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Pete.
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PostPosted: 14:10 - 20 Jan 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
So now that this has been outed as a scam how come the brainwashing video links are still in the first post generating hits for them?
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Jayy
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PostPosted: 15:48 - 20 Jan 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
Edit: Removed the links from the first post.

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Jayy
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PostPosted: 15:51 - 20 Jan 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
G wrote:
It's when a big warehouse company offers the option to others to sell their products without physically touching them.

So say a large company has a big stock of ipad cases in it's warehouse and the facilities to send them out indivdually.

Rather than making websites or advertising on ebay directly, they let others do it.

So ZX Jay comes along and makes an ebay listing selling this ipad case with a bit of a mark up (over fees etc) for himself.

When someone buys it, they pay him. He pays the drop shipper who then sends it out.

For some people it can work quite well.
It is one of the reasons that so many things are so cheap on ebay and why profits on some items can be in the pennies.
The seller making the profit needs to very little to get his pennies and they are competing against other people selling the exact same product.


What G said basically but to add to that, all my products are competitively priced mostly.

I also only post things with a 20% mark up, as I'm not here to compete for pennies. At the start I was making between £2.50 and £10 clear profit, after fees.

Now I only list things with a £20 minimum profit, otherwise I can't be bothered with volume.

Some days I make £20, some days I make £100, it's a nice little earner on the side.
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TUG
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PostPosted: 00:32 - 21 Jan 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
chris-red wrote:
TUG wrote:
Lmfao, ah well we've all been there,


No we haven't.

99% of the population aren't stupid enough to be suckered in by Pyramid Scheme.

What if I told you I knew it was a pyramid scheme but wanted to see what it was all about? I think I really struggle to put across what I actually mean when I type on this forum because things get so lost in my translations. Laughing

Jay knows why I went in with Rippln and I guess no one else will, I never paid anything to rippln but i did spend £20 on a subscription thing to learn more about marketing, which funnily enough is connected to what I want to do as a career, a designer. I knew it was bullshit, Jay knew that I knew it was bullshit, my dog knew that I knew it was bullshit. Laughing

Have you ever bought into a subscription service? have you ever recomended someone to a gym? or a game? the tactics used by pyramid schemes are right in front of your face everywhere. Wink I'd explain more but tbh, I really cba, "have you ever been on a motorcycle?" No, i'd die. Laughing
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G
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PostPosted: 01:02 - 21 Jan 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
TUG wrote:
have you ever recomended someone to a gym? or a game? the tactics used by pyramid schemes are right in front of your face everywhere.

The difference being that while I have introduced someone to a gym (and got some 'free gift' for it), they wanted to join anyway.
Similarly, while I have got some groupon credit for introducing people, it's only been for things I genuinely thought they would be introduced in and I've made it clear from the off that it's a referral link I'm using and that I benefit if they use it. Also that they

As I mentioned above, I don't personally see even 'MLM' as so bad when there's at least a 'real' product that people actually want.
Tupperware was always done this way, as was a lot of other things. I don't like it, but it's not a flat-out scam.

If you wanted to spend £20 to learn about marketing, I'd suggest there are much better ways you could have spent your money - though I suppose it does teach a little about how gullible and stupid people are marketed too - I suspect more reputable publications wouldn't detail how to market to ponzi victims.
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Jayy
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PostPosted: 04:15 - 21 Jan 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
You live and you learn. I invested a lot in myself over the course of 6 months and I learned some valuable lessons.

1) Don't get suckered in to pyramid schemes.
2) You can make some serious fucking money from MLM.
3) Connecting with people you may never have otherwise done so, you can learn a lot.
4) The money is in making products/services, not joining them.
5) Learn to leverage leaders.

None of that is from any marketing guru's hype or bullshit, that's based on my own opinion. I knew what Rippln was from the very start, I even told the person who invited me to fuck off when they sent me the link to join Rippln, something along the lines of, "Like I haven't seen this shit 1000's of times before over the past 20 years?"

Only after looking at the platform, seeing how well developed it was, did I like the concept (as a web developer) and the marketing was admittedly clever but I genuinely believed they had something.

I know people who have been in MLM/network marketing for 10+ years, I've been in-directly involved in building websites/working on them over the years, members of my family have been in direct selling companies like Avon, Virgin Vie, etc... it wasn't like I had never heard of it before.

One thing you do learn from these supposed "gurus" is that they were already pretty good at selling an opportunity/business before they got stupidly loaded. Once they built an army of minions who would literally follow them off a cliff, they release their own products and that's where they make their millions.
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GhostRider
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PostPosted: 10:21 - 21 Jan 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
Even if you don't watch this normally, find somewhere to stream this episode.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2999388/


Tug and ZX Jay are Mac and Dennis perfectly.



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The Artist
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PostPosted: 11:06 - 21 Jan 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
ZX Jay wrote:
I knew what Rippln was from the very start


ZX Jay wrote:
Only after looking at the platform, seeing how well developed it was, did I like the concept (as a web developer) and the marketing was admittedly clever but I genuinely believed they had something.


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Jayy
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PostPosted: 11:42 - 21 Jan 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
Meanwhile, back at the ranch...
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Jayy
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PostPosted: 02:16 - 16 Jul 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
I just read this whole thread from start to finish.

What the fuck was I doing Very Happy

Memba dat time wen I got scammed?

https://i.imgur.com/hLmwxrT.png

This should be my signature.
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duhawkz
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PostPosted: 13:22 - 16 Jul 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
yep, you made a right twat of yourself with that one Thumbs Up
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Jayy
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PostPosted: 18:17 - 16 Jul 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
I find it amusing reading it back. I've done worse things Thumbs Up
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The last post was made 11 years, 44 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful?
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