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I originally thought you said "coffin thing" and was kind of excited that pyramid schemes were killing people.
Pyramid Scheme Pariahs
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I originally thought you said "coffin thing" and was kind of excited that pyramid schemes were killing people.
Asa_Spades60
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Kinda OT, but do you know what episode that was specifically? I remember two where Peggy gets involved in a pyramid scheme: one for vitamins (Bill of Sales) and one for kitchenware (Peggy Goes to Pots) [there's also a third where she tries to buy a degree online (The Substitute Spanish Prisoner), but I'm not sure if that counts], but not the one you described.
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I think it was the episode when Hank got laid off, maybe the one with Megalow Mart blowing up. That the thing with King of the Hill, they do a lot of real life stuff and getting into Pyramid Scheme are a common economic reality for most Americans.
Frank Rizzo
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I knew a few people in college who got roped into Amway. All of them swore up and down that they were set to make big bucks, and that I was stupid for not getting in on such a "awesome" company.
Yeah, I was the stupid one....
Also, a few years ago, while on a job search, reps from Herbalife would literally e-mail and call me several times a week, offering me an interview and saying things like "OMG, WE'VE READ YOUR RESUME, YOU'D HAVE THE JOB IN THE BAG!"
I finally just ignored them, as no amount of "Fuck off, I'm not interested"got through to them.
Yeah, I was the stupid one....
Also, a few years ago, while on a job search, reps from Herbalife would literally e-mail and call me several times a week, offering me an interview and saying things like "OMG, WE'VE READ YOUR RESUME, YOU'D HAVE THE JOB IN THE BAG!"
I finally just ignored them, as no amount of "Fuck off, I'm not interested"got through to them.
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Well here's probably the absolute lowest, most tasteless thing I've seen in a while. Was looking at a Facebook memorial page for an old middle school friend of mine who died in 2015 and found this:
She isn't a member of his family or even a friend as far as I know. And this isn't going to pay his remaining bills in any way. She just wants you to remember him by buying shit from her.
I really thought I'd seen it all from these scam people, but this is just a whole new level of wrong.
She isn't a member of his family or even a friend as far as I know. And this isn't going to pay his remaining bills in any way. She just wants you to remember him by buying shit from her.
I really thought I'd seen it all from these scam people, but this is just a whole new level of wrong.
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My ex coworker posted a selfie of her sitting in her mother's hospital room- post-surgery, mind you- talking about how great it is that she can work anywhere because of It Works, so that doesn't surprise me at all. This shit turns you into a money-hungry sociopath overnight.
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It occurred to me that in university, there was a similar phenomenon to commercial MLM in the form of unaccredited "honor societies". It was obvious they weren't the real thing because they'd send out the exact same form letter of congratulations to every student regardless of their academic record or achievements, and they wanted like 50-100 USD plus yearly dues for lifetime membership and a certificate or medal and a monthly magazine. There would occasionally be people shilling for these fake honor societies trying to talk up testimonials about how good it was for networking, but it was obviously a bullshit scam. My sister is getting their letters now that she is going through university too, and my father was almost misled by it and ready to shell out cash for it until I told him it was a scam. I wish I could recall the names of these organizations, but they are all so generic and samey.
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Had a roommate try to sell ItWorks! and failed (and I believe Shakeology). She was an obese, picky eating, crash-dieting midwesterner who routinely bought cookie dough to eat raw, hoarded flavored Smirnoff in the freezer (an abomination, IMO) and refused to do any other type of exercise other than light cardio due to her allegedly bad back. I think the product that she aggressively shilled the most was this green powder called "Greens", essentially a shitty multivitamin analogue which she bought the claims that it was a replacement to servings of fruits and vegetables. The latter of which she never ate.
Anyway.
My favorite little game is to check the instagram tags of certain MLM products. Say -- one of those pseudo laxatives, Fat Fighters.
Anyway.
My favorite little game is to check the instagram tags of certain MLM products. Say -- one of those pseudo laxatives, Fat Fighters.
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I'm dead at the laxative next to that giant nasty bowl of spaghetti. My stomac has shut down.
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I had an experience with one of these guys before. I was working at a grocery store on the self checkout, and talking to what I perceived to be a friendly young woman. She took more interest in me when I mentioned being a college student and told me that she "might have good news for me." She said her manager only hires a handful of people every year, and that she was going to mention me and see if I could get hired. She talked about retiring in her 20s and being successful young people, and framed it like a job offer. Everything else about it was super vague. I thought it was suspicious and didn't think anything would come of it, but I gave her some contact info anyway to see where she was going with it. Later on, I got a phone call from her manager, who told me that the position was for young people who can look at the big picture of things, and that they hire people based on their good character. She was very adamant that it wasn't a job opportunity, and that it was "asset development" (probably a euphemism for pyramid scheme). She eventually asked to meet at Panera Bread. I declined, assuming the last thing she would tell me is that I needed to pay money to join. Why is it always Panera Bread?
Asa_Spades60
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Oh, okay. Haven't really seen that one since Adult Swim only airs King of the Hill episodes from seasons 3 to the final season (while skipping over holiday episodes, like the one where Bill becomes so depressed over Christmas that he thinks he's his estranged wife or that one where Michael Keaton plays Luanne's deranged boyfriend who ends up killed in a pork factory or the one where Sally Field plays an Evangelical Christian who tries to ban Halloween). Rate me off-topic if you must. I just wanted to know something.
