The People's Program - Others Promoting It Under Various Names

The unsustainable geometric progression of a classic pyramid scheme, from Securities and Exchange commission report on pyramid schemes. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The People's Program with a host of other promoters that land you on the site for the Peoples Program, beware, this is the Internet Version of a very very old scam.  If you are old enough, there used to be a chain letter scam that went around for decades to send everyone on the list $1.00 each and then you send out a new list removing the person on the bottom of the list and putting your name a the top of the list.  Then you waited to see if anyone sent you money, and waited and waited.  Nothing is sold at any time to anyone.  Is it legal?  It depends on how you set it up.  Is it ethical?  Is playing the lottery ethical?  These types of ads show up in Business Opportunity Magazines all the time and each one has a slightly different twist.

If you could walk up to 100 rich people and ask them how they made their money, not one of them would ever tell you they made it through a chain letter of chain web site.  It just does not work.  People spend huge amounts of money on one or even two page ads hoping they will get enough people to pay for those ads and maybe even make a small profit.  We have yet to see anyone run these ads for any extended length of time because they do not work.  However, it's your money.  Rating?  1 out of 10.  Run in the other direction as fast as you can.

The BBQ Cleaner - Business Opportunity

Some chicken, pork and corn in the barbeque (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The BBQ Cleaner business opportunity.  Talk about a company that shoots themselves in the foot both in their print advertising and on line advertising.  Make $77,000.00 per year cleaning BBQ grills.  Start up for under $15,000.00.  Okay, to begin with the figure to earn $77,000.00 per year is based on a cleaning fee of between $99.00 to $149.00.  The work takes about one and a half hours is typical according their advertising.

  With the average grill costing about $129.00 new, how many people could possibly think that it's cheaper to have a grill cleaned by a company that charges these kinds of rates as opposed to buying a new grill?  It makes more sense to us to throw the grill away and buy a new one for $129.00 if we are that worried about the looks of the grill or the grill being clean enough to continue to use.

  Actually, I would be hard pressed to pay even $40.00 to have someone clean my grill that I paid $129.00 for.   CLICK HERE to see the business opportunity web site.  What is not a surprise if you do read through the site is that they try and sell the opportunity as an add on business to your existing business.  Our rating on this opportunity?  2 out of 10.  Look somewhere else.  This just looks like people trying to move equipment disguised as a business opportunity.  We are not saying the business op isn't legitimate, it's just not a smart looking one in our opinion.