Nowadays people are getting more creative or rather being able to capitalize on markets trends to make some fast buck using the network marketing business model.
One has to be more careful before parting your money away. “Money talks” and it often say “Goodbye”.
I have to share with you this story, this is a good one.
As we all know that “Fung Shui” has become very fashionable and it is the “In Thing” now, everything seems to be “fung-shuiable”. Nevertheless, I am also a believer in Fung Shui. Thanks to Master Joey Yap and Lilian Too for they have made it so popular. Have you ever come across a company that uses MLM to market personal fung shui? Refreshing, right?
A couple of months ago, my cousin introduced me her new friend (her upline). She was telling me about all the wonderful things that have happened to her after she attended a seminar and started using the products.
What is it? I asked. Quickly her upline took out some brochures and blah….blah….blah……and started to ask for my birth date to calculate my luck.
Wow! This is original, fung shui MLM. Apparently it was based on the ancient art of Hindu numerology. What more, a young Chinese founder probably in his early thirties teaching Hindu numerology?
The plot was quite simple, let’s say “No. 6” is for wealth and “No 7” is for health and so on. You will have to add up all the digits of your entire birth date; add again until you arrived to a single digit.
This is nothing new, I have heard of it ages ago. I asked.
No, no wait. She said. If your personal number is 2 and wealth is what you are after, then you should buy a pendent “No 4” to wear. 2 + 4 = 6 = wealth and so on. They are wearing a few pendants with different numbers, saying that each number is for different a purpose.
If that is the case I don’t need to buy any of them, I carry all the “Numbers” with me as in my IC, driver’s license and the cash. They all have numbers.
The founder of this company is a very smart businessman as he knows how to work on human weaknesses. “The Fear and the Greed”. The fear of losing out if this works, (my friend will be richer than me) and the greed will drive them to want to get rich quickly or instantly. Tell me who doesn’t want to be wealthy?
I am sure what is actually in his mind is to make money and there are so many suckers out there who will buy this story. Come on, think. Is there is any perceived value in it? Be smart and don’t get con.
This is definitely a camouflaged network marketing company, very well disguised and well blended in. Unless you know the differences and being able to recognize the tactics a pyramid scam uses, you may find yourself tempted to join and become involved. It is all based on human greed and this is a typical example.
“There is no calamity greater than lavish desires.
There is no greater guilt than discontentment.
And there is no greater disaster than greed.”
- Lao Tze, Chinese philosopher (604 BC - 531 BC)
Nuff said about scams. There are a hefty bunch of them in this country. Capitalizing on the weakness of human = GREED. I read most of your entries in this page, and I bet you are not one of the bad eggs in the network marketing industry. I laud your attitude towards blogging to let the world know and understand network marketing. It is an industry that would last but will only fail by people. Great work here