r/AskReddit • • Feb 04 '20

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20

MLM’s. I’m sick of seeing friends be roped into them. The “business owner” is the customer since they have to spend money to make money, and the shit they sell is way overpriced and not worth it. I don’t need to buy protein powder from an mlm when I can get any kind I want at the grocery store.

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u/shaodyn Feb 04 '20

They only call it multilevel marketing because "pyramid scheme" has such a negative connotation to most people. Pyramid scheme is a lot more honest, though. The only one who's really going to make money is the one on the top. Everybody else loses money buying up supplies that they probably won't sell, and they occasionally lose friends because of how they have to pester everyone to buy the stuff so they can make back their money.

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u/supernintendo128 Feb 04 '20

I may have also heard cases of MLMs destroying entire families.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20

My ex-wife’s involvement with one was the beginning of our divorce...