It's cool and raining all day, when an acquaintance came
riding his red motorcycle and traveled atleast 6 hours.
Trembling cool while removing his helmet, coat, and wet
shoes, I summoned him to hang his things
above the potted plants (hapid) while going in to boil water.
Not to tell him the obvious that the drip from his things
will water the plants as I did not water them for the past days...
Waiting for the water to boil, he handed me a sachet of
coffee with ingredients as follows: Non dairy creamer (contains milk protein),
raw cane sugar, coffee powder, inulin, ginseng powder, ginkgo powder,
tricalcium phosphate, and coffee micron flavor. “Let’s try our coffee, this is
best for our health it has ginseng and ginkgo powder to help drive out toxins
from the body.” My eyes is reading the text on the sachet of coffee and just
say “this is nice” while standing to prepare the cups of hot water for the
coffee.
Sipping to make ourselves warm, He said that they also have
foliar fertilizer, “as far as am concern this is the best foliar I’ve ever seen.”
I wondered if he ever tried the product
but based from his mouth “the best foliar I’ve ever seen” conversation mere
subjective.
He added, “in this community that everyone is into vegetable
production I encourage you to be a member, you are missing the opportunity, you
can deal this to your clients.” Am not interested but to show interest on his
product I ask, “This is a good opportunity to help the farmers, are there any
distributor in the area?” Without thinking he answered “yes,” with confidence
and posture “we are only few but many farmers are having their second order, I
just delivered the ordered product worth more than a hundred thousand the other
members order of almost the same amount is on transit.”
He smiled confidently and sipped his mug. Feeling I’m not
convinced he changes the topic. “I’m also dealing satellite TV receivers, you
can tip me those friend of you who want to have one, every successful endorsement
you got a tip from me of Php500.00.
That interest me much, just do the talking to a customer,
and endorse it to him and when successful alas I have 500. “How many did you
install here?” I asked, “I have already installed more than 30 and counting,
and they are buying load from me of 390 per month.” To show interest, “wow that’s
huge money,” I exclaimed.
Questioning him with the advantage of being a member to the networking
with intention to sell foliar fertilizer, he said that besides having death
insurance, every carton of 12 litres of foliar fertilizer sold, I will be
having an outright income of 1,500 and if I have down lines I will be receiving
additional percentage based on the product they take out from the warehouse. (The
usual line of networking)
I asked again “So you have many members here?” as he opened
his wallet I saw he has much as he pulled out some papers and showed at list 3
of his receipts with an amount total of less than 12,000. “Last week I delivered
more than 10 cartons to different farmers and if you will become a member I
will refer them to you they will take it here if you don’t have time to deliver.
We have many users and more are showing interest to the product.” Calculating in
my mind he has 15,000 income if he delivered 10 cartoons aside from the earlier
and on-transit deliveries.
Since its getting dark he asked if how much is the hotel
rate in the nearby inn, he is planning to sleep there as his boarding house is
10kms away. I gave him the hotel numbers saying the nearest inn has 200 per
head for whole night. He went to the nearest inn and was told that the only
room available is for 2’s and he will have it for the prize of two.
I asked if he texted the other inn, “they replied and its
expensive 450 and 600.” He sit down and texted someone “I think I will go home
or can I stay and sleep here for the night?” I politely decline telling that my
room/bed is good for one and I have no extra sheet and blankets (unless you are
a lady, surely can accommodate us).
In bed, I keep on thinking, is there really money in networking?
(I seldom see people get rich with networking)
How can he influence me to be his down line? He is proud to
have delivered much and have many percentages from his down lines, but why he
can’t pay 400 for the hotel rate?
I slept with those and more questions unanswered....
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