My husband and I were TOD heart and soul for 2 years. We attended every Tuesday meeting, monthly seminar, leadership conference and bought every tool we were told to buy. We were introduced to the business from a business associate who had just gotten in the business. He had the "emerald" come talk to us and it sounded great. This business associate was smart enough to get out when they started pushing "tools". We were not.
This emerald would be with us every step of the way we were told. Since we did not live very close to the emerald we were told we had to have a top 50 tape set right away $300.00 and we would have to be on tapes and books if we hoped to succeed. The emerald did not come help us, he passed us on to a platinum who visited us 2 times in 2 years to help.
As we started to build we were told to get everyone on system and to get "butts in the seats at seminars." There was always a push to increase your tape count and ticket count. So we did. What happened was people didn't go to the seminars or quit the busines and didn't take their tapes etc and we ended up eating this. Once you buy the tapes, tickets, etc they are yours! After thousands of lost dollars we could not do it anymore.
We lost our home, cars were repossessed etc. But we still had hope that it could work. The final straw was that when we got in financial trouble due to the tool business all the uplines (platinum, emerald etc) wanted nothing to do with us.instead the platinum contacted our downline telling lies about us and convincing the team that if they pushed us out they would move on and get their dreams. Well the loyal "team" bought it hook, line, and sinker. The truth is once we were no longer their tape and ticket "cash cow" we were pushed out so that the platinum could get another.
This business cost us our friends, strained realtionships with family and financially put us in great hardship. Our whole time in the business I asked to see checks from the people who were making all this money and was told "It wouldn't mean anything it has my name on it, you need to get one with your name on it."
Maybe this was just one bad team with TOD but it sure doesn't stand up to their Christian preaching.
Sarina
chicago, Illinois
U.S.A.
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