Ok, so I have read extensively on the net about all the unhappy people who have been ripped off by DS max (Innovage etc). Funny, because when I was in the business we heard about all the "neg heads" out there writing reports, and now here I am!
So my story is pretty similar to everyone else's - the seductive allure of being your own boss, getting into ownership in less than 8 months, being financially independant, showing the world they were wrong... All the things that would make a fresh grad student give up her life to prove.
Of course my involvement was met with fierce resistance by my parents, friends, family and boyfriend. They of course did not send me to private school and university to become a hawker on the streets of Johannesburg. I KNEW they were wrong, i would show them i knew what I was doing and I would be right... They would all see. One day they would come begging ME for money...
Well, that day never came. Funny that. My boyfriend woke up every morning to drop me at my office at 4 in the morning, and fetched me evry night at 9 in the evening. Dedication, huh? And how did I repay him? By getting so brainwashed by my very good-looking, very charasmatic owner into believing that he and I were meant to be together. I was the future of the company. He was going to make my life great by focussing his energy on me and getting me to ownership as fast as possible. He was going to be my saviour. And I fell for it.
I left my boyfriend of 2 years to be with this mesmerising man who was going to make my dreams come true. It was just the two of us, against the world.
Until I found out that it was the two of us, plus just about every other girl in the office as well! He had been using the same old tricks on every young, impressionable thing that walked through the door.
DS Max is a scam, a pyramid scheme, and an excuse for sleazy, lonely men with no lives to get their kicks out gullible young things. It's pretty disgusting if you ask me.
Hayley
Gauteng
South Africa
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