I got SCAMMED looking for a job
Personal Development, Rex Reviews | Sandra | November 2, 2009 at 17:04Like a lot of other poor slobs, I have been unable to find a job since graduation from UNLV May 09. Not hearing back from employers or temp agencies that have no jobs, I am definitely feeling the effects of the 15% unemployment rate.
I looked in the Sunday Review-Journal Classifieds. In the Miscellaneous section I found several job postings that didn’t really describe the job, but pretty much said “want friendly people, no experience required, $500 a week etc.â€Â One ad had “FREE BEER†in big font. “What the hell, I’ll try anything at this point.â€Â It’s called DESPERATION.
After getting a busy signal over the course of an hour, I finally got through when a man answered the phone (sounded like the Billy I would later meet). Told him I was calling about the job in the Classifieds, and he just said “Oh sorry bro, job’s been filled.†– kind of chuckling as he said it. About a week later, I was looking online at the R-J Classifieds and saw the FREE BEER ad again.
“Huh that’s strange,” I thought, “he said the position was filled, but here’s the post again today. I’ll call them.” I got through after about 15 minutes and a girl answered and asked me a few questions like “Am I 18 or over?†“Do I have my own vehicle?â€Â She then said they had several positions open including managers and assistant managers, and asked if I would be able to come in that day for an interview. Kind of stunned, I agreed.
I quickly ironed my suit, took a shower and tried to do some quick research online, googling what info I had. Nothing really turned up and it was time to go. I showed up 25 minutes early to my 4pm interview. Located in an industrial section of town on Polaris with a series of garages, mechanics and other random businesses, I pulled up in front of the window where it said “O. W. O.†in big letters with â€all-star motivation†underneath.
I was getting some weird vibes, but still walked in. There was a young woman sitting at very plain desk with just a telephone and some magazines. No computer? She told me to sign my name under “Billy†and fill out a form. She led me to a small, very austere waiting room with a bunch of chairs and no table. There was a shelf in the corner with a mini TV and a bunch of perfume and cologne bottles. She turned on the TV, hit play, tuning in on Anchorman about 1/3 of the way through.
The form looked like it had been made on MS Word, very basic, with just an underline after the questions. Another guy came in and started filling out the same “paperwork.” After we handed in the forms, the two of us speculated about what kind of job we thought this was. An optimist and admittedly more than naive, I said I thought it was a liquor distributor (free beer?). He was way savvier and pointed out the perfume bottles.
Next came the “interview†with Billy in another bare basics office. Billy was wearing a white t-shirt with a chain around his neck (tucked under the shirt) – kind of under-dressed for a job interview. Not to mention that he was interviewing both of us at the same time.
His shtick was that O.W.O. is a rapidly expanding company selling fragrances, opening offices in Las Vegas, Arizona and California, and looking for people to run the outlets. He claimed they get their perfume from their own factory in Holland where they have a vertical operation including packaging and bottle production as well as the perfume itself. With no middle men, they could get the products cheap – very cheap. I was skeptical; wouldn’t it have to be a pretty impressive factory, especially the glass part? Seems it would be cheaper to outsource it.
He then went on to explain that this wasn’t a telemarketing job, or door to door sales, or cold calls; it was definitely not multi-level marketing. He asked the other gentleman several questions about his availability, in what job he was interested, and then told him “Thank you very much,†gave him a card and said someone would contact him shortly. Dismissed.
He asked me similar questions and I told him that I’m a recent college grad; I’m excellent with people and willing to train and do whatever it takes to learn the job. He seemed pleased and asked if I could come in for a second interview at 10am the next day. He said it was a suit-and-tie kind of thing and that there would be several other people there. I went home extremely pleased thinking I had a legitimate shot at getting into some kind of management training program. I KNOW – I SHOULD HAVE GOT IT.
I was anxious about the interview and couldn’t sleep, so I researched the company a bit to show I have some initiative for the second interview. I admit that some other things bothered me, like the fact the ad said “free beer†and the job didn’t have anything to do with beer. If you are trying to find managers is that really the best way to attract them – beer? The location of the office and its setup were also suspect. I googled O. W. O. world perfume with the top hits www.ripoffreport.com, www.complaintsboard.com, www.shamscam.com, www.rippedoffemployees.com. You get the idea.
I was immediately like “Uh oh, this is bad.†Clicking the first link, I read an experience that sounded like mine: newspaper ad, called, got same day interview, asked to come back at 10am for second. He then went on to describe the second “interview†and how it was just a scam – and then that he didn’t even get paid for the work he eventually did do.
No longer nervous but wary, I went to the interview the next day. When I arrived there were several men in suits, “bosses†I guess, who shook my hand and told me to sign in and go on in. There were 60 some chairs, and a TV playing the movie “Old School.â€Â The room was fairly full with most people looking very unprofessional. I felt way overdressed in my suit; I was the only one other than the company guys.
A guy named Eric did a kind of a stand up comedy routine for 30 minutes while people were showing up, giving a spiel about the company and himself. I was shocked the last person strolled in at 10:25. In what world can you show up 30 minutes late for a management interview?
