thread: Home based opportunities - Real potential of substantial income or just another scam?

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  1. #1
    Registered User

    Dec 2008
    Brisbane
    13

    Thank you trillian, I don't intend to burn up all my friendships and seriously recommend anyone else interested in mlm'ing doesn't do that either. I thought to myself I never hounded my friends to buy tyres off me when I was a tyre fitter so why should I now.

    I will not announce the website on here, I don't want anyone thinking they are suckered in. I love kids and take my hat off to all the mum's out there moulding our future generations. God Bless

  2. #2
    Registered User

    Dec 2008
    Brisbane
    13

    And dads too.....my brother is a solo parent of 3!

  3. #3
    Registered User

    Dec 2005
    In Bankworld with Barbara
    14,222

    Well if you think that you can make a go of it and do well, then go ahead and do it. You sound like you've really looked into this, but IME there are always strings - they may not be apparent at first but they are always there. If you have nothing to lose financially if it doesn't work out and you don't become a social lepper then give it a go.

  4. #4
    Lucy in the sky with diamonds.

    Jan 2005
    Funky Town, Vic
    7,070

    I'm a bit weirded out by the "compensation" plan. What a strange word!

    Who is the parent company?

  5. #5
    Registered User

    Dec 2008
    Brisbane
    13

    All mlm's run a compensation plan - meaning you get compensated for yours and others purchases.
    It has no parent company. It is a middle agent between retailers/wholesalers and consumers.
    The company negotiates all pricing on products with seperate merchants. Its like any other shopping directory but you can run a business from it too

  6. #6
    Registered User

    Oct 2007
    Caroline Springs
    2,341

    I'm going to have to agree with everything that Lulu has mentioned.

    And Trillian said exactly what I've been thinking while reading everything... Sounds very pyramid shaped...

  7. #7
    Registered User

    Dec 2008
    Brisbane
    13

    Oh it is, but its done legally and ethically I am led to believe. There is no other way to generate a substantial income with little investment unless you are intelligent enough to invent something incredibily useful. I am not that creative myself......wish I was, he he.

  8. #8
    Registered User

    Sep 2006
    659

    To answer you question in the title of the post - just another scam.

    If it smells like a dog, looks like a dog, sounds like a dog, , well, it's a dog. A dog that starts with 'A'

    Do you really have a 2yo son? Because later on in your post you speak like one who has no children, saying you admire mums and dads raising the future generations.

    Anyway, best of luck recruiting your 10-20 members.

    And yep, in pyramid schemes, sorry MLM's, the only person that gets rich is the one at the very tip of the top.

  9. #9
    Lucy in the sky with diamonds.

    Jan 2005
    Funky Town, Vic
    7,070

    Yeh, I'm not convinced though. I've just met too many manic MLM people that can talk of nothing other than the 'business opportunity'. I've also met many with the same type of spiel - you buy the stuff for yourself each week anyway etc etc etc.

    Its also not that easy to find entreprenurial people. Out of a team averaging 20, I could only ever say that 2 of them could be described that way. I had an excellent team, but most people need to be rallied and motivated, you will have to manage them. This takes time!

    How are you planning to find your recruits?

  10. #10
    Lucy in the sky with diamonds.

    Jan 2005
    Funky Town, Vic
    7,070

    The other thing...most of us want to be self employed to be able to choose the conditions in which we work. On one hand you can control things, but you are also at the mercy of THEIR conditions, pricing etc, or delivery fees, admin stuff.

    They would want to give you a heck of alot of support, do they?