A Rose by Any Other Name......

Is still a Rose. And a pyramid scheme by any other name is still, STUPID!!! So on Tues night someone we know called us and said he was starting an online business and was going to make a lot of money. He wanted to know if we wanted to hear about it. So we said sure, why not, what would it hurt right. So we were driving over there (I'm so grateful for a smart husband who insisted we could drive ourselves rather then having them pick us up and being stuck there!!) and thinking this is probably a pyramid scheme. We showed up about halfway through the presentation. It was so funny to see all the people in the audience nodding there heads, and clapping, so excited, so enthusiastic. They were all suckered in! They guy was drawing on a chart how it works and it was half a pyramid! I was laughing so hard (on the inside of course) at the fact that at least they were smart enough to only draw half of it. It totally reminded me of The Office episode where Michael was trying to get everyone to do this new business with him and kept saying it wasn't a pyramid scheme and then Jim went up and drew around all the little people and made a pyramid! Ha ha Well when there was a break and it was time for them to come and make the sale we told them no thank you it's not for us. Of course they kept trying a little harder. So we told them, actually we are in the process of opening our own spa and that is the direction we are headed. Then they said well you are going to need to buy things for your spa why not make money off of your purchases!! So I told them our plan of having online business that sell the products where we can purchase them whole sale and then make a prophet off of our expenses. There were silenced! They had no response! That was the best part of the whole evening!!! They had nothing to say to that. It was just kind of hummm maybe they are smarter then we gave them credit for. When we got home we googled the "business" and found out that dateline has even done a story about it! People have lost thousand of dollars doing this! I'm so glad we are smart people! It really does amaze me at how gullible people can be!