[nabentre] Illegal Pyramids and Myth Busting

Mon Feb 19 09:32:50 UTC 2018

Good morning everyone,

	That Braille Edge spoken about will help me do my job better when I telecommute from home. By the way, have you considered Braille proofreading? I am doing that from home two times a weekend and on inclement weather days with a copy holder over the phone, and the telecommuting is wonderful! It rocks!

Mary Donahue

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From: nabentre [mailto:nabentre-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Peter Donahue via nabentre
Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2018 7:36 PM
To: 'NAB Entrepreneurs Mailing List'
Cc: Peter Donahue
Subject: [nabentre] Illegal Pyramids and Myth Busting

Hello everyone,

	Before anyone dismisses MLM as crap know that we just bought a $3000.00 Braille-Edge 40, and a $500.00 upgrade of Jaws for Windows with money earned from our networking business praise God!The terms MLM and Network Marketing are used interchangeably . Not all such businesses ar illegal pyramids. To be considered illegal pyramids they must meet the following criteria. They must:

1. Require those involved to buy a large amount of invintorry a process called invintorry loading.
2. Head hunting is the practice of paying network members for the act of recruiting others that become network members.
3. No one makes money until products or services are sold to non-network members; customers. The company must require network members  to sell products or services to those outside the network, to avoid being classified as an illegal pyramid.  The failure of a company to require network participants to do this classifies it as an illegal pyramid.

	Any company that engages in any or all of the three activities listed above is an illegal pyramid. We would never urge anyone to become associated with such an outfit. It's disgusting that well-known companies in this field are still considered illegal pyramids when in fact they are not. This misinformation only deprives blind entrepreneurs of credible and reliable information about such opportunities. This behavior must stop!And especially in light of the fact that in 1979 a blind individual became a multi-million air through one of these businesses. He used some of his earnings to start a counseling center for run-away teens. And all without the benefit of the Internet, and support systems reputable networking companies now have to support business activities. His networking business gave him an opportunity others denied him due to his blindness. We also know of blind persons in other countries that harnessed the power of network marketing to fulfill their life-long dreams and to kick blindness discrimination in the rear end. It troubles us that blind people in other countries have embraced such opportunities. These countries do not have the kind of services and other resources and programs for the blind that we have here in the states. The fact that there is so much misinformation and false beliefs among the blind concerning such opportunities as busking, network marketing, and most recently crowdfunding it's no wonder why we have such a high unemployment rate among the blind. The blind of this nation should be a shamed of themselves for allowing this to continue. In fact we heard that some of the Olympic Athletes you'll hear about or watch on T.V. used the crowd to enable them to compete for a chance at standing on the top step of the metal podium. If these opportunities are good enough for them they can help increase employment and the independence of the blind.

	Remember that the networking/MLM opportunity you bad mouthed below gave us a way to buy our Braille-Edge 40 and to upgrade Jaws without crawling to stinking rehab for it! That makes us feel real good and sleep well at night! All the best.

Peter Donahue

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From: nabentre [mailto:nabentre-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Reece O'Bryan via nabentre
Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2018 5:07 PM
To: NAB Entrepreneurs Mailing List
Cc: Reece O'Bryan
Subject: Re: [nab	entre] ideas for work that blind people can successfully do from home

Amazon and eBay can definitely still work. Use the Amazon app and it’s barcode scanner and go to your local flea market or Goodwill for some easy money. Textbooks do great!

Reece O'Bryan
502-827-3725

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> On Feb 18, 2018, at 6:02 PM, Daniel Perry via nabentre <nabentre at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> hello everyone. My name is Daniel Perry, and I'm looking for some good 
> honest work that I can do from home. I'm not looking for any kind of mlm stuff, no amway crap, no sort of pyramid schemes but good honest work from home. I've tried sharing Scentsy, and that just ain't gonna earn me a living, excuse the bad grammar, but I like it enough to attempt it on the side since I've made just a little money with it. I've tried affiliate marketing and that did not work at all, and I've even tried selling on Amazon and Ebay and I've been told to avoid that at all costs since the profit margins are too low if I'm using drop shippers and wholesalers. In fact, I've changed my Amazon business account to a customer account, and I'm not at all sorry at all for doing so. So anything you guys can help me come up with would be considered honestly. Just like the rest of you, I just want to be gainfully employed or working from home, doing something that'll earn me a good living and isn't so sight oriented like Scentsy seems to be. Have a wonderful day to you all, and I look forward to hearing from all of my fellow federationists soon. And I should explain, the reason I'm wanting to work from home is because the way employers pay blind people is a sin and a shame if you can even get hired outside the house that is, and the only place I'd successfully be able to work at around here is a sheltered workshop called blueridge opportunities. And I definitely do not see myself working there the rest of my life I can asure you. So any sort of help you're able to give me along with resources to find the stuff would be greatly appreciated. Have a wonderful day to you all and I look forward to hearing from you soon.
> 
> Sincerely, Daniel Perry
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