On Sunday 20 May 2007, momluvseliana wrote:
> Today my husband told me about how his co-worker was "starting his
> own business." I guess the guy is selling this so and so drink and
> invited him to one of those parties. My husband asks me, don't you
> hate when they say they are "starting their own business." He says,
> gosh it's not their "own" business. LOL! I say, what ever happened
> to learning how to make cakes and cookies and selling it to the
> neighbors. Or making gift baskets, or home made soaps and candles,
> babysitting, learning a trade, selling at the flea market. Why are
> some people falling for the MLM thing more than once, twice, and even
> three times?
The interesting thing, for me, is that after dealing with a (now ex)
girlfriend in Quackstar, nobody has tried to prospect me. I was part
of a small group in Scamway in the 1980s, for about a week, in college,
but just didn't like the feel of it. After that, one suite mate tried
to get me to sell encyclopedias through Southwestern during the summer
break (I had a job as a camp counselor that I loved dearly and was not
about to give up getting paid to spend all summer playing in the woods
and swimming for something with as little value as portraits of dead
presidents!)
ex-gf. Since shes' been gone, nobody's tried it at all.
I have a lot of questions and comments that I would use on MLMers if
they tried, so it's kind of ironic they don't come up to me. I wonder
if I've gotten to the point where I project such an air of "I don't
want your BS" that they avoid me.
The "my own business" is a good one. I have my own business. If
someone approached me with that line, I'd have at least a half dozen
questions to ask them. Do you pay taxes? If not, it's not recognized
as a business, which means you don't own it and you don't control it.
Is it in your name? Can you hire and fire at will? Do you have full
authority over what products you sell and at what prices? And so on...
In some ways I'd just love for a drone to prospect me so I could be
nasty and take out any remaining frustrations on them by asking them
questions they just won't be able to answer.
Okay, digressing, but still, just thinking about the issues of people
coming up to one with lines like "I own my own business!"
As to why people fall over and over for different MLMs, the short and
accurate answer is that such a person has emotional needs that are not
fulfilled and the MLMs look like they will fill those needs. Money and
logic have nothing to do with it.
Hal
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