FetteredChinos said:
does this just not reek of scam? i cant be the only one thinking this?
No. You're not. A colleague of mine got involved in this sort of thing - went to a 'money back' seminar, 'the last one ever' and made nothing out of it. I offered to help him using some of my company's resources but he really had little or nothing to sell. Don't want to get involved in the current status of Manhattan Direct, but suggest that anyone thinking of getting involved in any of these schemes gets his/her hands on back copies of a publication called The Board (email
[email protected]) featuring Mr Reynolds, Lowe, Johannsen/Hall, Adams et al. These guys seem to make their money out of the seminars and 'membership fees' rather than selling the products you (and how many others?) are licenced to sell. In the case of Simon Hall/Johannsen (The Mega Wealth scheme and similar) there was a BBC exposé on him a while ago. This one may be different :I don't know.
The other thing to watch out for is their cross-selling. Buy something from one and you then get an 'exclusive' invitation to a 'never-to-be-repeated' seminar at a hotel near Heathrow or in Newport (yes, really), only to get a mailing about another one a few weeks later. Sound familiar ?
My colleague makes 2 recommendations to anyone thinking of getting involved.
1. Ask, and get in writing, whether the principal has an exclusive licence for the products and how many other people are selling these same products AND HOW MANY YEARS THEY HAVE BEEN AVAILABLE FOR. Many of them are US manuals which have been around for years and are in old formats - CD and video rather than DVD and are being offered by several people each of whom claims to have an exclusive licence for them.
2. Ask to speak to - AND MEET WITH IN PERSON - others who have signed up and who are making money (Seems to me that if a number of you are doing this together you could compare notes and see if you are being fed the same stooge).
Seems to me it's best to start with the premise that if something looks too good to be true it probably is. As ever, these are my opinions only : do your own research etc. etc.