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primerica financial services - 3/3/2010 12:18:57 AM
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switchplate12
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hello, i was involved with primerica financial services years ago before i was christian.
but i keep seeing stuff about them online, and have often considered doing something like this again on the side, but my memories of the meetings were that they were very much like some kind of cult or something, being argumentaive with people who didn't agree with them, and constantly idolizing money and the big wheels at the top of the ladder.
are all MLM set up like this, or is it possible to be in something like this and not get sucked into the excitement and brainwashing that seems to go along with this stuff.
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RE: primerica financial services - 3/3/2010 7:36:08 AM
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All multi-level marketing schemes seem very shady to me. Many may be legit, but they still seem shady.
I'm sure this is no help to you, but it's my opinion.
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RE: primerica financial services - 3/3/2010 10:42:06 AM
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Most MLMS are like that.
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RE: primerica financial services - 3/3/2010 11:11:44 AM
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All you've got to do is Google "primerica complaints", and you'll see that it is wrought with dissent. Not saying it's illegal.... just saying "I" would have a hard time feeling good about representing ANY business or company with so many unhappy customers or clients who believe they were ripped off.
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RE: primerica financial services - 3/3/2010 1:13:47 PM
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switchplate12
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yeah, almost all the meetings were like that.
there was even an older gentleman who used to say things like "amen" and "that's right" while the speaker was preaching about life insurance and how primerica was going to change the world and stuff.
most of the people were filled with super-positive buzz words like fabulos and thats great and wow! and all that uppity office world talk
they had a flipchart presentation that they used to all carry in binders with them everywhere they went like it was a bible or something. most of them memorized every fact on every page and would quote higher-ups in the company like they were biblical figures.
they would begin seminars with chants, slogans, telling people to get up and give themselves a round of apploause. one time at a sales seminar an older woman got up and literally preached a sermon about how when jesus sent out the 12 disciples they were just 12 ordinary men. she likened this sending out of ordinary people by jesus to primerica's mission of sending out ordinary folks to change the financial world. no joke, this actually happened and the crowd loved it and it felt like I was in church. everyone was dressed up, excited and all jazzed up by her speech.
we used to have meetings at our district managers house on Sunday nights to call people to try to hire new recruits. we would have all kinds of wow talk and excitement. people were told to use New Age tactics like visualizing their dreams of success and taking mental pictures of the Ferraris and Lamborghinis they were going to buy when they made it big in Primerica.
because I was unsaved and unchurched at that time in my life, this whole atmosphere with all its religious connotations was very very intoxicating and now that some time has passed and I see the vanity of it all, i dont think I could ever get involved with a movement like this without serious convictions that this is all cult-like behavior and to be avoided.
i am not saying all primerica is like this, but for the year or so that i was involved, this was my general observation.
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RE: primerica financial services - 3/3/2010 3:24:09 PM
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trainfan
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I have had very little exposure to Primerica so find this interesting.
I only met one of their reps who came in my business and acted very odd almost like he was casing the place to rob it. He did the same thing to all the stores in the mall where I am located. He was so odd I called the police who pulled him over as he was leaving, they came by to tell he was from Primerica and was going to be coming back to pitch his services to me but he never came back. Apparently he tried his pitch on the cop the way it sounded.
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