Billy was up next and did a lot of talking about the company and vast amounts of money. He introduced several young men in suits, but they all had a ghetto appearance – their haircuts, the way they spoke, their body language. Their language was –well – colorful. These were not college grads and definitely not corporate material.
Billy explained that all these branches are opening up, how they need managers to staff them, and it’s just an 8 to 16 week program. He played to the crowd extremely well. He was entertaining, I’ll give him that. His own story about himself and how he started – had no experience – and all he was looking for was someone to give him a chance to show that he could do the work and become management etc. was right on the money for the crowd. It was something that everyone in the room, including myself, was struggling with, so after baiting everyone with the whole management opportunity, “we don’t judge people,†“prove yourself†speech, he began to explain the “training†program.
The company’s divided into 3 parts: marketing, management, and administration. And here’s where the scam comes in full force. Their hype is that there is no middle man because everything is produced in a factory in Holland and all the perfumes are “exclusive,†giving them a monopoly on the product line. “The perfume dealers†supposedly sell an average of 10 to 20 bottles a day and make $5 to $10 CASH (he emphasized “cashâ€) commission on $25 to $35 bottles of perfume. This is the base of the company: the grunts running around and selling. We, however, were going to be managers, but needed to understand all aspects of the business first and that’s where the “training†comes in.
The “marketing†aspect of training consists of door-to-door hustling of the products. The sales quota is 100 bottles of perfume in two weeks; “paid training†is by commission on sales. Successful at that, we would graduate to the “management†portion of the training.
Off go the flags in my head. First off, I was told this is not door-to-door sales, or cold calls. But you would have to go door-to-door in order to sell the product, because I certainly don’t know anyone I could sell a hundred bottles too. That was Lie #1 – no door-to-door?
Next I ran some numbers in my head. 50 bottles a week would be almost impossible to reach. Who realistically can sell overpriced perfume to 50 different people in a week? My heart sank into my feet. They were talking about near impossible goals and the “paid training†I was expecting was commission-based. The $500 a week that was originally promised is attainable if you manage to meet your quota, but you if don’t sell, you don’t get paid. Lie #2 – paid training?
It was a trap. People sign up, making money for the higher ups for every bottle they sell, never reach their hundred bottle quota, and keep restarting, never reaching the second “management†phase of the training.
Billy did a good job of making these numbers seem easy and factual like the average sales are this blah blah, so it sounded like a really good deal. Most people in the room were nodding and agreeing like 100 bottles was an easily attainable goal.
When you graduate to management, you are given a crew of 4 to 6 people who sell, with you getting a commission based on their sales. He claimed the average crew sold 200 to 300 bottles per day and explained a complex commission system. If a crew of 4 to 6 sells 250 a day, that’s 40 bottles a person in a 6 man crew – hard for me to believe that’s ever going to happen. Lie #3 – 40 bottles per day?
He passed around some samples of the product so we could see the cool looking bottles and smell some of the fragrances. I must admit they had some attractive and creative looking bottles that you could probably promote, but the perfumes didn’t really smell that great – the proverbial cheap perfume. Can’t see anyone spending $35 on anything they passed around. I noticed a sticker on the bottom of a bottle with some info about the importer so I jotted it down.
Once you hit a certain amount with your crew, you move into administration which involves test-running an office. After 5 days of successful operations, you are given your own “company†as he called it and you start running 2 to 3 crews out of your office. Running a bunch of numbers with all the crews and the complex commission system, the payback equaled a minimum of $2000 a week. Lie #4 – that’s a LOT of perfume!
Billy then finished up the number crunching and said, “So you can clearly see that this isn’t some kind of multilevel marking scheme. You don’t have to pay anything to join us, and you get paid for how much work you put in.â€Â Lie #5 – not MLM?
I almost burst out laughing, while everyone else in the room seemed mesmerized and eating out of Billy’s hand.
“Hey, dude, you just explained your company structure to us, which is the very textbook definition of multi level marketing, and then with a straight face, you’re going to say that it’s clear you aren’t running a pyramid scheme?â€
Billy then laid out the big carrot, claiming he has had a 100% success rate for the past 5 years of everyone completing training – and that you’re not getting a new job, but a new life. Lie #6 – who ever has a 100% success rate at anything?
Everyone in the room is now commenting like, “I could use that money!†or “Oh man, my kids would be so happy!†– all completely suckered in. Now, of course, there are 50 or so people in the room and he says “We obviously can’t hire all of you, but here’s a phone number to call within the next hour and we’re going to conduct a phone interview. If we like you, there’s a 3rd session tomorrow where you will begin training under your new manager.â€
“Clever,†I thought, “you could hire everyone in this room, just split them up with different trainers in different locations, and they think the 7 or 8 people they are with are the ones who “made†it. Lie #7 – it’s an exclusive job.
I, of course, just left and didn’t call. I pitied all those who were stupid enough to believe the spiel by Billy and his ridiculous sales numbers that supposedly banked thousands of dollars for you. Billy must have been doing well for himself though; he drove a Maserati, and claimed he had a huge house. He’s on the top of the pyramid – he gets a commission on everyone in that room that signs up. It doesn’t matter if they fail to meet their quota. If 30 people sign up and only manage to sell 10 bottles each, he still is making probably about $3K for himself, while the individual apparently sometimes doesn’t even get paid.
