i currently have an unsigned copy of the offer contract in my posession. these people promise you $1000 at the end of a "diet study" and also ask  for $150-$300 deposit.i  also will soon have it scanned into my computer . i'm wondering what's the loudest quietest (yes you read right) i can be with spreading the information about this. some legal advice would be nice on the technicalities of slander and how unslanderous i can be whilst still making some noise. i just want to be a messenger without slanderig these people. all i am doing is publicly presenting this information. law people, can i do that? freedom of speech? there was no verbal nondisclosure agreement and there is none that i can see in the contract. there is however some all capitalized sentences talking about using the fullest extent of the law against me if i try to undermine their operations. now is it undermining if i present the information and they already unermined themselves? i need to know if i go bigger. thanks
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If you can prove what you say it is not slander. There are certain legal criteria a statement must meet in order to be slander and the number one thing is truth. If you lie and that lie damages their reputation, it is slander. If you tell the truth, it is testimony. This sounds like a scam so I would suggest you not send money but I don't have the full details so canno say for sure.
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I signed a contract for a fitness club too last year and immediately regretted it.  They didn't mention it to me, I had to ask but I did have a three month grace period where I could break my contract,(which I did) and I lost my initial fee, but that was it.  I am Canadian; I don't know if you are, and if the laws are different.  Call them up and pretend you are a possible new client and ask if they offer a trial period or some way to get out of the contract if not satisfied.  Also check  the  fine print maybe it says something there.    Good luck they sound like bully's, it's just wrong
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Paypal is one method that comes to mind *IF* you fell that you are able to truly counsel a client without any body language clues, without any intonation hints, without the benefit of understanding if a pause lasted 2 seconds or 29 minutes.\n\nSure you could use webcam and mic to get around SOME of this, but I would be fasincated to know how the dynamics of this are going work, both from a personal and also a professional point of view.\n\nDo you have suerpvision in person - or are you happy to receive supervision "online" too?  Both responses generate further questions as I am sure you might imagine.\n\nThe payment side seems easy - Paypal is available to most people - it is ensuring that you AND your client are able to both operate effectively. I wish you well and please do no harm.
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Not enough information is given.  what is your stance?  IS ot a DBQ [Document Based Question]?  Or a FRQ [Free Response Question]?  What does the prompt specifically ask for?  Teh information given is WAY to broud.  Also, don't ask for a thesis and then use the exact one someone might give you.  Turnitin.com might catch you.  That would be bad.
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My Norwegian is pretty lousy, but this text is definitely Norwegian, and reads something like this:\n\nWe at Combitel remember what it was like to be a student, having far too much fun and far too little money. We thus desire to provide you with a bargain offer that will help you a bit... [Missing a couple of words here.]  Combitel's motto is "no binding contracts, only low prices."  [Can't get this next sentence.] Absolutely no additional cost to you!\n\nTold you my Norwegian was lousy!
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Yes, what you have stated is unethical and most people in finance would call it "Creative accounting", having said that, what should you do? You have a job to protect, if you whistle-blow you will likely be blackballed for it, as you are probably aware. Or are you? The Oxley Sarbaines Act <--spell check, was in-acted to protect people like yourself. However, at what price? You are in the best position to know how susceptible you might be should anything come to light. Not knowing your corporate structure, only you know how high up you can take this. \nIs it best to let sleeping dogs lie, or do you honestly feel your Corp Ethics Review board would take this matter seriously? If it were me I would have saved an intranet e-mail from my supervisor regarding his response to your inquiry. Is he dumb enough to put such an opinion in a company e-mail or private e-mail? I doubt it. So no one is in better position than yourself to decide what is the right thing to do. You don't have to be told about going over someones head, I am sure. Possibly you might feel more comfortable anonymously reporting this. However, you have already seen the creative accounting, and anything anonymous may come directly back to you. Not a good position to be in. I think you should take time to think about your options and document as much as you can. You may even be able to use this information as a bargaining chip if this company decides to terminate you. Food for thought. Good luck.
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MLM's are a ripoff. I have looked into the Nu Skin  when it was new. All the BS promises, we will help, we Will get you leads,when you get to this level you wil have all this income. Well I did not buy into it and for good reason. My friend did and he got The shaft. They only ones who really make the bucks are the ones that start the business. Why you ask, did they try to sell you any product? No but they sold you a starter sales kit to sell the product...see what I mean. You may be able to sue but you have to prove that they lied and made it sound like you only had to sign other people up and not sell the product. And that will be hard to do because most MLM's get busted in a year or less.\nSo next time take a recorder with you and record the whole thing and get any guarantees in writing.
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Collection companies are dirtier than the Mafia.  I mean, these guys are truly the scum of the earth.  They will do and say anything to get your money, and have no guilt when they don't follow through on a promise.  In the future, always get the settlement deal in writing before you make a payment.  Any breach of an oral agreement is impossible to prove in court.  Sorry that this happened to you.
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I smell a rat. If you are so succesful then why are you advertising on this forum for free?!?!?\n\nHow much does someone have to invest?!? Where's the hard facts instead of the nicey nicey invites?!?!\n\nPeople deserve more up front. Instead of people like you getting people to attend under duress and then you hit them with the 'hard sale'.\n\nStop preying on the impressionable. \n\nAnd if I'm wrong, why not add an internet link to your companys site so we can all see how good an opportunity this is
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NO NO NO NO!!!\nDon't do it.  This is a very common scam called a "419" scam.  Do a google search for "419 scam" and you will find tons of information about it.  Once you have learned a little about them, a really funny site is 419eater.com.
