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I have been for the better part of the week trying to encourage a friend to get out of a pyramid scheme . Yes it is called plexus and I have sent her several links to people who have been scammed by this company and what does she do ? she asks her distributor if these links are true ? what do you think they are going to say ? Oh no of course not . Now this is a woman who is college educated and is fairly smart I would say and yet she fell for this crap . I have warned her and shown her proof positive that she is a victim of a pyramid scheme . I think a lot of time people make their own trouble . Is there anything else I can do to help her I fear she is going to get in trouble with this . I just cannot fathom how guiliable people really are ?
I have been for the better part of the week trying to encourage a friend to get out of a pyramid scheme . Yes it is called plexus and I have sent her several links to people who have been scammed by this company and what does she do ? she asks her distributor if these links are true ? what do you think they are going to say ? Oh no of course not . Now this is a woman who is college educated and is fairly smart I would say and yet she fell for this crap . I have warned her and shown her proof positive that she is a victim of a pyramid scheme . I think a lot of time people make their own trouble . Is there anything else I can do to help her I fear she is going to get in trouble with this . I just cannot fathom how guiliable people really are ?
Yes, they do. Which is why after you warn them once, you drop it.
I have to laugh at your college educated comment. I went to college, do you think that makes you smart?
Smart maybe in your line of study, but not in life.
The smartest man I even knew was my father, he barely got of HS. He did quite well for himself and was very well read.
I have a cousin who is a well educated with advanced degrees, she has made incredibly bad financial decisions.
Your comment reminds me of a story a friend of mine told me who is a teacher. There was some concerns regarding child abuse with a student and her mother, another teacher commented "Oh I don't think so, the mother dresses so nice".
Don't equate a formal education with being smart, they don't always go together.
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Ok. So is this different from Rodan and Fields, 31, MaryKay, Norwex, Cabi, Discovery Toys, Silpada Jewelry, Pampered Chef, and the original, Tupperware? Where you have a party, and everyone knows they're there to buy stuff from you at a huge markup and it probably won't be great stuff (except Cabi and Norwex), and they go to the party anyway?
I say let her do it. Just don't go to the parties.
IMHO, this isn't like Amway where you are tricked into going to a party you think is a purely social event and then it gets hijacked into a sales pitch with no warning.
It sounds like she will be learning this lesson the hard way: The School of Hard Knocks!
I agree. They use psychological tricks and persuasion to create visuals of cars, riches and success that would make Robin Leach explode into a cloud of confetti and unicorn's with lightsabers for a horn. And they are really good at it. Got duped into a seminar once myself, but didn't join. They told the audience how a job was a waste of time "journeys on to brokenness" they said and had a tanned guy with a joker smile on stage, who ran up saying he came from his private jet from Ipanema. It was cheesier then a Kraft factory. My friend joined but gave up after 3 months.
If they have worked Thier hoodoo on OP's friend, they will likely just have to allow the person to find out themselves.
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