So very disappointed and sad, I decide to investigate the company more – the internet had been right on with all the scam warnings. The company is a bunch of lies or at best, serious bending of the truth.
I looked up the info I got from the perfume bottle. The company is based in Holland but imports the perfumes from a factory in China. SURPRISE. I found the factory website; all the perfumes they produce are the products that O. W. O. sells – so yet another lie. Lie #8 – made in Holland?.
To top it off, I called some of the other telephone numbers from the Classifieds to discover they all lead to these guys. Pretty much every job posting in the miscellaneous section is just O. W. O. Lie #9 – 6 different ads, same place.
They managed to get my hopes up twice now, first making me think I was getting a management-training job and second suckering me into thinking that there were several jobs available in the classifieds when they were all just dead ends. Don’t fall for these scammers. I think it’s disgusting how in this economy, with so many people struggling, that these guys prey on people’s desperation.
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How the hell does anyone not realize this is a scam? The posts from ‘actual employees and trainees’ are from one person or the top people in the pyramid. I guess if you fall for this, maybe you should question your own intelligence. How stupid can you be?
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thank you! i was about to go to an interview with them haha good thing i found this! thank you so much for taking the time to inform us all of this!
i HAD A FRIEND THAT WAS APPROACHED BY SOME YOUNG MEN IN A PARKING LOT TO BUY PURFUME AND WHEN SHE SAID NO, THEY ROBBED HER AND RAN OFF. Be careful when you’re approached by this company. Don’t stop and talk with them but run or go back in the store until you can step out with other customers.
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All Star Motivation is bullshit. Some of the fragrances may smell pretty bomb, but they are so overpriced. People dont want to buy $40 bottles out of someones trunk. WTF.! I was in desperate need for a job. I wasted my gas for a week, and i needed new tires asap, that is why i continued working there. I got the opportunity to work in the office during the week. And decided this job was not for me after i went out to “hustle” on a saturday because the stupid bitch i went to hustle with kept insisting that we stay at the gas station even when threatened ti get the cops called on us for soliciting. She kept saying we werent soliciting that we were just promoting. Bullshit. if we had the opportunity to sell, we sold. That was soliciting. Anyways, i was told my check was going to be mailed to me, but i went to the office the week after because i didnt believe it. I got kicked out of the office, got threatened by sharktooth or what ever his stupid nickname. CHRIS HOLLAND RIPPED ME OFF. I never got paid, everyone in the office were stupid, ghetto ass people. So go ahead and say im hating. FUCK ALL STAR MOTIVATION.
My name is Jeff C and you can follow me on twitter @Atlassinc . I have been apart of the All-Star Motivation team for over 7 years now. I’m a real person that is writing this that is why I have left my twitter link on here if anybody would like to respond to my statement. You can reach me anytime also @ the All-Star Motivation HQ 702-257-7800 for any ?’s. You can clearly read that the statements below are from one person that just does not like All-Star Motivation and they pretend to be multiple other people. Any responses from REAL All-Star Boss’s that have finished the training program have there twitter links present and you can always reach them @ their office for questions or concerns. So for the guy below writing these funny statements about how we are a SCAM and how our business is cruel to society. LOL We run a legit business that has helped tons of people become successful. Sorry you where not one of those people. Sorry you could not handle staying in a MOTEL 6 room with other people. You must not have ever played any sports and traveled with a team where people sleep on the floor. If I have to sleep on the floor and drive my car to and from Cali to become successful then it was all worth it. Learning how to do this business is like doing the Insanity workouts. There tough as $***. But they work. Just like our business. Its crazy as hell but it works and people love our products. We would not have over 1 million customers and counting. Sorry things didn’t work out for you and you gave up. Anyway buddy good luck too and if you ever need some Perfume you know exactly where to find us.
Well, it comes as no surprise that there has been no response to these allegations from the “crew” at Allstar. The gauntlet was thrown down, and I have been reading this exchange with a lot of interest, hoping that the top dogs at this sham business would offer some kind of defense for their unethical practices. Of course, with the exception of calling people “haters” and throwing up a bunch of fantasy numbers, they have offered nothing. The truth is that Billy and his obese buddy Eric HAVE NO DEFENSE for either the way they treat their employees, or for their continued association with this silver tooth guy. They will continue to send unsuspecting young people into parking lots, to risk potential arrest, in the worst parts of town (funny how I never see them in Summerlin… Care to come on up to Lake Meade and Buffalo guys?) to risk mugging, just so they can line their pockets a little bit more. So let me add to the challenge: Do you guys have the guts to come up to the Von’s parking lot on Lk md and buf and have a face to face discussion? I bet you don’t. I will be there looking for you tomorrow night between 6 and 9 pm. Do you have the guts? I know you don’t.
