Get Rich Quick Scheme Not For Me

 

1. Or, you could join AMWAY?  lol

   Good post Drew.

   Posted by peiper       08/03/2013  at  01:11 PM  



2. Thank you Drew - We keep getting letters (and probably phone calls at our disconnected number - still not in use - the last time someone tried to reach us at it) - on this ‘alternative’ energy bit. I’ve wondered if it was worth the move - but like cable/satellite - I worry that it is just a temporary rate to seduce.

   Listening to that it is not only Amway but Tupperware and all the companies like that - all you got to do is - get more people selling for YOU. And just sit back and watch the money roll in.

   Except everyone can’t sell to everyone else - saturation level, skeptics and cheapskates - all combine to torpedo those kinds of adventures - on a grand scale. Yes a few people in every state can make the big bucks (for a while) but usually it can’t go on forever.

   Glad to see my skepticism is founded on using a few brain cells (and two years of selling Tupperware).

   Posted by wardmama4       08/04/2013  at  10:14 AM  



3. JayD you beat me too it. Years ago when I lived in the US my aunt who was a naturalised US citizen bought into the Amway nonsense as did a couple of people I worked with. One of the guys ended up having a nervous breakdown from all the pressure sales these clowns piled on him. They just couldn’t see it was a scam. Not that the Amway is rubbish. The soap powder was good stuff but they weren’t selling that, they were trying to sign up other mugs to sell it and just couldn’t accept it was a pyramid scam.

   The energy deregulation is similar to what has happened in the UK Mrs. Thatcher sold these nationalised industries off and you now have a degree of choice of supplier. Though rather annoyingly two of them are foreign owned (French and German) They are still a bunch of shysters, but at least you have some competition. However this article makes interesting reading http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/10220083/We-could-soon-be-paying-billions-for-this-wind-back-up.html The British govt to comply with our EU masters have built hundreds maybe thousands of windmills subsidised by the consumer with increased electricity bills. However because these windmills rarely work they are having to add hundreds of diesel backup generators which put out massive amounts of plant food. They are paying companies a fortune to provide this backup and there are generator suppliers in the US queuing up to take advantage of this windfall. You couldn’t make it up.

   Posted by LyndonB       08/04/2013  at  01:23 PM  

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