Greetings:
I would think that after people read complaint after complaint about this company and upon reviewing the multitude of horror stories about PPL, consumers would start to get the message to avoid PPL at all costs.
Despite the self serving and clearly company sponsored "rebuttals" that seem to follow every negative post about PPL, sooner or later the underlying message should start to sink in; DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME & MONEY ON PPL. This company is NOT about providing legitimate and beneficial consumer products and services, it is simply about continuing to support their long running corporate pyramid scheme, through the "recruiting" of every living, breathing, human in possession of a bank account on the planet earth.
While I am sure that there are a multitude of good, honest, hard working, decent and most of all UNINFORMED people within the distribution levels of this never ending pyramid scheme called PPL; those making the "big bucks" that the PPL managers and recruiters love to tout are NOT the world's most honest, ethical, or best educated "movers & shakers" in the business world. Clearly, PPL would love new recruits to believe that their upper management structure is made up of some of the world’s great business leaders and financial minds. Notwithstanding, the fact is that many of those "business leaders" within the ranks of PPL have very checkered pasts and would never make the cut in order to advance to the upper, or even middle management ranks of any Fortune 500 company. In fact, most legitimate small business owners, or local and regional employers, would not want many of these people anywhere near their own legitimate firms or employees.
This brings me to my next point. PPL's introduction of their "Identity Theft" products has been a recruiting gold mine for these types of unethical individuals. I have personally observed and listened to the training provided to new PPL "recruits" and experienced PPL "associates" alike, on how to establish a new PPL business relationship with their friends, family, work associates and other vendors that they trade with on a regular basis. First they are taught to go in and talk about how "identity theft" runs rampant in our society today and then present that employer and their uninformed employees with the PPL "solution" to their identity theft problems.
Unfortunately, the "sale" does not stop there, instead those same PPL recruits and associates are then trained and expected to strong arm and recruit their new business client's employees and managers into becoming PPL "associates" themselves. Once those unsuspecting employees and managers are placed under the PPL "anesthesia" at one of the PPL weekly "opportunity meetings," the pressure then begins for that new "PPL client" to LEAVE their full time employer. Yes, the same employer that the PPL associate just sold a company wide PPL "identity theft" program to. Clearly, that employer doesn't have to concern himself or herself with the problem of "identity theft" thanks to PPL; however they now must worry about "employee theft" when the PPL associate and their up line "managers" attempt to hire away all of that new business client's employees for the PPL "dream." A "dream" that consists of nothing more than smoke and mirrors, half truths and playing upon everyone's desire to achieve "financial independence."
As a current Bar Association member, I have seen firsthand the repeated and extensive damage that has been done to the lives of good, honest, hard working Americans, through the blatant manipulation and deceit perpetrated upon unsuspecting individuals and employers, by those promoting the Prepaid Legal Services products and their alleged "business opportunity." I currently represent, or have represented clients in the past, who have had their lives turned upside down after finding out that the "legal plan" from PPL that they have struggled to pay for month upon month, covers virtually nothing and they are now in the middle of a complex legal situation without the legal representation that they thought they had. I have also witnessed the ravaging of companies by PPL managers and recruiters once they get their foot in the door of a firm under the pretense of "protecting their company and employees."
Enough is enough! Wake up America, PPL is not the path to wealth and financial independence that it purports to be, it is a fast track to business and financial ruin for all too many people who make the mistake of becoming PPL "associates," or opening the doors of their business to an unethical and starving PPL associate or manager that will do all in their power to recruit your trusted employees, managers and even officers or partners away from your company. I have seen it happen personally and I know that the problem is widespread. Don't let you and your firm become another "notch" on Prepaid Legal's gun belt!