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PHIZ KALIFA posted:we broke up two weeks later after i paid to get her nipples pierced. I know a guy who paid for his wife to go to Thailand and get breast implants. She broke up with him before the bruising had gone down so he never even got to have a go on them.
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Feb 27, 2015 22:34
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Wanna buy some weed?
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Feb 27, 2015 23:02
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NoNotTheMindProbe posted:I know a guy who paid for his wife to go to Thailand and get breast implants. She broke up with him before the bruising had gone down so he never even got to have a go on them. drat. drat. I:ve never felt such a strong sense of pity.... bro...................
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Feb 27, 2015 23:28
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I sometimes get inquiries from stay at home mom acquaintances of mine about working from home since I sell on eBay and CL. So I tell them, "Yeah, it's cool. Just do some research about what stuff's worth and shop thrift stores and garage sales." Then like a week later they're spamming scentsy or fake nails or some other MLM all over Facebook. I guess that kind of thing appeals to women because of the social aspect of it (guilting all your friends in to making pity purchases).
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Feb 27, 2015 23:46
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I have made a good bit of money selling Kirby vacuums, but i dont sell them new, i sell them used. I hit up yard sales/estate sales/CL and buy old ratty kirbys for like $25. I send them into Kirby and get them fix for free or $100 ( depends on how old they are ). and then turn around and sell them for about $250+. They really are fantastic vacuums.
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Feb 27, 2015 23:48
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jhorphear posted:I have made a good bit of money selling Kirby vacuums, but i dont sell them new, i sell them used. I hit up yard sales/estate sales/CL and buy old ratty kirbys for like $25. I send them into Kirby and get them fix for free or $100 ( depends on how old they are ). and then turn around and sell them for about $250+. They really are fantastic vacuums. Whatup, resale bro? 
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Feb 27, 2015 23:51
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NoNotTheMindProbe posted:I know a guy who paid for his wife to go to Thailand and get breast implants. She broke up with him before the bruising had gone down so he never even got to have a go on them. Did he take out a lien on her what with the tits being construction work and all?
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Feb 28, 2015 00:39
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With all the money I'll be making, my kids will have to respect me!
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Feb 28, 2015 03:06
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How much lobbying power does Amway have in congress nowadays? And also what about University of Phoenix? The entire US govt. is one colossal MLM scheme. And that's not hyperbole no matter how much I want to believe it is...
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Feb 28, 2015 03:17
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social vegan posted:*stops showing up to anger management classes to wait in line for new PINK! branded ethically-sourced bamboo disposable coffee mugcup it's like a normal coffee cup but with a darling little handle off the side. Every purchase leads to a 0.05 cent donation to Toms Shoes* pretend i am empty quoting this and all tge other social vegan posts in this thread as well
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Feb 28, 2015 07:21
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Avalanche posted:How much lobbying power does Amway have in congress nowadays? And also what about University of Phoenix? Sure, but it's built upon the belief and hard work of every tax paying American there is. Where as you are coerced to buy into the other one. Eh, I guess you could argue those points as well. Guess what most MLM DON'T have? A standing loving army.
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Feb 28, 2015 07:31
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I had a world financial group dude try to recruit me while I was borderline blacked out/sloppy drunk at a bar. Only reason I remember is because he was like "You seem like the kind of guy I need! Smart and underappreciated!" and even in my state I was like "HAHA WHAT I'M SO DRUNK HOW DUMB ARE YOU"
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Feb 28, 2015 08:33
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FIRST TIME posted:I sometimes get inquiries from stay at home mom acquaintances of mine about working from home since I sell on eBay and CL. Same, I resell makeup using a few different schemes that let me make a profit without rippjng anyone off. Every lady ever wants to do it. I've helped two get started with a solemn warning to not sell exactly what I sell, and like three hundred have lost interest as soon as they realize it's complex and requires money. Scentsy is easier, I guess.
