> If a company "offers you the chance to buy their stock" after X months/years don't do it This generalizes to a rule of thumb, "Don't accept any deal you didn

> If a company "offers you the chance to buy their stock" after X months/years don't do it This generalizes to a rule of thumb, "Don't accept any deal you didn't go looking for." Same as a trapdoor firewall doesn't accept any incoming connections. Someone on the street offers to sell you a bridge, say no. You get brightly-colored letters from your credit union selling you car insurance, recycle them. Your friend wants you to buy a bowling alley with him, refuse. It almost always works.