Buying them wholesale was something like $21/bottle or something, I thought that sounded stupid. spend $50 for one bottle or $45 for two. Oh and you couldnt buy directly from anyone the retail price. I dunno, it didnt make sense to me then, it doesnt make sense as i type it, but I am typing what I heard. It was only 2 days ago that I did this Tri... the company had a stand at another tri I participated in over the summer.
]]>@bbagdan: so you're basically offending half of Brazil's population. NICE!
btw, açaà is GREAT. just not magical.
]]>People who buy into Goji and Acai berries are basically retarded. Let these fools easily part with their money.
]]>Dilapidated = Rustic
On fire = Motivated seller
Tiny = cozy
bad view = unique scenery
crap curb appeal = fixer upper
Used = previously enjoyed
everybody knows at least a few of these tricks by now.
]]>But you can make like 3k a year on average!
]]>@Hyman Decent:
YA RLY!
They actually had Primerica 'recruiters' post our my college's recruiting network and were able to interview on campus. I think it's horrible that they don't filter these people out. I ended up going to the seminar, and when the guy said you can 'be your own boss' I got up and left.
]]>plus the site's fugly.
]]>That blog is weird. I started reading the first couple entries, then my eyes started to go all woogly and I started to feel funny and not know who I could trust any more. All those strange culty endorsements and testimonials and stuff mixed in with the venting... I had to cover my eyes and grope around for the close tab button, then take a couple deep breaths and go have a bit of a lie down.
I've never even heard of MonaVie.
]]>Sprinkle some cinnamon on your cereal, buy a thing of mixed berries at the produce section, about $6 / 1lb it lasts me all week.
The berries are pretty amazing fresh, but all those substances break down quickly, I doubt they are using anything better than a frozen pulp for that juice, and strawberries are better at that point.
Eat a balanced diet You'll feel better than this juice will make your feel.
About a year ago i started eating some cottage cheese with berries (mixed myself, so much cheaper) for lunch. I felt better almost immeatiately. Then a couple months back I started taking a vit.C pill, a fish oil pill and a centrum every day. That helped alot too.
I believe that ppl are feeling better after drinking the juice. As most ppl eat such poor diets and very little "real" fruit juice. But this is an expensive remedy that can be replaced with some much cheaper and healthier alternatives.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%C3%A7a%C3%AD#Nutritional_content
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_Radical_Absorbance_Capacity#Comparisons_of_ORAC_values
:)
]]>There goes any respect I had for Fox...oh wait.
Any O&A fans would get the d-chills from the "Berry Beneficial" line.
]]>Ever since that SNL skit, I avoid anything in a box altogether..
]]>I heard that in San Francisco, they use it as a suppository...
]]>How about a thick slice of apple?
]]>Quixtar (amway)? They have their stupid perfect water...it supposedly has air bubbles in it which..does stuff. Look up the "Tip Test" on youtube, it's amazing how people can be dumb enough to fall for this crap (both the MLM and buying the perfect water)
]]>shhh, believe in the product. and if you don't notice immediate results, take more! eventually that nose will heal, praise monavie!
]]>Ah yes, the really good stuff.
]]>I know a lady who walks with a serious limp.
One leg is shorter than the other due to complications from a very serious childhood auto accident.
She is about 50 years old.
Ya think the stuff will make her leg grow?
I don't think so.
One day we are out outside of a mall and a jerkweed approached the group trying to sell his magical mystical brew that would cure all that ails you. My friend took offense when the jerkweed said his magical mystical brew would cure her disability.
Her response? "Cure this", as she shoved her cane into his face and bloodied his nose.
I wonder if his magical mystical brew can repair a broken nose?
]]>My favorite line from this toolbag was "Many people think MLM is a scam. Ive learned over the years that having an attitude like that will only hold you back. I abandoned that attitude and look where i am!"
Where do I sign up?!?!
/sarcasm
]]>In my opinion, if a professor has to take a lot of time to explain how "even though the government investigated these companies, they're still legit", something smells fishy.
]]>Of course it would be quite different if they brought one of those scammers in as an example of that type of marketing and analyzed his approach but that would be under completely different context.
