Have you ever MIS-DIRECTED a NEWBIE ?

In other words, have you given a NEWBIE wrong directions on how to get to the next auction in a series, or told a NEWBIE that "this facility requires a $100 deposit on each lkr you buy" ?

Would efforts like this scare them off?

ive done it in jest , i dont think i was ever taken seriously

you cant get there from here you have to go somewhere else and start

Wouldn't it be bad form NOT to misdirect a newbie? 

Wouldn't it be bad form NOT to misdirect a newbie? 

Not according to Storme.

I haven't misdirected them in a driving kind of way, but I did have one woman that I had noticed who would ignore everyone until she wanted something from them. She once came up to me all friendly and started asking how I got info for the auctions. I wasn't about to tell her all the work we had done to find the "list", so I just told her I get on the internet and look at various cities classifieds for lien notices and also make phone calls. I don't mind helping people with the little knowledge I "might" have but sometimes they need to do research like we did when we first started. IMHO

I have never given wrong directions or things of that nature.  I have however gave flippant remarks, or ignored questions of a few newbies.  Ones that are nice, respectful, and generally just have questions I don't mind answering.  After all wasn't that long ago I was in that state.  The ones that are loud, rude, etc. get the cold shoulder and no additional help.

I just love telling them "Yes, you have to clean it ALL out - including the roach infested bag of papers in the corner".  Or when I get a newbie that says they wanted to try this out like SW.  I ask them are they afraid of "mice, roaches, ants, snakes, etc."  The brutal honest approach works better then the misdirect.

Was at an auction with my brother and a neewb asked him after the first unit if that was it or if there was more units and he responded "One and done" the guy actually left and there was three units to go...was laughing all day at that one.