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Old Jul 23, 2002 | 08:55 PM
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don't trust it, thats how they make money, think about it.. they hire you. so you pay a little fee to join.... lets say.. 200 bucks, for all the books and class. ok.. once you are working for them, they have YOU do the SAME thing as her to get more people. now.. once you get more people, they pay money too, but! none of the money goes to you, it all goes to the top level which formed this company. then they have those people working for them. believe me, its not worth it, you don't make any money out of it. its not excatly a scam.. its all green light in the legal aspect.. but if you take the business apart.. you'll see that you make... 0 dollers, hehe.
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Old Jul 23, 2002 | 08:56 PM
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if its too good to be true.. believe me.. it is.
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Old Jul 23, 2002 | 10:42 PM
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Wow people are still suckers at any age.
Honestly.. the only way to earn a buck these days is the hard way.
Your odds are better playing the lottery than becoming the million dollar pyramid sceme WINNER

best of luck 2 u
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Old Jul 24, 2002 | 05:48 AM
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Originally posted by Jay Li
Ridiculous...besides, making 19k/month wouldn't allow you to retire in 5 years anyways, you should know that.
only 1.14 milliion....not enough to live for those five years AND live off of for the rest of your life (and family's if you so choose). think about it...

dude, you shouldn't be saying things like you're not sure you should take this job anymore, etc. you should be saying things like "man, i knew this was BS! my intuition was right!"

my advice: forget the BS, look for a REAL job!
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Old Jul 24, 2002 | 07:13 AM
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A pyramid shaped business model is not always a pyramid scheme.....

AMWAY, Quixtar, and etc. are not pyramid schemes that sucker sub-ordinates into making money for their top (or their sponsor).

The final product in AMWAY and Quixtar is a hard product being brought into the marketplace in a non-tradtional format. This format is actually very popular now.....even some products sold through infomercials incorporate the pyramid model for marketing purposes. Do you actually think there are 50 producers of the Ab-Energizer belt, and its variants? I think at last count, there were only 6 manufacturers of 45 individual Ab belt companies.

The manufacturer makes them and then sells them to marketing companies that market them to regional distributors that then sell to private proprietors who then resell to smaller marketing companies and get deals made with sporting goods stores, Wal-Greens, Target, and/or sell them through infomercials.

A pyramid scheme involves someone at the bottom of the pyramid to get screwed... Right now, only one example comes to mind. It was a company that supposedly was Christian based and collected $68.26 (I don't know why the odd amount) from all constituents. The top guy collected the amount from his sub-ordinates who he/she recruited. Then the subordinates collected that amount from their subordinates that they recruited, and so on. The money filtered up (making the top guy richer and richer). The bottom guy collected nothing until/unless he/she recruited the non-recruited under them. This money was collected under the premise to be used for the communal good and for proceeds to be forwarded to a charity.

The charity that was named, ended up being headed by the guy at the top of this pyramid and it paid his salary to sit on the charity's board, while he still collected the "communal good" from the pyramid. This is what made it a scheme.

BTW, I'm not in, sell, or buy any AMWAY or Quixtar products.
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Old Jul 24, 2002 | 07:17 AM
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Hahahaha...."direct seller's association" and "Independant Business Owners" , "IBO's"......this is a mini-marketing company started by those in the pyramid model for Quixtar.

This concept is pretty interesting, though.

BTW, Quixtar.com
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