Monday, September 27, 2010

More Hilarity: TVI Express spammer spam a spam site

A blogpost about TVI Express was found on redesinteligentes, which says it's about technology.

If you look at the categories, you'll see that it's supposedly about tech, with categories like computer games and so on.


Yet if you look at 'recent posts' you'll see stuff like wedding bands, ladies' boots, and so on. So it turned into a spam site recently. And about week and a half ago, you got that blogpost about TVI Express.



If you read the blogpost you find it's UNFINISHED. It got chopped off at the end.

If you take one of the sentences, say "Sometimes people only buy into something because they just want to BUY THE SOAP" (near the top), and search for that on Google, you get links to "rock recliner chair", ECI Powder, Flying Fish Knot... all displaying the SAME article. There's no doubt it's spam.




The article's source can't be ascertained, as there's no reliable timestamp on these blog posts. However, the theme of the post is clear: it claims TVI Express is the next big thing comparable to Amway, yet it perpetrated some major logical fallacies.


First, it claims that TVI Express is a MLM with a real product. The "buy the soap" analogy refers to Amway, that people "join Amway just to buy the soap".
"...And under them somewhere is probably going to be some people who just wanted to enjoy the TVI Express benefits and never ever refer anyone much less sponsor anyone. They just want the SOAP!"


This is a major fallacy. You don't need to join Amway to buy Amway products. You just need to buy the product from your local Amway rep. You don't make any commission for yourself or your upline that way, but you surely don't need to join Amway to buy Amway.


With TVI Express, it's even worse. It's just Travelocity underneath, and Travelocity is FREE TO USE. You don't need to join TVI Express to enjoy those benefits. In other words, instead of costing $250 to access the soap seller, it turns out the soap seller can be accessed for free.

Then the author goes off on a tangeant, claims TVI Express is NOT a scam because it gives you real benefits and it does NOT pay on recruitment, or "enrollment" as he calls it.

For all those people that think TVI Express is a scam, TVI Express does offer a nice benefit package for the price of the membership. But guess what? You don’t make money from just enrolling people into TVI Express. There is no “you get $50 for each enrollment”.

So what is the benefit package? 1) Access to "backoffice", which is FREE to use  2) 7-day 6-night vacation which is impossible to redeem, and now costs extra $150, and only available in hotels in India. It is nice... To people living in India.



How about "make money from just enrolling people"?  Sure you don't get paid per head... You get paid every 200+ heads, to the amount of $10000 USD, by cycling out of both boards.



Partial lie, but a lie nonetheless.

As both points the writer presented are false, the conclusion is bogus.

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