A product no one really needs, wants or asked
for, sold at an outrageous price, which is pure profit.
MLM pyramid scheme designers are clever enough to
use a phony product sold at a high price which pays large
"commissions" to new recruits. In fact what is happening is that
people are making money by simply recruiting new people and being paid from
their investment in the new "business opportunity" and nothing else.
Their only income is from an ever-expanding
network of new people being brought into this shell game, until the largest leg
and the lowest level of the MLM pyramid collapses and the whole game ends.
The people at the top get rich, the folks in the
upper levels do well, but the majority of the people get burned.
Once the MLM expands as far as it can and the
money stops flowing, the owners will vanish to an island in the Caribbean, the
ISP will turn off the servers, and the entire community will vanish in an
instant. No refunds, no commissions.
Every bad MLM opportunity makes money for the
people who start it. And where does that money come from? From the thousands of
people who do not research these companies and their products before investing
their hard-earned money into them.
Now here's a good article I found on how to recognize a scam.
YouOnLine.Net Report 016
How To Immediately Recognize a Business Opportunity Rip-Off
I don't know why nobody talks about the most
obvious way to recognize something that is a rip-off. Instead people only
complain and tell others about what happened to them when they were ripped off.
But did you know that over 95% of the people who are ripped-off by these
"hair-brained" business opportunity scams are at FAULT. That's right!
95% of the people complaining about being ripped-off did it to themselves!
So what is the sure-fire method of recognizing a
business opportunity rip-off? It's as plain as the nose on your face! It's when
an ad starts out reading:
No work. No meetings. No stocking inventory.
Never leave your apartment. Never speak to anybody. Walk around the house
half-dressed. Go the bed and get up when you want. Never lift a finger. All you
do is deposit money in your bank account . . . and on and on and on.
Now tell me -- who in the world would want
someone like this working for them? Would you actually hire an employee that was
lazy and never wanted to work? Of course not. Now get out your local newspaper
and look in the Help Wanted section. I challenge you to find me one legitimate
ad requesting a need for an employee who is lazy, never shows up to work on
time, goes around half-dressed and never comes into contact with people. NONE
EXIST!! (Except, of course, in the business opportunity section.)
Instead, you will find ads where employers are
looking for people who are hard working, enthusiastic, responsible, experienced,
good track record, excellent references, and so forth. Do you see my point?
And please don't fall for the ones that promise
you freedom from work except depositing checks. If you do -- it's your fault and
you fall in the 95% of the population that continuously feeds these fraudulent
business opportunities.
It really irritates me that people let rip-offs
go on so long. Take that stupid Edward Green pyramid scheme. That thing has been
going around since the 1920's. In fact, I saw it on the internet a few weeks
ago! Amazing!! Why do rip-off schemes go on like this forever? Are there great
marketing geniuses behind them? No! The rip-off scheme will ALWAYS appeal to the
"greed" inside every human being. And until you conquer that emotion
and not allow it to run your life -- you will continually be feeding the
fraudulent business opportunity market and you will have no reason to complain
when you fall prey to it.
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