A 'company' that controls all its stages of production from the growth, to the harvesting of its aloe, right thru to the manufacturing of its 'superior' products, cutting out the middleman @ every stage.Then uses its own worker bees to market & distribute, making further huge savings to its production, manufacturing & running costs. By rights, it should be like a walmart of the aloe industry, even distributing to other large retailers in the market. Usually when a co's/retailers are in the enviable position of controlling all its stages of production & churning out products on such a massive scale, they pass on the cost savings to their consumers (think monopolistic co's like walmart, tesco et al). Fl does the complete reverse & treats their end users, who just happen to be their same worker bees that facilitated the savings in costs, in the 1st place, with utter contempt. Instead of reflecting all these savings into a competitive retail price, ensuring its dominance in a much more profitable open market, it grossly inflates the retail price of its products, to an unjustifiably non-competitive level. Then has the audacity to tell it's worker bees they're prohibited from selling products in the open market (which couldn't compete in any case), they should sell to friends/fam instead; use their own social media to 'recommend', as well as purchasing & using these grossly price inflated goodies, themselves...just to add insult to injury. If that isn't pisstaking enough, there are set minimal quotas that must be purchased for personal use & closed market distribution, no less than 'per month', worker bees will have to pay for some of the training material/tools provided ('which you can't succeed without because there's a magic formula to be followed), pay out of their own pockets to attend various events & presentations, pay their own travel expenses (even volunteers get travel & lunch expenses) do all necessary legwork required to make 'business work' with no financial assistance & give freely of their time to do so. All under the guise of being 'business owners', even though they have no legal franchise in 'the business' & are 'promoted' within a closed, hierarchical structure. Erm yh....what is there to question? It all seems above board to me, sign me up! *rolls eyes.
In any other business environment, this model doesn't make much sense, but when u place it in its true context, a pyramid scam with the added twist of (ruse) products, for legality purposes, it makes perfect sense. Oh but wait! My bad, it isnt a pyramid scam, its just a harmless mlm scheme 