In the last week I have had two run-ins with “business men” “building teams” for “internet sales.” The first was a couple that noticed my Oregon plates outside of HEB, introduced themselves and after some friendly discussion about ‘ol Corvallis they wanted to select me for their team. Yea!
After a couple of minutes he wouldn’t shut up and I am not a rude guy so I gave him my email and darted.
The next day I got this email:
…I enjoyed meeting you. You seem like a very confident person and someone
that might fit well on the team we are putting together. Listen, I can’t
promise you anything but if you are truly interested in making some
additional income we should talk. We need to get together for about 15min
so we can get to know each other better and I can give you an overview of
what we are doing. I have some time in my schedule Thursday late after noon
or Friday. Which is better for you?…
Uh huh, uh huh. Oh gee, wowie, that sounds great, a team, money and a business plan that is so complex that it must be explained in 15 minutes, instead of in the email…
So I did some research on his email address and turned up bww.com. And the website is as non-descript as the email: “Empowering people around the world”. They didn’t even bother to put what BWW stands for anywhere on the page.
Something was up and after some Googling I discovered Britt World Wide AKA Amway + Internets AKA Free Business Training at Hotel Near the Airport AKA Pyramid Scheme.
Here are some links about the business:
- Britt World Wide or “If he can do it, why can’t I?” (Part II)
- Pyramid Scheme Alert
- NBC Consumer Alert
Summary: BWW should be avoided.
Today I was attacked by another BWW person while drinking my iced tea and reading up on TCL/TK. But armed with the information on BWW I was able to quickly hush him and get back to my reading.
So why am I posting this? Because non of these resources link to bww.com, so using google for link:bww.com returns no results. At least until my site gets crawled 
As a side note everyone in Austin is extremely friendly and these few brain washed creeps by no means represents the whole of the ATX.
In other news don’t lay on metal that has been sitting out in the direct 100 degree sunlight. You will burn your back… badly!