We now return to your regularly-scheduled program already in progress...
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These people are absolutely shameless.
When my husband was in the ICU and we didn't know how bad his brain injury would effect him, I had an old friend from high school text me saying she was in the area of the hospital and wanted to say hi.
I thought it was returning a favor because when her Mom was in the hospital, I would run over meals for her Dad so he wouldn't have to leave his wife's side.
Nope.
She launched into a fucking Jamberry (nail stickers or whatever you call them) pitch! Actually saying that by "taking care of myself" would cheer my husband up.
I just got up and left.
She actually kept messaging me, asking if I had tried the "little gift" she slipped into my purse! I looked at it and it was only enough to do ONE nail!
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The name, ItWorks,sounds like the perfect personification of scammery.
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That and the fact their slogan seems to be "HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT THAT CRAZY WRAP THING?!" It's about the most blatantly scammy thing I've ever seen. It's like they're not even trying to hide the fact they think their marketers are dumb.
It's a great way to weed out people on dating sites though. Just swipe left on every one that says "Independent Consultant at ItWorks!"
I know a girl that sells (or tries to sell) it. She's about 6' tall and and looks like a hulking neanderthal. She refuses to get a real job and can't seem to stop having kids, so naturally she's on welfare and somehow managed to get it to pay for gastric bypass sugery to drop from about 380lbs to probably around 180.
She used the before and after pics to try to sell those wraps claiming she lost over 200lbs with wraps alone. She still has the bone structure of Harambe though. Also she smokes meth. No idea if she credits the loss of all her teeth to ItWorks as well.
This last weekend, just driving around I saw no less than 3 Lularoe "yard sales" just racks upon racks of ugly, scrubs-looking clothes rolled out on the lawn, and everyone avoiding it like the plague.
Last time I got my hair cut, the barber let one of her friends try selling Lularoe stuff inside the barbershop for the day. It's a barbershop mainly for men so nobody was buying. All the items seemed to be in Slaton sizes. And the girl kept going "They keep sending me size 3X and nobody is a 3X, I can't sell it! I'd be able to sell and make them so much money if they'd just send me sizes that fit people and patterns that aren't ugly!"
Pretty sure that if you have the stuff, they've already made their money. They don't give a damn what you sell. Actually, I think that's the point of that one. They just send you whatever and it's on you to try and sell it.
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http://kutv.com/news/local/follow-t...-made-utah-a-hotbed-for-multi-level-marketers
So I was reading some articles the other day on how a lot of mlm's are based in Utah and it's widespread in the Mormon community. It's interesting to me because I grew up in a area that had a pretty sizable population of Mormons and a lot of my Mormon acquaintances from my younger years are now pushing this shit.
Also on a sidenote the op I wrote for this thread is shit. I can not create an op worth a damn and I'm usually on mobile. If somebody's passionate enough about this thread and wants to make something more in depth and coherant please pm me.
So I was reading some articles the other day on how a lot of mlm's are based in Utah and it's widespread in the Mormon community. It's interesting to me because I grew up in a area that had a pretty sizable population of Mormons and a lot of my Mormon acquaintances from my younger years are now pushing this shit.
Also on a sidenote the op I wrote for this thread is shit. I can not create an op worth a damn and I'm usually on mobile. If somebody's passionate enough about this thread and wants to make something more in depth and coherant please pm me.
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Affinity scams by Mormons are very common in Utah. It isn't surprising. They're all descended from people gullible enough to fall for a convicted felon scam artist like Joseph Smith.
Still, they're a particularly repugnant kind of scam, because they prey on people's willingness to trust someone who belongs to the same group as them, whether that's Mormons, black Christians, or any other tight-knit community.
For some reason, they're really fond of gold bullion-related scams like this one.
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I grew up surrounded by a bunch of people who were basically cultists called the "Bible Missionaries". Every single family sold this stuff:
http://www.melaleuca.com
Not sure if it was as scammy as some of the other things here though. Odd thing was they all seemed to actually like and use it, so they mostly just all bought and sold amongst themselves like some bizarre circlejerk .
http://www.melaleuca.com
Not sure if it was as scammy as some of the other things here though. Odd thing was they all seemed to actually like and use it, so they mostly just all bought and sold amongst themselves like some bizarre circlejerk .
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Many of my Mormon relatives peddle MLMs because they're stuck at home with six kids all named after Biblical figures. Can't say I blame them.
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That's similar to the one former figure skater debi Thomas got caught up in when she went crazy a few years back. So upsetting :
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wa...91972c-ce99-11e5-abc9-ea152f0b9561_story.html
She was a world champion figure skater, Olympic bronze medalist, a doctor, and now she's selling this shit on her Facebook.
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A lot of Olympians go broke, unfortunately, for the same reasons pro Athletes do, the sudden influx of wealth if they are successful can come and go fast before you even realize what happened. A lot of medals show up on eBay and at auction houses, so many that I think the IOC tried to do something about it for the bad publicity it was bringing.