Amazing how Billy’s non existent “agent” won’t respond to these questions of integrity regarding the people who are the high ups in ASM. The reason you won’t see theses questions addressed ( if there is a response it will hind behind accusations of people being “haters” which is just a buzzword they use to hide all of the awful things they do to the people that work for them and all the ILLEGAL things they try to get their sales people to do /you guys are aware that “popping trunk” is against the law right? It’s called soliciting without a license, and if you work for these human scum and get arrested, they will not help you out in anyway/) is because all the allegations are 100percent true. I DARE you to comment on the behavior of Silvertooth, or the conditions in which you have your salespeople sleep on your road trips, or the other myriad of things that have been brought up in this forum. Don’t list how much money can be made, don’t use the phrase hater, just try and be honest. It won’t happen of course, Billy and Fifth Trimester Eric and the sexual predator Silverdouche cannot be honest, because they make their living feeding off the work and desperation of others. Karma will bite them in the ass one day, have no doubt.
I find the attacks and equally passionate defense of this company compelling. I do have a question for the “agent” and other ASM supporters however, there are some pretty serious accusations hurled at you guys as far as the treatment of the people you bring on to your “program”, allegations of sleeping on floors, using your poor employees cars for road trips and not compensating them for damage to those vehicles, asking them to do cleaning and logistical worn in your office that you don’t pay them for etc…. Yet no response on these issues from the All Star crew. This Chris Holland in particular seems like a pretty low sort, and I notice no defense is offered either of him, or the questionable way in which employees are treated. There is some childish language concerning “haters” (are the management of this company in their early teens?) and yet these concerns remain unaddressed. Based on their failure to comment on these issues, it would seem to me that they are trying to deflect these criticisms because they are true. How about it all stars? What’s they story on sleeping 10 to a room on hotel floors, asking your trainees to work 12 hrs a day 7 days a week, encouraging them to steal food from hotels, not paying for damage to vehicles done while pitching your product, and the conduct of one of the people you list as a big name in your company, Mr. Chris Holland (I researched his name and the previous commenter was right, there are NUMEROUS stories about him that paint him in a bad light, particularly in his treatment of women)? Will you respond to these charges? If not you leave most readers of this sight to believe that you are a dirty business, regardless of whether or not you own a particular car.
I’m Billy Nolan’s agent and have been involved with the perfume game for over 10 years. I really have to put these HATERS on this website on blast. I read all these posts and see people that write this stuff just could not hack it in this business. Just look at the guy who wrote this! He never even worked one day for All Star Motivation. He quit before even giving it a chance and then writes a article about something that he has know idea about. I love how people say Billy Nolan rents his cars and All Star Motivation is such a SCAM. So for the record Billy Nolan drives a Cadillac Escalade that is wrapped with his brand. I highly doubt anyone is going to wrap their vehicle if their cars rented. Ok now lets talk about his Maserati 2013 drop top MC and his 2013 Lexus GS. Both of these vehicles have blacked out windows with smoked tale lights. What rental car company lets you limo tint your windows and smoke the lights. NONE because its technically illegal. Next lets talk about this SCAM. Well if you want to work at All Star Motivation there is no up front cost. Billy supplies all the product on consignment and you make commission based on how many bottles you sell. EXAMPLE:
40BTLS= $150
50BTLS= $200
60BTLS=$300
70BTLS=$400
80BTLS=$500
90BTLS=$600
100BTLS=$700
So while in training your able to make bonus checks weekly. The reason people work so hard for All Star Motivation is because Billy gives everyone the opportunity to open their own business. Once you maser selling the product and training other people how to do it the company will put you in business for yourself. Once this happens you start training people to work for you and you make half of what your team brings in. EXAMPLE:
250BTLS times $20 per BTL = $5,000
So your Gross profit would be $2,500
Now that’s just to start off. You can also make way more money by improving your STATUS with All Star Motivation by moving more product.
EXAMPLE:
Silver Status: when your team is doing 500 bottles per week you make $12 per bottle. That’s over $6,000 per wk
Gold Status: when your team is doing 1,500 bottles per wk you make $13 per bottle. That’s over $19,500 per wk.
Platinum Status: when your team is doing over 3,000 bottles per wk you make $14 per bottle. That’s over $42,000 per wk.
Diamond Status: when your team is doing over 5,000 bottles per wk you make $15 per bottle. That’s over $75,000 per wk.
This opportunity is amazing and if you work hard and your a loyal person you can have everything you have ever wanted. Please don’t let anyone CHEAT you out of your opportunity. Here is a list of people including myself that have became successful from this amazing opportunity.
PLEASE FOLLOW ON TWITTER AND LOOK AT THESE PEOPLE AMAZING LIFESTYLE.
