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I Hate Multi Level Marketing

Sunday, August 24, 2008, 8/24/2008 03:05:00 AM

I Hate Multi Level Marketing

I just went through this forum. There was this forum guy call "The Davis" and he was approach by some youngster selling paperclips who claimed to be part of an "entrepreneur game" where they have to collect $60 or more to win. And slowly, the scam is unveiled and even the youngster photos were being uploaded onto the forum. What make it interesting is that... Some of the youngster is from Temasek Polytechnic!! I even know one of the guy... Jia Lat. I won't post the link out as it is not too good for them... To know about the whole story, continue to read...

This is what "The Davis" posted:

Part 1:Around 8pm i went to hougang mall... then just when i was about to go home, i saw this couple being approached by this kid

Flash back to 3 weeks back, it was sort of like a deja vu scene:when i was at kovan mrt (outside heartland mall), i was approached by this kid who claimed to be part of some kind of "entrepreneur game" and have to collect $60? or more in order to win? i don't know

I asked him for the coy name then, but he tried to skirt the question and then produced this paper clip, and ask me for $10 (saying what people have gave him $10, even more).

i say dun have, so he say $5, $2 also can. i dug at my wallet but i was not willing to fork out $2 for it, so i ask him for $1 change.

Ok, but today seeing the same scene, I walked forward to try to "listen in". About 2 meters from the couple, this guy approached me. He began with the exact same lines...

so i raised my voiced and confronted him there and then. I asked for the company name/organisation name, what was this course they were talking about and why this game need to take so long

To that, he replied that the game was continuous..., and the company was a consortium of groups. [Now I know why liao...], called simi "Private Training Hub". Of course i doubted the existence of such a generic coy name... So i asked for the manager name...

He gave me this guy's number (his manager i presume), but cannot contact him, so I continue to grill the same guy. (and got his phone number). I retorted that being in this course/coy whatever sh!t, shouldn't he at least know something about the coy?

but he gave this excuse that he just joined 2 weeks back, and blah blah blah some crap. So I asserted that what they were doing is tantamount to cheating. The guy who was talking to the couple said that they were not in the know at all (ya right, who would believe now). of course by then the couple's attention were already diverted, the couple ran away after that (my confrontation with the two guys).

oh, before that they even compared themselves to tissue sellers. saying they also got no license, same as them. so i say, why not I call mata on the spot...

i was suprised he readily accepted the challenge. So i wanted to give them chance... so just give them verbal warning first.. after finding out how many of them were around

Part 2:so i walked across to hougang interchange, on the opposite side of the road. initially i wanted to take bus go home liao. but i was getting infuriated that there are these potential cheats out there while people were performing on tv to get donations

so i approached the passenger service counter at the bus interchange. but no, they don't want to handle even though it's just outside their premises. they say, "we cannot interfere, you want can call police"

so i call mata lor. "Hello police ah? got ginna soliciting money from public without license at hougang mrt outside oub" around 10 minutes later i saw them (the kids) running across to the interchange. (I assume they saw mata)

They ran like the wind haha. I walked forward to confront two of those crossing the road. Of course they tried to shake me off, giving lame excuse say got what meeting and all those crap. But i persist and continue to grill this first guy previously and ask what school he from, simi course.

oh mean while the other 4 people hanging around eddypsp shop. After lecturing them further, the two guys joined up with the other 4 and were like waiting for me to board my bus...

A post by Gorgorsitioeh:

the following pix are screenshots taken frm the blogs of the members. i believe most of the blogs have been shut down as of this moment. the screenshots of the blogs highlight some of the activities they have taken part in as part of an 'entrepreneurial course' organised by sunshine empire, and in addition it probably highlights the basic fact that the money they have earned through paper-clip selling is used to finance their holidays, not for passing their school courses as they have claimed to those pple who have bought the heart shaped paper clips frm them. an example of the paper-clip is shown here

And they really go and dig out all the youngster info eh...

