for today? Will the techniques still apply and what advice do you have for me to tell my smart and wonderful daughter that XXX is not in the cards? Of course for her plans to become a doctor maybe she should attend XXX I don't know.
I would greatly appreciate your wisdom and insight.
A motto of mine is this: "Procrastination kills." Here is a man whose daughter is about to enroll as a freshmen in an overpriced, overrated Christian university whose faculty members are mostly liberals.
He refers to the seven loopholes for avoiding overpriced education. As far as I know, I referred to exactly seven loopholes only here. This was posted in 2006.
So, he has known about my manual for years. But with his daughter enrolled, ready to go off the overpriced school, he decides that he might be wise to read my manual.
But there is a problem. He knows I have been selling it for years. Maybe I never revised it. So, he asked if it is still valid.
If he was asking, "Where can I buy it?" fine. I am happy to show buyers where they can buy it.
But to ask if I am selling a manual that is no longer applicable is a true insult to any author of a how-to manual or product.
In any case, it comes with a 2-year money-back guarantee.
He is about to spend $100,000 to send his daughter to college. At college, students hear lectures that are 20 years old. The newer faculty members may be delivering lectures that are only five years old.
Why would he wait until two months before sending his daughter to an overpriced university? Why not a year ago?
So I gave it to him, short and sweet:
Do not provide a dime for XXX.Not a dime.
He replied again, as I figured he would. Short, accurate answers that are not appreciated always get a response: "Please explain yourself!" Again, he asked: Is my manual really up to date? Insult #2. I replied:
The manual is useless and 100% out of date, but I sell it anyway, because I have no morals.Anything else you need to know?
To which he replied: "One more thing... you may want to check your heart before you continue to preach the Gospel. I'm pretty sure you have a few things that may need tending to."
Ah, yes: the "Jesus card!"
He knows that nothing has changed. He just does not want proof. Why not? Because he will have to pull the plug on his daughter's ill-fated plan to spend his $100,000. He wants to avoid pulling the plug.
Here is a man who says he lost touch with me "a bit" for 20 years. Now, because he is facing a $100,000 pile of "receipts paid," he wishes to reconnect with my ideas and my advice.
No, he doesn't.
He has already committed to his daughter that he will pay for her overpriced XXX education. She is going to major in pre-med, which is a field in which she will spend the rest of her life as a regulated bureaucratic agent of the federal government unless she goes into a concierge position. She will be in massive debt from the day she walks out of medical school, unless her father pays for it, in which case, her father should not pay a dime for college, because he is going to have to spend every dime he will save by not sending her to XXX in order to send her to medical school.
Does he have a clue as to what is going to happen to her and his finances? No, of course not, because he is a doting father. He is therefore in his dotage.
The phrase, "penny wise and pound foolish," comes to mind. He has already told her he will spend over 100,000 after-tax dollars to send her to XXX. Now, if he takes my advice, he is going to pull the plug. "Oh, daddy! You promised! You promised! You promised!"
Why now? Why not a year ago? Or six years ago? If she had followed my plan, she would have her bachelor's degree now. She would be going off to medical school, not XXX University. Bradley Fish did it my way. He graduated from college on on his 18th birthday. He spend $13,000, total.
I do not have any patience with these people. They know what to do, and they will not do it.
Why would anybody this late in the game decide to contact me. He sends a letter to someone who says "Don't do it, don't do it, don't do it," and then asks: "Do you really mean you do not think I should do it? Are you really sure you do not want me to do it? Is your manual really up to date?"
It was ipt to date in 2006. I revised it every year.
I do not understand this. I will never understand it. That which is obvious does not penetrate. People will not spend $97 (with a 2-year money-back guarantee) to save $100,000.
I suppose I should be patient, just because I want to be a nice guy, I suppose.
People do not want advice; they want confirmation. They want to be patted on the back and told how wise they are. If they wanted something different, they would pay for it. But they will not pay for it. They just want the confirmation.
I sent him a preliminary copy of this article. I did not hear back. Then, to prove my point, I sent him a copy of the manual. I did not hear back.
If you are ready to listen, go here: http://www.accreditedonlinecolleges.org/Degree-Programs.
CONCLUSION
Procrastination kills.
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