Bouncing off of what corboy just posted - Landmark makes many thousands off of buyer's remorse. They have a $100 non-refundable portion of the deposit.
So your friend, who is in the Introduction Leader's Program, (ILP), calls you up, crying, because she doesn't have enough people for her introduction that afternoon. The crying is the first hook. I could swear that they train them to do that. You agree to go, as a favor. She promises that you don't have to sign up - "Just be there."
After the introduction leader finishes her spiel, they ask if you got any value out of it, and, of course, (to be polite), you say that you did. There's another hook.
You deliberately did not bring any money, credit cards, or checkbook, so your friend offers to loan you the down payment, or even to pay it outright for you, (this is EXTREMELY common). There's another hook. After that, you are indebted to your "friend," so you feel that you HAVE to go.
Later, in the Assisting Program, I processed many refunds to people who had signed up and then regained their sanity, and from each refund I was instructed to hold back $100, because that was the non-refundable part. I was only there for about 3 hours per week, and my guess would be that I probably processed about ten of these each time.
So your friend, who is in the Introduction Leader's Program, (ILP), calls you up, crying, because she doesn't have enough people for her introduction that afternoon. The crying is the first hook. I could swear that they train them to do that. You agree to go, as a favor. She promises that you don't have to sign up - "Just be there."
After the introduction leader finishes her spiel, they ask if you got any value out of it, and, of course, (to be polite), you say that you did. There's another hook.
You deliberately did not bring any money, credit cards, or checkbook, so your friend offers to loan you the down payment, or even to pay it outright for you, (this is EXTREMELY common). There's another hook. After that, you are indebted to your "friend," so you feel that you HAVE to go.
Later, in the Assisting Program, I processed many refunds to people who had signed up and then regained their sanity, and from each refund I was instructed to hold back $100, because that was the non-refundable part. I was only there for about 3 hours per week, and my guess would be that I probably processed about ten of these each time.
