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CloniesForLife

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Company gives you an allowance for a car, but requires that you buy high end brands? What happens if you quit or don't sell? You're stuck holding the bag on a $50,000 car? Or do they own it?
I assume they want people driving those cars because it helps with the "look" of the company. People are stupid and will buy from people that drive expensive cars so they can do the same.
 

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I fell for the gimmick sales call from a brother of a friend of mine that I he had "received quite a few references from people saying I would be a perfect person for a job he was looking to fill" and wanted to meet. I was intrigued and made the mistake of letting him in the front door. Wanted me to sell Primerica term life and change people's lives while I made a pile of cash myself. Then he would start just showing up at random times, or he'd be sitting on the side of the road in the street in front of my house when I got home. Finally told him to get lost. He was smooth getting into the house but was a PITA getting out until I got pissy with him.
 

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I assume they want people driving those cars because it helps with the "look" of the company. People are stupid and will buy from people that drive expensive cars so they can do the same.

I get why they have them do it. I'm more curious what the employee is responsible for. Based upon my knowledge of MLM companies, my guess is they "require" (or strongly encourage) the employee to buy those types of cars, but the employee is ultimately responsible for the lease/payment. They provide an $800/month stipend assuming you meet certain sales goals. If you don't meet your sales goals, tough ****, now you have to make the car payment on your own dime.
 

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I get why they have them do it. I'm more curious what the employee is responsible for. Based upon my knowledge of MLM companies, my guess is they "require" (or strongly encourage) the employee to buy those types of cars, but the employee is ultimately responsible for the lease/payment. They provide an $800/month stipend assuming you meet certain sales goals. If you don't meet your sales goals, tough ****, now you have to make the car payment on your own dime.
Oh yeah I am sure it isn't as easy as just getting $800 a month. I bet it doesn't take much to be left hanging with a car you cannot afford. Nothing like that is ever as good as it sounds.
 

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I hadn't heard about this until today. So either I have good friends who don't fall into this nonsense. Or I just don't have any friends. :(
 

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You know who else is really bad right now? PANDA EXPRESS. Told them I didn't want to donate toward the children's hospital the other day and the cashier screams, "What?! You don't want to round up?!" like I was the most miserable human on the planet.
I never do this. I give to charities where I can actually find out that the money is going where it is supposed to go. I have no idea how they are cooking the books on those round up deals. Besides they don't need my money to do corporate good, they have plenty of profits that they can use for that.
 

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I never do this. I give to charities where I can actually find out that the money is going where it is supposed to go. I have no idea how they are cooking the books on those round up deals. Besides they don't need my money to do corporate good, they have plenty of profits that they can use for that.

Sometimes depending upon my mood, I will ask if they can round down and just let Fareway, Panda Express or their ownership make the donation. No takers to date.
 
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Well Science says it adds nothing to you. The patch you wear is useless and can't get the green tea or whatever into your blood stream. So wearing that thing is useless. It's basically an advertising scheme that Thrive people put on their arms so they can show that they are not just drinking vitamin shakes.
The rest of the stuff is just normal vitamins. This is not my opinion. These are facts by experts in the field. So basically it's a $150 a month to take a multi vitamin, have some caffeine, and take a low dose asprin. If you want to pay that much for those three things. Have at it.
I'm not disagreeing with you (in this instance only) but there are plenty of drugs that are distributed with a patch. Why wouldn't it work in this instance? Other than the product itself doesn't work.
 

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I'm not disagreeing with you (in this instance only) but there are plenty of drugs that are distributed with a patch. Why wouldn't it work in this instance? Other than the product itself doesn't work.

For it to penetrate the skin two ingredients need to be in there. Like the nicotine path has one of the two. Thrive has neither. I posted an article earlier that says the two. Here is a doctor saying they basically don’t think it can make it into the blood stream either and the dangerous effects it
Might have.

https://i.stuff.co.nz/life-style/we...3862/thrive-weightloss-patch-raises-questions


Here is the article that explains why it would not enter the blood stream

https://www.highya.com/thrive-experience-reviews
 

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If you have to post about someone being a "hater" about a product you sell, that means you don't have confidence in your product.
 

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I know there are a lot of haters, and some of them are justified, but my experience with the MLM I'm involved with has been nothing but positive.

* I would not be doing what I do if I had not been recruited into it by a person who was motivated by his desire to build commissions paid to him. (I know, I know, the evil profit motive!)

*The company I buy products from has been around for 50 years and has a half a dozen different product lines. They pioneered an entire new market segment (white acrylic roof coatings) and have inspired dozens of knockoff products from competitors who insist their products are "just as good as Conklin's".

*We provide a service for the public, commercial roofing, using products that are available only if you "sign up" which sounds scary and stuff, but on the flip side is a way of making sure that you come to the hands on installation training and know what proper workmanship looks like.

There's no magic, no free money, nothing like that. If you don't put in the time you will fail. However, I get to be my own boss, I make a very good living for my family in a 9 month work year, and I get to support a quality team of employees. Oh, and Conklin gives us a free trip to Cancun every year, so there's that.
 
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