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Guyute · 03-14-2005, 08:40 PM

Whether you pay a buck a pill, or a buck a box, you pay a buck for whatever you think is worth that buck. So if thousands of people worldwide buy products from MLM's, at what point is the assertion that they don't work become a glaring fallicy? Is it not true that free-market forces are the great leveler of the playing field? Amway did over $8 billion in sales in 1996. Certainly there are people who do not believe that their products are that much better than the Sand and Salt you buy at Wal-Mart or the local Supermarket. This is evidenced by the horrendous gross sales generated by Wal-Mart. But the reality is that there have to be thousands who do, because no company can perpetuate a lie for OVER 40 YEARS (except the National Enquirer). I only say Away because that is where the bulk of my experience is. There are other successful MLM's that must provide adequate value or eventually they would disappear. We can argue about the veracity of one business style over another until the cows come home (or the sheep come home that I traded a blowjob for- yuckkkk), but in a relatively free-market economy such as Japan and Europe, and to some extent the USA and Canada (all economic regions where Amway is thriving, but I can't speak for other MLM's) if a company sells products or services that are inherently overpriced EVENTUALLY they go bankrupt, right? Or they find another product that sells.

I also become very cynical when I see constant replies about the legitimacy of the MLM model. Do you not think that the CEO of HP makes more than the guy on the street humping printers to computer stores? Do you not believe that the chairman of Toyota makes more than the shyster/salesman selling Echo's to everybody who walks in? Is the chairman's slary not paid by the sales generated by the lowly salesman? Do you think that the mechanic at the local body shop makes more than the owner? Keeping with the Wal-Mart theme, do you think the Walton family does not make money on the sales generated by opening stores and paying staff just enough to live? So this drivel about upline reaming downline is just another case of the "outside" world distorting facts to denegrate something they themselves co-operate in every day. My current boss makes a bonus if my branch hits a monthly sales target, but I don't even get a thanks. Does this not fit that concept??? If you don't like the fact that someone higher than you makes more money than you, I guess you'll have to open your own biz, or go live on an island and spear fish to live.

03-14-2005, 08:40 PM	#43
Guyute Gamehenge Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Halifax, NS Posts: 168	Whether you pay a buck a pill, or a buck a box, you pay a buck for whatever you think is worth that buck. So if thousands of people worldwide buy products from MLM's, at what point is the assertion that they don't work become a glaring fallicy? Is it not true that free-market forces are the great leveler of the playing field? Amway did over $8 billion in sales in 1996. Certainly there are people who do not believe that their products are that much better than the Sand and Salt you buy at Wal-Mart or the local Supermarket. This is evidenced by the horrendous gross sales generated by Wal-Mart. But the reality is that there have to be thousands who do, because no company can perpetuate a lie for OVER 40 YEARS (except the National Enquirer). I only say Away because that is where the bulk of my experience is. There are other successful MLM's that must provide adequate value or eventually they would disappear. We can argue about the veracity of one business style over another until the cows come home (or the sheep come home that I traded a blowjob for- yuckkkk), but in a relatively free-market economy such as Japan and Europe, and to some extent the USA and Canada (all economic regions where Amway is thriving, but I can't speak for other MLM's) if a company sells products or services that are inherently overpriced EVENTUALLY they go bankrupt, right? Or they find another product that sells. I also become very cynical when I see constant replies about the legitimacy of the MLM model. Do you not think that the CEO of HP makes more than the guy on the street humping printers to computer stores? Do you not believe that the chairman of Toyota makes more than the shyster/salesman selling Echo's to everybody who walks in? Is the chairman's slary not paid by the sales generated by the lowly salesman? Do you think that the mechanic at the local body shop makes more than the owner? Keeping with the Wal-Mart theme, do you think the Walton family does not make money on the sales generated by opening stores and paying staff just enough to live? So this drivel about upline reaming downline is just another case of the "outside" world distorting facts to denegrate something they themselves co-operate in every day. My current boss makes a bonus if my branch hits a monthly sales target, but I don't even get a thanks. Does this not fit that concept??? If you don't like the fact that someone higher than you makes more money than you, I guess you'll have to open your own biz, or go live on an island and spear fish to live. __________________ It's Really Plain and Easy To See, The Family grows like fungus on a tree.