Comments on: You ask Google, I answer http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2008/07/06/you-ask-google-i-answer-4/ Sat, 20 Mar 2010 22:05:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Chad Bordeaux http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2008/07/06/you-ask-google-i-answer-4/comment-page-1/#comment-161780 Chad Bordeaux Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:18:28 +0000 http://www.sequence-inc.com/fraudfiles/?p=1643#comment-161780 One of prepaid legals big "benefits" is getting you out of traffic tickets. Of course, there is no way they can guarantee this. I had Prepaid Legal for a number of years, but do not anymore. During this time, I got a speeding ticket in Charlotte, NC (where I am from). They then informed me that Mecklenburg County (where Charlotte is) did not offer any type of program where they would be able to get me out of the ticket. I did get a ticket about two years ago in Jacksonville, NC and they handled that one quite easily. The problem was, two days after I got the ticket, I had about 20 letters from attorneys in Jacksonville saying that they would get the ticket "taken care of" from around $150 - $200. Since I only get a ticket about once every 5 years (if that), it would have been way cheaper to save my monthly fee and pay the attorney when needed. In fact, I may have been able to do it myself- abscent the cost of gas to get to Jacksonville. All they did was get it reduced to a non-moving violation. They were only able to do this because I had not had a ticket in the past two years. Anyway, I am not a member anymore. If I need a lawyer, I will pay him then. One of prepaid legals big “benefits” is getting you out of traffic tickets. Of course, there is no way they can guarantee this. I had Prepaid Legal for a number of years, but do not anymore. During this time, I got a speeding ticket in Charlotte, NC (where I am from). They then informed me that Mecklenburg County (where Charlotte is) did not offer any type of program where they would be able to get me out of the ticket.

I did get a ticket about two years ago in Jacksonville, NC and they handled that one quite easily. The problem was, two days after I got the ticket, I had about 20 letters from attorneys in Jacksonville saying that they would get the ticket “taken care of” from around $150 – $200. Since I only get a ticket about once every 5 years (if that), it would have been way cheaper to save my monthly fee and pay the attorney when needed. In fact, I may have been able to do it myself- abscent the cost of gas to get to Jacksonville. All they did was get it reduced to a non-moving violation. They were only able to do this because I had not had a ticket in the past two years.

Anyway, I am not a member anymore. If I need a lawyer, I will pay him then.

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