[A_perfect_lady]

Just to be clear, multi-level marketing is when you buy inventory from the person above you in the pyramid, and then you have to resell that inventory through sales parties and recruiting new people below you who get their inventory from you.

So theoretically, the same items could be bought and sold dozens of times before finally being actually used?

[Political Junkie Too]

In the old days, yes, but as inventory. The manufacturers didn't have to warehouse the inventory, they sold it to the top level person, who then resold it down, and so on until someone sold it to a consumer. The commission got smaller and smaller until the person at the bottom was making very little money and was stuck with the product.

Today, it's called "direct sales," because the salesperson doesn't physically touch the product.

-PJ