Phoenix Blog

In surfing around the Internet for our recent posts on Scottsdale's Liberty League International, we came upon a remarkably similar outfit -- also in Arizona -- called Life Path Unlimited. Life Path gives a "mailing address" of 37555 North Hum Road in Carefree.

Our two cents: It's another ripoff. Like Liberty League, Life Path Unlimited seems to hinge on getting you to buy motivational CDs and seats at conferences, all to teach you how to get people to buy the same thing. And so on.

Sure, you may get to walk on hot coals and listen to interesting motivational speakers, but you'll pay too much the privilege. Why? Because of the very thing they want to teach you. They want you to become, like them, excellent at verbally manipulating suckers with cold cash.

Just look at some of the too-good-to-be-true claims of their proponents, like Jenn Lawlor in Washington:

The Arizona Republic has a noticeable ad on its page A5 today for bogus fuel-saving devices.

The ridiculous products, known as "platinum gas savers," have been debunked as worthless wastes of money by independent testers. The ads and the publications that print them have received criticism when run in other cities.