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FIB - Scams 101 - Ye Olde Archives
Posted By: Mel. White In Response To: FIS Marketing/Coastal Vacations (Bree)
Friday, 3 June 2005, at 7:51 a.m.
We've gotten lots of reports of the fallout from this one over the years. Perhaps the biggest blowup was on the old Watchdogs site, about six years ago. The basic complaint is like this:
Someone grabs your business using the same tagline you're using in your signature (making thousands of dollars a week.) You are then told you can do this well but the first 3 (now it's only 2) sales go to your upline as a training fee.
The typical person can only find two sales in their vast group of friends and acquaintances who are able (financially) to plunk down that amount of cash and who are willing to try the "business." The typical person (TP) is then told that they (TP) can make more sales if they buy this list or buy this software or buy this training program or buy this inspirational tape. TP is also told things like "you have to take risks to go for your dream!" and "fire your boss and work for yourself!" and "break free from your J.O.B", etc.
It's designed to tell you that your failure to sell product is YOUR fault and you can do it if only you spend more time and money.
They don't tell you that your failure to sell product is because it's basically not a very viable business and most folks know this and the price tag puts it out of reach of many who might try it. Nor do they tell you that Coastal Vacations isn't really a travel agency (and it exists to sell the "bizop") or that it got sued and shut down at least once for being a pyramid.
You also aren't told that the only ones making real money are the trainers who can process through downlines.
There's some archives posts about this and Emerald Passport (one of the "teams") here.
I think that you'll find that if you really want to sell things, you can do a lot better selling cars (if you like high ticket items) or the like. You can also do better investing in the stock market or going to Las Vegas and gambling.
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