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BusinessWebsite Scripts For Sale by Tejuri(op): 2:48am On Jun 20, 2018
I got 4 website scripts for sale

1. Sports betting script

2. Escrow website script

3. Ecommerce website script

4. Uber type website script

Prices are affordable.
InvestmentRe: Where Can I Borrow Money Apart From Commercial Banks by Tejuri(m): 6:46am On Aug 10, 2016
Ambassador1991:
Please, do you have contacts of loan sharks?
None. I doubt you wanna even go down that route.
PoliticsRe: Military Kills 114 Militants In Ogun And Lagos Creeks - Today.ng by Tejuri(m): 10:17pm On Jul 30, 2016
114militants?
PoliticsRe: Army Relocates Special Forces Training School To Buni Yadi by Tejuri(m): 10:14pm On Jul 30, 2016
Step in the right direction
InvestmentRe: Where Can I Borrow Money Apart From Commercial Banks by Tejuri(m): 10:45pm On Jul 20, 2016
Loan sharks, but they might remove an eye if you cant pay back.
InvestmentHerbalife: A Pyramid Scheme Disguised As A Business Opportunity by Tejuri(op): 10:44pm On Jul 20, 2016
There has been much written recently about Herbalife and allegations about whether it is a pyramid scheme or a legitimate business. While most of the focus has been a battle between hedge fund titans, what is often overlooked is its actual impact on the low income, often minority, individuals who are lured into “the business opportunity.” However this is beginning to change. In particular, there have been many Latino leaders who have become increasingly concerned with Herbalife’s predatory business practices and how the company targets the Latino community in a methodical and calculated manner.

If Herbalife is profitable, why should anyone be concerned? What does it matter if the company is a pyramid scheme, some wonder, so long stock price keeps going up? Aside from the fact that pyramid schemes are illegal, the real problem with a pyramid scheme like Herbalife is that the company’s profits are generated by committing massive fraud against the company’s own distributors. From the standpoint of a civil rights organization like the League of United Latin American Citizens, this is wrong no matter what the company’s stock price is.

Herbalife’s business model is far different than every other legitimate business in America because at Herbalife, a distributor’s compensation is driven not by how much product they sell to retail consumers, but on how successful they are in recruiting other distributors into the “business opportunity”. The vast majority of income generated by the company is from the products purchased by new distributors duped into buy their way into the business. At Herbalife, the company’s end users and distributors are one in the same.

I have spoken to many of Herbalife’s Latino distributors, both at the company’s recent “Extravaganza Latina” held in Los Angeles for thousands of their Latino distributors, as well as in the Latino neighborhoods that the company’s 550,000 U.S. distributors have saturated. And the stories they told me present a truly alarming picture.

These distributors have told me that the only way a distributor can succeed in Herbalife is to recruit new distributors and that the most successful distributors are the ones that become “recruiting machines.”

The distributors are trained about how to tell a-rags-to-riches story such as “I used to wash dishes for minimum wage and now I sell Herbalife and make $150,000 per year, drive a luxury car, and live in a fabulous mansion.” If a distributor is not yet a success they are told that they need to “fake it, until you make it” — a favorite saying of Herbalife’s founder Mark Hughes.

While Herbalife claims it only costs $59 to get started with the company, the distributors I have spoken to said they always start out asking for far more than that... typically $4,000 so the newly minted distributor can began at the supervisor level which confers a bigger discount on the wholesale cost of Herbalife’s overpriced products. In Herbalife’s pyramid scheme, distributors building their downline are incentivized with bigger commissions to lure new recruits to come in at the highest level possible.

Yet to stay at the supervisor level the new distributor must continue to purchase $2,500 worth of product every month. The vast majority are not able to sell much at all and most are never able to recoup what they spent to get into the business and maintain their level.

Eventually they realize that it is pointless to keep throwing good money after bad and 90 percent quit within a year. According to the distributors and former distributors that I have spoken to, most loose between $1,000 and $10,000 with the average distributor losing $3,000. Some have lost much more and these figures do not count the hours they spend trying to sell the product and recruit new distributors and the expenses they incur beyond purchasing Herbalife’s product.

