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I have heard this is a pyramid scheme/MLM group. One of my friends just signed up to start working for them. I looked at their website and it says their parent group is Citigroup. This makes them look credible, but I do see where they advertise the business opportunity.
Can anyone tell me whether they are a scheme?
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star22
I have heard this is a pyramid scheme/MLM group. One of my friends just signed up to start working for them. I looked at their website and it says their parent group is Citigroup. This makes them look credible, but I do see where they advertise the business opportunity.
Can anyone tell me whether they are a scheme?
Star
www.primerica.com
They used to be called A.L. Williamns, and they sucked me in right out of high school here in Minnesota. Their top man was a brilliantly-gifted salesman. They had me convinced that by convincing people to buy term insurance and invest the difference (and/or become my downlines), not only would I help people, but I'd get insanely rich. So I went around with a licensed agent inflicting this stuff on my unsuspecting friends, family and neighbors who were at least polite enough to listen, but not even one ever bought anything.
I studied and studied for that brutally difficult insurance exam. Never did pass it. Worse you have to pay a hefty fee to take it. If you ever suffer from insomnia, I highly recommend insurance-test study materials. It'll put you out like a light. I attended more "rah rah yeah team" events than I care to mention lest nausea overcome me. My upline heaved on plenty of guilt on account of my dismal sales performance, as if it were all my fault.
Yet more than once they let me down, and after breaking appointments with my one hopeful prospect three times in a row I lost the only sale that I might have had. He even had the stupidity to ask me if it was his fault! WELL DUH!
Eventually even the naive 19 year old that I was finally realized that either I was the worst sales person in the history of the universe, it was a scam, or both. It's hard to admit that you've been duped, that I wasted time and money that I'll never get back, and that I made a fool of myself in front of family, friends and neighbors.
I just quit going to their meetings one day. You can't pay bills with flowery platitudes and wishful thinking. It's hard to convince people how much of an opportunity your offering when you drive an old rusy 1977 Olds Cutlass Supreme.
Whenever they called I gestured to my mom to say that I wasn't home. The last time my up line guy called me up he sounded so plaintive on the phone, according to my parents, as if I was ending an old friendship or something. No, I was just getting rid of a parasite. I wonder sometimes if any of them are still in on it. However I suspect that the peons, like me, had to long ago move on. Not one ever kept in touch. So much for "rah rah yeah team."
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