I have been fortunate enough to have enough money to buy my own meals, or better yet cook my own steak, and not have to sit through some kind of nonsense thing in order to get a "free steak." I wouldn't invest a couple hours in listening to a sales pitch even if it was Wagyu.
Back years ago, I had a boss get an invitation to some sort of real estate sales pitch. A lot of people were getting these as part of a promotion for some lots being sold. The possible "free gifts" for attending were something like $10,000 in cash, a boat and motor, all expense paid trip to Hawaii including airfare, and a couple other high dollar things. He said he would be a fool not to go, spend a couple of hours, and get one of those prizes. I told him I wasn't sure what the gimmick was, but no way they can give those sorts of things away to hundred of people each weekend, not at the cost of the lots they were selling. He decided he was right and was going to go.
His prize was the boat and motor. It was an inflatable thing like a kid would use in a pool, the motor was a cheap plastic shaft with a prop and a battery compartment (like a trolling motor) powered by a couple of C cell batteries, lol. Every Monday for a couple months I would ask if the took the boat out, or went fishing, or had they taken up water skiing, lol.