While it’s true that starting your own business is fraught with risk and many if not most small businesses fail, the difference with Herbalife is that the losses suffered by their failed distributors fuel the company’s profits because the losses are incurred by company incentives and policies that force their distributors to purchase more product than they can sell.

Ninety-nine percent of Herbalife’s distributors will lose money in the scheme. Unfortunately, the few “successful” distributors are those that have learned how to become recruiting machines — deceiving their friends, family members, co-workers, and just about anyone who will listen to them into paying money to join a “business opportunity” that is destined to become a financial loss for the vast majority.

Herbalife, for its part, refuses to report how much of its product is sold at retail to non-distributors and how much revenue they generate from signing up new distributors. They refuse to disclose the average net profit or loss of Herbalife distributors. They even have the gall to reclassify 73 percent of their distributors that were lured into the business with get-rich pitches into retail consumers saying that these distributors “primarily join us to receive a wholesale price on products they and their families enjoy.”

The scale of the scheme is breath-taking. There are 550,000 Herbalife distributors in the United States. Somewhere between 60 to 83 percent of them are Latino. 300,000 to 400,000 Latino distributors will quit this year alone only to be replaced by another 300,000 to 400,000 new Latino distributors. If left unchecked, Herbalife could recruit, defraud and dispose of as many as 4 million Latino distributors over the next 10 years. To more and more Latino leaders and advocates, this reeks of predatory ethnic targeting of epic proportions.

I have asked Herbalife to make six common sense reforms that could help it become a better company, where distributors might have a chance to make an honest living selling their product. Yet the company has refused to consider even one of them.

So at the end of the day, is Herbalife a legitimate and effective business model for Latinos or an illegal pyramid scheme that targets and preys on them? According to the Federal Trade Commission, there is an easy way to tell. If distributor income is primarily based on sales to the public, the company may be legitimate. But if distributor income is primarily based on the number of people recruited and the sales to them, it’s a pyramid scheme.

I believe that the evidence is overwhelming that the compensation of Herbalife distributors is primarily based on the number of people each distributor recruits and their sales to them. Furthermore, I challenge Herbalife to report their retail sales to the general public (people who are not distributors) and their sales to new recruits so that we can settle this issue once and for all.

Continuing to hide these figures from the public, their investors and regulatory bodies can only mean one thing in my opinion: that Herbalife’s promise of a business and economic opportunity is really a pyramid scheme that has locked onto the Latino community like no other that we have seen before. As a Latino organization with an 85-year history of defending the Latino community, the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) has once again chosen to stand up to defend our community from a powerful threat. We encourage other organizations and people of good will to join us in this fight.
PoliticsRe: Court Is Overworked, Judges Deserve Rest, Says Saraki's Lawyer by Tejuri(m): 10:22am On Jul 19, 2016
lol, see who cares about the Judges welfare.
PoliticsRe: Jonathan Will Be At US Nigerian Lawyers Awards Dinner, To Give Address by Tejuri(m): 10:18am On Jul 19, 2016
I love this man, more grace!
BusinessRe: 5 Things A Good Enterpreneur Should Never Do by Tejuri(m): 10:16am On Jul 19, 2016
Nice post.
PhonesRe: Some Vintage Phones That Shook The Nigerian GSM market - (pics) by Tejuri(m): 10:09am On Jul 19, 2016
Anyone got any of this for sale?
PropertiesRe: Burj Khalifa:the World's Tallest Building by Tejuri(m): 10:06am On Jul 19, 2016
When does Africa get one of those.
CareerRe: The TRUE Definition Of Nigerian Salary & Wages (PHOTO) - Nairalanders by Tejuri(m): 10:00am On Jul 19, 2016
lol
BusinessRe: I Need A Way Of Making Money Online That Works, I Am Broke by Tejuri(m):
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BusinessRe: I Need A Way Of Making Money Online That Works, I Am Broke by Tejuri(m): 3:49pm On Feb 18, 2016
stadelk7:
When you buy on maybe Alibaba, you usually have to provide an address, instead of your own address, you have your goods shipped to an amazon fulfillment center,you log in to amazon and confirm you sent goods to them, identify your goods is made easy by tracking number and stuff like that, when your goods are confirmed by amazon it is listed on their website, to an ordinary buyer it looks like that product is being sold by amazon themselves, so this helps a lot, amazon is a big company and they are very well trusted, all issues that would arise like shipping goods to buyer when someone wants to buy what you sent to amazon, customer care etc. is handled by amazon. So basically all you do is buy, send to amazon and sit back expecting your money, but amazon takes a cut from your sales for services rendered.

