Originally posted by pirannnah:
Dear all,
In summary, don't waste your time on any MLM rubbish.
[b]Trust your gut instincts.
What does not feel right, just walk away.
Bel Air organised a 'workshop' on 14-15 April 2006 at Orchid
Country Club.
Although I am weary about MLM rubbish, I was tricked into attending
the workshop without knowing it was a workshop organised by an MLM
organisation.
I am surprised with their advanced recruitment tactics that:
1. Led up to convince me to the 'workshop'
2. Was employed during the workshop
The singapore government should take a closer look at this type of
business.
It is definately not clean, but the way they go about matters makes
it difficult to pin them down, unless one is very well versed about
commercial law.
Question: How on earth did my 'friend' get me to attend.
Answer: I was literally tricked right under my nose in the name of
a 'friend' I thought I could trust.
Looking back, from day one, she 'cultivated' our 'friendship',
waiting patiently for the right time to catch me unaware.
She employed all sorts of tactics, even the same tactic shared by
someone in this forum to lend me "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" book to
create the halo effect.
Last tuesday, she said there was a very good speaker from taiwan
that is holding a workshop to train young businessman. She sung
praises about this speaker. She even said I may get head-hunted as
there will be many successful businessmen attending.
She said she is attending and said she is going too, as if she is
an attendee who has no affiliation to anything connected to
it.
Cost $250, inclusive of meals and one night stay at a hotel.
The impression I was led to believe was that it was a professional
workshop.
So I went.
We met at Yishun MRT where a charted TransIsland bus fetched us to
Orchid Country club.
I then realised my friend was wearing a company polo T-shirt like
many other members. It was easy to tell who were the newbies like
me.
I also noticed that all the members had brought
along with them this Air fragrancing device.
I became suspicious, asked my friend what is this device about, she
said the function room has a lot of bacteria so the device is to
sanitise the air.
And so the story continues....I left halfway with my friend and her
'mentor' trying very hard to persuade me to stay.
There is so much more to write and the story becomes more
ridiculous.
It's really not worth the trouble to elaborate.
I just want to advice, just earn an honest day's work.
If you are naive and join, you will just become another one of
them, desperate to recruit a new member to earn back your
'investment' at all costs.
MLM:
1. Abuses the institution of friendship.
2. Preys on human greed on getting rich.
[/b]
From seminar rooms to Orchid
Country Club, what's next? HDB heartland Community Club holding
investment seminars or better still conducting a road shows in
Orchard Road 
Do it
openly for the public to decide the attractiveness of joining
Bel'Air 
Just have to be on high alert when friends invite you for "
Business Opportunity"
