WTF should I pay for the "privilege" of selecting Your bank to receive the automatic gains from this contract? VS: Anyone Else !? [assuming creditworthiness is not an issue].
Similarly - (and I Know about THIS badminton racquet in detail) Title Insurance is the longest running patently unNecessary con-game of all the Real Estate just plain BS. Real Estate is The Babbitt symbol of codified larceny - because in the past, few people ever went through the laundering more than a couple times. And few Realtors (unlike my honorary Jewish Mother, Trude: one of the Two Honest Realtors in the country. I assume there was another?) would actively and informedly scan the docs for just the sort of hanky panky mentioned above.
I'd think that, especially with all the people doing this stuff as often as every few years: Some of these scams would begin to be Noticed. I'd think..
Ashton