I also was a member of Online Business Systems, but no more.
My immediate upline was a real sweetheart, so I hate to say anything that would foul her business or efforts. But my experience overall was not good.
Soon after I started with OBS, I wrote a glowing review here of their system and a scathing post to naysayers. Well, I'm afraid I take it all back. Sometimes when we want something to work so badly, we fool ourselves into thinking that all that glitters IS gold.'Taint so McGee.
The fact is, on more than one occasion I found uplines beyond my immediate upline talking out of both sides of their mouths Their truths and their morals seemed highly situational. On the one hand they would say we only want willing and eager recruits, and in the next breath tell us we weren't pushing sales and distributorships hard enough. That is only one example among many I encountered.
And what I came to find was that every time the big guys "gave away" thousand of dollars in matching advertising, I figure they were putting thousands INTO their own pockets. Well, if you are making $10-20K per shot reselling advertising, then you are not GIVING anything away. If you want to tell me you are giving me a 2 for 1 sale on the NORMAL price of advertising, that is fine; I expect you to make a profit in your business. But when you cloak it in some kind of philanthropic shroud, then I get pissed.
Additionally, I was open to keeping my Herbalife distributorship after leaving OBS until I ran into a brick wall with Herbalife regarding returning or exchanging merchandise. Since I was not going to concentrate on recruiting, I wanted to return my promotional goods for salable items (about $300 dollars worth.) Nope. Herbalife's policy is: you bought it, it's yours. I have worked at many jobs in my 30 years in the workforce; I have run into some healthy "restocking fees" with some companies. But Herbalife is the ONLY company I have ever encountered that would not help its retailers by exchanging stock or granting credit for future purchases.
I find this policy HIGHLY unfriendly.
My advise to anyone at this point is: stay away from over-hyped and over-priced Herbalife, and DEFINITELY stay away from OBS.
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