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Posted By: Gerry Riley <griley41@charter.net> In Response To: The product is the difference, if you can call it that (Bill Carton - the Roadie)
Sunday, 18 December 2005, at 10:01 p.m.
Thank You for your insight and information. It does seem that they both have alot of testimonials of success from directors in their respective programs....meaning Coastal Vacations and Emerald passport. They seem to be making good money. They are audio and video testimonials as well so i'm just trying to get to the bottom of things. I'm a recently retired U.S.Army soldier and I am now in sales so i understand that many think sales involves little or no work and it's easy and they get upset and quit, so i can understand that aspect. I see it everyday in my full-time occupation in sales.
I'm just trying to see if anyone has any first hand experience with either of these companies because the last thing I want to do is waste money when I could have joined another network marketing company like Agel.
Thank You
Gerry
> Both of them seem to have very similar kinds of distributors, who are
> skilled (if they last at all) at convincing you the product is worth
> thousands of dollars. Both of them also seem to have bunches of
> disillusioned distributors who didn't have those rare skills, but who
> bought into the opportunity, not caring what the product was. They just
> got distracted by the lure of easy money, no work, and the testimonials of
> the few successful ones.
> Coastal's product is a discount vacation operation. Emerald Passport is an
> informational product (videos, CDs) to enhance your ability to embrace
> wealth (as if it would bounce off harmlessly if you hadn't prepared
> yourself). Perhaps both, but EPI for sure, after they get you on the hook
> for $1200-2000, will also try to upsell you on additional products,
> meeting, and offshore seminars, because (I believe) some folks will throw
> good money after bad until they've lost all they can spare and then some.
> If your threshold is $20,000, then they aren't done with you until they've
> extracted the whole $20,000.
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