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Posted By: The Roadie <wcarton@flash.net> In Response To: Re: Daily Dose of Definition - What is a Scam? (John)
Friday, 17 June 2005, at 2:47 p.m.
> Would you consider Emerald Passport a scam?
Totally and without a doubt. Their tolerance of spammers like some on the Power Profit Team and Profit Masters left no doubt that the organizers were greedy parasites.
Of course, you should know that most folks here are NOT your average market for jumping into a $2000 MLM that only pushes participants to spend more, more, and yet more in the pursuit of more tools, training, and meetings. And the 2-up payoff concept is designed to drain the vast majority of newbies of their enthusiasm, while rewarding the earlier participants far beyond their real contribution to civilization.
Herbalife and Mary Kay are considered scam-like because they charge perhaps double the arms-length value of the goods.
EPI on the other hand, charges $2000+ for information that's easily found in $50-100 of self-help books. That's 20-40X markup. Truly scamful, and shameful.
That EPI find new "marks" every day is no defense. How do they sleep at night? It's the old bell-shaped curve. Some people have absolutely *no* compunctions, if it means thjey can put food on the table or gas in their car, even if it means they REMOVE the ability to eat or drive from their next victim who needs to borrow the $2000 admission ticket to the "next big thing."
I *hate* being trolled like this, but EPI pushes a big button for me. I just talked to Lonnie Brasher today, one of their big cheese recruiters, after I caught him buying leads from yet another anonymous spamming leads vendor. If it wasn't for operations like EPI, with their inexhaustable appetite for "work at home!" leads, there would be fewer spammers attracted to the MLM leads industry.
*THEY'RE* the ones making the most consistent money from this scam. Not the newest participants, who are only milked for their $2000 and discarded. The leads vendors who feed the bottomless pit of demand. A pox on them all.
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