The problem with mlm is that everyone is motivated to lie. Its like asking a car salesman if he thinks his opinions on the only type of car he is selling. They are often selling the business dream rather than the product, and even when it's the product they are promoting then it's a complete wild West. People are encouraged to approach people that have just have babies to sell weightloss products etc in ways traditional buisness wouldn't dare
They don't follow the regulations and it leaves them free to tell you 100% this product is safe with skin conditions etc and make outrageous claims that other companies would be sued for. Theres zero sense of accountability when the claims are made by Jane on Facebook. Jane has a product to flog and isn't afraid of the same rules to try and sell it or recommend it in every situation
There's two mlm that pop up frequently for me scentsy and skin care ones, both have reps making completely incorrect claims.
Scentsy for example is non toxic so sellers always pop up on my specific type of small animal page, scentsy is categorically bad for my type of animal (as are all fragranced products) however sellers will swear blue that it completely is. However its often clear that they genuinely believe it is, because all they are told about their product comes from someone else in their living room higher up the chain. I've seen messaged trails (when people have been questioned on it) and it's full of sellers at each point of the market who clearly don't know what they are talking about reassuring others "it's totally fine babe. All natural hun x". Tina that's trying to sell it to me gets her information from Jane that profits from Tina selling the product, who gets her information from some other boss babe.
I also have a skin condition and the amount of mlm products that people are somehow able to sell as curing psoriasis, eczema etc or as totally safe is out standing. The last time I questioned it on a Facebook selling group (one of the ingredients was something that's clearly contraindicated for the condition that someone asked about). Someone in the upline got involved and clearly said they were , then said they weren't in the upline to try and pretend to be impartial
It's like asking that car sales man if he thinks this car is suitable for your family
Family members that are in mlm have been outright lied to by uplines. When things weren't working she was strongly encouraged that to spend more, invest more including paying for things like going on retreats where they'd tell her how to sell more.
Eventually when she'd got slightly higher she realised that she'd been lied to. The people who'd been telling her how much they'd made had been fudging things. For example they said they sold x amount this month but were making it look like profit but that was their down lines and theirs product sales not how much money they were taking away.
Any conversation about actually how few people were making anything close to minimum wage (and were being left in debt by starter packs, buying boosts or buying stock themselves to up figures) was dismissed as people not trying hard enough, "some people join just to buy the product for them selves' so it was impossible to get a grasp of how much money anyone was making
Ultimately she realised the whole model didn't work when she was encouraged to recruit like mad, then her area became overwhelmed by sellers all competing for the same market
When she left her upline told her it was all her fault, she should have tried harder, tried to get her to buy her own stock (because if she made a certain grade of seller then her life would be easier", tried to redistribute stock so the same sales were registered multiple times.
She made some money but nothing more than she'd of got doing a few hours a week in a shop, nothing close to a wage, instead she devoted so much time, lost friends (there just jealous babe x) and calls it the lost years