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Did anyone just see this on Watchdog?

It seems the ex apprentice star (I didn't recognise her either!) has began a pyramid selling scheme.

Oh dear, her interview was cringworthy to watch. :D:D
 
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Loved the claim the BBC were showing her scheme upside down - LOL
 
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Excel Dragon said:
Oops you beat me to the posting - I will delete mine now.

Loved the claim the BBC were showing her scheme upside down - LOL
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Yes, that was a classic!

Lindi: 'whats not fair is that in the clip you actually showed my diagram upside down'

Presenter: 'Yes, an upside down pyramid'

Classic :D:D:D
 
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Surely she won't be able to continue with it though, after what was broadcast? Or it will severely lack credibility.
 
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There are always people out there who will fall for this, usually the ones who are worst off.

"Why not let her have my £1000, she says I could double it in 2 weeks"

Yeah right!
 
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I thought of her as soon as they said about an ex-Apprentice contestant conning people!

Clearly looked like a pyramid to me, but if it was, why haven't the Police/TS already picked her up?
 
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mattybaz said:
There are always people out there who will fall for this, usually the ones who are worst off.

"Why not let her have my £1000, she says I could double it in 2 weeks"

Yeah right!
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I'd like to hear how nobody is going to lose out (like she claimed)
 
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Does she actually think it's genuine, i.e. not bright enough to know it's a scam?

I mean, is it possible that somebody who knew what they were up to would be brazen enough to try and front it out like that?
 
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Lindi was the one who offered the restaurant manager 'exclusivity' on the ice cream. No laundry pants lines or Kosher chicken involved.

Read an interview with Alex Wetherspoon the other week, who said that Lucina Ledgerwood must be desperate for fame because she was going on Celebrity Scissorhands, a 3 week unpaid show. Err... she's into the health/beauty sector and it's for charity. This was an interview after Alex had appeared on 'Hole in the Wall' - dressing up in a silver wet suit and jumping through shapes.
 
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Lord Harris said:
Half of the Apprentice lineup were there because their face fitted.
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How does that work, then? Like a big facial jigsaw puzzle, you mean? :|

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Read an interview with Alex Wetherspoon the other week, who said that Lucina Ledgerwood must be desperate for fame because she was going on Celebrity Scissorhands
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Lucinda was my favourite this year, I thought she was fab :)
 
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mattybaz said:
What amazes me, is that she has obviously been involved in a pyramid selling scheme, yet I doubt anything will come of it.
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Yes she could get reported to trading standards and they will do what they normally do in any scam................nothing until it affects hundreds of thousands of people and millions of pounds.
 
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Does she actually think it's OK, i.e. she's not bright enough to know it's a scam?

If she knows the score then she's one brazen ***** for trying to front it out like that.
 
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She is absolutely insane!!! You can never trust her now!!!

She so F-ing ignorant "Well your experts say its wrong not mine"

I think she's going to lose total credibility after this one now.

Now one will want to work with her - Business Or TV.
 
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I find myself constantly amazed at how easy it is to seperate certain people from their cash with a lot of self confidence and some half assed credentials.

Lindi is a classic example of someone who's self image is far higher arching than any business idea or work ethic, in other words in her own mind people should pay her just for being Lindi.
 
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theres being thick skinned and theres being an arrogant *!@!@*

how do people manage to get heads as big as that? anything they say is right even when they are totally wrong.

bleh! i find them disgusting...the apprentice lot fill me with a deep anger whenever i watch the clips of the programme or see advertisements!

'Brightest brains in the country' <<<< erm...no! brighter brains are produced at a Tesco checkout to be precise.
 
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She is really young ..Most people of that age wont remember that last pyrimid selling scams my daughter is the same age and she thinks it something the eygiptian goverment did ..So I dont think see really understands the seriousness of the whole thing..

Lets remember hardly any of these people are good business people they know very little .Reading through some of the past post on here I really feel that you people give these morons too much respect anyway ...Remember you are the people that have actully done it ;);););););););)
 
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She is really young ..Most people of that age wont remember that last pyrimid selling scams my daughter is the same age and she thinks it something the eygiptian goverment did ..So I dont think see really understands the seriousness of the whole thing..

Lets remember hardly any of these people are good business people they know very little .Reading through some of the past post on here I really feel that you people give these morons too much respect anyway ...Remember you are the people that have actully done it

are you taking the hairy pineapple? haha i knew what a pyramid scheme was at the age of 14. these people are advertised and promoted as the brains of british business and they cannot even organise their way out of a paper bag with a split in it.

what really slaps me round the face is the fact they drive bmw's and mercedes cars and have heated pools yet they don't even know that a pyramid scheme is a scam!
 
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Apparently all she deeply cares about is money and doesn't give an f-ing s**t about how to get it. When you have an attitude like that you will have no moral qualms about who you step on (colleague/customer) to get it!!!
 
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Esk247 said:
She is really young ..Most people of that age wont remember that last pyrimid selling scams my daughter is the same age and she thinks it something the eygiptian goverment did ..So I dont think see really understands the seriousness of the whole thing..

