I see people are back on their Pyramid scheme grind. Vol. 5Linx

Way back around '99 '00 here in so.cal there was 2by2.net. Heard it was like a $420 start up fee.
 
MCA just taking over my Facebook lately...people promotes in for like 2 weeks then stop all of a sudden when they realize its a pyramid scheme. I even tweeted bout it one day & someone @ me trying to convince me to do it 
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All i know about that world ventures is that you DO get hella discounts on trips so if your into that it's frankly not a bad investment. However i'm not sure what the upfront/monthly fee is because i'm sure theirs atleast once.
 
yvespo3 said:
The funny part about the world ventures is that they don't even care about selling you the product. They just want you to be on the team, I was asking my friend some questions about hotels in the package and he didn't know nothing. Talking about "How does it look if i'm eating and my team not, I want to put money in your pockets" WHAT???
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:lol: this is the new era of pyramid schemes. You dont have the sell the product anymore but build a team and recruit people thus, making these suckers not believe its a pyramid scheme :smh: vemma is the same thing as ventures and leverage from the info i gathered in this thread. you don't sell a product, you try to build a "team" and thats how you earn income, within no time you're gonna be behind the wheel of a bmw :rolleyes :lol:
 
ady2glude707 said:
This is BS, they most likely pay for part of the lease for the BMW (just like ViSalus). You dont own the car or have it paid for you completely without anything out of your pocket, but the minions make it out to be as if they are just given a free car.
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comedy, this dude should change his name from bstarr to busterr
 
I'm in Vemma but only because I actually like using the Verve before my works. Not the best tasting drink but it does give me energy without the sugar crash like Red Bull does. I only buy one case though, not the two like what they say you NEED to do.

But yeah the idea of exploiting my friends and family in order to turn a profit makes me mad uncomfortable. 
 
I got dragged into one of these with my boys way back, we were broke college students so buying a new package monthly to renew the program was out of the picture. It lasted not even a month before we called it quits. Not only that we felt like we were pressuring all of our friends by telling them to join.

Years later my brother asks me to borrow some cash. He said it somethin' about meeting up with someone selling a product and he'll show him everything on the spot. I was like hell nah :lol:
 
Back in the day, Kirby vacuums were the product of choice. They would come in and demonstrate inside your house in an attempt to guilt you into buying one  
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Now, HerbalLife is the scheme of choice in my town. According to the hot girls selling it, a couple shakes will detoxify my body and having me sexually performing like im a professional porn star 
 
currensy said:
SonOfTony said:
So nobody on here reaped the benefits for being part of a pyramid scheme? No success stories? new whip? nice crib? anything? :nerd:

I'm curious :lol:
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Doubt it :lol:

On another forum it was a dude who tried to get us onto the Lightyear wireless pyramid scheme. He's the lightskinned dude with freckles that's always hanging out with Juelz and a bunch of other celebs if you know who I'm talking about. :lol: I almost got suckered in, can't front.
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:lol: me & mondaynightraw know exactly who u talkin

Bout.
 
But if it actually pays.. this couldn't be all bad. i understand it might go against our personal values.. but whose to say you cant find a few saps and have them build the team for you.

Maybe some high school students that wanna be cool, have a few friends sign up nd spread the word.. invite some of their friends and so on.

I couldn't see myself suckering family nd friends :smh: .. but someone could make a killing off these high school kids lol .. it'll be fun competition for them, like a game.. its like taking candy from a baby.

.. that is if these babies have 300 bucks for start up money lol :lol:
 
I went to the CutCo and ACN presentations.

CutCo was ridiculous from the get. I almost bought the knives just to have them though, they seemed pretty good.

I went to ACN back in 2003-2004ish when they first started selling energy in my area. PECO had Philly on LOCK so I thought the idea of an alternative was appealing. Went to the presentation and they were immediately trying to get me to book a trip to Detroit to attend another presentation. (rah rah fest)

I asked a few relatives/friends if they'd be interested in attending a meeting I held. NO ONE was buying it. The whole pitch was, "Come to my house for a presentation, I can't explain it as well as my manager can so just show up so you can see the whole potential. etc"

Everyone was like, "why should I show up if you don't even know what its really about?"

Then a year or so later I saw one of the BIG managers trying to get a job at my bank. I was like :smh: wonder how much this dude got scammed for. So glad I got out of that nonsense immediately.


But lets not get it twisted. Some super legit companies are just fronts for the same type of stuff. I was heavily recruited once by Met Life. They were going to pay for me to get my licenses and everything. The catch? I had to submit a sheet full of 100 friends and family for them to harass. I was out from there.
 
I went to a couple meetings before I knew what pyramid schemes were. 

I was asking people about jobs and a mutual friend tells me about amway.

Short story even shorter. 

I go to a meeting with some asian dude who running the meeting telling me that he's "my" friend.

Everytime I asked said indiviuals how much they are making or how much I can expect to make in a month. I got "don't ask about that" or something similar. 

THEN finally, at the end of the meeting, they were asking people to sign up. Which was basically buying a $200 worth of papers, that says you own a small business.

I got out my chair like

 
iYen said:
I went to a couple meetings before I knew what pyramid schemes were. 
I was asking people about jobs and a mutual friend tells me about amway.
Short story even shorter. 
I go to a meeting with some asian dude who running the meeting telling me that he's "my" friend.
Everytime I asked said indiviuals how much they are making or how much I can expect to make in a month. I got "don't ask about that" or something similar. 
THEN finally, at the end of the meeting, they were asking people to sign up. Which was basically buying a $200 worth of papers, that says you own a small business.

I got out my chair like
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yeah man every one of the "friends" i asked about how much they're making always gives vague responses. My girl said her friend joined and she saw her receive her check in the mail which was only 15 bucks :lol: and she said it's not weekly or bi weekly either but randomly shows up. yo, that can't even fill up a gas tank.
 
Moral of the story: If you have a bunch of Tommys talking about their job and not saying anything about what they do, stay away.
 
**** this how do you go about creating one of these businesses its the american way to feed off ******** :lol:
 
Dude is on facebook promoting wakeupnow its hilarious
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. He keeps trying to prove that its not a scam.
 
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