Ant_
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Got a call from an ex work college telling me he has a friend who has business opportunity and he is looking for key people. I agree to have a look, went last night.
Starts as a psudeo business seminar, a slick presentation about residual income and how working 9-5 sucks. Alarm bells are ringing, everyone is overly nice and they're spruiking a get rich scheme that works within 15 months.
Half way through the presentation, the clincher..."We use Amway as our distributor". Then sure enough at the end of the presentation in true MLM style all the "we've made lots money people" stand up go to the front and talk the scheme up. The funniest was Matt Rogers (rugby player) and his wife Chole Maxwell. It went something like this..
Matt Rogers : "Me getting too old for rugby...me soon retire have no income, do this scheme make money, you should do it too"
Chloe Maxwell : "OMG I can have babies and not have to model and still make as much money, everyone should do this program"
At the end trying to get out of there without telling the friend to **** off. He gets me cornered with one of these "done well" guys. I ask a few questions on the relationship to Amway and he doesn't answer. I then ask on the costs and to break it down, they charge you $80 to get in. You have to then buy a starter pack from Amway (lol) which the cheapest is about $140. Then they're try and flog these training CD's at $58 p/m.
Tried my best not to laugh in there faces, before declining the offer and wishing I had that hour and half of my life back.
Has anyone else come across this crap?
Found some links via google on it, one is a version of the presentation they showed me last night. Link
The other is a website setup to rubbish it. Link
Starts as a psudeo business seminar, a slick presentation about residual income and how working 9-5 sucks. Alarm bells are ringing, everyone is overly nice and they're spruiking a get rich scheme that works within 15 months.
Half way through the presentation, the clincher..."We use Amway as our distributor". Then sure enough at the end of the presentation in true MLM style all the "we've made lots money people" stand up go to the front and talk the scheme up. The funniest was Matt Rogers (rugby player) and his wife Chole Maxwell. It went something like this..
Matt Rogers : "Me getting too old for rugby...me soon retire have no income, do this scheme make money, you should do it too"
Chloe Maxwell : "OMG I can have babies and not have to model and still make as much money, everyone should do this program"
At the end trying to get out of there without telling the friend to **** off. He gets me cornered with one of these "done well" guys. I ask a few questions on the relationship to Amway and he doesn't answer. I then ask on the costs and to break it down, they charge you $80 to get in. You have to then buy a starter pack from Amway (lol) which the cheapest is about $140. Then they're try and flog these training CD's at $58 p/m.
Tried my best not to laugh in there faces, before declining the offer and wishing I had that hour and half of my life back.
Has anyone else come across this crap?
Found some links via google on it, one is a version of the presentation they showed me last night. Link
The other is a website setup to rubbish it. Link
