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12-27-2005, 09:41 PM
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My boyfriend got approached in a sandwhich shop last week but this guy claiming to be looking for new employee.
Main things he mentioned were:
"Be your own boss"
"Make 20k to 100k the 1st year"
So my boyfriend went to this seminar they had were they gave him the information. He pays $300 bucks and they let him purchase discounted products but he has to recruit x amount of new people.
Doesn't sound legit to me but he's all excited (not so much that I found out it's similar to Amway). Wondering if you guys had any info that would help me to get his mind off of it.
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12-27-2005, 09:58 PM
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hahahahahaha!
 
aaaaaaahahahahhaaha.
Okay, lemme 'splain why this is funny:
Okay, wait just a minute more. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA!
I have one word for you, babe: AMWAY.  (Quixstar or however it's spelled is part of the Amway Umbrella.)
If your boyfriend goes to another meeting, do him a favor and tell him this:
Don't drink the kool-aid!!!
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12-27-2005, 10:09 PM
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You want fries with that?
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Amway is nothing but a bunch of bible-thumping nutjobs that use a legal Ponzi pyramid scheme to maintain their ranks.
Furthermore, the tales of mucho dinero, etc. are only for the top folks. It rapidly becomes a FT job, with the conventions, and all the tapes/cds you buy for motivational sales, etc etc.
Quixtar is Amway's internet-based wing.
Have fun vacationing on Peter Island :D
http://skepdic.com/amway.html
FTR, however, the Amway folks are well-intentioned if not horribly misguided. They have done a lot of good for Grand Rapids, MI, as well as the state of Michigan, but I would NEVER EVER consider joining their ranks. I have better things to waste my money on. Like hookers and blow.
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12-27-2005, 10:11 PM
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^ What he said.
Plus there's the whole SPIKED KOOL-AID THING that I mentioned earlier!!! 
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12-27-2005, 11:56 PM
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When did they spike their kool-aid?
I think my mom did it for awhile before i was born...
It might explain my lack of right brain functions
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12-28-2005, 12:22 AM
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You want fries with that?
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Quote:
Originally posted by TheJake@Dec 28 2005, 12:56 AM
When did they spike their kool-aid?
I think my mom did it for awhile before i was born...
It explains my lack of* brain functions
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Edit: Fixed it for ya. 
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12-28-2005, 12:38 AM
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12-28-2005, 03:25 AM
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LOL!!! kool-aid.........ahhh too funny
Yeah I went to one of these things as well way back when a bunch of my friends were wanting to get into it, I reccommend stay away, I think the only ones making the bucks are the guys collecting 300 buckeroos on book and material and I really hate people trying to chirp it up by calling it a business and be your own boss blah blah blah, you can make up to 100k a year but in reality you might make 10 bucks! Fuck it get a real job
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12-28-2005, 04:34 PM
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Thanks guys hopefully I can talk some sense into him.
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