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I have been getting several e-mails and calls lately from people representing a specific start up company. It seems to be the hottest thing right now so there are a lot of buzz going on about it.
I had a fairly interesting conversation with one of the company’s reps the other night. Fairly entertaining and fairly drawn out. I had an almost identical e-mail conversation with another rep that approached me through Facebook.
Without going into too much detail about the conversations, I may do another post on it. This is what I found out about the startup costs. $499 to start. For that you get a product which she claims retails for $120.
I did a quick search on e-bay and found similar items starting at $25 to about $97. But, lets say its worth $100. What do I get for the other $400?
From her explanation it sounded like a manual and a collectors container. ”Fairly spendy manual and container”, I told her. ”But you get to do the business”, she exclaimed.
“You get to be in the payplan and make money.” ”Since I’m under the super guru, you will get all the spillover and we are all going to be rich.”
Well… forgive me for being skeptical, spillover…? I have yet to see anyone get rich on spillover. ”This payplan is different”, she says. “It’s sexy!”
I could not help but vizualize at the time, a curvacious, front end loaded, well endowed, streamlined, tanned payplan with legs going into infinity spitting money at me to my hearts content. I was about to yell, “I’m in!”
“But what about the $400 binder and container, does the binder have gold leaf pages, platinum rings?” I asked. ”Is the container made out of solid mahogany?” “Maybe we can melt the binder down and make a killing selling the gold?
We can then take the company manual and stick it in a $5 binder. Profit right up front, haven’t even signed anyone up yet.” As a bonus we can auction the container off on e-bay. I could already see the money rolling in.
“Nope” she says, just a regular binder, my sexy payplan dissolved along with my visions of spilt milk and a yellow Rolls Royce.
When I pressed her on the issue of the over priced binder, she pointed out to me that I can’t be expecting to make a lot of money if I’m not willing to spend a lot of money…(on the binder I guess).
Cheap programs don’t work, she stated. (I think that may be code for ”In order to be successful, you have to buy an expensive binder”)
So, $400 Binder anyone? 
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