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Zija -- Anyone here ever heard of it?

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by KYSportsWriter, Jul 5, 2011.

  1. JakeandElwood

    JakeandElwood Well-Known Member

    Are you seeing a theme here KY?
     
  2. Boom_70

    Boom_70 Well-Known Member

    Charles Pierce wrote a book about it.
     
  3. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    If you google this shit, this guy's site is one of the first hits:

    http://darrenlittle.com/zija-international-review/

    And, he's right.

    Once you've scammed -- or tried to scam -- your friends and family, you're going to need to be able to scam strangers to make any real money.

    Do you think you can do that?

    Of course, if you don't think you have those skills, you can pay this guy to teach them to you.
     
  4. DanielSimpsonDay

    DanielSimpsonDay Well-Known Member

    Would you buy a beverage (or any product for that matter) if it was presented in this manner?
     
  5. Pancamo

    Pancamo Active Member

    I had friends trying to peddle Mona Vie for $45 a bottle. I get pissed off when Tropicana isn't on sale for $2.50. $45 for fruit juice? Unreal.
     
  6. Stitch

    Stitch Active Member

    When you take calls, integrate a sales pitch. Mention Zija in your stories. Bug your Facebook friends and Twitter followers with sales pitches.

    As with any pyramid scheme, the person who orders the workers around is doing better than the person doing the actual building.
     
  7. JakeandElwood

    JakeandElwood Well-Known Member

    Ha. Indeed, KY. Don't become a part of Idiot America by buying this shit.
     
  8. Stitch

    Stitch Active Member

    You can always trust a company that touts its non-existent association with hundreds of other organizations. The Universite d'Abomey-Calavi can't be wrong.

    The National Institutes of Health are "on board" as well.

    Don't waste your time. You'll have more money in the bank working at McDonalds.
     
  9. Boom_70

    Boom_70 Well-Known Member

    Amazing how connected that Orin Hatch is to these companies. One - Xango is his number 2 corporate contributor:

    http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2011/06/orrin_hatch_the_supplement_industrys_lap.php?utm_source=networkbanner&utm_medium=link

    So blatant has Hatch's advocacy been that Stephanie Mencimer wrote a devastating article for The Washington Monthly entitled Scorin' with Orrin, an accurate description of Hatch's activities, given just how much he's in the pockets of the supplement manufacturers, which led to the passage of the DSHEA, a law exploited by Utah companies like Xango:

    But Xango's record illustrates how companies eager to exploit the law can go too far.

    In 2006, federal regulators warned Xango that brochures improperly promoted mangosteen juice as a disease cure, not just a healthy option. Xango is among more than a dozen Utah companies cited by federal regulators over the last decade for apparent violations of the law.

    Xango, whose executives are the single biggest Utah-based contributors to Mr. Hatch's political campaigns and have drawn Mr. Hatch to its headquarters to down shot glasses of their juice, blamed a marketing company that had printed the brochures. The company also insisted that it was closely monitoring distributors to make sure they did not make inappropriate claims."
     
  10. Glenn Stout

    Glenn Stout Member

    Damn good way to alienate friends and family. Google "Noni" juice.
     
  11. Stitch

    Stitch Active Member

    I haven't spoken to a married couple I was friends with after I turned down their MLM vitamin pitch in 2001.
     
  12. imjustagirl

    imjustagirl Active Member

    A thread based in Campbellsville, KY.

    http://www.topix.com/forum/city/campbellsville-ky/TU4HCJQOMKFGQF53C
     
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