March 23rd, 2008 by admin | 1 Comment »
Abhishek raises a very important and relevant point about freinds cheating him for a MLM profit. Basically his very good freinds made false claims about making lot of money from a particular pogramme and lured him into joining the programme. After making a payment of 32k and joining the programme, he realized that all that was told to him as false. To make money he will have to tell the same damn lie to his freinds. Abhishek refused to do and hence lost 32k.
While he talks about questnet in particular, I think the problem is more wide spread than that. I am sure at one point of time or other someone you know quite well has tried to force you to join some similar programme including questnet, amway and several other programmes. I know that not all of these are fraud schemes. Even if it is not a fraud scheme, you may losse some really good freinds to these schemes.
The issue is when you somehow convince someone to join a programme without doing a proper analysis of his own skills . It may be asking an introvert to join a marketing scheme or asking someone averse to regular desciplined work to join blogging. You manage to convince him that he can make money from the programme. However when he tries to get things done himself, he fails to do so and looses money. The way human psychology works (I am no expert), people do not want to accept that they made a wrong choice. Rather they try to find someone else to blame. In this case they blame you because you asked them to join the programme in the first place.
Does it mean that you should never ask a freind to a money making scheme? You must let your freinds know about any genuine scheme. However first try to imagine if the person is likely to succeed in the scheme. So if I know an outgoing, natural salesman type person, I will recommend MLM to him and if I know a well read person I will ask him to blog and earn through adsense. Secondly I shall give him a realistic picture of amount of work invloved and chances of failure. If required I will err on the side of pessimism.
Everything said and done do remember that good freinds are really important in life. Hence be cautious while you are mixing freindship and business. To abhishek, 32k is a really small amount to pay to learn about 3 people that you considered freinds are not your freinds. So be happy that the incident happened. And thanks for making all of us aware about a fraud programme.
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