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Feb 28, 2015 21:15
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So like all I had to do was go behind the walmart with him. close my eyes suck something out of a tube and he gave me money! Pretty great deal right? You guys should come to the next seminar it's gonna be at the closed down target food court!
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Feb 28, 2015 21:23
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NoNotTheMindProbe posted:I know a guy who paid for his wife to go to Thailand and get breast implants. She broke up with him before the bruising had gone down so he never even got to have a go on them. lol
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Feb 28, 2015 21:31
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Theo Fleury, the retired hockey star, fell for one of these a few years back and literally messaged every single person who had him friended on FB to invest money. I messaged back that it was a pyramid scheme and Theo replied that he didn't want my negative energy anyway, except he spelled it gently caress YOU
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Feb 28, 2015 21:32
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I had an ex-girlfriend that I haven't talked to in 8 years look me up on FB and try to sell me makeup.
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Feb 28, 2015 21:38
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I just LOVE being my own boss and working from home! So much fun to have parties with a few of your friends while I desperately pitch these insanely overpriced candles to you! Haha oh my, do I ever have time to do woman things now, like be a mom and work from home. I love working from home I love being my own boss please have a part.
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Feb 28, 2015 21:44
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WhyteRyce posted:Would you like to buy some Scentsy I think the Scentsy crowd has moved to essential oils and Mary and Martha.
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Feb 28, 2015 22:08
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Epicure Who wants some over priced lovely pesto?
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Mar 1, 2015 19:01
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In my required Microsoft word, powerpoint, excel etc class that I had to take in my first year of community college, some middle-aged woman used her end-of-term powerpoint presentation to give the class a 10 minute pitch for mona-vie. I was stifling laughter halfway through, and when class let out like 6 people came up to her for more information.  I mentioned it at the front office on the way out, but I didn't know if they can do anything about it, it's not like we had to clear our subject with the professor or anything.
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Mar 1, 2015 19:28
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Just sell weed ladies. I'm telling you, it's a cross between gardening and craigslist.
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Mar 1, 2015 19:30
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A dude I know on Facebook spent a LOT of time in Organo Gold. It's a lovely coffee that costs several times more than what you'd pay for a bag of Starbucks beans. He had a lot of people begging him to look into the many ripoff reports, and I even went so far as to show him the deeply buried disclosure page that admitted only like the top one percent of one percent would ever make money, and even fewer than that would ever make more than $600. (For reference, the initiation video shows lots of minorities - always minorities - in front of palatial estates and arriving at the Airport in a stretch limo to jet off to the SUPER MEGA VIP DIAMOND LIFESTYLE SUPER SELLER WEEKEND.) He poured untold cash into this thing anyway and called everyone warning him either a racist or a "hater." He "stepped out on faith" and flew out to Vegas for a giant expensive training seminar. He joined a "FUTURE BILLIONAIRES CLUB" of other local scam artist MLM types. He KNEW that the power of GOD would bless him in selling lovely coffee at $30 a pound. You see, Jesus had doubters too, and EVERYONE drinks coffee. He doesn't sell that coffee anymore. I think he has a new scheme or something now. This guy is one of those people who always starts the day by posting a meme generator message about "hustle" or that loving picture of Jay-Z in a suit next to Jay-Z in street clothes (Caption:"Me one day!"), or an "inspirational" message from Creflo Dollar, TD Jakes, or whatever new preacher this week is making money by preying on the dreams and religious fueled optimism of lower SES populations. Oh, by the way, he is also a writer/producer/actor/CEO/comedian who "got jokes" every week at a Caribbean restaurant. You cannot reason with the type of person who thinks you can make money by selling lovely coffee at prices many times higher than the premium coffees found in supermarkets.
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Mar 1, 2015 19:54
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bloodysabbath posted:Creflo Dollar if there is anyone who can be confidently predicted to go straight to hell when he kicks it, it's Creflo Dollar. That, and the people who make Poser.
