A Moral Dilemma, What Would You Do?

One really good thing about about finding the right home based business opportunity, is that you can finally stop looking. That means you no longer need worry about things like scams, or having dealings with unethical people. But once in awhile something will remind you of just how bad it can be out there and, if by chance, you come across someone who you can see is in the middle of potential disaster, you simply want to reach out and say “STOP, please don’t go there”.

I have just had that experience. Someone signed up for a 7 day free trial, for a program which belonged to my past life. That's the life i had before I started my very special worldwide home based business opportunitysome six months ago.

I wrote the guy a short simple email congratulating him on his decision and offered him my help and support.

He wrote back and thanked me. He told me he had recently joined; let’s call it opportunity A. which I know firsthand to be an unethical, very expensive and quite notorious program. He also told me he had just joined opportunity B, which is a free program. I happen to know that program is free only till you sign up. If you expect to use it you have to pay. But at least with this one he will have the opportunity to decide.

My dilemma was; that someone, I suspect is not very experienced, who is working hard trying his best to succeed. But who appears to already have the cards stacked against him. You see, I have had very bad experience with program A and I know a large number of people have shared a similar fate.

The trouble is; he has already signed up for the program so he can't really change it. But then, forewarned is forearmed.

So here is my dilemma; On the one hand, I want to show him my home based business opportunity. I believe it would be of great help to him. As he already knows me, I’m sure he will at least have a look at it. But on the other hand, my conscience screams ‘tell him what you know!’ I'm very aware that his opinion about me will probably change if I tell him what I know. But I also must do what I consider the right thing.

So what did I finally do? I did both. First I took the risk and told him about my experiences with program A. I told him how, not long after joining that same program, I had taken a bad fall which kept me from accessing my internet for almost 3 months. When I finally got back on line, one handed, I wrote a letter to explain my circumstances and I cancelled the program. I also cancelled the monthly subscription, which, during my absence, had in some way become 2 monthly subscriptions.

I trusted there would be no more bleeding from my credit card but no such luck. For the next three months I was charged and debited for two subscriptions a month, and nothing I could say or do could stop it. Even my bank tried to help me. My debt was rising rapidly and my income, because of my injuries, had dwindled. The only thing I could do was to pay out the entire credit card debt, cancel it and get a completely new card. It almost ruined me.

I advised my new friend, at least, I hope he still is my new friend, to never pay money for a program without first using Google to check it out. I suggested that if he is not finding success with that program or not getting his commissions, I didn't get mine, and he decides to cancel, he should remember my experience and make sure he organises a very carefully planned cancellation.

I then told him about my main worldwide home based business. I advised him to Google it and asked him to look at the website afterwards. I hope he stayed with me through all that because if he did, he would have found a genuine home based business, which will cost him very little money to start, but which will give him the free training and support he needs while he earns as he learns.

He told me that program A is a worldwide home based business, and that's what made him join, and yes, he actually said worldwide. Based on where he is right now, that’s not very likely to happen. So I hope I haven’t turned him off and that he will still be prepared to look at my own home based business which really does have what he is looking for.

Time will tell, but I’ll keep an eye on my email box for the next few days.

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Kirsten Plotkin