To wonder whether/how anyone ever truly makes lots of money from MLM businesses?

[KissHerYouBrilliantFool]

An acquaintance of mine and her husband have been consultants for an MLM for about 3 years now (the one with the white Mercedes as an incentive) and both seem to be doing really well from it; they've got a company car each and neither do any other jobs or work apart from this.

She keeps trying to get me to join her team but tbh I'm totally baffled as to how they've making so much money from it! They travel round the country to various events at weekends, and have team members but It baffles me as to how they sustain their lifestyle from it all. I buy products from her and although the products are very nice I can't imagine that she's selling a vast quantity each month.

I also know someone who is the friend of a friend and who is a highly successful consultant for another MLM company and she claims to be a millionaire from it all! Her lifestyle and posting on social media would back up this claim! She seems to have pots of money!

I'm actually wondering if they all have rich families that are supporting them whilst they make out their venture is making them rich?

I knew a few Pampered Chef people- 2 made a lot of money and loved it. 2 made very little money and hated it.

To be fair I LOVE pampered chef things - my kitchen is full of them, but they never managed to recruit me

How on earth does she shift £5k worth of products a month?! I'd say people only spend £30 a time or so

Most of the £5k (if she does take that in orders) will be spent by her to maintain her seller status or reach a new level or something. Lots of MLM sellers end up with massive amounts of stock they can't shift and a huge debt to pay off. Although the one rule of filtering MLM sellers' claims is this: They Lie. All.The.Time.

However as a counterpoint- my Avon Lady hasn’t delivered the £20 order I placed before Christmas or the £20 order I placed 2 weeks ago. So I kind of know how she is making money....

Complete bollocks

I lost £2500 on MLM convinced that anyone could do well if they put the effort in. Drove family members and friends away. I'm poorer now than ever. Such a big scam and I wasn't selling a physical product, I was selling a coursr/service that people can find online for free. A Forex course. I feel a complete fool, conned of money that could have been a benefit to my family instead. That 2.5k was my (crap) pension pot. Now I'll have to save again

Credit cards, loans, raiding savings. It’s all smoke and mirrors although a very few do make money from it.

A Facebook friend has started doing an MLM. She also owns her business, a legitimate one. I don’t really get why she added the MLM in.
Anyway, she posted a status a few months a go that was clearly a copy paste job from her company because it was written in US English and it was the biggest load of bollocks about how she doesn’t care if her children go to “college” and she just wishes for them to be successful entrepreneurs and whatever. If it had been written about her genuine business, which is pretty impressive, that would be one thing. But it was written about selling make up. As if that’s what you hope and dream for your children?
Oh and yes she seems now to have a leased white Mercedes

... And the airy, fairy, sickly, daily inspirational quotes on FB. I was deleted for saying it like it is. Saved me a job. The trash took itself out 🤮 How are these people so brainless and blinkered?