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BoilerRoomGroupThink · #68 (**permalink**) 06-05-2009, 08:41 PM

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Originally Posted by fiyahspinnah

I was entirely duped into going to one of these presentations just tonight. My good friend called me up and asked me what I was doing. I replied nothing so she said "You have to come with me tonight to this amazing experience." I asked her what it is and she said "You'll just have to come, it is 90% visual".
I had all these different ideas in my head what it was going to be: a local show, an autumn hike, some niche in the cities, etc

A World Ventures presentation was the last ****ing thing I expected.

Alright, from the presentation I learned that if you sell $1000 worth of travel packages in one month (which they claim was a small amount), then you only get 5%. Only $50?!? Are you kidding me? If you include the $40 you have to pay each month to be a part of World Ventures then you only made $10.

I was really frustrated when I read the small print on the sign up paper. It said you have three days to back out and cancel the transaction of your $400 to join and it went on to say that the information on how to do this was on the back of the paper. Guess what was on the back of the paper? Absolutely nothing. It was blank!

It also said that only 26.3% of the people made money in 2007 and the average income was only $200 something.

The worst part of it all was the end where the presenter went on to give tips on how to lure people into going to these presentations..... He said call your friends and say ""You have to come with me tonight to this amazing experience. I can't explain it because it is 90% visual". The same flippen line that several of my other friends and myself were given by the same three people who lured us there.

Please! I am blown away that my friends consider themselves free thinkers and were so easily tricked into forking over so much cash.

How frustrating. Thanks to World Ventures to wasting my gas money and my time!!! GOOD GRIEF, people!

If you want to waste some time on this issue go to worldventures site and watch their bastard presentation and then go to YTB's bastard presentation and watch that too. Almost identical!

To all of you rich WVer's, yathink you could throw me a few bones to make up for my gas money? Thanks.

My story is much the same: I received a text from my friend about some new business opportunity for me. He vaguely discussed a meeting somewhere in Plano, TX(I live twenty minutes from there). I was very skeptical and even making jokes about pyramid schemes. Eventually, because he is my friend, I decided to go with him. He picks me up and we go to the headquarters at 7:30pm.

The presentation was excellent. The power point was well done. The deals and benefits were amazing. The presenters Gabby and David told us about their success stories of how one was a hair dresser and the other was a police officer trying to get out of their rut. Now they are both retired and making six figures after two years with WV. I can’t deny the presentation held my attention.

Then David drew a pyramid…Then he started saying crap like, “What is bigger? Your ego or your bank account?” and “Donald Trump was on David Letterman saying if he were to become rich from scratch, he would do Network Marketing.” The presenter then said they had a free trip certificate worth $300 for the first few people who signed up today. They handed out the enrollment forms and that is when I learned my friend had already enrolled the day before. Throughout the meeting, people were hoopin’ and hawin’ along with everything the presenters were saying. When somebody signed up at the end, a rep would yell and holler “We got a new member here!” and pat him or her on the back as the room would erupt in applause. It was complete Boiler Room mentality. I could not tell you how many people in that room were staged. It was brainwashing + groupthink. It’s not ego, it’s called common sense logic. Yes, maybe Donald Trump said that on the Late Show. But he meant OWN a Network Marketing company, not buy into it like all these other poor hopefuls who are easily susceptible to grander ideas of “no work but full pay.” The pyramid does not start with you. It started a long time ago with those owners. Sorry, I decided not to pay my 400 bucks + $40 per month fees for an intangible idea.

My friend and I walk out with his sponsor. I tell my friend “What in the hell are you doing? That is complete Boiler Room and groupthink in there.” His sponsor was talking to me trying to make the sell, but he only further frustrated me by quoting the same crap that I had just heard ten minutes ago! It is a complete regurgitation of brainwashing tools passed down from training sessions to the weak.

My friend and I argued for an hour about WV. Hopefully I can get him to cancel his enrollment and get his money back before it is too late.

Basically, you enroll for ~$500. You get your own website but it looks the same as every other representative. You have to talk 6 people into coming to a meeting or signing up under your “team.” They have to get a bunch of people as well + people to purchase trips off yours/their website. Nobody is going to stumble onto your website, so you have to basically intrude on other people to purposely visit yours. Can this be done? Sure! But you basically have to quit your day job to hound people left and right. Time is money. You have to bust your hump in order to see your first nickel. So basically you are in the hole for a grand before you get $50 bucks in the mail. Either that or you could keep your day job and be guaranteed payment for your honest hard work.