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Mar 1, 2015 19:56
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bloodysabbath posted:A dude I know on Facebook spent a LOT of time in Organo Gold. It's a lovely coffee that costs several times more than what you'd pay for a bag of Starbucks beans. He had a lot of people begging him to look into the many ripoff reports, and I even went so far as to show him the deeply buried disclosure page that admitted only like the top one percent of one percent would ever make money, and even fewer than that would ever make more than $600. (For reference, the initiation video shows lots of minorities - always minorities - in front of palatial estates and arriving at the Airport in a stretch limo to jet off to the SUPER MEGA VIP DIAMOND LIFESTYLE SUPER SELLER WEEKEND.) The best part of every MLM scam, including Scientology and other cults, is that they have the "cut out negativity" line, dressed up in a favorable way so that idiots don't realize that the scammers are trying to cut out the voice of reason (aka the people who they know won't fall for their scheme) from their marks. The ones who do it, which I'm sure is a large percentage, become very isolated I would imagine 
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Mar 1, 2015 20:10
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I had a friend in college try to sell me (and, by extension, the company I worked for) VOIP phones. He was a normal dude but I was real put-off by his pitch and we haven't really spoken since. A cursory google of the company showed many MLM reports, so hopefully the guy wised up and got out of that shitstick. Now, my sister is into PlexiSlim....
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Mar 1, 2015 20:45
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i almost got a job at a MLM place that dressed itself up as a coordinator for business events until i went to the interview, which was a business event in a sam's club
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Mar 1, 2015 20:48
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CloFan posted:I had a friend in college try to sell me (and, by extension, the company I worked for) VOIP phones. He was a normal dude but I was real put-off by his pitch and we haven't really spoken since. A cursory google of the company showed many MLM reports, so hopefully the guy wised up and got out of that shitstick. My mom's husband got them into Ignite, which is the multi-level marketing arm of Stream Energy. I'm pretty sure he gambled his investments and my mom's 401K on that poo poo. Young Freud fucked around with this message at 20:58 on Mar 1, 2015 |
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Mar 1, 2015 20:52
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Please buy my mangosteen juice and other superfruit extracts or my husband will divorce me.
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Mar 1, 2015 21:51
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bonestructure posted:if there is anyone who can be confidently predicted to go straight to hell when he kicks it, it's Creflo Dollar. That, and the people who make Poser. Creflo Dollar sounds like something a Wu-tang name generator would come up with. Herbalife is still a thing, right? I remember a couple years ago NPR did a whole week of reporting on how it was a terrible pyramid scheme and ended the week interviewing an exec who described the business model as selling products to people who then sell them to others or some poo poo that made it insanely clear they knew it was a complete scam and didn't care.
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Mar 2, 2015 02:36
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Pyramid Scheme posted:Please buy my mangosteen juice and other superfruit extracts or my husband will divorce me. 
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Mar 2, 2015 02:46
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An old neighbour that I was friendly with broke up with her husband and now she's hawking "younique" makeup all over Facebook. I was looking for a good set of makeup brushes once and now I get invited to every "online party" she does for her really expensive mascara. She's just trying to get by with her three kids and I feel bad, but not bad enough to drop $60 on mascara that's about as good as the $6 Maybelline one.
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Mar 2, 2015 02:58
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Professor Shark posted:The best part of every MLM scam, including Scientology and other cults, is that they have the "cut out negativity" line, dressed up in a favorable way so that idiots don't realize that the scammers are trying to cut out the voice of reason (aka the people who they know won't fall for their scheme) from their marks. The guy I'm talking about actually took a poo poo all over one of the more prominent open mic nights around the area to ask everyone - bartenders, comics, even goddamn customers - if they'd be interested in a "business opportunity." A lot of the comics called him out on it on Facebook. His response? "YOU JUST DONT WANT TO SEE ME SHINE. YOU KNOW 98% OF THE WORLD GOT A W2 MINDSET AND I DONT. IM LIKE OPRAH AND BILL GATES AND ZUCKERBERG. HEY DO ANY OF YOU COMICS DRINK COFFEE?"
