Dear all,
I am a student. I am writing this because I have just came back
from the NTI Paris office in Shenton Way. I was asked to go there
by a friend who was in turned invited by an NTI Paris employee.
Now, after listening to 2 hours of drivel from the NTI employee,
all I have to say is that NTI Paris is a devious and despicable
pyramid scam, and I swear I will do everything in my power to bring
it down before it harms more innocents.
Pardon me if I am wrong, but isn't the main concept of any
business, MLM or not, to sell *products* and not to recruit people
into the company for monetary gains? This was the overwhelming
impression that I was given at NTI Paris. The employee who talked
to me consistently refused to answer questions about the actual
products (aromatherapy stuff) that they were selling, concentrating
instead on the amount of money that I can earn each month by
building up the pyramid under me. He emphasized very strongly on
the fact that money is mainly made from recruitment; each time
someone joins your binary-downlink tree, you get money from it.
When questioned about what the company actually have to does for a
living, he evaded the question, and zealously went back to talking
about the immense monetary benefits of creating "business centers."
He continuously points to the benefits of buying business centers
and bringing in more people to the fold, going so far as to warn me
not to spread the word too much, because as of now, I am "not
sufficiently trained to advertise the company," and that the time
will come when I will be sufficiently trained to advertise this
business plan to further recruits.
Now this begs the question, if the business plan is so amazingly
good that every employee become instant millionaires if they work
hard enough, then why is there a need for such secrecy? Also, and
the more pertinent question is, WHERE DOES ALL THIS MONEY COME
FROM? Simple mathematics will tell you that it comes from all the
people at the bottom of the pyramid, the people who have been
sweet-talked into giving hundreds or even thousands on dollars to
the company, with no hope of getting any returns either because the
market is already saturated, or because the people at the top of
the pyramid has run away with all the money. The NTI Paris employee
frequently brings up the subject of "following your dreams" and
"becoming what you want to be," as do most MLM employees in this
thread. I encourage people to do their best in life too, and to
strive to make as much money as they can, if that is indeed their
aim. But the question is, AT WHAT COST? Is it worth it financing
your dreams by bilking other people out of their hard-earned money?
That is crime, and at a time like this, I cannot possibly condone
such dastardly business acts.
The names "James Phang" and "Dato Dr. Eric Tan Eng Huat" was
frequently mentioned during my talk with the NTI Paris employee. It
was mentioned in such reverence, suggesting that they are saintly
figures who have made it rich, and are interested in helping us
commoners to be "part of the wealth" too. Believe none of this. If
indeed they are aware of this, they are cheats indeed, and very
malicious ones too. They are the rich who wants to get richer by
swindling the poor of even more wealth. Charitable businessmen?
More like decadent frauds. And the employees who use their names as
part of the recruitment speech should be deeply ashamed.
Now you may ask, why am I so outraged? Am I working for another MLM
that wants to see NTI Paris go down? No, I am not. In fact, I stand
to gain nothing from NTI Paris' demise, if that occurs. But I do
have friends who have invested much of their money in the scheme,
and are prepared to further recruit more innocent people into the
scheme to finance their earnings. They do not realize that the
business plan is fundamentally flawed, or that the money that they
get comes from people at the "bottom of the pile." It is never a
Win-Win situation, it is Win-Lose; the people at the top of the
pyramid gets richer, the people at the bottom gets poorer. And
don't pull the curtains over my eyes by telling me that the pyramid
can go on getting deeper forever ... a fool is born every minute,
but a binary tree made up of "business partners" won't go beyond 50
levels even if you include all the people who have ever set foot on
the earth, past and present.
There is never easy money. Not lawful ones anyway (excluding the
one-in-a-million chance of a lottery ticket). It pains me to see my
friends getting their money sucked into this deceitful scheme. And
so I must speak out, before more people get cheated of their/ their
parent's hard earned money.
