@Port1aCastis
My very good friend is an Avon rep, she's trying to make a few pounds as she's been made redundant like many thousands of others, so I've bought some bits from her to try and help out! Nothing wrong with trying everything wrong with sitting on arse doing nothing.
The reason that MLM is everywhere is that people are losing their jobs and there is a massive drive by MLMs and the DIrect Selling Association that promotes MLM to exploit this situation. People are being told that MLM is a viable WFH option. People’s guard is down because they’re understandable worried, and it’s this kind of vulnerability MLMs always target. People are sold a lie and when it goes wrong they are told that it’s their fault when in fact the continued success for everyone in this sort of scheme is a mathematical impossibility.
People are also told to expect criticism and that when it comes it will indicate that the critic is envious and is a sad, negative person, trapped in a traditional job. So when you do try and warn people they are already primed to dismiss you as “unsupportive”. Women are sold the idea that MLM is “female empowerment” but it’s the very opposite.
These are not product selling companies, they are recruitment devices that make their money from the people signing up and buying product for themselves (and to try to sell) and paying for training, conferences, cult-like gatherings and websites etc. This isn’t going to rescue people in financial dire straits due to Covid, it’s going to give them more problems. This is an industry where more than 99% of sign ups lose money. In buying MLM product from a friend, though well meant, it isn’t supporting them, it’s supporting the MLM and prolonging the agony because it is almost impossible to make any money at all in any consistent way And it’s better to find that out sooner rather than later. The only way to make money in MLM is to recruit a large downline and encourage them to buy buy buy, because uplines aren’t paid on what downline’s sell, they’re paid on what downlines purchase. No wonder there’s so much pressure for sign ups at the bottom of the pyramid to get their wallets out! Honestly, @Port1aCastis Your friend would be better off sitting on her arse doing nothing, it’s certainly likely to be more lucrative.
I run a website on the subject (along with others), there’s a few resources there. www.mlmtruth.org