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Daily Dose of Tim - You Might Be an MLM Junkie if....
Posted By: The Tim In Response To: Re: You could see worse things Tim (William J)
Date: Sunday, May 6, 2007, at 4:49 p.m.(pst)
William, you're the greatest!!! Absolutely. Check your email.
---------------YOU MIGHT BE AN MLM JUNKIE IF.....
You not only know the history of Noni MLM, but the entire assemblage of fruit drinks that followed it.
You refer to MLM schemes as 'opportunities'.
You are familiar with the vagaries of MLM pay-out plans and figure if you just get in one that isn't run by those freakin' Aussies everything will be ok (seriously...I have no idea what the heck the difference is between one-upped and two-upped and am really wondering how the Aussies fit in . Discussions of MLM pay plans just makes me want to UPCHUCK!
You defend your product mix as "There are worse things.."
You believe there really are any good luck stories about MLM.
---------Amway inoculated me against MLM. Their intentional misdirection from the start put me off and should be enough warning to anybody, but there's too many people who just can't resist the pull of a 'new' business opportunity. Not sure what the payout plan really was. Like every MLM I've ever looked at, they're cloaked in Byzantine mumbo jumbo. I never 'bought into' that mess. Every other MLM disaster I've witnessed since then is a result of similar business practices. It's not that you can't make money at these (you probably cashed more than a few checks?) It's just that there's too little PROFIT. Using a longtime legal company like Amway as an example all you need to do is google and you can read about TOP TIER people who were only NETTING like 50k. It's all smoke and mirrors. And it's cultish. As a result of my early warning BS detector I have avoided all actual involvement (other than exposing and illuminating the frauds and the realities). Therefore I have no legacy health and fitness products to unloa...sell.
I'm so naive that I don't even know what Noni tastes like. I don't believe in all the nutritional supplement mumbo jumbo. Just eat a balanced diet of burgers and coke and don't forget to take that aspirin everyday. When finished, relax and fire up a Marlboro. What could go wrong?
Enjoy.
>> Their are worse thing than that Tim. Such as the people that get
>> involve with dubious deals at the mlm.com forum. You may remember the Noni
>> Juice craze when it came out. Since then there have been tons of
>> overpriced fruit juice MLM's that came and went like fireworks on a Fourth
>> of July night. Other Opportunities that have Aussie one ups or two ups as
>> payplans. I don't know about you But robbing people like that is illegal.
>> Since when did pickpocketing become a legitimate business opperation.>> Tim, I used to have pages full of information regarding news, other
>> products as well as exposing scams out on the net. However, my usaul
>> company I hosted with, the support went south real quick and that
>> including my FTP program to upload my pages also went to pot. So until I
>> find another hosting company that is reliable. I'm stuck with a five page
>> starter site at Godaddy.com for now.>> Not to bore you with bad luck stories the two MLM's I was in for about
>> 6 years also went south quickly. So I'm stuck with a few classified
>> advertising affiliate programs and products of Supplements 101. At least
>> one thing Supplements 101 is heck of lot better whats available over at
>> MLM.com>> William
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