I have lost friends over MLM and pyramid schemes. The desperation over their need to get someone else roped in and paying them in pyramids, or the need to sell to everyone they know, all the time, in MLM’s like Avon can really be annoying for the rest of us.

A couple of years ago I went to a family bridal shower & sat with a group of cousins I don’t get to see very often (I have a huge family). One of my cousins wives was siting next to me & was extremely friendly to me, talking the whole time. She had never given me the time of day before. As we were getting ready to…

I nearly got caught up in one. Fresh college grad, looking for work, got hooked on “business opportunity”.

Nope. The way things are going, we’re retreating into our foreskin and the rest of the world is going to move on without us. The funniest thing about Trump supporters is their ignorance of Newton’s third law.

There should be an organized effort to purchase the data of members of the house who voted for this and post it online. They’ll change that shit fast.

Yeah ... I had a long-time/childhood friend try and recruit me for one of these things and it was actually kind of scary. He sounded like he was a part of a cult—very modified speaking skills and diction. At first I was amused, then uncomfortable and ultimately angry. I knew he was struggling and he was putting a lot…

I scrolled through the visible comments- I’m ashamed, but also can’t believe, I’m the only one who has bought into one before.

All MLM’s are pyramid schemes. There is no meaningful difference between the terms.

My brother tried to rope me into one of these several years ago. I did some research on the company (on their own Web site) and pointed out how if you took the company’s annual revenue and divided it among the number of representatives they claimed to have, each rep AVERAGED about a thousand bucks in sales (not…

“I’m sorry, Mrs DeVos, I don’t want to sell Amway.”

...oh and speaking of Amway, the founder’s daughter-in-law is now Secretary of Education!!! ‘Merica!!!

that is false. anyone who reaped “profit” under madoff’s ponzi scheme was subject to clawback from the trustee.

What is it with the laundry detergent? A neighbor once tried to rope me into Amway. My first thought was “how much effing laundry detergent do you think need living by myself wearing the same pants for a week?”

Anybody heard of World Ventures (w/ the “You Should Be Here” banners)? I let a friend talk me out of like $300 somehow 8 years back, and quickly moved on from that character-building lesson. Fast forward to last year, two close family members have pitched this to me, using the exact same powerpoint/video…

You better have pretty deep knowledge of where you sit in the pyramid and it’s scheme to make that judgment at a very early stage, at which point you’re not really “being smart” so much ad working together to defraud others.

The most horrifying part of this article was the dinner at Olive Garden.

“And then you get six people to eat several over-sized dicks... and they get six people...”

Multi-level marketing may not be a pyramid scheme, but all I know is that my parents got talked into Amway by friends and there’s still a dozen boxes of Amway laundry detergent in their basement 40 years later.

“Sorry, all my investment money is tied up in Bluestar.”