The Amway "housewarming" party (FauxPasofYear1114-06)

[Emmy]

I'm kind of iffy about MLM - everyone I know now who sells got into more to order their own stuff and score the occassional freebie.  I used to "sell" melaluca just to order for myself.  I would place orders for other people when they asked me about it, I was never about the "sell sell sell" push that everyone else seemed to be. No one ever pushed me to recruit either.

I was also involved with Melaluca to use the products.  I have the same experience as you.  Nobody pushed me to recruit or sell, and they don't seem to have the vast array of endless meetings that I hear about from many MLM's.

[Lillie82]

The other night at an event I met someone selling Tastefully Simple (food) products. She had samples which were very good. Since there was a sign on the table, "Start your business for as little as $70," I assume it's probably and MLM, so having read this thread I felt guilty about ordering a dip which I like. But she didn't pressure me to become a seller and in fact said, "It's not for everybody." Which isn't something a really brainwashed person would say.

Also, she had to place orders - which means she hadn't bought a ton of inventory.

[magician5]

So many equivocal statements here about various MLM methods ("Well it's not really a pyramid scheme, and my sister just does it to get discount product...")

You may be interested in a good restatement of the empty promises behind all of these plans (WARNING: LANGUAGE, NUDITY, DELIBERATE IN-YOUR-FACE OFFENSE) in an episode of Penn & Teller's "Bull****"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep3pO7X7fEQ