Response from: Mario Saldana (Check me out!)

Where do I start? I am hoping to make this response relevant, informative, intelligent and positive.
I am 33 years old and had been introduced to the "home-based biz/mlm" world when I was a 20 year old college student. I was convinced it was for me... Who wouldn't want to make $10,000+ a month from home working 3-4 hours a day? After 3 months and spending (not making) $2k I decided to quit. I had failed and I felt very dumb for even trying. I gave up my ambitions and was destined to forever label my home-based business experience as “I was scammed!”
Well, 5 years in corporate America and 7 years as the owner of a residential roofing company working 60+ hours a week later, I found myself, again, looking at the industry that “screwed me over”.
“Why?” you ask. Because I had to! I have a baby boy due in May and my roofing business requires that I travel 6-9 months out of the year... NOT AN OPTION! Plus, I was a walking stress-ball and it didn’t matter that I was clearing close to $120k a year. So in October ‘07 I looked online and in the classified ads for a business I could work. By November I was getting a call or two a week from people pitching me their opportunities. Wouldn’t you know it; I ended up diving into a gifting program.
I guess I got lucky initially. The program I am in is not illegal or a “pyramid scheme”. I say that because I presented it to 3 attorneys and 1 CPA who were all roofing clients of mine. I know there are some illegal programs out there and even within the legal ones there are people who are “bad apples” involved in them.
There is one thing I learned, and it is what has allowed me to stay home full time due to my gifting program... One must have an unbreakable moral code. Meaning, if I sense greed, desperation, or a complete misunderstanding of my program I don’t want your gift much less need it, even if it is $3500.