Have you ever paid someone for information?

[Renew Deal]

Poll question: Have you ever paid someone for information?

Have you ever seen in the movies where someone pays a bartender, a criminal, a hotel worker, etc. for information about another person or event? Have you ever done that? I'm making this a poll just in case people really don't want to talk about it.

If you did, why and how much?

[MineralMan]

1. I bought a book on mineralogy from a used book dealer once.

Does that count? That will be $15. Thanks.

[Solly Mack]

2. I'd answer but you'd have to pay me first

[tnlefty]

5. snort

Really, that made me snort.:blush: :hi:

[Solly Mack]

7. I snort quite often

and that's a freebie :)

:hi:

[scarletwoman]

3. Yes. I paid quite a bit in college tuition in the hope of acquiring information. nt

[MineralMan]

4. How'd that work out for you?

[scarletwoman]

8. I did indeed acquire a substantial amount of information.

Some of which I still remember these 40-some years later. :)

[MineralMan]

13. Well, then. Money well spent.

[tnlefty]

6. snort

And now you, also, have made me snort.:blush: :hi:

[scarletwoman]

12. I'm utterly delighted that I've also made you snort.

:D :hi:

[JVS]

9. I consider that a great incentive for people to fabricate information.

[Dramarama]

20. Republicans will take it

j/k

[demosincebirth]

10. dial information 411

[northofdenali]

11. Not personally.

A company I worked for paid credit companies (TransUnion, etc.) for information about people they were tracking. And I've worked at companies that paid for background checks.

I wish I'd paid for a background check on my daughter's now-ex. Would have saved her some grief.

[reflection]

14. Sure. I paid a homeless fellow $5 today

to tell me how his day went. It didn't go well.

[frylock]

15. does carfax count?

[Renew Deal]

22. No

I'm looking for more nefarious behavior. Like you paid a bartender $20 to find a hooker who you know from HS that you are trying to save from a life in the sex trade. :)

[Edweird]

16. Yes, decline to state, decline to state.

[Schema Thing]

17. Slip me a 5 spot and I'll answer

[rucky]

18. Professionally, for 5 years.

[RB TexLa]

19. I haven't paid anyone with my money but in working for political campaigns, yes.

[NNN0LHI]

21. I have on several occasions paid $50 or a $100 to an attorney to answer some legal questions

Best money I ever spent too. Saved me a lot of headaches.

Not sure if that is the kind of information you are talking about paying for though?

Don