A blog post by one of the youngster in his blog:

life's indeed full of ups and downs..i still remember last week i just broke my personal high in sg once again..from 162 to 224..that was like 60 bucks swing?oh my!but days after that results has been very down..not gonna let tis happen again..coz i am still $900 away from my macau+hk trip expenses..damn!gotta fight hard..hopefully my dad will pass mi the money soon enough before the deadline..coz i take a long time to persuade my dad to buy a sm..that is a bonus to mi..lucky to hv such supportive parents..but i would prefer them helping mi in looking for potential prospects coz my market has long dried up..but anyway tis will no doubt help mi in short term..long term wise..i tink i hv to depend on myself..4 aggressor members had already qualified for the macau trip..and there are 6 spaces left..nevertheless i want to be one of the 6..and tis will happen..coz i am visualising wats gonna happen in macau..lolx..cya guys there on the 15th june..i wanna see and the 7 heroes in macau..as well as those who realli put in effort for the trip..i can see it..and i believe u guys will be there as well..even if i lose everything,i will nv lose u guys..guys 3 days more..let fight hard for tis 3 days..and rest in macau!whahahha!!

Think you all almost got the whole story already...

Their company-Sunshine Empire is actually a Multi Level Marketing company. And they have to sell the paperclips and hit a target before they can go for the holiday trip... Damn Kuku can. I seriously don't have any good impression of Multi Level Marketing company as I too, was a victim some years back. Here's my Kuku experience:

I was looking for a job at that time and if i'm not wrong, I put my MSN display name as "Any job to recommend??". After a few days, a "friend" of mine whom I have not been in contact with him for around 2 or 3 years message me on msn and ask me whether I'm looking for job. Than he said that he got lobang and ask me meet him. Than I ask him what job is it but he won't give me a direct answer and just ask me to meet him and I will know. What's weird is that we have not been talking for years and he suddenly talk to me...

So, in desperation for job, I met him the next day and he brought me to this company at Dorby Ghaut. Once I went in and sat down, they start to explain to me alot of thing about franchise, how much is it cost, about millionaire, about how much their boss earn now etc. Trying to WOW you... Than their actual intention came. They asked me to join their organization and if I do work hard, I will also earn big money.

How you can earn money is that once you join them, you will sell their products and get commision from there. And if you want to earn money at a very faster rate, you will have to find 2 friends to join the organization and ask them to sell the company products and you earn commision through yourself and also your 2 friends. And if your two friends introduce another 2 friends each, you can also earn commision from them and the chain goes on. So basically it means that if there are more and more people under you, your commision will grow higher and faster.

However, before joining their organization, I will have to pay a membership fee and there are 2 kind of membership, the Gold member and the Silver member. Whats the different between them is that for gold, you can have more "spaces" to introduce more friend... Like example instead of 2 friends under you, you can have 4 friends...

And at that point of time, I was reluctant to join but very pai seh to reject because the person really talk alot of cock to me. Somemore, the eye of my "friends" look pressurizing and thus I decided to join but will find another time to run away. So I lied to them that I don't have money to pay now and I will pay them at a later time and so they agreed. And when I thought that things were over, they started to teach me how to get friends to join the organization. Damn KuKu can. Ths is the rule that they say to get your friends out:

Rule #1- Never reveal the company location

Rule #2- Just tell your friend that you just want to meet out with him and discuss something, never reveal your actual purpose.

Rule #3- After you have met your friend, just tell him that you are bringing him to a place but don't ever reveal the place(company) that you want to bring him to.

See. This is how my friend lead me to the trap. Damn Fucker!!!!!!

I was really shock at that time because they wanted me to write down all my friends name and contact number and ask me to REALLY call my friends. I can't even cheat as they will be looking at me while I call... So I have no choice but to call my most trusted friend Ler, and so I just talk cock to him and did what the company told me etc...

And finally, i'm able to leave that shitty place and guess what is the 1st thing that I do??? I called Ler and told him about everything and ask him not to believe a word that I said just now... Waste my F#@^^& time, my transport, my mood that day...

The next day, my "friend" called me and I just directly told him that i'm not interested in that thing anymore, and he still have the cheek to ask me out to discuss about it again... And after that, we didn't got into contact again. Damn fuck can!!!!!!!!!!

Seriously, I think Multi Level Marketing will really make you lose alot of friends. People will stay away from you as people doesn't want to get pressurized by you to buy your products. And I think I succumb to pressure to join the orgazination at that time because I am still a boy, not yet a man.

If anyone were to ask me to join into this assy kuku nehneh putput thingy again, the first thing I will do is not to give any faces and say NO straight away. I will take a durian and stuff it right through the person arse and make him feel nothing whenever he shit, make his shit just automatically flow our from his anus!!! I have learned my lesson and will succumb to pressure anymore!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By the way, i'm not saying that all MLM is bad, but currently, every MLM that I ALMOST encounter does not give me a good impression.

Cheers~

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