"One of the issues with the MLM industry is the abundance of hype which plays on hope, greed, and vanity to entice people to sign up for programs where there is little or no hope that they will earn any money."
I wouldn't disagree with you at all here Liv, but show me someplace in advertising, show me in Walmart, in an auto mechanic's shop, an infomercial, a mainstream commercial, more than most mlms, the pharmaceutical industry, show me where advertising is 100% accurate. If you're an individual who is heavily focused on mlms, therefore you feel compelled to maintain a crusade in the interest of keeping it as pure as possible (and I am not being sarcastic, I mean that sincerely), than I can definitely respect that. In that case I can see why you're focusing on these things, but my expectations are so low with all advertising that I guess I don't see John M. doing anything that anyone else doesn't do.
"We all can cite numerous cases where many people have lost a lot of money on Mlms that either failed or were fraudulent (or both). A common tactic in luring people in is for the leader of the plan to present himself as wealthy and successful, implying that those who sign up can become so too if they will just join up and have faith. Mr. Milanoski uses these tactics to promote TCA second-hand, implying that he is a "Millionaire Marketer" who lives in a palatial house and is backed by a billionaire. None of these claims are true, so anyone who would sign up believing that he holds a secret to success that he is willing to share with them would have been mis-led in the extreme."
I've seen the stills of the background, and I admit it looks green screened, but I haven't seen the actual promo vids for those companies and services, do you know if they're still available? The one where he is standing next to the blonde actually reminds me of the home decor department of Home Depot or Lowe's, where customers sit down and go through kitchen designs etc. I didn't take the stills themselves as though John was claiming to be a millionaire, though maybe somewhere in the vids or in writing he claims that he is, I have no idea one way or another, but even if he said he was, trying to assess it visually is just silly, presumptuous, and even judgmental. I'd actually be living pretty modestly if I were a millionaire, with my most expensive things being hard to see on the surface. Its possible that he is not a fancy house and car white bread American. Not everyone wants to utilize wealth the way most people would, and for the record, I have no vested interest or particular reason for defending or prosecuting the man, I just think the methods are a little silly.
I've been posting here awhile, doing reviews when I feel like it, and I can tell you anyone with common sense knows very few, I mean VERY few of these companies are going to make you any money, and even fewer of them haven't made the very same claims and used the same tactics to recruit that he has. Though again, I haven't seen the videos, so maybe they show him blatantly parading around claiming to have made billions and eating lunch with the Rockefellers, I wouldn't know.
"I have no doubt that Mr. Milanoski sincerely believes he is doing something worthwhile."
Well, all do respect if that was entirely true, I don't think the dialogue would have panned out quite the way it did lol. You're saying that John M. is basically a con man, further slandering the name of the mlm industry, and if that indeed is the case, I would think he wouldn't consider his opportunity worthwhile, which would make much of what he's said here that much more abhorrent.
"It truly seems like yet another example of someone coming up with a business idea that he was unable to execute on."
Could very well be the case, but that would be bad luck at best, and incompetence at worst, but does it make him a con man? That is really the only question I have because it really does sort of change the entire scope of what he's all about. Anyway, I appreciate your points, and can definitely relate to where you're coming from. If you have the time and desire, let me know if those videos contained more than what we can get from the stills, I'm curious to watch them.
