re .. give it all up .. ?
By compulsive on May 24, 2006 - 11:08pm
The following is an excerpt taken from my blog @ compulsivedesign.ca, it is the sorted details of a quacky interview with a shady company that presents itself as serving the public trust.
Be sure to check in next month as we begin our video series on Vancouver called "Share Time".
Well the "meeting" has come and gone and even though I am embarrassed to admit it, I so totally got taken with this one.
For those that were tuned in last entry, I got a phone call from a
man named "Chris" who got my information from Monster.ca. I post there
looking for Final Cut Pro editing gigs. Anyway he wanted to know if I
had ever thought about changing my profession entirely.
Although I wasn't really interested I was very curious, I wanted to
know what it was that "Chris" was offering, and I was (ridiculous I
know) a bit flattered that he had called with this "opportunity". He
works for a Company called Primerica,
they advertise themselves as a Company intent on saving the masses from
debt. He originally told me that they were an investment management
company so I was betting that it was a real chance at something.
The "hook" was that he had worked at IBM and that he knew how tough it
was in the Computer Industry, and he had never looked back after he had
left for this great opportunity.
To make a long and boring meeting shorter, I arrived to find that
there were like 25 people at my "interview" ad my interview was a mass
marketing sales pitch where they tried to convince you to spend $200,
get accredited as a insurance salesman and start selling for Primerica.
Not only selling but actively recruiting more Primerica salesman.
.... .... ..... ..... ..... find the full story @ compulsivedesign.ca
I want to send a hello out to Urban Vancouver for setting up a cool place for Vancouver bloggers to hang-out.
Now you know how those pyramid schemes work - you pay them
to take you to the cleaners, and while you're at it, they
expect you to help them recruit more suckers, and the
profits all filter upward to the top organizers, who often
feel the need for a long foreign vacation just before the
long arm of the law grabs them by the collar.
Things that sound too good to be true usually are, and
somewhere, somebody's paying for every "free lunch".
Hi Ray, you may write many things about this company – but calling it a pyramid shows only your ill intention to mislead others.
Please take your time to research the concept of “pyramid�.
Hi Compulsive, if you have some uneasy feelings because of unskillful presentation – my sincere apology.
…But if you both want to say things that are likely or deliberately intended to confuse people or give them false ideas – shame on you. Either you are connected to the competition, or you admire your own state of ignorance. Today nobody would make such remarks in writing anymore and put his/her own (real) name - Would you?
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The company is fully capitalized.
If you are seeking a business enterprise, joint venture, professional network, or referral-fee system, let me know.
The services it provides are briefly explained at
www.primericafna.com
Similar business models are copied by other well-known companies – they are spending a lot on it.
So please, if you are at the beginning of your careers – just get familiar with it.
If you are not interested - great - I wish you good luck!
Thx
Dave
PS
Please see the website of Canada’s Office of Consumer Affairs by the Government of Canada for more information:
http://www.strategis.ic.gc.ca/epic/internet/inoca-bc.nsf/en/ca01498e.html
or
the competition bureau - Multi-level Marketing and Pyramid Selling Provisions of the Competition Act Sections 55 and 55.1:
http://www.competitionbureau.gc.ca/internet/index.cfm?itemID=1278&lg=e