DCHL, a Company selling the French fragrance products by the name of Lampe Berger has held a grand seminar in Sentosa Island to revive their business in Singapore.(note, this time they change the name to SYN(Steven Yeam Network) to give it a fresh start.
They have successfully revived their business in Malaysia targeting on young students and graduates. Recently a few Malaysian newspapers have published complaints by parents about how their children got brainwashed by them and refused to listen from their parents and some even thought of leaving school to go full time in the business. Malaysia China Press have a front page headline news about it. Such news will not affect their business but even helped and motivate their distributors who are all young, naive and
rebellious to work harder for it.
They have organised more than 1,000 active young Malaysian agents to
come to Singapore together in July to revive their Singapore sales
by recruiting younsters. If you have any young adults in your family
or young friends, caution them ahead. These are some of their tricks
used in recruitment:
a) They will never tell the prospects what products they are selling
during the 1st or 2nd business preview. The most they mentioned are
"branded goods from France" and the name "LV"
b) They will say products are not important but making money and
business is the main aim.
c) A fleet of BMWs and sport cars will be driven and parked together
to impress the prospects.
d) They will remind their prospects NOT to tell anyone else until
they have joined and paid up because outsiders will not understand
their business and tend to give negative effects.
e) If anyone tell them they heard negative feedback from outsiders or
any ex-members who left, they will say, "who should you learn from ?
The successful ones like us or those failure ones ?"
f) When it come to the products, they will only boost of their over
100 years history in France but they will not tell you that in US and
Europe, they are sold as fragrance and perfumes only(check the
websites) at only 1/3 of the prices here and NOT as essential oils or
aromatherapy products claimed by them.
g) They will use a lot of their successful members all well dressed
in suits to impress their prospects but they will not tell you that
out of every 1 successful, at least another 50 have lost their money
and left.
h) They will not tell you the products are simply unpractical and
troublesome to use. In fact a check in the websites showed the
product is even dangerous. An explosion occured and someone in Taiwan
got killed. HK TVB news also made a research and condemned them for
cheating but their Company defended by telling their members that HK
TVBS already "apologised" to them for the mistake and they forgave
them.
i) They will also tell you that some of their fragrance bottles are
collectors' items and can appreciate like antiques in future. In
order to make you believe, they even display a few units for bidding
and obviously their insiders and top-earners will jack up the price
to make it believable.
j) They will tell you that you can get a refund up to 90% if you
decide to return the unsold stock but most people managed to get back
less than half because MOST items are not returnable. They will not
tell you fully all which items are not refundable. Most people got
caught and lost money because of this trap.
k) They even have lawyers and well-known people among them to give
business talk so people tend to believe them easily and don't suspect
that they have many "hidden" clauses in their contract.
l) Their business plan is designed in a manner to trick you to
purchase the stock in someone else's name(for easier promotion) so
that when it comes to return and refund, you will not be able to do
it conveniently.
m) They will use their top-earner, a Malaysian by the name of Steven
Yeam who is mostly based in HK now to act like a god or cult figure
so that more people will adore and follow him blindly.
n) Once you joined, they will have many ways to make you pay more
money. Even attending their talk or training, you need to pay. They
will not tell you when they invite you. Upon arriving or halfway,
they will make you pay.
o) They will make some big donation to some place and make a big
publicity out of it to gain support and confidence from the public.
p) They use very high figures and discounts to attract
you to buy more stock. Up to as much as 40%. Most people find it
diffiult to sell off later.
q) They use lies to motivate their members and prospects. Some
examples used are: "They will get listed soon in Malaysia""They will
get the Singapore government to close Orchard Road for their rally
and also loan them 20 helicopters to sentosa Island""They bought some
share or joint-venture with Louis Vuitton in France", etc.
r) They will even deny themselves as MLM or direct-selling. They
called themselves as a "new" franchise marketing system, leading many
shopowners to get involved 2 or 3 years ago.
They will have a lot of new tricks and tactics to close a deal and
those mentioned above are just a few. So do not underestimate them.