While 2011 was drawing to an end, my health seemed to fail me. I had severe gastric for weeks, plus some other problems. I attributed them all to work-related stress. When stressed, I ate as I liked and it did not do me any good.
I began to think of alternatives that would help me start the year right, albeit healthy. So I explored supplements and health products that would help me take care of myself. Many brands in the market were available, some were over-the-counter while others were specialty direct sale products.
Some of my relatives recommended to me a particular brand of healthcare products. But being not very familiar with it, I wanted information. I wanted to know what I was letting myself in for. I needed to delve deeper into the matter because I was disturbed. There were so many opinions and suggestions. Some said that I could use them this way. Others told me different ways of handling the products. There were so many different combinations, and I got really confused and frustrated. Which was the right way? Which was the recommended way? Whom should I listen to? Well, eventually, I got my answer.
There's no right or wrong method, just the most suitable method. Everyone uses them differently as they have different needs. Right, I got my answer. But not before I was left feeling a bit sore.
Due to my naivete (duh! How would I know? I'd never sold anything all my life!) to the MLM (multi-level marketing) business, I did not realise that all these people whom I asked were competition. They were "independent", after all. I had thought that since they all belonged under one roof, it was alright to seek out anyone and that they would be willing to dispense advice. Nope, I was wrong. Apparently, it's a dog-eat-dog world. Each one of them insisted that I signed up with them.
"Are you a member? Do you want to be a member under me?" one guy asked. Never met him and he was based in KL but he could help me, he claimed. Thereafter, I began receiving a text message daily to induce me to buy this and that product.
"Are you a member? If you join as a member, this is the price you have to pay and you get discounts on the products," she said when I went to her outlet.
"Can you explain to me how to use them?" I asked.
"You have to purchase them first. Or else I won't tell you how to use them," she said. After that, she and her colleagues kept driving it home to me that I could not "copy" the methods used by others to utilise the products as they were not tailor-made to suit me. Made sense. I got it.
But she made me look and feel like I was out to cheat her. Get information from her and then vanish into thin air and never return to enter into membership under her, that I'd just go sign up under someone else. That was not a good feeling at all, especially when I was on the verge of considering membership and was trying to understand in a more detailed manner, how to go about using the products. I felt like I had the right to know because I did not want any regrets later on. It was a large sum of money I was going to invest in, after all, and to be denied of the information that I felt I was entitled to really pissed me off.
So, in the end, I was quite disappointed that some of these people were so business-orientated. All else were secondary.
Anyway, these products would not guarantee good health unless used in a prescribed manner. That entailed plenty of discipline. Would I be determined enough to follow through? I wanted to know what to expect and to see a clearer picture of things, but I was just turned away flat in the face. What a pity!
For all that I'm ranting about, it's probably my own fault for approaching so many of them, so please excuse my naivete. But I'm definitely NOT at fault for trying to make an informed decision.
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