In the early years of the millennium, in the north and south of the mainland, there was a quiet rise of a crooked trend of pyramid schemes, but due to the continuous crackdown, the signs of pyramid schemes have declined year by year, until now they have disappeared.
The term MLM, in MLM population, is called: "direct selling." ”
In the eyes of MLM people, MLM is a business that can make a fortune, make a lot of money, and can go to success and stand at the pinnacle of life.
Without exception, MLM people regard MLM as a successful business.
At that time, I was careless once, and I was accidentally tricked into their pyramid scheme den by a girl.
I stayed in it for almost a month before I escaped, and this experience gave me a colorful life, a strong stroke, and enriched my life experience.
Speaking of my life, it can be said that it is full of twists and turns, but also full of excitement and fun.
The experience of a pyramid scheme vividly interpreted my bumpy and wonderful life.
In July 2008, I chatted on QQ and met a girl from Guizhou.
At the beginning of our acquaintance, we always had endless topics on QQ, and we talked very happily and hated to see each other late.
At that time, I had the dream of finding a girlfriend on QQ, and I chatted online.
And this girl from Guizhou also said: "She also wants to find a boyfriend on the Internet, and I happen to meet the requirements of her heart for choosing a mate." ”
This came and went, the two of us hit it off at first sight, fell in love, and we were on the Internet, and we also made a private agreement with each other for life.
Seeing that the time was ripe, she began to strongly invite me to go to the city where she worked and live together to "build a love nest together".
She is a girl from Guizhou, but she works in Huai'an, Jiangsu Province, and is a nurse in a hospital, which she told me personally.
I didn't think much of it, I set off from Guilin and took the train directly to Nanjing.
Then I took a bus from Nanjing to Huai'an City, and when I arrived at the station, she and a girl from Guangxi Province personally picked me up at the station.
There is an extra Guangxi girl for no reason, and before, she never mentioned her to me?
I asked her, "Who is this girl?" ”
She replied lightly: "It's a colleague of mine and your fellow countryman." ”
I didn't think much of it, and I went home with them.
When I got to their rented house, I glanced in at the door, and there was a group of men and a group of women, about a dozen or twenty people, and I saw that the hall was full of bunks.
I thought to myself, "Oh no, hurry up and get away, all of these are in line with the characteristics of MLM." ”
I turned around and left, just! It was still a step too late, and two men immediately ran out of it, and they blocked my way.
They asked me, "Where are you going?" ”
I quibbled and said, "Seeing that there are many of you, I will go buy wine." "I don't dare to say that they are engaged in pyramid schemes.
When they saw me going to buy wine, they said to me, "Go in, you have to drink, we have it." ”
In this way, I reluctantly stepped into the MLM organization, and MLM can be said to be impossible to prevent!!
After joining the MLM organization, although I was far away from home and did not know the place well, I had food and shelter here, and I had a comfortable life.
At that time, I wanted to leave but I couldn't leave, I only had one thought: "If you come, you will be safe!" ”
I don't have to worry about food or accommodation here, and I have three meals a day.
I ate with everyone, slept together, got up together, and went to meetings together (brainwashing).
Brainwashing is an essential thing every day, whether it's windy or rainy? Or lightning and thunder? It can't stop it from moving forward.
Every time there is a meeting (brainwashing), there is always a lecturer on the stage who can speak well, and he talks endlessly about the way to make money.
The lecturer described the MLM as direct sales, and the downline as a lower-level dealer, and they put on a gold and jade dress for the MLM.
In the class, they told the audience: "You sell products to your downline, and then sell the product to the downline, and then sell the product to the downline, and then sell the product to the downline, so that if you continue to sell, the performance will show a geometric growth, as long as you are willing to work hard, there is no problem at all to earn a billion 800 million a year." ”
Offstage, I thought it was funny, I don't have to do anything every day, just listening to lectures here, I can earn a billion 800 million a year, so are the fruits of labor naturally formed? It's full of loopholes!
Listen to the class, I won't be deceived anyway.
Several times, they asked me to pay for their virtual products, and told me, "The price is 2,999 yuan to buy a small set of their products, and it is 4,999 yuan to buy a large set of their products." "The product is a virtual product with no physical items.
They told me the doorway: "You pay the money is equivalent to buying a set of products, and when you call someone to come over, after engaging in this direct selling industry, after he pays the money, it means that your downline also buys a set of products, and the products he buys, you also have a commission to share, what you have to do next is to buy the product yourself, and keep calling people to join in, and let them continue to buy your products, so that after two years of operation, you are the next billionaire." ”
Every time they urged me to pay money and urge me to develop downline, I was pushed off for various reasons.
Every morning, as long as after the meeting (after brainwashing), they will take me to walk the streets and alleys, wandering around, I also take the opportunity to enjoy the scenery here, appreciate the beautiful scenery of Huai'an, and learn more about the customs here.
We live in the suburbs of Huai'an City, not far from Hongze Lake, one of China's Great Lakes.
Due to the hot weather, everyone went to Hongze Lake every day to swim to escape the heat, and I also actively participated in such activities, and during the swimming, everyone touched the screws, fought water battles, and also exchanged swimming skills and swimming experiences with each other.
My life, live carefree, happy, happy! I see MLM as a kind of fun, a kind of tourism.
I should eat, drink, and play every day, and after living for almost a month, I didn't lose weight, but I gained a lot of weight.
Once, a small boss who lived with us, he asked me to buy a product again.
I said, "There's no money, the money brought here has been spent." ”
"Call back and ask your father to send the money," he said. ”
I replied, "My father is old, and his ears are not good enough to hear." ”
He said, "Call and ask your mother to send money." ”
I replied, "My mother is old, she can't read, she's illiterate, she doesn't understand these things." ”
He said, "Call and ask your brother to send money." ”
I said, "My brother and I have never been on good terms, and he doesn't care if I live or die." ”
In the end, I asked myself to go home and get the money, and when I got the money, I returned it immediately and bought a few more big sets.
But the little boss was unmoved, he was unwilling to let go.
However, from his eyes, I still felt a trace of his killing intent.
I feel that if I continue to live here, and at the same time do not buy products, and do not develop the offline line, I will become a "waste person", and they will be unkind to me!
Besides, when they ask me to buy the product again, what kind of reason should I find to excuse them? I've used all the reasons for it.
"It's time to get out of the MLM den." I thought to myself.
Finally! At around 02:30 a.m. the next day, I took advantage of the dead of night when everyone was asleep, I deliberately went to the toilet, and seeing that no one was following, I took the opportunity to climb over the wall and escape from the cave.
When I came out, I stumbled forward along a path that I had stepped on.
After about an hour of escaping, I saw an abandoned security booth, and I hid in the security booth and slept until dawn, while also feeding mosquitoes for several hours.
Early the next morning, I came to the side of the road, stopped a bus carrying passengers, and drove towards the bus station in Nanjing.
After arriving at the bus station, I took another bus to Nanjing Railway Station, I bought a train ticket, and fled all the way back to Guilin in embarrassment.
I was not scared of this thrilling trip, on the contrary, I regarded MLM as a kind of tourism.