Cheapskate Wisdom … About Personal Finance Seminars

By Brad Tuttle | @bradrtuttle | May 3, 2011 | +

“All people pay for at such seminars is to listen to someone repeat the ideas that are already freely available in books and on the internet… The people who could most use the help are the people who can least afford the cost of such a seminar. It feels like preying on the weak to me.”

This is the way Trent from TheSimpleDollar explains why he’s decided against making some easy money by giving lectures to paying attendees at personal finance seminars. He writes:

I would feel somewhat hypocritical charging people in financial trouble for basic financial help.

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