I've got one word for ya here Eric...Amway!
And that reminds me of a these three guys I worked with years ago. They all roomed together at a beach house in Manhattan Beach California. All three of them were constantly searching for the next way to get rich quickly. One of their attempts was at being Amway "distributors". They lost their shirts.
Another was through this one "company", which during the last time(the early 1980s) when the price of gold and other precious metals skyrocketed, they sent their hard earned bucks to this one "company" located in Dallas Texas, whereupon this "company" told them they would keep the gold they had purchased in their safe for them. A few months later, Texas state authorities opened said safe and found nothing inside. They lost their shirts again.
And yet still not learning their lessons, another time these yo-yos somehow got entwined with some "company" supposedly making perfume. After sending this "company" a good chunk o' change, this "company" sent them some packets full of some magic powder and some petri dishes, and told them to just add milk to it and grow the cultures in their home. And once it completely stunk up their abobe, they were to send the those cultures back to the "company" and they'd then receive "big buck" in return. Yep! you guessed it. They lost their shirts in that one too!
And the irony about this whole thing is that they once told me that the beach house they were renting was up for sale for about $190,000 bucks at the time. I told these three yo-yos that maybe they should consider pooling their dough and maybe buy the house instead of blowin' it on these "investments". Of course they passed on that idea.
Fast forward about three years, and that same house was going for over $400,000. And nowdays I'm guessin' it's value is well over two million bucks.
(I guess it all boils down to what ol' W.C.Fields is famous for saying, huh?!..."You can't cheat an honest man!")
Last edited by Dwight; 05/07/2008 11:41 AM.
