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Top 5 People to Avoid in this World

May 12th, 2007 in Personal

You know what’s the top 5 people to avoid in this world? Here it is:

5. A Direct Sales Marketer.
4. A Direct Sales Marketer that calls you.
3. A Direct Sales Marketer that calls you and ask you out.
2. A Direct Sales Marketer that calls you and ask you out for a drink in a coffee shop.
1. A Direct Sales Marketer that does everything the “Top 5 People to Avoid in this World” repetitively, almost weekly.

Lately I have been harassed by a so called friend of mine. My other friends that knows her too well told me to avoid her calls. They told me not to ever go yum cha with her alone. I got dragged by her to a so called “A Story of a Successful Man” thingy, and now she ask me out because she want to do some so called catching up. Since it’s been a while, so I dumbly went out to yum cha with her.

That’s when the nightmare start. At first, we DID do the catching up, like asking each other how are we doing, how’s life, what’s up, what’s down and what not. Somehow, she try to drag her time for like one hour plus, and that’s when her partner comes in. When her friend joined us, I can really feel the “Buy my stuff! Buy my stuff!” aura. And I was right, her friend did brought us a product. And my friend did the product promoting. I believe that friend of hers is my friend’s upline.

It was a dietary supplement. This food supplement is taken by the current world record 100m sprint holder, Asafa Powell. It is said that he took this supplement before he break the record.

Well yeah, like I care. It’s not cheap. Priced at RM100 plus, I can’t afford it. I don’t plant money tree. I am a student with monthly allowance of less than RM100. And yet, she wanted me to buy the product. Saying how good it is, how Asafa Powell managed break the world record because of the product, how her mom likes it, and how my family would want it. Well, who cares? I do have a friend that became a distributor of a product, but he’s not pushy as this girl. He asked me if I am interested in the product or not, and when I said no, that’s about it. He never tried to call me again and again, promoting his product. That’s a person that value friendship, not exploiting them.

I must say that she’s quite smart. She FORCED me to bring the product home, asked me to have a look, and she will come again the day after. Well, fortunately I was smart enough to reject the offer. I knew that she will take the chance to FORCE me buy the product when she came by again the day after.

Sooner after that, I don’t answer her calls anymore. Yes, she kept ringing me after the “incident”. I’m lucky that she doesn’t have my home phone number. If not, she would be harassing me with her calls. I’m sick of all these marketers.

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