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Updated: 12:05 AM Mar 16, 2007
BBB Looks Into "Business Opportunity"
Money piques interest Making $1,000 a month in extra income sounds tempting. It's an offer that piqued the interest of several people who were looking for work but is it a job or a sales pitch? Posted: 9:14 PM Mar 15, 2007 |
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Making $1,000 a month in extra income sounds tempting. It's an offer that piqued the interest of several people who were looking for work but is it a job or a sales pitch?
When Julie Schumacher needed a job a few weeks ago, she put her resume online and says she received a call for a marketing position in health nutrition.
She says, "I'm going down there looking for a job and I go down there and I get a presentation."
Julie say she joined several other people at Dynamic Concepts. Instead of a paycheck, she received a sales pitch for multilevel marketing.
Julie called it, "kind of disheartening. Gets your hopes up, put a suit on, I'm all ready to present myself and I get down there and they're trying to sell me on something."
By phone, Brian with Dynamic Concepts said his staff members specifically don't contact people with online resumes. They don't believe anyone is misled because people are told it's strictly a business opportunity before they come in to a seminar.
But the Better Business Bureau President Jim Hegarty says he made a test call two weeks ago.
He says, "I was not told I was being brought in to discuss a business opportunity which would involve an investment on my part, which is the deal here."
Julie says the work opportunity seminar charged her credit card $160 for vitamin products but she's since received a refund.
"Why would you pay to work somewhere? That's why you go to work. So they pay you."
The Better Business Bureau requested details from Dynamic Concepts about the offer. The request includes a script of the sales pitch used to attract people to the seminars. The Bureau is concerned that people looking for work might be misled into thinking it's a job rather than an investment. The bureau is still waiting for a reply.







