Mix It Up With Marc

I have been writing about how to research for finding the very best online business. So far my research has always paid off. But sometimes no matter how careful I am I still get stung.

The other day I had a 6:00 p.m. telephone conference with a company that I just started up with. They were supposed to be calling for some one on one mentoring. I was fully expecting them to teach my wife and I better ways of getting my business up and running and I was looking forward to learning more information to start making some serious money.

When the guy called he started talking about the company. I won’t give their name yet unless they haven’t given me a refund - and if they don’t look out, I will write a scathing blog about them and pursue getting my money back directly. That truly is the beauty of a blog. It really gives you some power to fight back. I know that the last thing this company wants is scathing reviews going out to thousands of readers every month. Like I said I won’t give their name out but part of it is “The work at home_” and the last word rhymes with billionaire.

Well when the man started talking to us we were expecting some good teaching on how to market their products. Instead he said that what we needed to do was buy $15,000 worth of their products(!!!) and then we would have thirty days to sell them to make our money back and a good profit to boot.  He called this O.P.M. or other peoples money and said that banks do it all the time.

I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. This guy wanted us to charge $15,000 of their product at our expense and at out risk on the hope that we would be able to sell enough of their product to be able to pay off the credit card in thirty days. Well let me tell you something fifteen thousand dollars buy a lot of e-books and the chance of out selling then all before thirty day was up was probably almost impossible.

Upon hearing this, my wife who is and accountant laughed and got up and left the room. What a load of B.S. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. I asked the guy if he was serious and he said absolutely. I said do you think that we could sell that much product in less than thirty days and he said  yes. Well at this point I knew I was dealing with a scam artist. I fully intend on asking for a refund today. They said they have a 100% money back guarantee if you are not completely satisfied. And I can tell you that we are not at all satisfied. If they don’t give us our money back I will write a scathing blog about them to say just what I think about them.

Hmmmm

Maybe I should start a web sit reviewing online businesses. I wonder if there is any money in that?

Well anyway. I just wanted to write this blog about what happened just to let everyone out there know that you can never be too careful even when you do your home work and research a company you can still get burned. Oh well live and learn I’ll just have to be even more careful the next time.

Travel, there is nothing like it. Travel is worth every penny spent on it. Travel brings new experiences forms new memories that you will hold dear forever. You get to eat new exotic foods and meet new people.

When it came time for us to leave the country of Israel, my family stayed over night with some friends in the northern port city of Haifa. The next day we boarded an Italian luxury liner name M.S. Masapia. Then we set sail to the island of Cyress.

I’ll never forget watching my sister as she watched Israel disappear on the horizon. Tears rolled down her face as she watched the coast disappear. She graduated from high school the year we lived in Israel and she knew she would probably never see any of her friends again. I know it had to be hard for her.

The next day when I woke up I looked out my window and we were right off the coast of cypress. We didn’t go ashore but sailed on to the island of Crete. There we went ashore and spent the afternoon visiting the ancient sites of interest and drove down Embassy row. We boarded ship and from there we set sail for the Greek islands. Greece was incredible with all it’s ancient ruins like the Parthenon at the Acropolis. Those buildings were so huge they made us feel very small. We drove by taxi all through the city of Athens and saw the Greek Palace with it’s Greek guards. Then we ate some great Greek food and saw some other historical places of interest.

We boarded ship and set sail for Italy. The M.S. Masapia was and Italian luxury liner and let me tell you those Italians know all about luxury. What a beautiful ship she was. The food was incredible and we were constantly being pampered by the crew. We sailed up the boot of Italy to the port of Genoa. We had had our car stowed on board so the car was unloaded and we were off to see Europe. We drove all over Italy, Rome and up into the Italian Alps. Rome was and incredible city. So full of ancient history and fantastic Roman buildings that were still in use after thousands of years. We went to the coliseum and the Forum across the street. And the Italian women were beautiful.

From there we drove north to lake Como up in the Italian Alps. The air was so fresh and lake Como was beautiful. We stayed in an Alpine Tavern over night and enjoyed their good food. The next day we tried to go into Switzerland but we left our passports at the tavern with our belongings. So they would not let us through. That was back when you had to have a passport to travel from one European country to the next. So we ended up heading to Austria.

We drove on the Autobahn and saw ancient castles about every ten miles or so. I was surprised that there were so many castles right off the Autobahn. We went to this little bakery that was Hitlers favorite place to eat a Danish. Then we went to the Castle of Neshwashstien. I’m probably spelling it wrong but it is the castle that Walt Disney designed the Cinderella’s castle after at Disney World. It was at the top of a very high hill and behind it was a beautiful eleven hundred foot waterfall. Inside the castle was pure opulence. The rooms were decorated in pure gold and the table that the king ate at dropped down into the kitchen so they could put the food on it then it rose up in front of the king. That king was killed by the people of Austria because he bankrupted the country by spending so much money on his castles. The people rose up and killed the king then threw his body in a lake.

Check my blog out soon and I will tell you more of out European summer.