I come to you not as a customer, but as someone who was chosen as someone for this sick and twisted company to try and recruit. Where do I even start? Someone who I was "friends" with in high school messaged me when I was down and having issues financially. He approached me as a friend offering me the opportunity to work for the company he worked for to make some good money, do some relatively simple work, and have an opportunity to experience travelling while selling. Seemed like a good deal. He approached me saying he was a hiring manager who received hundreds of resumes a month but he wanted ME for my skill set. As he went into greater detail I became more and more wary of his pitch. One thing that was mentioned a lot was "the back end". Fluent is a company that pays exclusively on a commission basis, which contributes to their predatory sales tactics, and one thing he mentioned was that you are an independent contractor making commission, however, the company withholds a significant portion of your commission until you complete a work term. So as an employee, you sign on to work for 4-5 months at a time, move across the country, have to pay to stay in motels with up to 4 other men and women in a room with 2 beds, and the company keeps most of your commission until the end of your work term. He called that withheld money, the back end. And that was the core of his pitch. "Every time you make a sale you make 10% commission or something like that, but you get a flat commission of $400 in the back end". Claiming he made $60k as a 20 year old at the time, that sounded pretty crazy. Until he mentioned that if you leave the company before your term is finished, that back end, goes away. The company keeps it. You never see the money, as far as they're concerned you never even made it. There is no documentation to even prove its accumulating as you work for them. In the moments I was considering doing it as a desperate student, I asked my girlfriend who has much more clairvoyance than I do to come speak to my friend with me. She asked him hard hitting questions about payment, travel, accomodations, and proof that I wasn't moving across the country to not actually make significant money. He refused to provide proof of salary, and when my girlfriend got up to go to the washroom, he tried to tell me that she didn't want what was best for me because she was jealous of the opportunity and he said "She's being kind of a b****. I was insulted and enraged. It was then that I knew for certain that this was a scam. He also went on to tell me that people we knew from high school who were total drop outs and dead beats were getting hired on. He thought it was an incentive to get me to join because they were people I knew, when in reality it made his company look worse because he previously told me he was constantly getting applications from more qualified people. It was clear he was receiving an enormous bonus of some kind, that he claimed he was not receiving, for recruiting as many weak minded people as possible.Fast forward some months later. I never did join the company. I heard from someone that worked with him that they had a member of their team who's sales weren't up to par with the expectations that were set in place. My source told me that they approached the young girl who wasn't making many sales and said that if she wanted to remain on the team, she would have to perform "in other ways" to "remain an asset". I am disgusted in more ways than I can express with Fluents treatment of their potential recruits, existing team members, and their clients all over NA. If you ever have one of them come to your door, tell them they're either a pawn or a predator, if you're reading this because you're not sure if they're legit, I will only say this; they're legitimately dangerous. To your well being, to your mental health, and to your financial stability as both a customer and employee.