29 May 2008, 9:26 pm / Disapointed
Lawn Chair Millionaire is a Scam. Dont you just dislike people that lie to you just to make a few quick bucks from You?
You can tell from my Profile, that I hate Scams. I want to tell you about a Scam that I experienced firsthand. In January of this year, I joined Lawnchair Millionaire. We have all seen the ads that go: Join Lawn Chair Millionaires and get your first check tonight. No referring, No advertising, No hoops to jump through before you get paid. Receive you first commissions tonight and then for no less than 3 months. Once you check out the site of LCM, and see that it cost $79.00 to join, you would probably leave the site, saying to yourself that you will have to think about it. Once you leave the site, The email address that you entered to check out the site, will be bombarded with messages everyday. These emails will tell you to Hurry and get in fast and your shares are worth a certain amount and your position in the money-line will help your shares grow faster once you join. You have until midnight every night because fast start bonus are paid every night at 12:00PM. I was told that my shares were 85.00 the night I joined. But when I checked my commissions folder, the next day, there was only $29.00 in it. Then they explains that this bonus is spread out through 3 months. So you will receive a portion of this amount and it should add up to be $85.00 in 3 months. Then the next day, there was only 12.40 in my commission folder. I contacted LCM about it, and was told that they had to recalculate because they had miscalculated the fast start bonus. Ok, How convenient for them. I ended up giving $79.00 for $12.40. Then I was thinking long and hard about remaining in LCM, but as I was clicking on cancel my membership, I was asked if I was sure. They said that the shares will grow and if I remained in, my position in the money-line will insure me a nice return in 3 months when the vault was cracked open. I did not understand all of this and it is not explained fully in the LCM Policy. Many of the members that joined when they first started LCM said they had received 2-3 thousand dollars when they cracked open the vault. So I did not cancel the membership. Many of the members that joined when they first launched LCM, are at the top of this pyramid scheme, and their jobs are to get as many people in this group because the more people that join the more money they make. LCM said that you do not have to recruit, But if you do not already have a down-line to follow you and have the money to join and keep up with all the fees, you are basically screwed. The only thing you will receive is the fast start bonus which will basically be around 45-60 dollars spread over a 3 month period. After 3 months no other commissons will show up in your folder, but the monthly fees will still be subtracted from your credit card. LCM will not tell you that they will also take a monthly fee of $29.00 from your credit card. You will be surprised when you see the charges taken off your card. when asked about it, they will tell you that you should have read it in the members Q&A. iT IS not their job to tell you. So when I read the Q&A in the members area, it was so far down in the page until you will be tired of reading before you get to it. I believe that they are counting on this. It is also stated that members of LCM are not to discuss the particular details with any of the new members. They also have the right to change any of its policies as they see fit, without notice to its members. And they did change it during the first 3 months I was a member. They changed ithe policy to read that a membership to LCM is a subscription to the vault with permission to use the programs located in the vault. Now the vault is not cracked open every 3 months, like it was the first year of LCM. The vault has about 5 programs located inside, which will cost you another healthy premium to use. The programs are available to everyone, not just LCM members. These programs are risky programs such as Forex Trading, Horse Betting, Game Betting, and a few other programs just like this. some of them are illegal for U.S. members, as there are laws forbidding this. The prices range from $50.00 with a 49.99 monthly fee to over $500.00 to use them. You also have to hire a Bookkee to use the programs. The member that brought you into LCM will make 35.00 per month for each member he personally referred, plus 50% from each programs, each personally referred member purchased. If you are not good with recruiting, you will only receive that $12.00 dollars per month for the first 3 months . This is not enough for purchase any of the LCM programs, but you will have at least $29.95 membership fee +14.95 for the Pro-mailer which is a program that will legally spam all of your website visitors. If you purchase any of the programs you will be out of $100.00 per month very easily. Another thing, they keep from you, about your fast start bonus. It just shows up in your commission folder as virtual money. If it was real money, they would have no problem with letting you use this money to pay for their programs or monthly fees. But they will not let you use it. they would rather take the money from the card you use to join. After the 3rd month, I contacted LCM, and basically told them that I was Out of more than $200.00, and so far the only thing I recieve is 42.00 in my commission folder that they have not paid to me. When I complained, The next message I received from LCM told me that my account had been closed. They also told me that I had 10 days to get my $42.00 fast start bonus or they will keep it. Each time I sent them a message requesting my bonus, I would recieve a message telling me to rejoin and use the back office to submit my ticket. If I rejoined, I had to use another e-mail address, and pay the join up fee again. So needless to say, I have not received anything in return for over $200.00 with LCM. Some people are making millions yearly but these people are at the very top of this pyramid. Usually the person at the top is the one that had a hand in creating this scheme. This person has over 2,000 personally sponsored members. If you dont refer at least 3 people that already have at least 3 people, you are going to lose your money. So Please think twice before you join any kind of scheme like this. I know it is impossible to know all the ends and out's of companies that try to keep these facts from you, But if your mind tell you to get out, get out. Many members did cancell their memberships within the time allotted time to get a refund of their 1st months fee, but they still did not recieve a refund of this fee. LCM just outright misrepresent any facts to keep and retain its members, therefore keeping your fees. When you cancell, you still have to watch your card closely, as they will keep charging it. f you remain a member, before you can collect your fast start bonus, you will have to purchase a virtual MoneyDebit card. they will not put your commissions on any other Debit card. You will have to purchase the debit card from LCM, at a cost of $50.00. You cannot use the virtual money in your commissions folder to purchase this card. You must use fresh money from your Credit card. There must be at least $50.00 to load on this VirtualMoney card. So if your commissions are $42.00, LCM will still will not pay you. You will have to come up with another $50.00 to load on the card. Then when you send them this card number, they will tell you that they cannot load the $42.00 dollars on the card because it is still less than $50.00. So it is to LCM's advantage to keep your commissions as low under $50.00 as possible. All of this is not stated in the members area. I wouldn't be surprised if this whole scheme was thought of by Nigerians with the upfront fees. When it comes to Lawn Chair Millionaire, Please Run The other way as fast as you can. unless you have a decent amount of referrals to join with you, and they have a decent amount of referrals to join under them. and so on and so forth. This is the only way you come out ahead with LCM, If it is possible at this point. If you are not good in recruiting or is reluctant to bring people in a company that has already misrepresented themselves to you, you are going to be taken advantage of in every way possible. Let me tell you that this is not a good feeling. So I hope this sheds some light on the inner workings of the Lawn Chair Millionaires. Casseylee B. http://casseyleeb.NoCashEver.com
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