WFG has no limit to how far they will go...
As most of you may/may not know, I'm a mortgage broker. About 2 months ago, I had a WFG "advisor" (and I use that term loosely for WFG) contact me to setup a meeting. Knowing full well what they are all about, I asked what the purpose of the meeting would be. I asked her if she is looking to recruit me. She said no. I then asked her if she was looking for referrals or was looking to send me referrals. She said she was looking to send referrals.
Like I said, I know how WFG operates, but I also know that they still do a lot of volume, and I know other brokers that receive a lot of business for them. So, I agreed to meet her. After all, I was just going to be doing mortgages for their clients, not actually involved in the other stuff.
Sure enough, I show up for the meeting and gave my 5 minute pitch/value-add and then realized two minutes later what their true intentions were. Even though she blatantly told me they were not trying to recruit me, that ended up being their full intention. There were two of them, and they went into their full presentation on how much money I could make, bla bla bla. I had to cut her off mid-sentence eventually and told her to "save me the speech". I then proceeded to tell them that "it's people like you that are the reason WFG has the name that it does".
I then wrote her a strongly worded email to her and felt better about myself.
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