Posted on 09/12/2022 4:56:35 PM PDT by nickcarraway
My grandmother's death is not an opportunity to deliver your sales pitch.
In case you didn't know, a multilevel marketing company (aka an MLM) is a company that emphasizes both direct sales and recruiting other people to join the company and work under you, so you can receive a percentage of profit from the inventory they buy and sell.
MLM's have been around for decades. One of the most well-known MLM's is LulaRoe, a leggings company that has had a ton of scandals in recent years and ultimately had to pay over $4 million to settle a lawsuit that claimed it was running a pyramid scheme*. But trust me, there are plenty of others out there!
Because of the pressure MLM's place on their reps to sell inventory and recruit more people, their behavior can sometimes get a little...*intense*. Here are some examples:
1. This MLM'er who body-shamed and then doubled down:
2. This MLM'er who saw their husband's funeral as the perfect occasion to try and sell product:
(Excerpt) Read more at buzzfeed.com ...
So do we place MLM’ers above or below time share salespeople in the marketing Hall of Shame?
These are all texts. The media never verifies these are real people. They never talk to anyone at all. Just read twitter, then copy some of the texts, publish.
My wife’s BIL was big into some vitamin supplement MLM.
I remember at my MIL’s funeral he was trying to peddle them to everybody at the funeral home.
He got pretty far up in the org, but then it got sold and the top guys poached his downline, so he was basically shut out.
Gee, sounds a lot like the old Amway folks. Or Scientology.
Amway is MLM.
Had a neighbor once who was SO SO nice to me...until I declined to join her MLM program...don’t think she ever spoke to me again. They are like cult recruiters.
I know real estate agents like that. They will straight up tell you - if you ever buy or sell a house with someone else, we will never talk again.
An old friend of mine went the Nuskin route. It’s like a cult.
I bought some Amway soap once. It was some thing like ‘simple green’ and it was great.
I wanted to buy some more and every single person I talked to wanted to recruit me to sell for them.
I was difficult to tell them “I just want to buy some soap”
I went to college in Michigan in the late 60s.
Amway (based in Ada, Mich) was ramping up rapidly back then.
One of my profs made big money from it as an early adopter with a big downline.
It spawned a similar competitor called “Bestline” that failed.
One of my frat bros wound up with a garage full of Bestline soap costing a few thousands of $$$ that he couldn’t sell.
Always go with the winner....
So is any supplemental life insurance company. Commission based companies will eventually hit the bottom of the well during a weak economy.
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