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Old September 29, 2002, 10:15 AM
Gary Vurnum
 
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Default Shouldn't we be jumping OVER the bandwagon than just on it?

I've had 8 emails in the last 24 hours....

"Guerilla Bombshells" - only $3.95 - one month free - $79.95 per month after - 28 minutes a month - won't even give you a clue about the product until a few weeks time blah blah....

Now - call me naive - but what happened to the idea that you actually saw what you bought?

I know that Mark Joyner is a 'guru' - and he knows that he's going to get a fair few thousand people sign up just to get in 'at the top'.

And guess what...once the $79.95 payment comes around in a couple months - there will be a lot of people who will be too 'scared' not to pay - as they've been building their downline in the meantime. Clever stuff.

But...not exactly the way I like to play the game.

A couple of months ago it was (is) CashEvolution - - where perhaps the thought of the actually 'product' was secondary.

Before that - Desktop Money Machine (or whatever it was called). How many people made a little money - then come the 3 month payment due date - cancelled - to jump onto CashEvolution.

What happened to the underlying 'integrity' of a recommendation?

I know that there are millions of people who bite - but in the years to come when MJ et all are in their castles - all the people in their downline will be poorer still.

Bombshells may be excellent - and well worth the $79.95 - but I for one, am not going to recommend it to my list of 18,000+ on the basis of a 'promise'.

What about that thing could relationship with your customers.

I could make a little money out of them by recommending CE, DTMM, Bombshells et al - but perhaps I'm the naive one by NOT trying to take advantage of them?

What does anyone else think?


More wise? words.....
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Old September 29, 2002, 01:19 PM
Oliver Peters
 
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Default What a joke!

Hum, if you want my $0.02, frankly, I will never buy anything from someone who recommended Cash Evolution.

And I will never buy anything without facts, even from a self called "guru".

As usual, in these pyramid schemes, the money is only for the people who launch that kind of "great" product. If the product is so extrordinary, why not promote it in a standard affiliate way?

More food for the Delete folder of Eudora :O)

Oliver
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Old September 30, 2002, 01:44 AM
Michael Ross
 
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Default Ponzi Schemes R Us

Methinks CASHevolution and its 5 x 5 forced matrix is a pyramid/ponzi scheme.

From reading over their website is sounds like one of those "just buy these four reports for $10 each, put your name on the list and move the other names down one, then mail 100 letters and sell report one to those people, sell report two to the people they mail 100 letters to, sell report three to... and sell report four to..." things.

But with CE there does not seem to actually be a product. There is a promised product... which sounds like a bunch of articles to me... but no actual product as yet.

No product + money going in + 5 x 5 matrix + promised payouts = Pyramid Scheme / Ponzi Scheme.

While I think it's a scam, I like to think people are smart enough to also see it for what it is. If they got taken in by his desktop product, and CE and whatever else, then they should have the smarts to not get taken by the same person offering the same thing again. And if they do, shame on them. (Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.)

Will my opinion of CE change anything?

Not likely. Those who love it, will defend it and continue to love it - and promote it. Those who don't like it and think it's a scam will continue to dislike it and think it's a scam. Nothing will change.

Joyner or Mayo won't suddenly close the site because of my opinion.

Just another fading blip on the radar screen of scams and schemes.

Michael Ross


Easy Money? Not likely. Just good info you can use to make money the old fashioned way
 


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