by Gery Carson » Sat Dec 29, 2012 7:19 pm
From the 24-hour Knowledge Base at support.sfimg.com...you may find some of the following text helpful...

SFI has a shining 14-year track record, backed by a corporation in its 27th year, a 10+ year bronze member and A+ rated by the Better Business Bureau. Rest assured, you don't get such a rating from the BBB if you're "scamming" people. And we wouldn't have lasted 14 WEEKS if we didn't have a program that worked!

The fact is, we've paid out millions of dollars in commissions, paid every month without fail, to tens of thousands of affiliates from nearly every country in the world. You can learn more about our history at: www.sfimg.com/Reference/AboutSFI_pre

But if you're still skeptical, then simply join SFI and see for yourself. It's 100% free, there's no obligation, and never a requirement to ever buy anything. You can kick the tires, poke us and prod us for the next five years if you like, but all you'll find is that SFI is a world-class program and opportunity, and one that treats all of its affiliates as true partners.

Finally, if you'll take even just a few minutes to study our business model, you will see that SFI succeeds ONLY if our affiliates succeed. Hence, our only motivation is to see our affiliates succeed wildly. Everything we do is about making that happen.




This guy himself is present almost daily to answer questions.

There is always two ways of seeing anything: in a negative light or in a positive light.  The best avenue is to weigh them in a balance: put the negative views in one pan of the balance and the positive views in the other pan and to see which out weighs the other.  Some responses to your post:

"This is a common chorus of detractors of MLM. Those are my lines also when I think about other MLM programs/business. Simply because there is almost only one way to succeed in those MLM business and if you can not follow it you are doomed to fail. So your tendency is to sugar coat the process/products to the point of lying and you are pushing hard to friends that sometimes ruin your relationship. You don't have much choice because you already spent large amount of money for your starter's kit.
The BIG difference with SFI is its flexibility and wide range of alternatives to succeed. You may choose not to spend your own money, you may choose be a seller of your own product, you may choose to sell other's products, you may choose to recruit yourself, or you may choose to let SFI to recruit for you and other people recruit for you. You may choose to work hard or may choose to let your money work for you, you may choose to work as team and may you choose to work by yourself. You may choose to slow down, and may choose to go as fast as you can. You may choose PriceBender as your route to success you can even choose to compose songs hehehe. I hope you are getting what I mean. There is a BIG freedom in doing MLM in SFI and enjoyment too."

Here is the BBB report: http://www.bbb.org/nebraska/business-reviews/internet-marketing-services/sfi-marketing-group-in-lincoln-ne-207000239  Also see: http://www.carsonsi.com/  This is a very legitimate company.  If he is indeed conning me, I wish someone would explain to me how it is he is conning me.

You're slandering a good person and a good company; tell me straight up, how is he conning me ?  He has 61,000 products and services for sale, legitimately.  Aside from that, they don't ask for money in anyway...what kind of con is that?  He is doing very carefully what successful business like Amway has done for years.  You make no sense, you are just making it impossible for me to get any help here.

Interesting reading all of this.  I'll I could see was a company called 'Six Figure Income' attempting to piggy-back on SFI's long running success.  SFI doesn't ask for any fees ever, makes it clear to everyone that if they spam, they are out for good and there is nothing in their marketing material about 'long sales spiels'.  They don't even attempt to encourage their affiliates to buy anything at all and I have yet to receive any such 'spam' from them in my email.  All of this is a breath of fresh air after all of the online, work at home opportunities out there that I have checked out over the past 5 years.  They are definitely way different than all of these other scummy sites.  Additionally, Gery himself answers posts every day in the forums; he makes himself very available to others, not hiding away cowering in fear...in other words, he doesn't appear to have a guilty conscience.  Seems like jealousy attacking them...they are so clean. 

