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

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@Stuntone

MLM is a great business model if you're the owner of the product being sold. Otherwise you're just paying someone else to do free PR, sales, and marketing for them. Once you take into consideration the amount of time and money put into one sale vs the profit on one sale then yeah your working someone else's product for free.
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Now the new wave of MLM is combining forex trading. There is this MLM called IML that flopped badly and didn't have enough money to payout the folks with high ranks. Plus nobody bought their trader scanner and shyt. I never seen someone becoming a millionaire from MLM.
 

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:dead: those dudes were just sloppy.

In most cases, these nikkas are real slick and good at presenting this false lifestyle. They will rent the nice whips for IG/Facebook, get a good fitted suit, and talk that talk.

People don't care to do any research tho, just some ":gladbron:you see how he's living on FB/Instagram", and they are sold.

I haven't ran into one of these cats in a while :heh:

The last time I did dude was trying to convince me to join and spiting all these duck tales about how much he was making. I asked him what was his monthly revenue was and he started getting his Juelz Santana on

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I would never trust somebody who has a moniker on their facebook page as "Kashiz King" :mjlol:

These are the same guys who were the early adapters to WUN. They jump from MLM to MLM and they have instant followers...

shyt is crazy. Right now Forex trading is the wave. On FB and IG you see these clown ass nikkas peddling the best strategies to trade but can't trade. So many of the people who left MLM for forex are realizing that forex trading takes YEARS to master. So they jump to credit repair. Letso be real the people these MLM idiots market too is broke people (college dripouts,high school dropouts, people who became parents when they were teenagers etc)
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Drop a story breh
The first MLM I joined instead of product they would exchange financial education for a start up fee. They would teach you how to get out of debt, increase finances, and lower your tax bill. In the back of my mind I thought it would be perfect for a side hustle. Everyone could use financial advice in this day and age I thought to myself. It took me a couple of months to sign up though I still had hesitations, but the guy who signed me up he would tell me I'm losing money everyday by not signing up. I eventually decided to go ahead and give it a shot. The day I arrived to do the enrollment process I had to go to his place, and once I arrived I knew something was off. I pulled up to these shotgun apartments and I thought for a guy who always bragging about his account he sure lives in a dump.

I enrolled and I was finally a part of this company. Well soon I found out I was just being used as a marketing tool, but I put money in to this so I was determined to grind. The guy who signed me up his main goal always to get people that I knew to get on the phone for him so they could enroll. I got a few people on the phone with him but they all declined. He would blame all the failure I was having on me. I would have logos printed on my shirts, get business cards, and I notice I would start bugging people about why they haven't joined yet. That's when I felt like slime. I was pushing family and friends away. A few months go by and still haven't enrolled anyone and I noticed my mentor hasn't even checked on me.

I decided to let that go but you know the old saying fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.

To be countined
 

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The first MLM I joined instead of product they would exchange financial education for a start up fee. They would teach you how to get out of debt, increase finances, and lower your tax bill. In the back of my mind I thought it would be perfect for a side hustle. Everyone could use financial advice in this day and age I thought to myself. It took me a couple of months to sign up though I still had hesitations, but the guy who signed me up he would tell me I'm losing money everyday by not signing up. I eventually decided to go ahead and give it a shot. The day I arrived to do the enrollment process I had to go to his place, and once I arrived I knew something was off. I pulled up to these shotgun apartments and I thought for a guy who always bragging about his account he sure lives in a dump.

I enrolled and I was finally a part of this company. Well soon I found out I was just being used as a marketing tool, but I put money in to this so I was determined to grind. The guy who signed me up his main goal always to get people that I knew to get on the phone for him so they could enroll. I got a few people on the phone with him but they all declined. He would blame all the failure I was having on me. I would have logos printed on my shirts, get business cards, and I notice I would start bugging people about why they haven't joined yet. That's when I felt like slime. I was pushing family and friends away. A few months go by and still haven't enrolled anyone and I noticed my mentor hasn't even checked on me.

I decided to let that go but you know the old saying fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.

To be countined

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Ah man. These pyramid fukkers.

I have Friends and family have been through so much crap with at least 4 of them. One involving a car that got repo and the others involving large sums of wasted money.

You keep trying to stop people and they keep falling victim trying to get rich quick. Have gullible family brehs.
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Actually it's good that I learned about these in my teenage years.

In college, a girl I knew wanted to go out and so we did. Once at the restaurant she pulled out all of her Amway brochures and crap.
:childplease:
 
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