I have spent several months looking for a legitimate means of making a living at home online.in the early stages of my search I came across several companys claiming to have six figure income earning potential and asking for a small "decision Package" fee of $30-$60.
I invested in one with Global-online-systems and they sent a packet containing a video tape, cd and a blue booklet. The Material was rather well put together and seemed to explain a "new" company's system for generating wealth that looked, on it's face at least, like it would work.
As I watched the video and cd and read the booklet I noticed that they seemed to focus primarily on the fact that their company was in several countries around the world and that they had a duplicatable system that anyone could learn to follow to financial independence. There was no mention of what the procuct was.
I began to get excited, especially when I watched the testimonial portion of the presentation and saw several people who said that they were earning up to $40,000 per month with this amazing "new" system.
Then came the marketing plan and I was reminded of the Amway and herbalife meetings that I been repulsed by 10-20 years ago when I had received information in the mail (or saw in adds) about a great new money making opportunity carefully enough disguised to get me to attent without mentioning they were another Amway or Herbalife "opportunity".
As I watched the marketing plan being presented and the old if you start at this level it's $395.00 but it's better to invest several hudred more dollars and start at a level where you have others under you, I began to realize that this really was the old scheme.
I felt deceived (because I had been) and really disappointed that I'd invested money to learn about this company. If their adveritsing mentioned anything about Herbalife I would never have spent a dime. They know that and that's why its saved to the very last, after you've invested in a decision package to decide about getting involved with a company that you already know you don't want to be involved with and they already know you don't want to be involved with.
Since then I was duped into ordering information from another company that was so clever in disguising there association with Herbalife that I didn't realize it till after their info came.
I've also seen literally hundreds of adds on career builder that are absolutely deceptive in nature like "we are expanding and need 29 (or 31 or 43) new people to fill executive sales positions with our company. They are so deceptive that Career builder puts a disclaimer under them stating that this should in no way be confused with a legitmate job offering.
What Herbalife is doing in trying to sell their health and "life enhancing products" (the founder of the company died of alcholism) through such deceptive marketing may not be a ripoff in the legal sense but I certainly was deceived and feel ripped off.
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