Pyramide scheme...but...

[beavereater]

Here's the story!! I am not one to believe in many things so easily. I need to see things happen in front of me, or to me in order to believe. Anyway, a student of mine calls me outta the blue saying she's got something important to tell me and wanted to meet up with me near her place. At first I thought "Yeah...she likes me and wants me!" I arrived at the park where she wanted to meet and she said she wanted me to meet someone.

Anyway, by this time I realized she wasn't inviting me to her place ...but that was fine. I was wondering what this was all about. She introduced me to her friend and they asked me to watch this video on the waters of Tlacote...some kinda water that has scientists baffled. Anyway, this guy is selling a machine (Actually, he is one of many people who sells the machine for the only company allowed to produce the machine.) that creates the same water. They say it cures certain diseases (Not gonna really go into...but some of the big ones) up to 100 percent.

Now, like I said, I don't believe in things so easily. And this was one of those pyramide schemes where if I sell something, she gets some of the sales, and he gets some...and it goes down the line like that. BUT...could a company really advertize their water as being 100 percent in healing some pretty (uncureable to date) diseases?? The video was recorded off a televison broadcast. They had "Scientific data" to back it up. The guy was pretty good in convincing me that he didn't care whether I spent money or not, just that he had used it for the last 6 months and has seen what it has done.

Anyway the science behind it all has something to do with 'active hydrogen' or something. By the end of it, I was more confused than anything. Anyone have an opinion...

[Capmaster]

I would be very wary if I were you. If this active hydrated water really cured the diseases it claims it can, they wouldn't need to arrange streetcorner meetings to spread the word. It would be front-page news all over the world.

The first step in a pyramid scheme is to get you to believe in it. The second step is to convince you to invest, or "buy into" the pyramid, with the promise of endless profits from those under you.

In reality, you are the intended customer. Their "product" is the position in the pyramid, with the associated "kit", or inventory, and those kits are usually expensive. The results are rarely as advertised.

I had a friend who bought into one and he ended up with a basement full of mediocre cosmetics. Be careful Beav

[beavereater]

Ya...I know...but I did my own research after that...online. And names like Magic Johnson and some other famous scientist (Japanese anyway) pop-up!! BUT that was my first question "Why is it that if this water really does this, don't hospitals start using it" and his answer was "Have you ever known a doctor to go against what he was taught in school, or to believe in anything other than scientific facts?"...

I am not gonna buy it...if I had the money their are some PC parts I'd rather have at this stage in my life. I understand that as a business man you are suppose to get people interested in your product or service. BUT this is all backed by a big company here in Japan...which is what surprises me...no other company is allowed to sell this kinda machine. Anyway, they didn't pressure me or anything. I said I would do my research and let them know. They were happy with that...

[The village idiot]

BULLSHIT, pure unfiltered bullshit. Run, don't walk, away from this. It will require some sort of out of pocket money to get started, and then you will have to find more suckers to get your money back.

[Cobra]

I'm with Village Idiot on this one. Water, curing diseases? Yeah right. Water is two hydrogens bonded to an oxygen. It has set chemical and physical properties. It does not cure diseases, and cannot be special.

Water is water.

Cobra

[Capmaster]

It gets more special when you add selected carbon atoms arranged just so. Then it's good mixed with orange juice

[Cobra]

Did she mention that you have to take these with it?

[Hatz]

Tell her to go down on a woman with a genital disease of some sort and use the water to cure it. If it does cure it then you will buy it, if not, atleast you got to see two girls go at it.


Hatz

[adam]

This isn't a pyramid scheme. That's where you chip in a nominal amount of money and get others to do the same, and so on and so on. The money keeps filtering through to those who chipped in first. Its a scheme because it doesn't take long before the pyramid gets so large that anyone who chips in won't get their share until long after they're dead. They are illegal because they create a massive burden on the postal service.

This is simply sales on commission, nothing more. There's all kinds of products like this. All that natural herbal healing crap. 99% of the products do nothing, just like this one. That doesn't mean you can't sell it and make money. But you'd be the lackey if you did this. Its like those infomercials where the guy made millions and will show you how to do it too. You buy his package and all it does is show you how to sell the same package to others. There's no real viable product.

[thayne]

Let me guess? colloidal silver? If so it's BS and that shit will do way more damage than good if you drink it....

Even if its not it sounds like BS to me. Modern day snake oil salesmen....

[housepig]

if you want some information on "miracle" waters, check out www.randi.org - check some of the back commentaries in the archive, the subject comes up regularly.

it has all the hallmarks of an Amway-style comission-sales gig, and all the hallmarks of some bunk pseudo-scientific nonsense wrapped into one.

[beavereater]

The kinda water it was was
http://www.mcn.org/1/Miracles/Water2.html

No worries though, I was just interested...but like I said before, not interested enough to lay any cash down on something like that.

@Adam

You are right...its not a pyramid scheme...my mistake. I didn't have to put up any money. It's all based on commission...if she sells one to me, she gets some money, if I sell one, then I get some money and so does she. No money risk...but it's a hard sell!!