Paid to Smile
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Turn on QVC and HSN and you’ll see people paid to smile to sell you crap. They don’t know the first thing about that deep fryer except what the manufacturer told them it does. When you call in they use their best CON voice and act like you in back water Virginia is their long lost friend. They set up the whole hustle using a countdown clock and showing you how many have been bought. They tell you what’s coming up like you don’t want to miss out on Christmas in July. Then of course you fall for it and buy a new set of oven mitts that can pull the devil out of hell without a scar!
Every time I see one of these half hour informercials asking me to buy their foreclosure kit or to join some secret club (that’s on TV) that the retailers don’t want you to know about I just start laughing. See how many times have you started a job and the person training you was slap happy enthusiastic? Most people are teaching you how to do enough to get started and then you master it by yourself. But, on TV they go through testimonial after testimonial of regular people (who look dumb) who say Mr Paid to Smile program got me a homemaker twenty-thousand-dollars. “I just sat there nursing my little Joey and the checks just showed up at my door” Or how about they got Tom Bosley to get you to buy some worthless trinkets so you can sell them to your good friends and convince them this is real cubic zirconia and no one will be able to notice.
Use your common sense and understand the whole Hustle. One, they find a guy you can trust or they find a guy who is so slap happy that you think if it can help that idiot it can help me. Two, they sell you the book then try to sell you personal conversations with their trained staff of Hustlers. Third, they want you to sign up via email so they can send you updates. Fourth, they want you to join the Forum of the Conned so you and the other Suckers can talk to each other about how you don’t know what the hell you are doing. Fifth, they create seminars for you to come out and sit with other groupies in a cult like follower session clapping to stupidity like those people who sing Happy Birthday for a grown man at Red Robin. Finally, they come out with book number two that is what the author forgot to put in the first one.
It’s a sales tactic that tons of Suckers fall for because they don’t want to do the work. The Hustler selling this angle knows he is full of it but he also understands all he has to do is find someone who is down and out and will believe anything. The occasional Hustler sees this as a why not and joins the group thinking he’s really going to beat the dummy who invented it. Finally, they pull in the educated by saying to them wouldn’t it be nice to go on vacations and leave your stressful high paying job and do nothing like me.
These cats are paid to smile because they know you will not buy anything that doesn’t look like a idiot can do it. The problem is you’re the idiot and the guy getting paid to smile is making money.
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Here’s a saying that I live by so commit it to memory if you can….
- A Hungry Man will eat anything you Feed Him
- A Rich Man will buy anything you Sell Him
- A Broke Man will believe anything you Tell Him
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Dayum homie, you went in!!!
LOL I do admit that everytime I was really broke, I was more receptive to MLM pitches or any kind of “seemingly” easy business proposals.
There have been many times when i was feeling down and out and these informercials come on. Watching that crap late at night really pulls you in before you know it you fall in! hook line and sinker!
I cant tell you how many times i have reached for the phone to buy only to be reaaaaaallllllllyyyyy disappointed with the crap they sold me. I think these guys got this psychology down packed!
Lol I like how u can’t copy and paste on here. lol
I like the sentence saying they know you will not buy anything that doesn’t look like an idiot can do it. LMAO very true statement. I refuse to fall for any of that shit. I have friends who signed up to be vacation, body magic, and sum kind of weird insurance sales people and their whole gimmick is to get more salespeople to sign up, not actually sell the product! Whoeva thought of that is a damn genius. “Hey, I know the product won’t sell but you can get other people to sell it, either way it’s a win win!” NOT!!! LMAO
@Neil – That’s why those infomercials are making a killing right now in this recession. So many people are out of work looking for ways to make money that someone probably bought 10 of them. It’s a hustle for sure that is set up to get you to buy not so much educate you.
@Gallego – It’s like those Everest Commercials they know when you are at home doing nothing. Late at night cats are worried about money so they pump the airwaves with them. I myself have never bought one but my boy did and we looked it over and it was crap. We just fell back laughing saying we need to get on our grind instead of reading what’s on some CON artist mind.
@Keish – Yeah you know people are thieves on the Internet so I had to do what I can to keep my stuff my stuff. I am sure they are still stealing it though but why not give them a harder time ya dig!
The funny thing to me is when the cats sign up to sell the crap they try their best to convince you it ain’t crap. I said that earlier that when someone asks you to get your family to buy it then you know it’s crap. The cat on top is making a killing straight up and everyone else is getting the scraps. All MLM work the exact same way you buy in then you bring in 5 more people and then you fall out. To the cat on top he got 6 new customers for 10% payout.
The slimmer the pockets the more these guys make sense! I got this little nerd guy that comes on at 1am talking about now is the time to buy houses. I watch it even though I know the hustle is to buy his book.
Oh well I am looking to invent my own thing to sell in an informercial too…
Got to admit the book hustle is a good one too…Then comes the seminars, the CD’s etc….
@Califormula – That’s why it has to Money over Mind over Matters. Cat’s have to stop and think what actually make Cents over what makes Sense! During good times you pay these Con Artists no mind but during bad times you give them more time. If it was truly good no matter the weather it would be good right?
@Neil – Don’t get it twisted a lot of the newer internet hustles is just cats cranking out BS books. They don’t have anything really to say just a whole bunch of regurgitated game. Do you hey I don’t know everything I just know somethings.
First comes Love then comes Marriage then comes a SUCKER with the Baby carriage! I think that’s what you trying to say huh?
LOL, well, this is THAT particular game is played…
I’m not hating on you I get it. Just do me a favor lead them somewhere instead of just getting everyone to come and listen. It’s not that hard to have a end goal. I think Kiyosaki had a end game in real estate then said DAMN I can sell them books for millions and millions more.
The Angle works when you can deliver something as people will definitely pay for a Step by Step explanation of Game.
LOL I fell for one of those late night real estate scams when I was younger. Now when I see this crap on tv I see the BS. Thanks Freeman.
Hey they work otherwise they wouldn’t still be on TV. So don’t feel bad that you got CONNED on it a lot of people are. That’s why you hear other people trying to get in on the Hustle too.