I got caught up in a pyramid scheme ya'll | Update

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How in McDonald's the fry cook will never make as much as the manager.


:dead: Yo, is it just me or does every MLM use this line in some way or another? From the ones I've been to and the ones I hear from others, this line is ALWAYS there.

Must be them throwing bait to ensare people with small dreams. :patrice:
 

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I went to an amway meeting last night and.....yea most of the posts in this thread sum it up. full of aspiring entrepreneurs( I'm not mad at that) but during the presentation, I noticed under every slide there was a sentence that read: " 0.9% of IBO's achieve this level" which was making 25k-60k a month and the average take home was ~$100 per month:francis:

so basically you are a living, breathing e-commerce site for companies like, macys, best buy, saks, etc and you get commission of people buy from those companies through your site(which makes no sense why anyone would do that) where you make your big bucks is by selling the amway products. they have their own cosmetic products and fitness products that have higher point value that you can make more money from. the products look cheap and the cosmetic stuff is basically for cacs:stopitslime:

they brought up some of the emerald and platinum members and they were old as shyt..damn near 70 years old talking about they don't have to work anymore....well duhhh.

my sponsor/mentor is a cool dude and he has a lot of valuable information when it comes to finances and business which i appreciate and find value in, but this shyt here, I don't think I can put 100% of my time into like its needed.
 

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Maaaan my boy I met at this head office party hit me up the other week talkin bout you wanna make some money :youngsabo:


Im like nikka I already know where this is going... im cool on that :childplease:

He ignores what i say and every sunday since he been blowin up my phone talkin bout come to the meeting wimmie :youngsabo:

I told breh how this shyt goes and sure enough the business model was exactly the same but he hitting me with ... we had some guy who got 7 houses blah blah blah

He wouldnt even tell me the company name because THEY told him not to tell people before they come to the brainwashing meeting:heh:

I just stopped answering his calls and texts cos he aint takin no for an answer... what i find the most annoying is all the nikka wants to do is use me for his sign up...nikka wont hit me up after that :rudy:
 
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Reminds me of when I tried to start my own pyramid scheme. :smugbiden:.

I printed out 500 flyers advertising a work from home job offer (with the cut off numbers). Said they could make up to 300 to 500 a weak easy. I got a prepaid phone to use as the number. When people called the heard a message about making money "blah, blah, blah". To get started all they had to do is mail a check for $10 and their contact info to a po box for further details.

When they mail the check I would mail them back a letter with the follow instructions.


Make about 200 flyers a weeks and post them shyts in as many locations as you can advertising a work from home offer. I told them emphasize how much one could make working part time. I told them to buy prepaid phone and leave a message instructing them to mail 10 bucks to your address "preferable a po box". If someone sends in the money, I would tell them to write them back with instructions on what I just told them to do :troll:


In one summer I made about $5000. I was only 19 so that was a lot of money to me. I figured it was illegal so eventually I got scared and stopped.








:picard: you criminal


didn't knw we had such unsavory folks on thecoli :picard:
 
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I honestly had no idea this stuff was still around.

haven't run into a proper pyramid scheme in at least 8 or 9 years

even then, I knew it was foolishness. 2 of my boys tried to get me in on it, and I kept asking questions that they couldnt answer, and finally they told me, " :martin: you ask too many questions"


at least I wasn't giving all my hard earned money to cacs tho :mjgrin:
 

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I actually know someone that makes bank and doesn't work doing this shyt but they are ALWAYS on the phone coaching others or doing meetings online. Flying out to conferences etc.

They sell you on getting your time back but it's like she's always in the office :mjlol:

But she's one of the rare one's that made it work but from the outside looking in it's not like working for yourself it's like working from home remotely but same old job shyt maybe even worse because there are no set hours. She is always on call.
 
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