Myself @AllStarsAgent
Billy Nolan @AllStarMotivate
Pierre @AllStarOp
Jeff C @Atlassinc
Danielle K @Rose2die4alstar
Alexa B @Alexablanchfill
Chris Holland @Silvertooth702
Chad M @chad702allstar
Diva E @blookablam
Candy K @CandyK365
Tavaris S @TmoneyAllStar
All Star Motivation has locations in Las Vegas, Dallas, Grand Prairie, Rancho Cucamonga, Frenso and Miami. We will be training people and opening new locations all over the U.S. If you really think you have what it takes you can call to set up a personal interview 702-257-7800 or you can sign up online @ http://www.AllStarMotivation.com Thanks and have a blessed day. @AllStarsAgent
Just so everyone knows I have worked at All-Star Motivation for 3 months now and just finished my training program. They trained me in three areas 1.) Marketing 2.) Managing people and 3.) working in the office. Now I run my own business and I’m killing it. I’m 28 and run my own business. I’m so motivated and having so much fun in this company. The fragrances are amazing and people everywhere love the product. Come on over 1 million customers in 3 years. WOW how can anyone hate on this opportunity. S/O to Billy Nolan and All Star Motivation. Much love.
I worked for these jokers too. Talk about the underbelly of society, although, what do you expect from a group of people who place money as being the ONLY thing of value in this world. Karl, your assessment of the 3 “pimps” running the show at ASM couldn’t be more right on. While I only briefly met Billy, Eric in all his gigantic arrogant glory, and Chris “Silvertooth” Holland (who is mentioned in several rip off reports as not only being a pathological liar and scumbag, but also a sexual predator, and the lowest form of man. A Cro Magnon who preys upon young, vulnerable women in need of money to fulfill his need to hide from his obviously massive shortcomings with women, all this while affecting an adolescent personality, despite being in his fifth decade on this planet) are matchstick men and criminals of the first order. They use and spit upon the desperation of young people who are struggling in a bad economy to further their own fiduciary goals, while not giving even a moment of thought to the damage they do to these kids. Both in the literal sense of using their vehicles to hawk their garbage product, and in the figurative sense of destroying the self worth that these folks bring with them to this “job”. They are vultures, no doubt about that. The good thing though is that the day will come, that they receive what they have coming to them, which will most likely include incarceration, and the loss of love or respect from friends and family. If you are a young person, thinking of working for these charlatans, you do so at your own risk, they will use you for their own ends, and then spit you out. Hopefully someone reads this and stays away from this pyramid scam.
Scam? I wouldn’t call the business a scam, however when it comes to Billy Nolan, Fat Eric, Sillverdouche, and the rest if them, they are definitely parasites who feed themselves on the hard work of others. You CAN make money at this job! no doubt about it. If you are a good salesperson, you will be able to sell these perfumes. To be fair several of these fragrances smell fantastic. Of course they last for about ten minutes, but they do smell good, and they are good pieces of marketing towards urban youth. However, if you work there, expect them to demand that you drive YOUR car to Utah (which is where I had to go) Cali, Arizona etc.. If anything happens toy your car you are SOL as they will not help you. Also, be prepared to sleep on a disgusting motel 6 floor with ten other people in one room, while your “boss” takes a whole bed for himself. They are so cheap, they won’t pay for gas, or food or anything on these pathetic trips. They expect you to drive and “grind” for at least twelve hours a day, and even when you are done working they will try to tell you when to go to bed, and what you can and cannot do when you are done with work, despite the fact you are an independent contractor. Chris the Silvertooth will suggest trying to steal free breakfast at a hotel to avoid paying for anything. They expect you to work 12 hrs a day seven days a week, and that disgusting fat douche Eric expects you to clean his office for him as well, even though you sure as fuck aren’t getting paid for that, or inventory, which they want you to do also. The flashy cars are rented, and they switch the license plates to make you think they own the cars. So, yeah, like any sales job there is money to be made, but keep in mind you are working for the scum of the earth, and to truly make the money, you will have to give up any quality time with your family and loved ones.
Billy Nolan has been on the grind for years blowing up All Star Motivation. How can anyone hate on this dude or his company.
If this blog isn’t convincing enough, the behavior or the ’employees’ in the comments should be enough reason to be apalled by this company. They prove to be uneducated, biased, and crass. They are not business professional, they’re childish, and in terms of business that’s not something I’d want to be associated with.
Am I the only who noticed that the people defending this scam have really poor spelling? Even the most recent post right below this one, which was from the actual company, spelled “you’re” as “your”. Oh, and the entire “Gigolos” (a show NYT, Daily Beast and Salon have all exposed as fake) episode was NOT about Billy. He was in two brief scenes.
Not to mention the nigga had a pistol in his pocket with a life alert button on what. Kinda funny style shit iz that lol and for you niggaz defending this bs dude must got y’all brainwashed wit perfume or as billy say parfum haha TITF LOL
Nothing has changed in 2013 for allstar motivation working for a timeshare company is more beneficial that a fragrance company with some dude blowing smoke frontin lol I see complaints from 2009 and he say he started it in 2010 lol not only is it a scam but its a real live joke!!!!
lol, these guys remind me of b-rad from malibu’s most wanted. all a walking-talking copy of him.
Wow i just saw an ad on this company and called for more information because on the ad it said office administration position which i am looking for and reading all this about the company ummmmm no thanks..im looking for professionalism and something I can learn from LOL.
