http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=1001799&fr=
And from the blog:
Dear blog,
it's 1am at night and there's a thunder storm outside. I should
actually be asleep coz i havent sleep much this two days. But as
usual I am feeling a little emo coz of the rain. But allow me to
rant about something...
Sunshine Empire is a SCAM.
I just attended their conference for the ENTIRE day at Expo hall
2.
Now, i wld never ever step near such a conference unless i am
forced to.
Or i am paid to.
I was hired by Unusual to do the lights for them. Man, now i know
why they say ppl who do commercial lighting and sound sells their
soul.
The stupid international president(IP), James Phang sprouted
absolute nonsense for the whole time he was talking(which was like
half the day), and so did all his "disciples". They treated this
James phang fellow like he was god. I tot i was in some cult
service,
It was a surreal experience to go thru their dance and song items.
They have something that highly remind me of praise and worship in
church. They even address each others as dear brothers and
sisters.
The worse part was seeing how they literally worshiped their IP.
And he was just gog on and on abt how great he is, how he sacrifice
for them and how ppl dun understand a great person like him who
dared to be different... blah, blah blah. 90% of the stuff of the
presentaion focused on how great he were, and how much he had went
thru.
He did things on stage that even till now i cant believe he
did.
He sang, danced and acted like he was some sort of international
superstar.
They showed a video of him, singing and dancing, with professional
dancers ard him, on a stage with professional lighting that wld
have been suitable for someone like JJ Lin. Man, it was so unreal
that i actually watched the video thru each time they played it,
just to make sure i wasnt seeing things.
It was crazy man, just crazy.
I cant even begin to fill in all the nonsense he sprouted. The
statistic he quoted was worth billions of dollars, which is
impossible one. And he kept talking abt the buildingS they were
building all ard the world, and how great they were.
But all i saw were animation of buildings, which suddenly made me
realized that he havent actually built anything. He just says he
have plans. And he keep saying how no one in the world can match,
how everyone is amazed at what they have. Wow lau, pls lah. The
pics i saw looked like something remodelled from a normal 5-star
hotel loh.
The amount of nonsensical statement he made was staggering. One
particularly crazy one was when he said:
"the newspapers claimed that i said i am better then Warren Buffer.
That is not true. What I actually said is that I am a legend
compared to Warren Buffer. And what's so great about Warren Buffer
anyway?"
If that is not the most egoistic and incognitive statement i have
ever heard, i dunnoe what is. But ppl ard me was just lapping it up
like a bunch of eager puppies. They kept shouting Yes! and Good! at
every statement he made. And they kept clapping too.
At the end of the day, I really bua tahan alr, so i started to talk
about it with Ben(the very nice video guy from unusual), who was
sitting beside me abt this whole Empire thing.
In hush hush tone, we both agreed it was absolute nonsense. Anyone
with a morsel of common sense can tell this is all crazy bullshit.
But if we can figure it out in a matters of minutes, why cant all
those 4000plus ppl in front of us?
Then mr Ben made a statement that actually confrimed something the
Holy Spirit had been whispering to me in my heart. the answer is
simple, one word: Greed.
You see, the way this fake MLM(muti-level marketing) company works
is that say, I invest $10 000, the company will give me back say
$1000 per month. And with more ppl i bring, the more money they
spend, the more money i get back. Eventually, i will earn back
enough to cover my intial investment and then just watch the money
keep rolling in. The more i spend the more i get.
Now, this sounds like a wonderful plan. No hard work, no
commitment. Just keep bringing customers to the company. And they
will pay you back interest that no one on earth can offer
you.
But anyone with a morsel of financial sense will st8 away tell you
that it is a bubble waiting to burst. Look, money has to come from
somewhere. It doesnt just drop out of the sky.
To put it in an ultra simple way, it is generated either
thru:
1. labour.( i work for you, you pay me)
2. property.( i either rent or sell you what belongs to me)
3. Investment.( i invest money into what you are doing. And if you
make a profit, i make money too. But this requires capitol. And a
functional company or project)
4. Inflation. (This is another form of investment, in property or
gold or currency.)
But what sunshine empire does is that it simply gurantee you a high
return no matter what and in a short span of time. That, my fren,
is absolute crap. And it is called a Ponzi scheme.
Every investment will always involve a certain amount of risk and
work. And time to grow.
While there will always be freak success like Facebook. It is an
exception and not the norm.
Even then, Facebook is actually selling a product; Easy social
interaction.
Easy social interaction does not make money. But it does draw ppl.
And when you draw ppl to a website. What do you get? A high hit
rate. and that brings you? the magic money givers:
ADVERTISERS.
Alot of ppl dunnoe this, but advertising is one of the industry
that wields the most money. Why? coz its just good business sense.
If i mentioned Coca Cola on my blog rite now, your mind is suddenly
seized by this urge to grab a red can filled with black-colored
liquid.
So anyway, Sunshine empire doesnt have all of that. They just
offers you things that are not there. But the twist to them is that
they are investing into things. i.e call company and all.
But like i said, this sunshine empire thing is a Ponzi scheme,
albeit a more sophisicated one. It is simply unsubstainable.
The high profit return needs to come from somewhere. And unless you
have a phenomenal product to offer ppl, there can be no meat in the
company.
And that's exactly what they lack; a solid product to offer ppl.
Just a network to sell things is not enough to make you money, and
definitely not such an absurd amount of money in such a short
time.
I am just gog to leave you with some links to read and to chew
over.
http://www.firstmillionchallenge.com/sunshine-empire-too-good-to-be-true/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme
http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,4136,146133,00.html
http://www.sgclub.com/singapore/multi_level_marketing_32719.html
P.S: I saw some cgls at the conference. I pray with all my heart
that they were just there to check it out and they are not
supporting this moronic scam that were started by this ego maniacal
liar called James Phang.
O ya, and as a reward for reading all the way thru here. Let me
prophesy that this company is going to go burst by this time next
year. Alot of ppl is gog to get heartbroken.
