Comments on: Does Ameriprise’s buying lunch business model work?

By: J

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:24:06 +0000

In the interest of full disclosure, this person wrote the below comment from an IP address belonging to Ameriprise Financial. I wonder what Ameriprise Financial’s policy is on hate speech?

- Colin

Wow.. you guys are gay. Complaining about a free lunch because someone wants to explain what a REAL PLANNER does, and how they help clients…and see if there’s any interest…

Do you complain about the cookies they give you when you donate blood too?

By: Colin

Colin — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:26:00 +0000

Joel, it probably depends on the rep. My guy gave up after I blew him off a couple of times.

By: Joel Odom

Joel Odom — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:57:33 +0000

I’m doing the Ameriprise lunch next week. Is their pitch very high pressure, or do they really leave you alone if you’re not interested?

By: David Fisher

David Fisher — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 17:00:15 +0000

There is no cake.

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 02:26:18 +0000

This is too funny. It is like a bunch of twelve year old kids trying to cover their tracks. I can’t believe that any adult professional would think that this is a good idea. Thanks Colin for making my day!

By: Annie

Annie — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 23:48:40 +0000

Ameriprise ‘financial advisors’ make a habit of doing this. Here’s another example:

http://www.amexsux.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1141459652/0#0

And, these guys have been caught messing around with wikipedia…deleting what they don’t like and adding glowing accounts of themselves.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ameriprise_Financial

Too bad they don’t spend their time learning how to provide proper financial advice.

By: Colin

Colin — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 14:47:26 +0000

Wow, Emily and Romeo – do you live in the same house? You guys have the same IP address: 71.232.13.172

Granted, it’s a Comcast and in MA, not an Ameriprise IP this time… but you guys are really not that clever. In fact, there is no comment that you can post that makes it seem like Ameriprise isn’t behind it.

By: Emily

Emily — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 05:21:48 +0000

Yeah, no kidding. Advisors/planners actually help people. Would you want them to cold call you day after day instead? If you don’t want their services, it doesn’t bother them. They make enough money as it is, and they do the lunches since its fun for them. But don’t be an asshole/ignorant about it. My roomate from college is an Ameriprise advisor and she’s helped me a lot.

By: Romeo

Romeo — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 05:14:34 +0000

Dude, are you ignorant enough to realize what a financial planner is? And do you really have nothing else to do during the day than to talk about your lunch?? Get a life.

By: Colin

Colin — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 23:34:08 +0000

Rosemary – I might have given that a second thought if you werent writing from ameriprise

Im guessing since they own your ip address, they own you?
12.104.244.6

AMERIPRISE FINANCIAL SERVICES AMERIPRI939-244 (NET-12-104-244-0-1) 12.104.244.0 – 12.104.244.255