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Mar 2, 2015 04:39
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Shithouse Dave posted:An old neighbour that I was friendly with broke up with her husband and now she's hawking "younique" makeup all over Facebook. I was looking for a good set of makeup brushes once and now I get invited to every "online party" she does for her really expensive mascara. She's just trying to get by with her three kids and I feel bad, but not bad enough to drop $60 on mascara that's about as good as the $6 Maybelline one. lol I know someone into that. I watched a couple of her videos that she put up on youtube on how to use the products, then she mentioned that she was doing a prize draw for those who ordered... you would get a $20 thing of make up for *only* $10!
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FIRST TIME posted:I sometimes get inquiries from stay at home mom acquaintances of mine about working from home since I sell on eBay and CL. How much does this really work? It seems that something that people could really overestimate the benefits of, and underestimate the costs of doing it. I know there is stuff out there that is worth a lot of money, and that someone who has cultivated a market might make money off of finding it and selling it. I mostly know about books, and I have actually got books from thrift stores and garage sales and free piles that have market values in-between 10 and 100 dollars, at least according to sites I've looked at. But books also aren't really liquid, even if there is a 1916 edition of "The Varieties of Religious Experience" that is worth 50 dollars, it is not like that is a commodity that is going to instantly sell. Judging the condition of books also seems really tricky, and it seems like something that could cause a lot of problems between buyers and sellers. So, idealized version: buy books at thrift stores for a dollar, sell them online at 20 dollars, collect paypal money. Real version: buy books online, spend a lot of money for shipping, have them languish, sell them, have conflicts with buyers, cut prices, end up making at most a few dozen dollars a month.
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Mar 2, 2015 22:41
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Hey so I'd like to hire you to build my website, take some professional executive portraits of me, and make sure I'm at the top of Google. Oh. no. No pay, but I'll mention you on my website and my top 10 regional mommy blog. Think of the exposure.
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Mar 2, 2015 22:55
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I've got a friend with an etsy shop, she doesn't live on it but it's like an extra 500 or so a month and she enjoys doing it. She has a general theme, buys tons of stuff for cheap at estate sales, cleans them up, photographs and markets them well, and sells em. The key with having an ebay store and etsy store or what ever is to pick some sort of theme or type of goods that you know about, don't try to be an everything store. Packing and shipping stuff takes a lot of time too, plus you have to deal with payment bullshit and angry customers and scammers all the time.
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Mar 2, 2015 22:58
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glowing-fish posted:How much does this really work? It seems that something that people could really overestimate the benefits of, and underestimate the costs of doing it. I know there is stuff out there that is worth a lot of money, and that someone who has cultivated a market might make money off of finding it and selling it. It's really better to hit estate and garage sales, because I have a friend who hits antique and thrift stores for old comics, books, and records and comes across what he calls "Crazy Grandma Prices" where some fair condition Archie or Spider Man in a mylar is priced for $100 or more. Also, if they're looking for the best ROI, low-effort for anything on the internet, it's porn. Doesn't matter if you're camming while shoving a vibrator up your business, writing porn, drawing porn, or cybering in Second Life or IMVU, it all pays.
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Baronjutter posted:I've got a friend with an etsy shop, she doesn't live on it but it's like an extra 500 or so a month and she enjoys doing it. She has a general theme, buys tons of stuff for cheap at estate sales, cleans them up, photographs and markets them well, and sells em. The key with having an ebay store and etsy store or what ever is to pick some sort of theme or type of goods that you know about, don't try to be an everything store. Packing and shipping stuff takes a lot of time too, plus you have to deal with payment bullshit and angry customers and scammers all the time. Yeah, this is pretty much what I thought. I mean, on the surface it sounds good: get paid to browse for antiques! It seems only to be worth it if the person knows what they are doing, and will enjoy doing it. 500 dollars extra a month for a hobby is a great deal. 500 dollars a month for dealing with irate phone calls at 3 AM because an issue of the Fantastic Four that sold for two dollars has a bent corner, not so much.
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