Work at home and business scams to avoid

Multi level marketing is a barely legal scam. Some known multi level marketing companies are Amway, Herbal life and that company that sells bloody knives.

Funny because many years ago, I went to a Herbal Life seminar because my friend’s mother was part of it. I knew Herbal Life was a multi level marketing company and no way in hell was I every signing up or buying their shit. I came because I was curious what their sales funnel was like – how did they pressure hopeful people into buying their shit?

Whenever you attend a seminar, you want to observe the audience because it reveals who fell for the multi level marketing (MLM) trick. Most of the people in the audience were house wives, retirees and hopeful college students.

Basically, multi-level marketing scam goes like this: a person joins a company and buys the company’s products. For example, Herbal life sells skin cream and weight loss drinks.

The person then sells the products to her friends and family members for a marked up price. And then person tells her friends/family members to sign up for multi level marketing company, because she makes a commission every time her friends buy the products (also known as a “down stream”).

Looks like a pyramid scheme, doesn’t it? The company makes the bulk of their profit from selling false hope – the dream of “being your own boss and a business owner”. Call it business in a box.

I would rather get cancer than join a multi-level marketing company.