]]>I would have reported him to HR for trying to trick people into joining a fraud, complete with a file folder full of the factual information out there that proves that Monavie is nothing more than a scam.
P.S. You can get more antioxidants from a thin slice of apple than you can from the drink itself. An apple a day truly does keep the doctor away.
]]>@Outrun1986: True and if he really believed that then he's just being taken advantage himself. Thing is, I can only feel so bad because a couple of our older neighbors have bought the stuff from him. I really really hope that they were just being polite and didn't get pulled in.
]]>An $80 bottle of wine would be better off for you. Hell, 8, $10 bottles of wine would work too. Though 40, $2 bottles of wine is probably pushing it.
WAR Boone's Farm!
]]>Either way, though, the MonaVie site is quite the eyeopener, both about people's credulity and people's odd logic. Weirdly fascinating, too.
]]>It's sick when they target older people, promising them their illnesses or disabilities will be cured. I had a neighbor who tried to get me in on something similar to this and when he explained that the juice sells itself by getting more people to sell the stuff for you and that you can do it at your regular work place, the words "pyramid scheme" kept popping in my head. My neighbor is nice enough and thought I was still a college student and ensured me that it would be so easy to get other students or friends involved that I wouldn't have to work at my 8-5 for long. He tried to impress me with his recently purchased used BMW. Used! He must have got it in his head to put on an image of success but I was not impressed. It actually hurt my feelings that he would try to scam me and although that might not have been his intentions, that would have been the end result. I'd rather wish I was wrong and that he was a big success BUT without lying to those that may not recognize a pyramid scheme when they see it.
]]>@ludwigk: Not selling the product, and certainly not pitching to anyone. Just a user myself.
]]>@DaneB: Name 5.
]]>As long as you have the warning messages "These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.", you can then proceed to say almost anything you want as long as its somewhat carefully worded. "Improves circulation and liver function!" "Aids in recovery after surgery" You get the idea, and its all legal.
]]>@mariospants: He also got into a pyramid scheme involving energy drinks. I quess some people never learn.
]]>@theblackdog: Our healthnut friends tried to get my wife and I into MonaVie. After hearing that it was $80 a bottle, we looked at each other and through mental telepathy said "no way" to each other. I recognized it as a MLM scheme right away.
They also tried to ease us in by splitting a case or some such thing. We quietly never mentioned it again. They still drink it, and continue to buy $80 bottles so they can have their one shot of acai a day...
]]>I'd go into the lunchroom and start a rumor that the juice causes polyps to grow in your stomach and that the FDA is considering taking it off the market. Just for giggles.
]]>It's too late. The guy who started it all is swimming in so much cash that even if the FDA and the BBB shut him down, he wouldn't so much as frown.
Makes me sick that you have to lie and cheat to make any quick money these days.
]]>Yes, I passed the test. Piece of cake.
]]>FAIL
]]>...until he had bloodwork done, not only his numbers not improve, some of them were actually worse!
He switched to exercise after that.
]]>@Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->: WIN!
Our IT guy did this, he would leave the juice in the break room and then hover around until someone would pick it up, then he would swoop in and ask them out to a "business" lunch. I never went for it but several coworkers have told stories about how he would take them to Taco Bell and talk about the incredibly business opportunity that they could work on.
]]>If the upline was telling them to lie, then they should lose their business. You can't use the word "definately" since there is no proof. The best way is to tell the person "Try is for a couple of weeks and see how you feel, then stop taking it and see how you feel." Warn them about the placebo affect too. Don't change anything in lifestyle except drinking the stuff.
Be upfront about the stuff. It honestly, if you're already pretty healty, you wont notice a difference, and you shouldn't take the stuff.
Geez, don't lie.
]]>The term "upline" just makes me queasy somehow. Not sure why, but it just sounds like that person is taking advantage of you.
]]>MLM schemes make me sick, they are full of idiots or deceitful scumbags.
I was at a job fair a few years back where there was a Primerica booth. They tried to tell me all about how great a job it was. It is a Citigroup ofshoot that gets you to sell insurance. The second the person mentioned a "seminar" and that I would have to pay for training etc I knew it was a scam.
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