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Behind The "Work-At-Home" Street Spam Signs
Sabalon writes: "If you live almost anywhere in the U.S. then you have probably seen tons of the 'Make thousands working at home' signs tacked up almost everywhere. Cockeyed.com has an interesting story of one persons quest to uncover the source behind all this money just waiting to be made, the company behind it (or not behind it for legal reasons), and an oversaturated market." Spam, just another medium.
Sure, if the books were left out in a public thoroughfare just like any other litter, I'd be perfectly glad to do that.
If you run your own business, such as drumming up business for someone else, you can claim milage, gasoline, and a 1/4th of your living space expenses as a business expense..
If your business consists of putting up ugly signage, but you get thousands of dollars back from the Fed in taxes, wouldn't you do it?
What if you really needed the money.. I mean, so badly that you would be willing to walk around at 3am, tacking paper to signs.. You'd do it.
The REAL jabber has the user id: 13196
What you do today will cost you a day of your life
He could have just searched Google for "Who put up all those work from home signs?". The answer was in the second result.
DigiSquid Design.
Its all herbalife. Every single sign he found was herbalife. Different phone numbers all went back to the same place. In fact they don't even tell you until you pony up some dough.
True, but that's the real scam with most MLMs. Unless you get in on the ground floor, or have a LOT of friends that have never been burned by an MLM before, you're wasting your time. The vast majority of people in poor-quality MLMs barely break even, because they quickly run out of people to sign up, or the people they did sign up quit. I forget what the actual statistics were, but I seem to recall something like 1 in 6 would stick with it past 6 months. It might have been less.
I went to a "recruiting" meeting for a company called Equinox a few years back. They set these things up like a revival from the turn of the century. They play upon emotions and excitement to get you to not think rationally, and just sign the paper. The ENTIRE lecture was about how much money you could make, how to sign up more people, and how the whole marketing structure works. There was almost nothing about the products themselves. All I remember was some vague talk about mineral suppliments.
My friend, who went to it too, got them all flustered when he proceded to point out that the diagram the gentleman was drawing on the board looked strangely similiar to a pyramid. They proceded to inform him that it was NOT a pyramid, because that would be illegal. He simply refered them to the diagram again, which was -- without question -- pyramid-shaped.
They didn't spend a whole lot of time trying to "convert" him after that.
holy amway, batman!
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scary how similar they sound, minus the mind control.
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subject says it all.