A challenge to an MLM skeptic

[Lottie]

I might be considered mad for doing this, but I'd like to enlist the services of a couple of MLM skeptics.

Whilst I have a lot of belief in the concept of MLM, I would like to work with a couple of volunteers on a very low cost MLM opportunity. (it's already well established, and there is no stock to buy). Provided the correct effort is made, and the right support is given, I want to prove to the skepics (and in part to myself) that MLM does work.

I will even subsidise the guinea pigs - more details on request.

[filippo lippi]

Why not come out and say what it is that you want someone to do?

[Mulder]

I might be considered mad for doing this, but I'd like to enlist the services of a couple of MLM skeptics.

Whilst I have a lot of belief in the concept of MLM, I would like to work with a couple of volunteers on a very low cost MLM opportunity. (it's already well established, and there is no stock to buy). Provided the correct effort is made, and the right support is given, I want to prove to the skepics (and in part to myself) that MLM does work.

I will even subsidise the guinea pigs - more details on request.

Could this be yet another cunning way to get people into MLMs?

[vbloke]

I might be considered mad for doing this, but I'd like to enlist the services of a couple of MLM skeptics.

Why skeptics, specifically? What are you hoping to prove?

Whilst I have a lot of belief in the concept of MLM, I would like to work with a couple of volunteers on a very low cost MLM opportunity. (it's already well established, and there is no stock to buy).

What is your belief in it? What is the company? How would this opportunity work? How can it be MLM if there's nothing to buy into? What are the rules for this particular company? What are the promised returns for your initial investment? How many downlink sales do you have to provide each period? What are your anticipated profit margins? How "low cost" is "low cost"?

Provided the correct effort is made, and the right support is given, I want to prove to the skepics (and in part to myself) that MLM does work.

What is the "correct effort"? What is the "right support"? What proof are you willing to accept? What will constitute success or failure of the venture?

I will even subsidise the guinea pigs - more details on request.

What format is this subsidy going to take?

You're not selling this very well to a group who know very well how MLM works and wouldn't touch it with a bargepole.

I take it you're aware that one of the biggest MLM companies Amway was in court, accused of operating against the public interest.

The Government investigation claims to have shown that only 10 per cent of Amway’s agents make any profit and only 6 per cent sell a single item of the group’s products. It claims that the company overstates potential earnings and that its main activity is encouraging agents to recruit other people to its sales force.

[Legaleagle]

I might be considered mad for doing this, but I'd like to enlist the services of a couple of MLM skeptics.

Whilst I have a lot of belief in the concept of MLM, I would like to work with a couple of volunteers on a very low cost MLM opportunity. (it's already well established, and there is no stock to buy). Provided the correct effort is made, and the right support is given, I want to prove to the skepics (and in part to myself) that MLM does work.

I will even subsidise the guinea pigs - more details on request.

I have no interest whatsoever in:

1) participating in door to door or catalogue selling

2) spending time at motivational meetings with imbeciles

3) alientating my friends, family and aquaintances by trying to convince them to join my downline.

4) using up all of my valuable freetime to earn some pin money

5) being made to feel that the failure of an obviously flawed business model is down to my own "lack of commitment"

So, no, I won't be volunteering for your "opportunity" thank you.

[Matt]

I will even subsidise the guinea pigs - more details on request.

Sure no problem, I have a Salaried Position with excelent pension provision, working (not very hard) for seven and a half hours a day, five days a week. I'm prepared to work on your MLM project just as hard and you just pay me the same Salary and benefits. Any money made by the MLM you can keep - even if it's more than the Salary and benefits you're paying me.

I need to give three month's notice to my current employer and of course won't be able to return there afterwards as they'll have replaced me. So I will need some guarentee that its a permanent position you're offering. Bank statement showing that you have enough ready cash to pay my salary and benefits for a year would suffice.

[bobdezon]

Wow, thats unusually repellant. MLM is unsustainable, only those blinded by greed cannot see that.

[dashwood]

wtf is MLM?

[DrS]

multi-level marketing ...

[MischiefMonkey]

Mostly Less Money?

[bindeweede]

Mostly Less Money?

Much Lost Money.

[DrS]

Manipulating Little Minds

[dashwood]

how does it work?
i'm not intrested in partisapating by-the-way.

[DrS]

like pyramid selling ... some would say it is pyramid selling.

[brodski]

like pyramid selling ... some would say it is pyramid selling.

Bah MLM isn’t based on old discredited pyramid schemes, no, it’s the new trapezoid business model!