Lets remember hardly any of these people are good business people they know very little .Reading through some of the past post on here I really feel that you people give these morons too much respect anyway ...Remember you are the people that have actully done it

are you taking the hairy pineapple? haha i knew what a pyramid scheme was at the age of 14. these people are advertised and promoted as the brains of british business and they cannot even organise their way out of a paper bag with a split in it.

what really slaps me round the face is the fact they drive bmw's and mercedes cars and have heated pools yet they don't even know that a pyramid scheme is a scam!
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Oh no dont tell me you have fallen for this stuff;)

They are there to make a tv programme to satify the veiwing requirements of the BBC ...Most have had the luxury and the charity of an employed postion ..Few have run or built good businesses ..Im mean come on they even had a young chap that had been bankrupt twice !!!!.They then select an army captain that had no business experience at all.

I like the show but also know enough not to take it serious..I am however very supprised how serious business people veiw it ..
 
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JEREMY HAWKE said:
Oh no don't tell me you have fallen for this stuff;)

They are there to make a TV programme to satisfy the viewing requirements of the BBC ...Most have had the luxury and the charity of an employed position ..Few have run or built good businesses ..I mean come on they even had a young chap that had been bankrupt twice !!!!.They then select an army captain that had no business experience at all.

I like the show but also know enough not to take it serious..I am however very surprised how serious business people view it ..
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I think people view it seriously because it real and its about something we all do every day. Why not take it seriously. Sis Alan is real, the job is real the £100k pay packet is real. so its all real and its about real business acumen. it aint some stupid tasks the house mates need to do to get some food and fags for the day. its about the thing we all do day in day out and how we conduct our shelves professionally with colleagues and customers.
 
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In the context of the apprentice, Sir Alan is not real - he is a pantomime villain.
 
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I remember her for her bad attitude on the Apprentice, if she is capable of this scam, imagine what else she would stoop to

I'd like to see her running the tuck shop in the local prison - Perhaps that would be beyond her
 
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i agree it is made up for television...the camera angles..the lighting...the editing etc

however, for those that don't run their own business, this is the view they are given! I've often had people say 'wow, buy me a ferrari then' just because i said i did website design and ran my own business. they assume its easy..you buy a shop, sell clothes, get rich and buy an apartment in Los Angeles.

the programme doesn't show REAL business people, the types that are on this forum, the people that have 100 ideas every hour and are trying desperately to pay the mortgage and the car insurance.
 
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Don't see the problem.A very nice man from an oil company in Nigeria wants me to look after $54 million that he has just found.
 
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Esk247 said:
i agree it is made up for television...the camera angles..the lighting...the editing etc

however, for those that don't run their own business, this is the view they are given! I've often had people say 'wow, buy me a ferrari then' just because i said i did website design and ran my own business. they assume its easy..you buy a shop, sell clothes, get rich and buy an apartment in Los Angeles.

the programme doesn't show REAL business people, the types that are on this forum, the people that have 100 ideas every hour and are trying desperately to pay the mortgage and the car insurance.
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I tend to disagree, I don't think people (the majority) are that naive these days.
 
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mattybaz said:
I tend to disagree, I don't think people (the majority) are that naive these days.
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Oh yes they are .Most of the UK are drowning in a sea of debt .We are living in a land of complete fools ..

Ask a young person what they want out of life these days .They wont say I want to be rich .They will tell you they want to be famous ..

Dont overestimate the British public they are the biggest bunch of mugs in Europe but thats good news for all you retailers on here ;);)
 
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JEREMY HAWKE said:
Ask a young person what they want out of life these days .They wont say I want to be rich .They will tell you they want to be famous
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My daughter is nearly 19 and doesn't want to be rich OR famous. She wants to be a bum. She's doing pretty well at it too, fair play. She idles, on average, about 10 hours a day, and hopes to achieve a full 12-hour day of doing sod all in time for her next birthday. Oh what it is to be ambitious, eh? :)

Unfortunately, I'm only half joking... :rolleyes:
 
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JEREMY HAWKE said:
Oh yes they are .Most of the UK are drowning in a sea of debt .We are living in a land of complete fools ..

Ask a young person what they want out of life these days .They wont say I want to be rich .They will tell you they want to be famous ..
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Whats that got to do with peoples perception of running a business :|:|:|
 
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JEREMY HAWKE said:
Oh yes they are .Most of the UK are drowning in a sea of debt .We are living in a land of complete fools ..

Ask a young person what they want out of life these days .They wont say I want to be rich .They will tell you they want to be famous ..

Dont overestimate the British public they are the biggest bunch of mugs in Europe but thats good news for all you retailers on here ;);)
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By the way, its going to be one of those 'mugs' that may do a search on your company one day, and find this thread. ;)
 
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Acting as a 'young person' I'd like to say that I would like to be successful in life (covering health and wealth;)) and that there's more to life than fame and money for me :)
 
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This may be a little Naieve, but what is the legal and obvious differences between a Pyramid Scheme and Multi-Level Marketing?

They both seem the same to me.
 
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