I made just a couple of important corrections to your comment because they way it was put suggested the opposite of what was intended. I figured you wouldn’t mind me clarifying your real meaning.

John

PS: There’s a similar tale to the scorpion and the fox right here on the blog, about a young native American boy and a rattlesnake. You can read it here…
http://realnetworkmarketing.com/?p=231

A scorpion was wandering along the bank of the river, wondering how to get to the other side. Suddenly he saw a fox. He asked the fox to take him on his back across the river.
The fox said, “No. If I do that, you’ll sting me and I’ll drown.”
The scorpion assured him, “If I did that, we’d both drown.”
So the fox thought about it and finally agreed. So the scorpion climbed up on his back and the fox began to swim. But halfway across the river, the scorpion stung him.
As the poison filled his veins, the fox turned to the scorpion and said, “Why did you do that? Now you’ll drown too.”
“I couldn’t help it,” said the scorpion. “It’s my nature.”

Saying one thing and doing the other. I think that this is again a “self-consumption” downline. Products/Services seem to disguise the real selfish intent. Also, how long is it going to take until other companies offer the same for much less?

Let them go on and feel the benefits… the balanced win-win outcome. Does it really pull you off your socks?

One thing is for sure:
They understand marketing in the classical offline business sense and transported it into the online world. I am citing John Counsel:
” Marketing is about finding out what people need and satisfying that need.
Sales is about getting people to want what they need…

No matter how much they need it, until they want it, they won’t buy it.”

Folks are blinded by potential incomes and prosperity (it’s an arduously long way to ever get there when you don’t know why you do what you do) and that clearly is an appeal to the greed, gullibility, ignorance and desperate and even lazy folks. It’s those same old lures that make most curious people stop thinking and have their emotions rule.

To most who joined, the rationale will come when again, another year of their lives has passed by, eating their family budgets and nothing has changed in the end. OK, with one exception: Real Network Marketing has received yet another bad example which it needs to clear out of the way so it can provide evidence that it really can be beneficial to more people than the folks in the same business.

Frank

Few days ago, I wanted to make my first Squidoo lens on how to properly evaluate business opportunities. Your post is therefore timely. I now have that lens (WebProsperity: Is it Really Right for You? http://www.squidoo.com/webprosperity_review) and it’s an integration (and application) of what I have been learning from you.

Jose