while everyone are sharing their stories, i might as well share mine too.
ok, this friend who i never met since CESC (army
) suddenly called me up and wanted to
catch up with me since we never meet for a long time. i thought, " why not invite my SISPEC buddy (who is a mutual friend) as well?" but in the end, i decided against it coz he might be working, so i went alone.
anyway, we met at Clarke Quay at 3pm... which is more like 12pm according to my biological clock since i m a hardcore gamer who plays till the twilight hours.
since i dunno anything about Enyouth (only read up on MLM), we went straight to that coffee shop to eat something...
once we reached the coffee shop, i thought to myself, "ey, why so weird one? how come this coffee shop has so many young ppl dressed so nicely? this coffee shop is so run down, hot and dusty, mosquitos everywhere... wear long sleeve = cooking themselves... "
however, we were given the freedom of dressing unless it offends the opposite sex, so i did not think too much about it. and last i checked, chicks digg guys wearing long sleeve shirt + tie + shiny leather shoes.
so we ate. then we talked.
then he kept talking about making his own bizness. initially, i was quite impressed because i was under the impression that he wanted to set up shop to sell products directly to consumers, and still make a tidy profit.
however something seemed strange to me. the fact that the price is marked up by everyone is because everyone is also incurring costs (logistics, manpower, rent, etc) while wanting to make a profit. but i reasoned to myself, maybe without the profits in between, u can sell with higher profits at a lower price at the end. and since it costs less than wat is in the market, u will break even faster.
then he asked me abt my opinion on MLM, and my world came crashing down.
being nice, ready to learn, and always curious about other peoples' reaction, and truthful at the same time, i told him, "as long as can make money can already".
then he started his MLM speech abt macdonalds, NUS, A lvls, blah blah blah, u guys know the drill and THEN he showed me his MP4 watch...
being an internet surfer, i know that theres a 4GB variant already (ENY one is 2GB only), but still, seeing it for the first time live, i was quite impressed with how much technology has advanced. then he made me guess the price...
i was stumped, im a person who believes that if i want it, im willing to pay a reasonable amount. so, i guessed starting from S$100, up to S$500 with a S$100 increment everytime. he said it costs S$488, but he got it for free because he joined the company.
then, instead of talking about the MP4, he talked about the FIR strap and how good it is... after that, he intro his DM to me, who basically repeated my friend's very very long script to me again. wtf. wasting my time. but i thought, "hey, this guy is my friend's IC, so i give my friend some face". and listened to the story again.
then, after this DM finished, he intro me to another 2 people who repeated the same script to me.
now, i kan cheong already, coz i have to meet my friends at 8pm.. and after these 2 finished reciting their dictation and introducing me to their products from heart (well done, guys, but i think that all are crap except the watch), it was 7pm already. i told my friend, "i have to go, meeting friends at 8". then they took out the forms for me to sign, which i didnt, coz i "needed to think abt it". yeah right.
then, he intro me to his SDM. wtf. still, being curious at wat their reactions would be, i let the SDM recite the same dictation yet again. but to his credit, he added some spices to his dictation that uses the "cat string theory". because i read up on the human mind a lot, i was quite offended.
they were using every trick in the bloody books to try to recruit me. if the company were any good in my opinion, i would want to join it. this is more like using heavy social pressure laced with mind tricks to get recruits.
i hate it.
throughout the multiple recitations of the same script my friend kept saying, "yes", "right", "agree"... however, i know that they were just trying to use cheap mind tricks on me and was quite pissed because if i were to join them, i'd be doing this to other victims. they said it themselves, if i were to join that day, i wont need to do anything other than say "yes".
w t f!
anyway, i looked at my watch and it was 1950hrs already but the SDM was still yakking abt how good the company is, he is drawing 5 figure pay blah blah blah.
so, i acted like i was psychoed by agreeing with the SDM dude and kept insisting that i needed to think abt it because "im new"... once his verbal diarrhoea ended, i quickly went to the mall to take a cab.
bloody hell, i was late.
the next day, i went back to the webby i first saw the MP4 watch and found out that the 2GB variant costs only $53.62, but no currency was stated. assuming it to be pounds, and all 2GB MP4 watches costs the same, it can cost only S$200 at most. bloody hell. the other S$288 for the bloody miracle strap izzit?
i mean, come on, my pair of Timberland shoes costs only S$250! S$288 for a rubber watch strap claimed to be good for health with no proof watsoever other than the "FIR" sticker pasted on it?!
dun
dream of earning my money. i'd rather buy another pair than buy anything from this company.
btw, they also claimed that each 1000 gauss magnet in the bloody bed/pillow they sell is S$40.
and they dun have any equipment to show that it really IS 1000 gauss.
assuming that they have an equipment that measures the strength of magnets, they cant show me because their office is doing renovations and all of them have to treat the coffee shop as their office.
they also said that selling to family members, relatives and friends is just a "warm up". after that, the company will come up with a "market list" so that i have ppl to approach to sell the product. when i asked how the company makes the list up, they gimme smoke + fumes!
IMPORTANT EDITi forgot something important...
if those guys my friend "introduced" to me read the story i wrote above,
NOW and only
NOW then u know why i never stand up when i shook hands with u when u were standing and offering your hand for me to shake. just in case u dun find anything amiss.
the SDM's case is bo bian, coz there were no chairs there.