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This is a double edged sword.  You must have a record of your clients performing a transaction with you (tangible, like a receipt or something), and second, you must always include a link to "opt out" and provide contact info (address & phone number) in case the link is not sufficient.  That covers you legally because they have done business with you before (and you can prove that with receipts) and you are providing multiple ways for them to opt out.
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go to the restaurants they're stuffing their fat carcasses at and shove it in their faces! Seriously, I would write an overview and sent it to them but I'd have it copywrited first so they can't steal it. Don't give them the whole thing unless they make an offer! Send your overview to as many producers as possible!
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I wouldn't bother taking it to court. There's no way to prove that it happened unless the person is honest enough to say that he did make a verbal contract with you and he didn't follow through with it. I doubt that will happen, though. You really should have made a contract on paper.
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If you find someone willing to do that I'm interested - I have land as collateral and can't find investors. :-) \nThe thing that raises my ? though is NO company can GUARANTEE you 50 prequalfied customers a day. This sounds like a scam. They contacted you. The radio and tv ads - how many and how often and for how long? And internet - not a lot of cost there. Billboards aren't that expensive. They will answer the calls and screen them...ok but to guarantee 50 a day that are qualified for your business...without even knowing what that is that sounds awful high. Out of internet, radio ads I was lucky to get...well...NO calls and it was for food. Everyone eats. I would really seriously look over that with a fine toothed comb...something does not sound right. Guaranteeing you will make X number of $ but it takes $35k to get started now sounds like a scam to me. Be careful
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You responded to my question on authorization denials- whether they needed to be reported to the card holder or not.  Your answer was the most articulate and seemingly knowledgeable I received- I'm not in the banking industry so have to take your word for it.\n\nYou're looking for some wisdom eh?  Write a book in the spare time you play talking to countless throngs that use venues like this as entertainment.  You're much to intelligent and well written to waste your time drumming up silly questions just to fill a void of loneliness.\n\nI don't mean to preach to you and perhaps I exceed some kind of protocol here but there was something in your posting that sparked me to write.  \n\nHave you read the book The Celestine Prophecy?  Don't even think DaVinci code here.  Proph is a fun book and will make your brain ticker melt down with possibility.  \n\nThanks for answering my question.  I hope you meet someone out there who fills your void.
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My roommate got caught in the same scam. The girl told him she loved him and sh*t like that. Saying that she needed him to cash the money order, and send the money to her sister. He got screwed out of 120,000 bucks. He went to the police but there was nothing they could do. That was over two years ago and he's still paying back the bank. Really sad that people are still falling for the scam now...even sadder that the people are keeping up the scam. At least you're smart and know it was a scam. What the police told my ex roommate was that there's no way to tell who the person is, so the most you can do is report it to yahoo. They'll pull the account, but they'll only create another one and be back out doing it in ten mins.
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Is this a liquidating or nonliquidating distribution?  Was the land purchased inside the partnership? Or purchased by one of the partners ten years ago and contibuted to the partnership in the ten years since purchase?\n\nSorry but we really need more information to give relevant tax issues advice.\n\nEdit:\n\nOK - so a nonliquidating (or operating) distribution - Partnership continues to exist with exact same owners and percentages after distribution as before the distribution.  \n\nYou absolutely do not want a disproportionate contribution because things can get a little ugly under IRC section 751 with that so my recommendation would be distribute based on partnership percentages.  This can be done in two ways - distribute land in 50, 40, 10 amount and have 40% partner buy 10% partners share or distribute cash and land to even up percentages. \n\nLet's start with the all land distribution - You will show land removed from books (credit land) for $100,000 the opposite side will be debits to A (50%, B (40%) and C's(10%) capital accounts for $50,000, $40,000 and $10,000.  Each of the partners will reduce their outside basis by that amount (50k, 40k or 10k) and that will be their basis in the parcel of land they own.  (CAUTION: If any of these partners has an outside basis less than the land distributed they will, as someone said earlier, have a taxable event and will need to pay capital gains on the excess distribution!!) Now C sells his land to B for the 10k basis and has no taxable event and B's basis in the land becomes $50k (the same as A's) - (Another CAUTION: If B has intentions to sell the land shortly the portion purchased from C is now SHORT-TERM and will result in ordinary income!).  You say that the land is valued at $200k so the "deferred" tax will be picked up when each of these partner's sells their land and has to pick-up capital gain.\n\nNow the second option: you will make the total distribution to the three partner's 120k.  A's distribution will be 60% of the land - book value $60k, 50% of distributions; B's distribution will be 40% of land and $8k cash - book value $48k, 40% of distributions; C's distribution will be $12k cash - book value $12k, 10% of distributions.  Once again everyone will reduce their outside basis by the distribution amount and once again there will be no taxable event as long as the distributions DO NOT exceed outside basis.  Your journal entry will be a credit to land for $100k; a credit to cash for $12k; a debit to A's partner capital account for $60k; a debit to B's partner capital account for $48k and a debit to C's partner capital account for $12k. A and B will have deferred gain on the land that will become a taxable event when they sell the land for a gain.\n\nHopefully this covers it - if you have more questions - add details and I'm sure I (or one of the other tax professionals here) can clarify. (Also if you are set on keeping the land a 50/50 split just say that and I can give you the journal entry)