You sound like a bank and not like a BTC guy...I haven't ever scammed anyone and I pay back my loans...so why wouldn't you even give me a chance?  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=132074.0

Hi,

My online handle is Ploni Almoni and I first discovered BTC just a few short months ago.  Since I started browsing the internet just 5 short years ago, I started looking for an online business similar to Amway.  I was raised an Amway kid and I am a strong believer that with Amway, one can get out of it what they put into it.  However, I'm not a very social person which is a must have skill to have to succeed with an Amway business.  I'm an online type of guy so I was looking for something similar to Amway that I could do completely online.  Well, I found something even better.

I found a business called SFI which has been in business for over 26 years and is a member in good standing with the BBB.  They started their online part of the business over 14 years ago.  Since then, they have met with tremendous success and is poised to become a multi-billion dollar industry over the next few years.  Now is the most opportune time to start going into business with them: they have been successful online for over 14 years so they are very well established and very well documented and with a virtual explosion that is going to take place exponentially with internet use over the next few years, those in this business stand poised to reap a huge fortune.  I don't want to miss out on this opportunity for lack of funds.

So I urge you to consider going into business with me in two ways:

first, invest in me financially.  I have a lot of time on my hands being disabled, time which you may not have.  However, I lack funds having only my disability check to live on from month to month.  But where you are lacking in time, you may more than make up for in finances.  So consider investing in me and I will pay you back at 3% interest monthly over the course of one year.  That, coupled with the increasing value of BTC will put a little more money back in your pocket: https://btcjam.com/listings/1015

second, join my team.  I just discovered SFI a few weeks ago and I have been studying everything about it intensely.  It is a very real and genuine business opportunity, one that will pay back what you invest in it.  Like any business, it takes time to grow but if one has consistency and persistence, then one can't help but succeed with this opportunity.  I am trying to convince them to begin accepting BTC in their online store of over 61,000 goods and services.  With more BTC people filling up their suggestions box, they are certain to add BTC to their more than 40 payment options that they already offer.  It is also important to create multiple streams of income.  This opportunity adds another stream of income, one that pays back long-term with residual income.  That is, it doesn't generate a fast buck; it may take a year or two to 'make it' with this business, but if you are lacking in long-term, residual income, then you should definitely join my team: http://plonibusiness.com

Thank you for your time and consideration.

-Ploni   

Are you will to make a long-term loan to be paid back monthly over the course of one year?

Sorry guys, I did try to warn just as soon as I found out about this guy.  Now I'm in need of a loan.  Please help me out with a few BTC if you can. https://btcjam.com/listings/1015

What prompted you to ask that?  If you must know, I have bad credit in the real world but one of the things I love about the way this BTC community is built is its WOP system which gives anyone the opportunity to rebuild 'Trust' where credit may be lacking. 

Yes, it is why I asked for 1BTC or PPUSD equivalent...I know a nice guy who will swap at spot even that little amount for PPUSD.  Knowing that this community is 'richer' in BTC, it is easier to get BTC first.

Received, thank you so much.

Great, here is my address: 1BBy3CYJSeqccw5BpuWsxXnWT7vM87K3hZ  Those terms sound good to me, I was expecting to pay back 1.1 BTC on the 1BTC loan by Jan 10.   Thank you.

Oh well, anyone willing to give me this small loan, please ?

Well then, can't you obviously see that that is a good signature?  I signed it with my private key and with that, you got my public key.  So what's the problem ?

Can you edit out my email address from your post, please.

I don't think so.  I think you need my public key: pub   4096R/21383230

Something wrong with my signature there ?

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I bought an item on ebay that I'm a little short on.  With this item, I'll be able to eek out a meager existence on the micro job site fiverr.  I will pay back in full with interest by the 10th of January.  I have earned some trust on OTC and trust is important to me:
http://bitcoin-otc.com/viewratingdetail.php?nick=Ploni&sign=ANY&type=RECV  Please help me out if you can.  Thanks.

Nice, looks much better now, thank you