If you got further questions, email me at- stadelk7@gmail.com.
Chairman, I would be getting this ebook next weekend(not the coming one) I hope that is OK?

I need money to buy a new laptop and i hope this can help me.
PhonesRe: Netflix Launched In Africa, Etisalat Became The First To Offer Package In NG by Tejuri(m): 7:45am On Jan 08, 2016
grinace:
Lol, does Etisalat really know the meaning of Netflix and chill,
Besides I could already use Netflix via VPN softwares.
Bro, can you tell me what VPN you use? I assume you use it on PC?
Technology MarketRe: Sold!!!!! by Tejuri(m): 11:29pm On Dec 27, 2015
Location?
Technology MarketRe: Which Good Fairly Used Laptop Can I Get For N50,000? by Tejuri(op): 1:32pm On Dec 27, 2015
Petroking:
You can get the laptop only in Lagos... if you would like them to send it to you no issues but you will foot the transportation bill. I can either get you a Laptop with core i3 or core i5 with the above minimum specs .. but it also depends on the brand of the laptop... You can give me a call and i will try to be of help in anyway i can... 08164346469.. Name is micheal
Would it be pay on delivery?
Technology MarketRe: Which Good Fairly Used Laptop Can I Get For N50,000? by Tejuri(op): 1:31pm On Dec 27, 2015
lekankolade:
I have ACER, very neat and the battery is ok, 4G RAM and 500G memory, 15.6" screen ....idah precisely
What's the specific make. I can't see the 2nd picture clearly I am viewing on mobile.

Would you be able to send to Lokoja and I foot the bill for your transport? Also what is the battery life like?
Technology MarketWhich Good Fairly Used Laptop Can I Get For N50,000? by Tejuri(op): 11:59am On Dec 27, 2015
I want a fairly used laptop, and my budget is N50,000.

Laptop would be mainly for surfing the net,a little gaming. My minimum specs, are 4gb RAM, 2 Ghz processor,320GB HDD,decent- good screen resolution, minimum of 4 hours battery life.

I may compromise in any other aspects, but the minimum hours on a battery is an exception.

If you got suggested laptops that meets those specs, I am willing to buy. By the way, my location is Kogi state.
BusinessRe: Binary Option Alertz/strategies Season4 (new Dawn) by Tejuri(m): 9:17am On Sep 06, 2015
Randoms on binary.com is a huge scam. Its better to avoid it,that stuff is heavily manipulated.
BusinessRe: Binary Option Alertz/strategies Season4 (new Dawn) by Tejuri(m): 11:40am On Aug 17, 2015
Can someone recommend the best way to deposit to binary..com? My UBA debit card isnt working?
InvestmentRe: Nigerian Stock Exchange Market Pick Alerts by Tejuri(m): 8:33am On Aug 15, 2015
Youngzedd:
Na so you need money pass me grin
lol, its just crazy bro.
InvestmentRe: Nigerian Stock Exchange Market Pick Alerts by Tejuri(m): 8:06am On Aug 15, 2015
Can one make withdrawals on Saturday from Morgan, since the wire withdrawals as opposed to normal bank teller deposit. Been trying to make withdrawals since Tuesday, up till now,nothing. The customer care sucks.
InvestmentRe: Nigerian Stock Exchange Market Pick Alerts by Tejuri(m): 1:21am On Aug 14, 2015
myjoy08:
Sir, call them with these number: Tel:
234-(1) 3429613, 234-(1) 4540114, +234-8107596134

They will tell you what next to do.
I called one of those number today though, and was told to resend my email despite the fact the customer care attendant himself saying they had technical issues with their mail system.
InvestmentRe: Nigerian Stock Exchange Market Pick Alerts by Tejuri(m): 12:44am On Aug 14, 2015
Is there any other way to withdraw from Morgan without emails to @morgancapitalgroup.com. My mails to both customercare and morayoj don't seem to be delivering. Anyone know any other way with this?

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