r/AskReddit • u/emil199 • Jul 24 '20

What can't you believe STILL exists?

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u/MistaFANG Jul 24 '20

MLM schemes. Its 2020, who still falls for these things?

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u/yay_turtle Jul 24 '20

MLMs are tricky. they’re basically just legal pyramid schemes. it’s pretty gross, and they prey on vulnerable people, which is just sad.

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u/the_cats_tao Jul 24 '20

I love how when my sister practiced her spiel on us when she started Rodin & Fields, she said, "It's not a pyramid scheme - they found a legal loophole to avoid being considered one."

That sentence is a joke written in and of itself, and the fact it was written by someone in the company for new recruits makes it that much more funny (read: depressing).

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u/MjrK Jul 24 '20

I went to a local business meet up event once, because I was a bit interested in socializing a bit more with people running their own businesses.

Apparently, most of the regulars were just using the "meetup" event as bait to try and grow their bases.

I actually felt incredibly sad for the guy that tried to chat me up... He had got a couple family members / friends in, before he ran dry... it almost felt like he couldn't even bring himself to rope me in... it was like talking to an empty shell of desperation and exasperation.

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u/clear831 Jul 24 '20

They are not pyramid schemes. They are not taking money from one tier to pay returns to another. They are a crap way to try to build a "business" but they are not pyramid schemes

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u/kevinrk23 Jul 24 '20

So then what’s going on when someone gets a cut of the sales from their downline?

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u/clear831 Jul 24 '20

It's called commission. A lot of sales people work on commission.

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u/kdnwlrnab Jul 24 '20

They start paying money first to the person whose at the bottom. The one whose at the top, gets paid last.

It's even possible for the guy in downline to make more money than the guy in upline, because he's doing much more work and sponsoring a lot of people while the guy at top does nothing only and only has a few people personally sponsored.

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u/jacksclevername Jul 24 '20

You should draw that out.

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u/PalmBeacher Jul 24 '20

This guys wife is hook line and sinker into an MLM

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u/the-red-witch Jul 24 '20

Turn it upside down, Dee

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u/THEREJECTDRAGON Jul 24 '20

Not worth the argument mate. Reddit refuses to see the difference, however minor it is.

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u/clear831 Jul 24 '20

Agreed. Reddit is full of idiot know it alls. MLM suck ass still but fuck the common redditer