The Energy Gold Rush? Ambit Energy Is A Scam and Fraud, But Not In The Way You Think It Is
(this site is NOT affilliated with Ambit Energy, it is a private opinion site)
So you are looking to join Ambit Energy as a consultant? Are you wondering if your $400 investment (or whatever they charge now) is going to be worth it?
Well, statistics say that you are better off investing that money in a simple savings account because you will fail.
That’s right, the scam that is Ambit Energy is the fact that whomever is talking to you about it is getting you all hyped up on all the money you can make. They are selling you a dream. But that dream comes true for very few people. In fact, the person who is trying to sell you on Ambit Energy is probably making nothing either!!!!!!
Let’s see anyway, I bet you’ve heard things like this:
–natural gas and electricity are the perfect products because they are habitually used
–this is a ground floor opportunity
–natural gas and electricity are the new gold rush
–everyone uses electricity and natural gas so everyone needs what you are offering
Am I pretty close?
Well, guess what dear friend: 95% of you who read this will fail. Wanna know why? The reason you will fail is because you actually value your family and friendships.
That may have thrown you for a loop so read it again: The reason you will fail at Ambit Energy is because you truly value your friendships and family. In other words, you are not willing to take advantage of family or friends in order to advance you so-called “Ambit Business.”
Using Guilt On Family And Friends To Advance Your Ambit Business
You see, once you sign over your money and become an Ambit consultant, they will tell you to go get your first couple of customers. Those should be your close friends and family and if they should refuse to sign up as your electric or gas customer, then you tell them “well, our relationship is gonna change then since you won’t trust me on this.” ( I personaly heard this statement being made by a Texas consultant, a pastor, on a couple of occasions)
Therein folks, is the Ambit Energy Scam! The scam is in the Ambit leaders ability to shame you into taking advantage of friendships to advance yourself in the business. Have you ever heard the term “never mix business with pleasure?” …yeah, that is a true statement. It’s a bad idea. So the sense of the word “scam” is a different interpretation then what you are used to!
Convince A Stranger To Sign Up For the Ambit Energy Dream: Fat Chance!
But there is still more to the Ambit Thing… how about after you have sifted through all your friends and family and made them feel guilty or uncomfortable? Then what? Are you gonna go out and knock on doors in your neighborhood? I doubt it!
You see, after you have scorched all your friendships, the next thing is to talk with strangers, and that is a very very tough sell, especially when you really can’t offer them anything. In fact, you have to get them to fork over $400 too and try to live a pipe dream.
Folks, this is the trouble with ALL multi-level marketing schemes. They prey on your hope of something better. The problem is that less than 5% of people who ever sign up for some bull shit MLM thing every make their money back to break even. And you see, the rish assholes at the top count on the fact that there more and more suckers out there who will kick in the $400 and get a couple customers before becoming discouraged and quitting.
Only Already Established MLM Leaders Make Any Money With Ambit Energy
This is my opinion…
The final part to the Ambit is the fact that most of the top earners already were involved in some previous MLM pyramid before coming to Ambit. You can check it out. All of them were in some other thing that “just wasn’t working out” and decided to come over to Ambit. What does this tell you?
It tells me that in order to be successful in Ambit Energy, you need to be able to bring an army of seasoned MLM workers with you. It is nearly impossible to build an Ambit business with no MLM experience or previous contacts.
With all that being said, I do believe that Ambit delivers on what they promise their customers and they do pay their consultants their earnings in a timely fashion. The Ambit business is sound (for now) and financially viable.
The issue is the fact that YOU will not succeed in it. You just won’t, so save your money. Trust me!
UPDATE Feb 2009: oh yeah, I almost forgot to mention there is some ass-wipe in Texas who is an executive consultant that will try to sell you an “energy gold rush” website for a monthly fee as well. The big honcho above him, the founding consultant, sends out regular emails to the rank-and-file members encouraging them to invest in an Energy Gold Rush site. Kinda funny that you’d need to buy this third party website in order to be successful. Of course, I can’t seem to find any of his client sites (subdomains) ranking anywhere in the SERPS. In fact, the root domain only has 4 backlinks in yahoo site explorer and one is his now-dead personal blog! ha! another scam! (SERPs = Search Engine Results Pages) On another similar note, if this executive consultant is making so much money, why doesn’t he just give away the ENERGY GOLD RUSH sites for free?