Can you become a Nu Skin distributor and do nothing?

[liankian]

As you may know, Nu Skin Enterprises is an American multilevel marketing company which develops and sells personal care products and dietary supplements.

My younger sister has just become a Nu Skin distributor after her friend 'pushed' her. I was very worried, but my sister assured me that she only did this to please her friend.

My sister said she only plans to buy the first products sold to her directly by her friend. Afterwards, she plans to do nothing. I asked her to cancel the Nu Skin agreement but she said doing so would risk losing her friendship. So basically she will do nothing and things "will be fine".

Is it true?

1. Can you buy nothing from now on and Nu Skin will not charge you anything?

2. Will you have to fill in the tax form to pay the self-employment tax even though you don't plan to recruit anyone or sell anything?

I suggest reading the MLM threads on here.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/legal_money_matters/2627583-MLM-Bot-Watch-21-chat-about-Utah-based-tragicomic-cultastic-racketeering-scamalangadingdongs-like-Forever-Living-Ariix-Herbalife-Younique-Juiceplus-etc-etc-etc

Yes to the tax forms questions. she's self employed as a NuSkin distributor.

Your sister needs to be more assertive.

Your sister needs better friends in all honestly. If she loses her friend for cancelling she was no friend to begin with.

Has she signed up to anything with Nu Skin like agreeing to buy a 'starter pack'? If so, is there a cooling off period?

If she doesn't actually sell anything or attempt to sell anything, I wouldn't have thought that the tax office would consider her to be self employed.

I think everyone should avoid these MLMs.

A zombie thread + advertising. Reported.