My recent encounters with MLM pyramid scams: WAKEUPNOW, VISALUS, 5LINX and LIMU

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fukk primerica. :pacspit:

Those fukkers contacted me and I thought I had a legit interview. Got my résumé all together. Got me a nice interview outfit. Drove 45 minutes to some huge office building. Got to the directory of the building and it said the suite I was heading to was primerica:beli:

I didn't even get on the elevator. Called the recruiter lady back and cussed her the fukk out. Wasted time and money on that bulshyt :pacspit:
Breh, the EXACT shyt happened to me earlier this year. I literally had the same experience: Received phone call, got an "interview" and then went into some little suit area 45mins away from my house. :beli: I never heard of Primerica but once they started to tell me about how you make money selling things I immediately thought it was some bs. I ALMOST ended up signing up and shyt and I told them I ain't have no money. You should've seen the look of desperation in that devils eye :snoop:. She was insistent on me signing up, to the point where I think she straight up ignored me telling her I ain't have the money on hand. :smh:. I left and told them I'll hit them back up.. Few days later chick calling me from some number and as soon as I heard it was her voice I just hung the fukk up. :pacspit: them bytches.
 
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:what: The only way you'll make any worthwhile money is by signing people up. If you just want to sell insurance you could make plenty more commission working elsewhere. Primerica makes money off of all the fees associated with starting up so wether you sale product or not they're still making money of off you and all the people you recruit. You won't make any money unless the people you recruit sell a lot of product. Working for primerica it's more lucrative to spend time recruiting and convince others to sell product, than it is to sell product yourself. Which is why people seem more concerned with promoting the dream than the actual products.


As I said the "product" is just there so it won't be called a "pyramid scheme" but it is in fact a pyramid scheme or MLM if you wanna use a less nasty word. The person at the top invests, and convinces those under him to invest and he gets a cut of the money.



They got you good breh. Make you feel like its something special and your part of an elite group if you can do it, while others are unworthy.

:wow:

To answer your question. EVERYBODY can make money working at MCdonalds. EVERYBODY can't make money with primerica it wouldn't work if everyone did.

breh...i think we're arguing 2 different things about fees...primerica makes almost nothing off of fees...the fee is too low for that to be what they push...the money for them and 'you' is in moving the product....whether you do it alone or with someone

didnt read the link did you? pyramid schemes are illegal and dont sale any products...theyre just about signing people up....yes primerica is an MLM...pyramid scheme and MLM isnt the same thing....

i never said anything about anything being elite....you did....everybody doesnt graduate college either...does that make college bad?[DOUBLEPOST=1397671889][/DOUBLEPOST]
You should never ever ever pay the job to train you

:patrice:...its not a job breh....
 
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Oh its a career
How much do you make per year
Be honest. :heh:

its not a job breh...theres no one calling to make sure i show up in the morning...what i do or dont do is on me.....its a business...:manny:...im in business for myself

what do i make?
i just started there...

havent made much at all....

im only doing this part-time....it is something i would like to do full-time eventually tho....:takedat:

i plan to quit my job in 2015....i made 113k last year at what i do full-time
 

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I was reading that they changed over from a publicly traded company to private so they aren't required to provide it

:snoop: brehs they sold my mom, she didn't sign up but she's asking me to go to the next meeting, and spitting the usual lines. Them coming at her through the church got her defenses down.

just show her this article breh, it's old, but shows the average PPL associate makes $3/week.

Pre-Paid Suffers Legal Setback - TheStreet
 

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You should never ever ever pay the job to train you

thats the first thing that indicates a scam. I hear "pay for training" and not paid training, I automatically chuck them in the :bushess:[DOUBLEPOST=1397675980][/DOUBLEPOST]
its not a job breh...theres no one calling to make sure i show up in the morning...what i do or dont do is on me.....its a business...:manny:...im in business for myself

what do i make?
i just started there...

havent made much at all....

im only doing this part-time....it is something i would like to do full-time eventually tho....:takedat:

i plan to quit my job in 2015....i made 113k last year at what i do full-time

so ur gonna throw away a six figure guarunteed job in order to do MLM part time on the side????? :comeon:
 

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breh...i think we're arguing 2 different things about fees...primerica makes almost nothing off of fees...the fee is too low for that to be what they push...the money for them and 'you' is in moving the product....whether you do it alone or with someone
Yeah getting millions of people to pay 100s of dollars in fees with almost no overhead, makes no money for them. :stopitslime:

didnt read the link did you? pyramid schemes are illegal and dont sale any products...theyre just about signing people up....yes primerica is an MLM...pyramid scheme and MLM isnt the same thing....
Yes they've gone through steps so their scheme won't be illegal, but that doesn't change the fact that the end result is the same as a pyramid scheme.

i never said anything about anything being elite....you did....everybody doesnt graduate college either...does that make college bad?.
No. You didn't say it but you implied it.

Your first response to me was "it's not for everyone" as if I lacked the inherent skill it takes to be successful in the company but you don't.

In college everyone has an equal chance in being succesful. The nature of primerica's business is that most people have to fail or make chump change in order for the few at the top to make a lot of money.

With all that said let me ask you a question. Why do so many people thing the company is bogus?
If its such a legit and lucrative opportunity, why is it that only primerica employees feel this way?
 
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Yeah getting millions of people to pay 100s of dollars in fees with almost no overhead, makes no money for them. :stopitslime:


Yes they've gone through steps so their scheme won't be illegal, but that doesn't change the fact that the end result is the same as a pyramid scheme.


No. You didn't say it but you implied it.

Your first response to me was "it's not for everyone" as if I lacked the inherent skill it takes to be successful in the company but you don't.

In college everyone has an equal chance in being succesful. The nature of primerica's business is that most people have to fail or make chump change in order for the few at the top to make a lot of money.

With all that said let me ask you a question. Why do so many people thing the company is bogus?
If its such a legit and lucrative opportunity, why is it that only primerica employees feel this way?

what 100s of $$$'s in fees? youre misinformed....name these fees please....there is an initial fee that costs next to nothing....after that? theres a monthly fee to acces their network that tracks your work and sale...but its optional...so what are you talking about?

everybody has the same oppurtunity to succeed or fail in primerica...some are willing to do what it takes...some arent ....

why do some think its bogus? one reason is that most people like you are misinformed and lump it in with the rest of the MLMs...its not...other than that? breh theres people that dont believe in evolution...or think that tupac is alive somewhere...i dont spend my time worrying about why people think the way they do...its a waste of time....

primerica is on the nyse...i think the sec has a more extensive investigative process than somebody on youtube making videos...i'll go with the sec...

im college educated...been in corporate america for 12 yrs....and have a lucrative career already...believe me if i ever discover its a scam...im out...until then im gonna give it a shot....and see what i can do...what do i have to lose?
 
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hire salesman with no salary and no health benefits/insurance and ask them to pay you first brehs:zfg:

Shyts terrible. On top of that, are the people that are so into it that no one can tell them how bad of an idea it is because they're so desperate for cash.

Commission MLM based jobs are terrible. If you're not good with the gift of gab, you'll make no money.

I'm in these threads honestly cause I hate the MLM monster and how this and all the other scams out there have made the job market terrible.

You should never ever ever pay the job to train you

THIS!

Anytime you're paying a job instead of them paying you, you have already lost.

They should be paying you...
 
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