Hmmmm... Cheeky sods!
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I received an invite from the GRRC to go to a talk with Derek Bell in London.
Great. Accept invite.
Then I checked up on the organiser...... some "wealth management " company. So you get about 30 mins of DB then around 90 mins of their sales pitch. There wasn't any mention in the original invite or the email from the organiser of how this was going to work. I did wonder why costs, etc weren't mentioned. I thought it might be a charity event or similar.
Not going now. Very suspect that nothing was said apart from "come to a talk by Derek Bell". Probably contravenes something with the FCA it wouldn't surprise me.....
Timeshare next?
Great. Accept invite.
Then I checked up on the organiser...... some "wealth management " company. So you get about 30 mins of DB then around 90 mins of their sales pitch. There wasn't any mention in the original invite or the email from the organiser of how this was going to work. I did wonder why costs, etc weren't mentioned. I thought it might be a charity event or similar.
Not going now. Very suspect that nothing was said apart from "come to a talk by Derek Bell". Probably contravenes something with the FCA it wouldn't surprise me.....
Timeshare next?
An update for you...
V8 Fou is broadly spot on.
I went to this last night - 45 minutes of Derek, but no sales pitch.
Pluses, Derek was entertaining, and there was a free bar.
Minuses, it was only a short talk - problem with this was it finished literally hours before the stated time.
This is fine if you work in the City, not so fine if you have travelled hundreds of miles to get there. I had booked a train for 22:30 and was back at the station before 20:30.... There were literally hundreds of attendees too, rather more than I was expecting.
I think Smith and Williamson should have been a little clearer about the timings. I spent four hours in the car plus two on trains, all for a 45 minuite 'listen'. (Car only as the train connections didn't work if I left London at 22:30)
I enjoyed Derek's stories, and no sleight on him, but I don't think I would have gone if I knew the full story of the evening.
V8 Fou is broadly spot on.
I went to this last night - 45 minutes of Derek, but no sales pitch.
Pluses, Derek was entertaining, and there was a free bar.
Minuses, it was only a short talk - problem with this was it finished literally hours before the stated time.
This is fine if you work in the City, not so fine if you have travelled hundreds of miles to get there. I had booked a train for 22:30 and was back at the station before 20:30.... There were literally hundreds of attendees too, rather more than I was expecting.
I think Smith and Williamson should have been a little clearer about the timings. I spent four hours in the car plus two on trains, all for a 45 minuite 'listen'. (Car only as the train connections didn't work if I left London at 22:30)
I enjoyed Derek's stories, and no sleight on him, but I don't think I would have gone if I knew the full story of the evening.
The Mad Monk said:
Why bother going?
It is a good point, with the benefit of hindsight.Originally when I got the GRRC invite, I thought it was a bit more of a competition/draw and would be 'lucky' to win.
I only looked at trains after the confirmation from S&W. Due to the stated late finish it changed a simple single train taking 1 hour 20 minutes, to a multi-leg journey having to drive to a station and pick up a train there. Thinking it was a smaller event, not 100's of people - I wasn't going to back out after I said I would go.
Probably still glad I went... but poor information on the format.
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