Thursday, March 13, 2008

Re: [MLM Survivors Club] RE Need info on Herbalife

On Thursday 13 March 2008, Alidjaja Ivan wrote:
> I would like to know about specific MLM called Tianshi Health
> Products. Does this company do differently than any other company?
> Does anyone have any experience with this MLM?

First, in any discussion group, you'll get more information if you start
a new thread when you want to ask a question that doesn't have anything
to do with a current topic. People reading this thread will look for a
discussion on a different topic, not on what you're asking about, so
it's likely someone who knows something won't answer because they were
misled by the subject of the email and by this being part of another
thread. (It also ticks some people off.)

Second, when you joined the group, you were given links and information
about files to read that can help you. Please read them. It helps you
and it helps us because we get questions like this several times a
month, to the point where people are so tired of it they'd rather just
ignore someone asking those questions than to help them. If you had
read the documents you were asked to read before posting, you would
have learned that.

I'm not saying this to be mean, but to help. For example, we're asked
about a number of different MLMs every month. There's a document
called the MLM Flavor of the Month that you were pointed to in the
introductory email. Reading that would have answered your questions as
best we can and you would not have had to ask. Instead we now know you
didn't read the documents we asked you to and would rather take up our
time than to use yours to your benefit.

Again, I'm not saying this to be mean, but to help. An awareness of
these points would be a BIG help in getting information. For example,
one point we make in the introductory documents is that you could type
in the name of the MLM you're asking about and the word "scam" (or
fraud if you prefer, or try both!) into Google and see what comes up.

For more on this, and this is for everyone, there's a good web
page, "How to Ask Questions The Smart Way" by Eric Stanley Raymond. It
goes over how to get the most out of the questions you ask. Here's the
link: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#id306617.

I hope this does help and you don't think I'm trying to be nasty or give
you a hard time. At 2:00 A.M., this is about the nicest I can sound.

We're here to help you and we want to help people deal with MLMs, but we
can't do that if we spend all our time answering the same questions
we've already answered in the intro docs.

I hope this helps!

Hal

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