The saddest part of MLMs is that it turns otherwise normal people into fanatics—they can ruin all friendships because they demand the friend do business with them—it turns a positive relationship into a “user” one.
You ain’t a true friend until you have tried to sell me a timeshare.
So true. At times I am startled by which of my friends have fallen to it. Suddenly an old friend of many years goes at it and when confronted directly about it just responds according to a script obviously provided by the MLM for just that scenario. It's like Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
Years ago I bought the $100 starter kit or whatever it was from Amway. It really is/was good stuff. But of course the guy wasn’t truthful to get me to his first meeting. He covered it by saying “Well, if I was completely truthful you wouldn’t have come - would you? And missed out on these great products!”
My wife and I refused to lie to our friends about the Amway sales pitch we were going to have at our house when we invited them.
Nobody came! The couple that got me into it were nice folks, and he ended up doing well with it. Not my style though.
My best friend from high school got sucked into the NuSkin cult. It ruined our friendship.