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ALLSTAR4LIFE allstarmotivation.com has changed my life. I hustle perfume in the street all day every other week and make 1,000 to 4,000 a week. I have my own building in Fresno ca. And have 14 employes getting paid every week. You scammed ur self by being lazy. I took the opportunity to be in front of a self made millionaire 30 year old Billy Nolan and transformed my self into a boss with his training. To each it’s own. How much money does Walmart make a day? How much do the pay? Open ur eyes, be normal that’s fine… But don’t hate on some one that’s steps out of the normal and hustles to the top. Don’t ever for get our name haters! #ALLSTARMOTIVATION.
All u lames are funny!! Talking about u broke and u can’t pay ur bills wtf??
If I didn’t have perfume I would go pick fruit and sell it to make it!! People r lazy
And don’t believe in there self period! Allstar works its my life!! Just cuz it’s not for u
Don’t mean it don’t work!! It don’t work if u don’t work it right!!
It changed my life!!! Showed me how to use every sec of my life wisely !!
Billy has money cuz he worked hard he’s not no different from us we can b rich too!!
To the guy that wrote ur long lame weird review about a man that does nothing but grind
And give back ,Get a fucking life u dumb fuck!! Allstar is my life u broke cuz u lazy just like all u other lames that didn’t get out of bed to at least try!! Stay broke I’d rather b rich then right!!! P.s . College is not for everyone thank god for allstarmotivation .. #neverbroke
I’ve been selling Time Warner Cable out of the back of my butt for the last 10 years. It is the same way. Commission based, no benefits, no paid vacations. Nothing. Except for a random lunch by the boss once in a while. I guess that is what they do as far as the free beer goes, once in a while they reward their workers with a free beer bash. The thing is, although the comapny doesn’t give me anything, I work for everything I have. I wake up early get dressed, take a shower, shave, get my work orders and other materials ready that I am going to use that day. I go to a meeting at an office at a bad part of town, I sit with new employees that are expecting to get freebies from the company. They want everything from free cable, to a free car! I have heard this over the past 10 years. Anyway I make my plans, make a route decide what part of town I will be working and get myself ready psychologically and physically. I make sure I dont have boogers hanging out my nose, my hair combed and then I get in my car and I drive to my destination. Once there I park my car and I begin to walk and knock on peoples house doors. I leave behind flyers if I don’t hear a response. I talk to nice people, mean people, young people, old people, fully clothed people, naked people. You name it, I have seen it all. I got a great lover for a few years out of it. Anyway the amount I make is on average around 250-300 a day, because I have spent all day doing this. Once in a while I get lucky and make more on one day. I get home around 8 or 9 in the evening and I start my day in the morning waking up at 8. I do this Monday to Friday. I take my weekends off and I take any other day that I need off when I need it. I go on vacations twice a year. Two weeks each. I pay for it myself and I have my own healthcare that I pay for myself. I don’t care for a regular hourly job that pays 15 hour like most people. I would rather be able to make my own living on my own. I am self dependent and take care of my own. Anyone can make money selling anything, you have to like it and stick to it to make good money. Nothing is free in the world, including gas for your car.
Isn’t it sad whenever there is a pathetic unethical business practice, some people in this country blow it off as “It’s a free contry”, “That’s just a way of doing business”, “You have to work hard to make money”. Actually the richest people in this country don’t work hard. The hardest workers make the least and the division of wealth has grown so much that there is so much less for so many more people that the economy is in the state of collapse. This is how capitalism works, it’s step better than feudalism and as people evolve so do economy structures and it’s time to change to a better system. If the Republicans and Democrats are against the system it’s probably a better one for the majority.
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I interviewed with them like a year ago. I too had been having a seriously difficult finding a job and was on my last 200 dollars because I moved to Vegas with just my car and clothes and nothing else. Not even a job. Saw the Free Beer ad and decided it’s odd but hell, lets give it a shot. How bad could it be? Interview 1-filled out application with about 15 other people while watching beerfest. Interview 2-Got a horrific migraine from the awful smelling perfumes, watched everyone become enticed about the pyramid scheme that Billy was discussing they didn’t have, but when he drew on a board about how they worked, it was a-can you guess it?-a stupid pyramid. Some people are just idiots. He’s obviously one of them.
Now, I do work for a pyramid schemed company. They didn’t lie about, they straight up told me we operate in a pyramid system. Your pay is per demo AND commission. AND even more. There’s always some type of incentive pay or a bonus coming around to the top sellers of the day. Hell, if anyone wants a job that’s not going to screw you over or lie to you about how they work and don’t mind working in a pyramid style job, go work at Vector Marketing. At least they don’t lie to you. And there’s only 1 interview instead of 5 billion.
