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THE GOOD PEOPLE @ PYRAMID SCHEME ALERT HAVE A POINT TO PONDER FOR SUCH NEEDING EXTRA INCOME in the face of the current socioeconomic dislocation, especially so such as cannot find traditional employment due to circumstances outside their direct control and probably need extra income all the more:
Recession Exposes MLM as Business Opportunity Fraud, Not Direct Selling
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stories, mostly planted by the Direct Selling Association, seek to dupe
unemployed consumers that, despite the Recession - or because of it -
they can make a lot of money in "direct selling."
Reality is
the brutal opposite. In fact, MLM activity in the Recession - ramping
up recruitment of salespeople even as the markets for their products
shrinks - is proof that many MLMs are engaging in business opportunity
fraud, selling a bogus "income opportunity." The recruitment reveals
that many MLMs make their money, not from product sales to retail
customers, but from the investments of the salespeople themselves.
Recruiting salespeople, not selling products to retail customers, is
how such MLMs make money. How would the new salespeople earn money if
the markets for their MLM products are declining? By recruiting more
salespeople, of course!
The dis-information campaign, launched
by the Direct Selling Association, to convince people that selling high
priced MLM products door to door is a "safe haven" during a Recession
is yet another financial trap, on par with pay day loans, exploding
mortgages and suddenly rising credit card interest rates.
In any case, kudos to Pyramid Scheme Alert for pointing out what could be an inherent, and @ once fatal, flaw to the whole idea of so-called "multi-level marketing" as a "safe harbour" business for such in clear and compelling need of extra income, as well as "keeping out of mischief" (especially so the most [un]likely of MLM's supporters in Low Church Christian "white trash" hard-wired psychologically to refuse any type of help or charity as "undermining moral fibre").
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YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF THE "MAGIC FINGERS" BED VIBRATOR ("TINGLING RELAXATION AND EASE" @ 25¢ FOR 15 MINUTES), as was popular in a number of second-rate motels in the 1960's and into the 1970's to help worn-out and tired travellers get ready for sleep when hot malted milk was unavailable and sleeping pills inadvisable ... but how many of you were familiar with its inventor, by name of John Joseph Houghtaling?
I mention this because Mr. Houghtaling, who created the "Magic Fingers" device in the late 1950's (and is still available for home use, howbeit by a different company; the Houghtalings sold the rights to "Magic Fingers" in the mid-1980's), passed away @ the weekend, aged 92 years.
The Exaggerator extends its condolences and sympathies to the Houghtaling family @ this difficult hour.
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AND SPEAKING OF MOTELS, YOUR CORRESPONDENT, IN HIS DESIRE TO PROMOTE THIS BLOG THROUGH UR-DIRECT MAIL (as in the old reliable letterposts), has this weakness for such motels as are not in any way controlled or affiliated with any of the major national chains being so targeted, as it were.
He just can't help himself, especially considering where "spam"--er, "bulk e-mail marketing," to use the industry's rather saccharine attempt @ lily-gilding to create an aura of false credibility--is not only against the Terms of Service (ToS) for the likes of his Internet Service Provider and the host of this blog, but that Your Correspondent considers it to be rather unethical and dishonest, notwithstanding the glowing generalities from the Dregs of Society as are not only transmitting and dissemiating "spam," but also use it for their online marketing exclusively (or so it seems). Not to mention the whole notion of such being sent on an "opt-in"/"permission-based" approach being a canard.
And what's more, the Postal Service probably needs the work in the face of deteriorating letterpost volumes, notwithstanding past abuse in the name of Proper Mental Hygiene implying that my "reckless and irresponsible" use of the mails (as it was so put) "needlessly creates extra and unnecessary work burdens" @ not just Post Offices, but also Regional Sorting Centres and Postal Transportation Centres, among what few clerks they still have "as can't stand having to handle so many more letters than they need to."
Come to think of it: When you consider staying @ a motel for the night on your travels, be they for business or pleasure, have you ever stopped to consider how much you may be paying just for the name when you stay with the likes of Best Western ... Holiday Inn ... Howard Johnson's ... Motel 6 ... Days Inn ... Super 8 ... La Quinta ... Quality Inn ... Hampton Inn ... Master Hosts ... Downtowner/Roundtowner ... Scottish Inn ... or other major chains with their aseptically-sterile "cookie-cutter" predictability and pricing which masks the real costs of the brand(s) you deal with?
Have you considered staying with independent motels, which may actually be better value for money because, for one, you're not paying for some well-known and nationally-recognised brand name and the fancy advertising seen coast-to-coast on national cable networks?
Thus explains, in some measure, this rationale behind the ur-direct mail approach of ethical and responsible marketing for The Exaggerator as targets smaller, independent motels by and large. (In a way, too, The Exaggerator Collection's merchandise can be considered a form of brand-extension advertising and marketing, especially when people get the opportunity to see it in large congregations thereof--preferably the tackier sort of "shoobie traps" appealing to Kankerdom.)
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IF YOU THOUGHT NAZI FETISH PORN WAS RATHER TACKY IN AND OF ITSELF, wait until you see such whose plots revolve around the likes of extreme right-wing "Sovereign Citizen" and "Patriot" movements, cashing in on their collective articles of faith suggesting where women are no better than sexual chattel.
"Breeding stock," in other words, never mind the potential for such warped and misguided elements (usually weird and/or unwholesome, by and large) being drunk, perverted, infected with Loathsome Social Diseases or otherwise hopelessly suffering from hyperjuvenile sex mania of the sort these so-called "patriots" must be fond of expending their sexual energies upon in service to misguided and deluded notions of Race Honour and Preservation ... never mind such "breeding stock" more than likely suffering emotional trauma as could translate into miscarriage or stillbirth, let alone the fruits of such warped orgies developing Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
(And remember, boys and girls, these same "patriots" see abortion as one with Race Suicide, not to mention expecting such "breeders" to "serve their racial duty cheerfully" until she winds up dying of complications from childbirth and/or Loathsome Social Disease.)
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AND TALK ABOUT PROFESSIONAL INCOMPETENCE: South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford--yes, the same Governor Sanford seen for awhile as Hero and Role Model among those in the "states' rights," "tea party" and other weird and unwholesome anti-government elements with appeal to Those of the Lower Classes Especially for seeking Tenth Amendment waivers vis-a-vis Federal Socioeconomic Stimulus Funds, only to back down following court orders--is coming under fire for going off hiking the Appalachian Tral with his wife for a few days, and not leaving any instructions as to who exactly should be in charge in case Serious Problems developed (as mandated in the State Constitution).
Which should be enough to call for certain South Carolinians willing to risk the likelihood of a whimsically-motivated-by-corrupt-weird-or-otherwise-unwholesome-elements Mental Competency Hearing to push for recall proceedings against Governor Sanford, or otherwise calling the Legislature into Special Session to ask for his removal from office due to mental incapacity or incompetence.
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