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Pyramid Scheme Pariahs
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I nearly got suckered into Vector, but fortunately I said I didn't want to find my own customers and the guy showed me the door.
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They can be vicious. There's also Amway too. Forgot about that.
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Yeah, they're that AmWay scam and I think they even pre-date Vemma. What a bunch of dickbags.
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When I was in high school, there was a knife company (hell, might've been the same knife company that Chris "worked" for for all I know) that recruited very heavily from the student body. They even had ads in the school, which I'm pretty sure is illegal. Anyway, yeah, it was a scam. Even back then I knew it. I never even bothered applying, because you were guaranteed money doing even the most menial job, whereas this one only promised you a percentage of commission (that you might never make). Oh, and you had to buy the knives yourself. I'm still amazed these companies get away with that kind of crap.
There's a part of me that just wants to harass these pyramid schemes. Not entirely sure how, but there's gotta be a funny way to waste their time.
There's a part of me that just wants to harass these pyramid schemes. Not entirely sure how, but there's gotta be a funny way to waste their time.
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That was mostly likely connected to Vector. Was the company called Cutco?
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Haha yeah let me tell you something about those Vector marketing/Cutco shitheads. They have a print ad that they post on the little corkboards around the college I take night classes at advertising "WORK FOR STUDENTS! __ DOLLARS PER HOUR" and of course they leave off the company name or what the work consists of. Just those little tear-away strips at the bottom with their phone number on it.
I left the dollar per hour open to interpretation because it seems like every time I walk past the ad, the "pay rate" increases by one dollar. The first I saw it, it was $12 but now I think they're up to $15
I tell ya, if Chris would have stuck with these guys, he'd be rolling in the dough instead of his own filth.
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My roommate went to a meeting for one of these things once by mistake, but he made it worth his while.
It was a typical MLM type deal, he realized almost immediately it was a scam, and the products were knives. Part of the meeting was a demonstration of the knives like you'd see on a tacky infomercial. So in order to do the demonstration he wants a volunteer and, being an actor and already bored, my roommate volunteers.
So they have one set of regular Brand X knives, and one set of the MLM knives. The guy running the meeting gives my roommate a Brand X knife and asks him to cut through a shoe he provides. Because everyone needs a good shoe knife. So he tries to cut through the shoe and obviously the knife isn't sharp enough. So my roommate shouts, in his best infomercial voice "THERE'S GOT TO BE A BETTER WAY!"
I love that story so much and it didn't even happen to me.
It was a typical MLM type deal, he realized almost immediately it was a scam, and the products were knives. Part of the meeting was a demonstration of the knives like you'd see on a tacky infomercial. So in order to do the demonstration he wants a volunteer and, being an actor and already bored, my roommate volunteers.
So they have one set of regular Brand X knives, and one set of the MLM knives. The guy running the meeting gives my roommate a Brand X knife and asks him to cut through a shoe he provides. Because everyone needs a good shoe knife. So he tries to cut through the shoe and obviously the knife isn't sharp enough. So my roommate shouts, in his best infomercial voice "THERE'S GOT TO BE A BETTER WAY!"
I love that story so much and it didn't even happen to me.
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Haha yeah let me tell you something about those Vector marketing/Cutco shitheads. They have a print ad that they post on the little corkboards around the college I take night classes at advertising "WORK FOR STUDENTS! __ DOLLARS PER HOUR" and of course they leave off the company name or what the work consists of. Just those little tear-away strips at the bottom with their phone number on it.
I left the dollar per hour open to interpretation because it seems like every time I walk past the ad, the "pay rate" increases by one dollar. The first I saw it, it was $12 but now I think they're up to $15
Holy shit, I nearly fell for something like this. Exact same description. A nicely formatted sheet of paper on a corkboard, "WORD FOR STUDENTS! 14 DOLLARS PER HOUR", no company name, no job description, only the pulloff numbers asking you to call and a promise of pay. I was seriously considering calling them and trying to get work for the summer, but backed off because it seemed a little too perfect. Thought it was going to be shitty manual labor or something. Thanks for confirming that these were people I did not want to be working for.
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Your roommate is awesome for trolling them like that. Yeah, I almost got peppered in same Amway type scam a year ago. The meeting was short notice and after doing research I declined.
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He tells the story so much better than me retelling it over the internet too. And like I said he's an actor (a comedic actor actually) so the delivery of "THERE'S GOT TO BE A BETTER WAY" was dead perfect.
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Ha I bet! Will he do informericals? Because he would be perfect!
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He does commercials, so I don't see why not. I don't know if they film those in Toronto.
He's in that commercial for Radio Shack (I think) that they play every Christmas where he asks if he should buy his girlfriend electronics or a song he wrote.
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So this chick I saw on YouTube is now talking about some '7 quarter challenge,' after a bunch if videos touting MCA.
I should send her a message telling her to go back to making these kids of videos:
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Oh god... these people. I had a "friend" who turned out to be Vemma douchebag out to make a buck off of me and then some. Vemma salespeople are all exploitative bastards who use the people they know for money and favors.
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I've been watching a few more videos related to the ones in the original post. This guy spends the first minute answering the question "Vemma: Scam Or Legitimate Opportunity" by showing attractive women in bathing suits (I guess that answers my question), then takes about seven minutes to talk about how people getting paid by Vemma are proof that it's not a scam. It blows my mind that anyone (either the partners making the videos or the people watching them) would take a celebrity's endorsement or ad placement in a sports venue as a sign of legitimacy. I'm sure there's a little fact-checking involved (i.e. is this a drug cartel or a human trafficking ring), but if you give someone enough money, they'll put their photo on anything or be glad to paste your brand on empty wall space.
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And the funny thing is, they get fucking neither. The only people who actually make money off this are the ones perpetrating the scam at the top of the pyramid.
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Exactly, at least with the money part. The bastard used me as a chauffeur and a credit card for his wants, but I'll leave it at that as there's a better thread to give better details.
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I feel we should switch this topic from just Vemma Douchebags to people who run pyramid schemes in general. I already have a new name for this thread: Pyramid Scheme Pariahs (and I mean pariahs in the sense that these assholes run these schemes as to compensate for the fact that they have little to no friends whatsoever)
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