cozietoesie & Gimlet When the DTI investigators were interviewing arrogant Ambot shills, and ignorant 'Amway UK' company officers, in 2007, they asked them to explain the so-called 'payment plan' in simple terms, but no one could.
Once you know that little, or no, money flows into 'MLM' rackets from sources other than the participants themselves, the endless complication involved in all so-called 'MLM payment plans', is revealed as mystifying BS which has no real function other than to shut down the critical faculties of 'MLM' victims, and those of casual observers.
Imagine if we took 100 children and persuaded them each to place a pound coin on a table on the pretext we had a magic formula which could enable them to get back more money than they put down. Unless we really do have miraculous powers, then no matter how we divide up the resulting £100, the very most each child could hope to get back, would be what he/she started with.
If you just take this scenario one step further and persuade the children that they can follow a magic step-by-step plan which will enable them to get more money back than they put down, you begin to realise how easy it is to make them believe that they didn't follow the plan correctly and that their failure to get more money back, must have been entirely their own fault. Self-evidently, the more complex the magic plan, the easier it becomes to fool the children and to convince them they were to blame. If you give some money to a few a exemplary children, and convince them that the magic plan really does work, but only if you follow it to the letter, the trick becomes even more convincing and fiendish.