Like Billy said, it is not called a pyramid scheme any more. It is Multi Level Marketing. I did this for a while with Herbalife. Basically, here is how it works:
You sign up as a distributor of a product. You get a percentage of every sale you make. If you are good, then you can do pretty well as I did. Where the real money is though is getting others to become a distributor under you. That way, for every sale they make, you get a percentage of that on top of the ones that you have. If you can sign up a lot of distributors, you can make a lot of money. But then the super real money is where those distributors sign up new distributors under them and so on. There are people who literally make millions a year doing this. I worked for one such person. This guy got his start selling Herbalife and ended up making millions, and started his own MLM company (I was not a distributor under him though. Conflict of interest). I was one of the developers on his team when I was in Texas. Anyway, when I was doing this, I was shown DVD's of people who quit their jobs because they were making five digit incomes a month. And the marketing was very good. I signed up with a site that generated leads that we could buy and another site that had pre-built templates so my customers could order on-line. I had customers all over the US buying product from me, but I could never get anyone to be a distributor so I quit. Too much work with a full time day job, programming on the site and college. Bruce Tony wrote: > word. > > friend is trying to get me to DO THE DEAL with him. > not sold on it yet, but explain, why is a pyramid scheme > such a bad thing? > > just wondering. > > tw > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:255849 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