I must be a loser. I am not going to post how stupid your statement is but I will say this; All Star Motivation is no more a scam than any company doing business in America. I could go on and on about all your comments about what you call a lie but it would be pointless. The company is very vague at the start trying to find the right kind of motivated person that gets it. Everything that Billy guarantees in the 2nd interview is true if you work. I went through the training program not knowing what I was getting into and even a little leery of some of the things he said. I just knew one thing, I was broke, I had bills and nobody else was hiring. I am a very educated man. I have 2 degrees. These mean nothing in today’s world. I have ran my own location for over 5 years now and I can say one thing for certain; my life is extremely different thanks to this JOB. I do not even want to call it a job more of a lifestyle. He showed me a way to help people and bring myself back from the brink of poverty. It was not easy, to be honest there was times I wanted to quit. Hustling perfume and cologne out of the back of your car can be difficult at times, and to try and train someone can be frustrating, but the end game once someone gets it, is all worth it. Yes, you think what we do is a scam I get it it was not for you. But to be honest with you this Scam you speak of saved my life, my family’s life really. Please stop being a hater and just because it was not for you don’t complain. I pay my taxes on my company, I pay my people, I work very hard and I bring revenue to a city that was hurting and above all I give people a chance to change their lives. If that is wrong then I don’t want to be right. I bet if you put as much effort into bettering your own life than trying to hurt someone else you would be in a better situation than you are now. Just saying. I hope you find what you are looking for and learn to stop hating. It will eat your soul bro.
Funny to see that the guy who wrote this is so concerned. It is a sales company, that is it. They have their own product line and an exclusive way they want it sold. I get it. Why are all these “poor slubs” as the poster has put it so concerned? If you can’t Understand something, then it is automatically a scam? What a sad excuse of a human to hate on a hard working buisness cause you couldn’t cut it. I see these guys out there all the time and I see nothing but motivated people, so this article is meaningless. Get a Life.
Listen people from the time people hear about allstart motivation and research it obviously it would be horrible but for a person to go through the process and come back and blog it they cant be wrong or then again they can. Everybody has ther own opinion but my guess would be all the information that billy gives is ass backward and he obviously doesnt know what MLM means but if you have the ambition to get to those bottles a week by all means make your money but if your seeling overpriced non authentic perfume then hell no people wouldnt buy it except the people that desperatly need to smell some type of way now my review on this company is not good or bad. But if your money isn’t looking right if your with the company then something isn’t adding up i have experienced this company before and all i can say is that overall its not a company you would want to work for because its unstable and thats with any company in the USA if its unstable and built on lies…NOW TO “SAMANTHA” SHUT THE HELL UP PLEASE BECAUSE IF YOU ARE RUNNING THE UTAH OFFICE THEN YOU ARE REALLY GIVING ALLSTAR MOTIVATION A BAD NAME…YOU ARE NOT A MANAGER BECAUSE MANAGERS SHOULD KNOW HOW TO SPELL AND DONT BREAK DOWN REVIEW USING TXT FORMATION WORDS..IF YOU HAVE A OFFICE THEN YOU JUST GAVE EVERYONE THE TRUE MEANING OF ALLSTAR MOTIVATION..AND THEY DO NOT HAVE THERE OWN REALITY TV SHOW NOT EVEN CLOSE THERE JUST ON YOUTUBE WITH ALOT OF BAD REVIEWS AND ALOT OF BUILT UP LIES BILLY IS MAKING ALL THE MONEY FROM SIGNING PEOPLE UP NOTHING MORE NOTHING LESS..WHICH TRUTHFULLY I DONT THINK HE HAS MADE IT WERE HE IS FROM THAT COMPANY MOST LIKELY HE HAS PARENTS THAT HAVE MONEY AND BOUGHT HIM THINGS TO SHOW PEOPLE HE HAS SOMETHING THAT CAME FROM THIS COMPANY..”NOT TRUE”…SO PLEASE POEPLE DONT FALL FOR THE HYPE…
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA….(breath)HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. you spent HOW MUCH TIME writing this bullshit SCAM blog….wow. Just because you obviously can’t do it, doesn’t mean other people can’t. but its all good, HATERS are OUR MOTIVATORS!!!
AND BTW AllStarMotivation likes to give everyone a shot! Maybe you shouldn’t go into the managers meeting so worried about everyone around you, maybe just focus on the interview next time; instead of the people or if you’re getting scammed(:
For all you HATERS out here I just want to set the record straight. I work for All Star Motivation and Have for a year now. Maybe if you HAD gone to the second interview you would all know wtf you are talking about, and just b/c you can’t do it doesn’t make it a scam or an MLM FYI. I came into allstar feb 12 2011 did 75 my first week made $600 finished the training program in 7 months. It took me longer bc I have a kid and i was dumb and wasnt 100% dedicated bc i thought like you guys. I have now have opened up my office in UT and successfully, 4 months running already, run my own business. The system works, the problem is %90 of you are to dumb to work the system. That’s why we have to recruit so much to get through all the lames, were still around because its not a scam, and I dare any of you to come back and try it again. P.S. Catch all our “ghetto”ness on Showtime in about 6 months we’ll have our very own motivatonal based reality TV show about how all these young people are getting so rich from perfume. lol good luck to all of you.
