Utility Warehouse Distributor anyone do it?

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Spoke to an old friend who tried to recruit me,

I work full time this would be an after work thing,

Anyone have any experience in doing this? (are there any major pros or cons)

Anyone have experience in using them as a supplier? (are they good)

I run my own business after work already and this would provide me a constant supply of potential UW customers
 
Many years ago I attended a meeting in Sandbach and it was like a religious meeting.
My mate who still does it took me there when I'd just lost my job, funnily enough he still earns commission of our payments.
We keep saying we're going to sign over to Look After My Bills.

Their idea of lowering your Sky/Virgin payments was to get rid of them and get a Freeview box - seriously.
I asked the question "But what about people like me who want to watch football?" and the answer was "Why would you want to when you're saving so much".
 
edscdk said:
Spoke to an old friend who tried to recruit me,

I work full time this would be an after work thing,

Anyone have any experience in doing this? (are there any major pros or cons)

Anyone have experience in using them as a supplier? (are they good)

I run my own business after work already and this would provide me a constant supply of potential UW customers
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They are a good supplier with a good reputation but I cannot speak for the sales methods they use as I have never tried it.
 
Like with most of these things you'll get out what you put in to be honest. My wife got involved with the Scentsy stuff. Basically you sell the Scentsy products and take a tiny commission as well as being able to recruit team members and make commission on their sales. I think my wife made enough to probably go for dinner a couple of times a month but that was about that. However a lady 2 levels above her who'd made it her full time thing had around 100 people in her team/their teams and was making a decent wage. Plus she got incentives like holidays and things where she went to the Scentsy conferences and then a holiday after/before. So she was doing well but having to put the work in. (As with most sales driven stuff i guess??) However, these people still aren't actual employees of Scentsy so there's no sick pay, benefits etc unless you get really really high up. I'm guessing most of these setups are the same.

So in short if you spend part time on it you'll make part time money and if you spend full time on it you'll make full time money. I have had experience with a guy at work trying to convert me to the utility warehouse and some stuff was cheaper but not all. Basically you saved more money the more services you took with them. So broadband, phone, mobile energy with them would save more than just putting your mobile phone with them. Which i guess doesn't make much difference to you other than when you're trying to sell it to people. :D I guess you could just dump it all on your family members and take the commission for the easiest profit?
 
thegreysquirrel said:
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2...utility-warehouse-energy-scheme-joanna-lumley

Sounds like a typical pyramid type scheme to me.
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Christ don't say that to them. I lost 2 friendships for pointing that out.

"It's not a pyramid scheme, it's social networking something or other BS"

When I cheekily pointed out that if you took their nice spider web looking social plan and pulled it together it makes a pyramid they stopped talking to me :D

It's absolute BS. My local area went mad for it 3/4 years ago, local facebook page banned it in the end.

People being promised cheaper deals to sign up with them, the majority of people complained and the customer support was terrible. The salespeople wash their hands of it as soon as you're a customer.

it's like doing Avon or Victoria Secret parties, but without the parties :D

Have a google, lots of horror stories.

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The reason they are always recruiting is because that is where the money is. You make a commission on your sales, however, recruit a team and you'll make a commission on theirs as well.

If you want to make money, look up The Honey Group and become a sales rep for them selling Wills, Trusts and LPAs. I used to work for them running their IT and they always look after their sales guys, spa weekends etc. Some of them are turning over £100k a year, I just can't stand their practices as I have integrity.
 
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the point is it might be ok if you have no soul/conscience/morals etc surely :p

(this is one of those threads when it's hard to tell who's being serious)
 
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builder22 said:
the point is it might be ok if you have no soul/conscience/morals etc surely :p
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Well you don't get what the job is then.
Most customers like me carry on paying our UW bill regardless while he gets a commission from it so who's fault is that?
He has 100s (maybe 1000s) of his own customers who are 'content' paying what they pay while giving him free money every month so who's fault is that?
He then signs up other UW sales people where he then gets a % from all their earnings and so on.
I got made redundant in 2007 and was his customer when he took me off to a meeting to hopefully earn more money out of me and for me to make easy money.
He also gives his personal number to everybody so if you have a problem he has to sort it however lots of people haven't been happy with the result
 
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