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

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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
Damn, got me fiending for part 2.
 

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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.
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Got 'Em! LMAO!!
 

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Sorry it took so long for part two of my story but here it goes.....

So I'm stuck with this unsuccessful venture in the network marketing world. I'm absolutely miserable and I feel like a failure. One day me and the guy who signed me up for the first MLM were having a casual chat and all of sudden he bought a weight loss tea that was working miracles. He showed me a before and after picture of how is has worked for him. The way he explained it was like it was this life altering experience that would change the whole weight loss industry. He had me intrigued and dollar signs were dancing in my head. My thought process this time was to simply sell the tea and not to try to sign up anyone. So me being the naïve idiot that I am I decided to give it a shot. The first thing that told me something was off was the fact you would have to have to subscribe to an auto membership to get your "commission". Another thing the tea was overpriced at 20 bucks a pack. That was the main reason I could not get any sales everyone complained about the price being to high. The main pitch to the consumer was lose five pounds in five days. With that hook the the purchaser had to buy more than one pack or buy a month's supply for fifty bucks.

I learned the key to MLM is to keep bugging people especially co workers, friends, and family. I had people literally laugh in my face and run away from me. The thing again with this MLM like the previous MLM I printed shirts and business cards. My "mentor" once again blamed me for the failure I was having with the product. He basically told me to lie without saying the word. The key was to get sales anyway possible. One of the schemes he came up with for the tea was called the crockpot challenge. He told me if you tell people to put more tea bags in a crockpot they would lose twice the weigh. I knew that was my cue to bail. He told me the sales leader was bringing in six hundred grand a week. I couldn't take the lies anymore so a couple of months later I bailed on the weight loss tea. I seen my "mentor" a few weeks after that he asked me why did I bail and said it just wasn't for me man.

Bottom line you can succeed in MLM but you basically have to be a liar and con man. Even then you are not guaranteed success, so if anyone comes up with a business opportunity that you have to pay a monthly fee run for the hills.
 
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#RIP Kobe
Sign a bunch of people up @ $45 a pop
Cop some work
Have subscribers find more subscribers
Make that profit back
Give the subscribers a dividend

is that a MLM or pyramid???
 

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can someone school me on the wealth generators MLM?
a friend of mine said unlike most of the mlm's, she doesn't need to sign ppl up to make money
she said she pays a monthy fee or something ( 150 i tihnk she said) for this app that gives professional advice on when to buy and sell.
pretty much the app does everything according to her
anyone have any experience with this?
she told me straight up shes been using it to pay her bills for the last two months (she aint working)

and she didnt give me no pitch or try to sign me up, ive known her my whole life and told her to cut the bullshyt lol
 

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lmao
i know i know
it sounds bad
but she hasnt.
i went to one of the meetings and they were all about the recruitment thing
but she was just giving me the real about the situation
same way i would give the real to one of my boys

still looking for some information on here for someone who has done it tho
 

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can someone school me on the wealth generators MLM?
a friend of mine said unlike most of the mlm's, she doesn't need to sign ppl up to make money
she said she pays a monthy fee or something ( 150 i tihnk she said) for this app that gives professional advice on when to buy and sell.
pretty much the app does everything according to her
anyone have any experience with this?
she told me straight up shes been using it to pay her bills for the last two months (she aint working)

and she didnt give me no pitch or try to sign me up, ive known her my whole life and told her to cut the bullshyt lol

Bruh, when you type in a company name in Google, if it automatically adds the word "scam" in the search box, that should let you know off top what you are dealing with.
 

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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.
Few months back, An older friend of mine, who is a top club promoter in DC (Also fixed my wife and my credit), tried to put me on that with some high rollers in DC. Only reason I went :ufdup:, was because he got some big items off my credit and my wife's credit. :whoa:

Had this dude about my age, who said he's an "investor" do the presentation. Dude showed us(a screenshot:martin:) how he flipped $1 into $750. Dude said this is how all those startups that eventually make 100s of million start :whoo: :jbhmm::skip::pachaha:

Most of the people at the table were top ranks at 5linx in the area. Everybody were like :whew::ooh::steviej::flabbynsick::ohlawd::feedme:

I had the :patrice::mjpls: approach. Dude said he just learnt this from watching white boys on Facebook:snoop:. Needless to say, it fell through.
 

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can someone school me on the wealth generators MLM?
a friend of mine said unlike most of the mlm's, she doesn't need to sign ppl up to make money
she said she pays a monthy fee or something ( 150 i tihnk she said) for this app that gives professional advice on when to buy and sell.
pretty much the app does everything according to her
anyone have any experience with this?
she told me straight up shes been using it to pay her bills for the last two months (she aint working)

and she didnt give me no pitch or try to sign me up, ive known her my whole life and told her to cut the bullshyt lol
If it sounds to good to be true then it's something fishy under the surface
 

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LOL you know what is funny I have been watching him from time to time and now all of the sudden the way he makes his money is with CPA.

As someone who is doing CPA and knows his shyt I'm :mjlol: HARD.

I have yet to see the niqqa in a house with his name on the deed. Like private flights don't mean shyt when your living out your backpack

How about you try and buy some real estate or is that <500 credit score giving you a hard time to do that?:lolbron:

I know one thing people are going to get screwed when they enter cpa marketing its not as easy as it sounds. But imma fall back and watch this train wreck :manny::sas1::sas2:
 
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