February 9,2011
I went in because I saw an ad saying the pay was $375 a week. I
knew from the start it was a scam because the building it was in was fishy looking. Then I walked in and they were playing the moie the Hangover, At fist I thought this would be an awesome place to work but then at the end of the interview I realized that that was part of what made it so fishy. Then I saw the video of all these ghetto people in business suits talking about how much money they make, that is not how legitimite businesses advertise. Then I went to talk to a girl named Danielle who also makes a ton of money and worked her way up to manager. She looked even cheaper than the people in the video. By this point I knew it was a scam and I was just going to see if I could get the paid training. Then she told me after only a few minutes of talking to me, that she liked me and to come back for a second interview. I walked out knowing NOTHING about what the job was, where I was going to train or anything. I also knew it was a scam when the man fist walked in and told me how great they were doing and how they were expanding. How could they be doing so well if 1, I had never heard of them, 2 if I had never seen the products they were selling. I walked out of the interview thinking that it was funny that people fell for it. The place was cheap, the products were cheap and ghetto, and the people working there were all cheap and ghetto. The names of their perfumes and colognes were “I’m a BITCH”, bitch stood for Babe In Total Control of Herself. “Get Rich, F*** Trying”. It was censored, I didn’t do that. And my favorite “Not For Haters”. I knew this was a scam, everything was fishy, I figured I would go for the paid training and just quit after that. My second interview is tomorrow and there is noo way in Hell I’m going now. Haha. Thank you for this article, you just saved me the hassle of waking up early.
HELLO JOE, HOPE YOU HAVE A GREAT DAY !! THANKS FOR YOUR COMENTS AND SUPPORT !! SEE YOU IN BUSCANDO ESTRELLAS KMCC 32 LAS VEGAS
GOD BLESS YOU
Looks like they’re still scamming. I can’t believe they’re still scamming as All Star Motivation and haven’t changed their name yet. I almost died laughing from watching their intro video and their ghetto branch managers. They did the exact same things in my 1st interview. I’m just glad I stumbled across this before going to my 2nd one. You’re a saint for posting this!!!!!!
Looks like they’re still scamming. I can’t believe they’re still able do this as All Star Motivation and haven’t changed their name yet. I almost died laughing from watching their intro video and their ghetto branch managers. They did the exact same things in my 1st interview. I’m just glad I stumbled across this before going to my 2nd one. You’re a saint for posting this!!!!!!!
Thanks for all you comments very interesting… I really didn’t think this article would generate so much buzz but it gives me some confidence to keep writing.
As far as your Kalaya’s comments, I didn’t even think to look into the BBB book but if they weren’t in there they are defiantly not a registered business, which means they are probably operating illegally.
In response to Kevin, Im glad you are somehow able to make 2000 a week selling perfume but the 2 people you know must be some of the only ones, Las Vegas simply doesn’t have the market to sell that much cheap Chinese produced crap for that many people to be earning any money.
dude.
you shoulda given it a shot.
i personally know 2 different people who are opening offices and making that 2 grand a week.
one of them is a roommate who started working for the company the same time i did. we went in for the interview together.
too bad your mindset was all about how it was a scam, dude. you could have had a future.
Very well written. I went for the 1st interview but smelled something really fishy. I began to laugh when the “CEO” kept swearing over and over again during my interview. This is a major pyramid scheme.
There’s no such thing as quick and easy money. Definitely worth reporting it to your local Corporation Commission and/or State Attorney General’s office.
Good article, they are still in business scamming people in Las Vegas. It is now 8/16/2010 hope people google all star motivation scam or free beer and see your article.
First of all, your story is too damn long! Just say you got scammed and don’t apply to this job. We don’t need to know everything down to the toe nail polish your punk ass was wearing.. DAMN!
I just recently applied at this job. I have been out of work for over a year now can’t find anything. I am supposed to be going in for my first day of training tomorrow. They made up a competition for us today saying whoever could sell the most amount of bottles today would get a bonus. Giving out $1000 bucks tomorrow first threw fifth place. I came home wondering how the heck im going to sell this when i have no way of proving to people there even going to get there product tomorrow. They told me we deliver the perfumes&cologne to customers tomorrow at 4.30pm. A question i asked while i was there, “Well How are we supposed to sell especially to friends and or family when the economy is so horrible and everyone is poor?” really cant afford crap especially a $25-$35 bottle of cologne or perfume. Anyways so i don’t no what to do now. I got myself and my partner and my family all hyped up happy i finally got a job and they make it sound so great and now i don’t no what to do. Ive been driving 30-45mins to get there and im low on gas and on my electric. I don’t no whether to take the chance and go tomorrow or to go back to where i was before point A no freaking job no life letting myself down and everyone else no Independence nothing
Please give me some advice. Oh plus i had gone to my dad’s the other night and he looked up in the Better Business Bureau telling me all licensed business are on there and used every name we could think of to try and find the business came up with nothing. Then i went today and asked them, they said “Laughing, How would we still be in business out here for 2yrs and not be a licensed business?” I just said my dad had told me all businesses are on there and he had even shown me his.
This was a wonderfully written article Rex. I especially enjoyed how you jotted down the information on the perfume bottle so that you could do additional research. Good luck in your job search.
The Ten Commandments Of Employment… 1. If it rings, put it on hold. 2. If it clunks, call the repairman. 3. If it whistles, ignore it. 4. If it’s a friend, stop work and chat. 5. If it’s the boss, look busy. 6. If it talks, take notes. 7. If it’s handwritten, type it. 8. if it’s typed, copy it. 9. If it’s copied, file it. 10. If it’s Friday, forget it!
Work is too serious joke a little!