Bilk used in a sentence

Bilk in a sentence as a verb

The idea that the SEC would protect investors from being bilked is laughable.

Because of literally hundreds of years of investment scams that bilk people out of their life savings.

"The concern is potential employers trying to bilk free work out of developers.

And huge teams of engineers packed into single rooms plotted different ways to bilk housewives.

How many contractors are there that bilk customers for huge projects that end up over time and over budget?

Yes, let's all figure out ways to bilk the government and screw over people who don't have exactly the same arrangements as us.

Then the sales and marketing people at Oracle got involved and realized that was not the best way to bilk their existing customers.

And would use information asymmetries to its advantage to bilk investors out of their money.

The "sell them a cheapass printer and bilk them on ink" model I don't think really works for anyone, not even the companies that have a firm foot in the space like HP.

/I don't think they are always out to bilk their patients./"Genentech also provides rebates to doctors who prescribe large amounts of the drug.""Rebate"?

Circumstances indeed will inform choices better than rote rules, but that cuts both ways; if you suddenly jack your prices, many customers will assume you're trying to bilk them and go somewhere else.

You are getting "market familiarity" meaning they aren't beholden to you or your "crank" operating system and any schmo with a CC can bilk/bill them for support.

> You are uncomfortable in demonstrating your knowledge in a practical way?The concern is potential employers trying to bilk free work out of developers.

By this line of reasoning, anything that is more popular among poor people is a tax on them?The argument is that gambling houses are taking advantage of people's poor education to bilk them out of money.

If you're a current customer of a company running TV ads, you're being bilked, and if you're a potential customer, why would you want to do business with a company that will bilk you just to get more new customers?

That reason is that the 1920's demonstrated that the financial industry couldn't be trusted to completely regulate itself, and would use information asymmetries to its advantage to bilk investors out of their money.

It's fascinating how scientology was formed out of Hubbard stealing his wife, scamming him out of money... and then his ex wife and hubbard founded scientology - using a bastardized version of Thelema as a means to control and bilk money out of 'thin' personalities that are looking for help and validation.