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Posted By: Larry In Response To: National Healthcare Discount (Carol)
Tuesday, 8 February 2005, at 12:58 p.m.
Hello Carol,
Although I have not had any experience with the company you mentioned, I thought that I would make you aware (if you haven't seen these already) that there are many health discount fee-for-service plans out there. I have found out there are at least a few hundred of these discount programs where they offer to discount health services, dental, vision care, prescription drugs, chiropractic care, etc. in some combination of some or all of the above. You even see these programs advertised on TV.
If they are demanding that you buy phone service from them as a requirement, it may be for 2 reasons that I can think of:
1) The group you are going to be working with uses this phone service to communicate with everyone on their team. They use it as a message center.
2) Someone is making money from backending this phone service to the group.
Of course, it could be a combination of both.
Red flags go up when I see this type of "requirement" of purchasing something else in order to work at what they primarily advertise. Their focus may not be on the primary business but are using it as a hook for you to buy expensive messaging services (I have heard them called unified messaging services).
I encourage you to plug in the phrase "Health Care Discount" (in parenthesis) into Google and see the various programs that are out there.
As a long time reader of this board, I do know that there have been a few programs like this discussed here such as Ameriplan and Care Entre (spelling on both may be wrong). I believe they were both multi-level marketing (mlm).
If you are looking for a home-business...
I encourage you to look at MaaMaw's last chance business opp at: http://www.friendsinbusiness.com/best to see some other home opportunities. There are other regular posters on this board that have a wealth of knowledge about all sorts of in-home businesses such as:
-Ebay,
-promotional items, (Dennis Bevers comes to mind at http://www.cuttingedgeadvertising.com/opportunity.html
-internet info products,
-affiliate programs,
-legit mlm programs and direct selling programs. (Kelly Sutton comes to mind at http://www.tsginfo.com/wat4/index.php?rc=bc2442&rcext=
I encourage you to visit the archives of this forum before deciding on the one you mentioned. Just my 2 cents! :)
Good luck!
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