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G'Day, The stuff you read in magazines in hospital waiting rooms*. I already knew about these' Multi Level Marketing/ pyramid selling/ schemes/scams years ago , but never knew too much detail, and the coercive , persuasive and incentivised tactics used to suck people in. The story in the magazine, was about a woman that had cancer, lost her regular job, wanted to make an small income , and generally just wanted to buy some cosmetics to give herself a bit of a morale 'boost' after having cancer . Long story short, She went to her 'friend' for some recommendations , only to unwittingly get sucked into signing up for one of these MLM schemes to sell cosmetics . Some friend . What was at first a good idea, soon turned out to be a nightmare. She worked her butt off to work her way up the 'ladder'' and got nowhere, losing money, not making money. It became less and less about the products, and more about non stop chain recruitment , meetings, seminars etc. with a strong "sell sell sell" mentality . It soon started to become clear to her that the only people that made any money are the ones right at the very top ..... I could go on. But needless to say she left Even doing that had risks. She used a pseudonym in the report for fear of reprisals. Many moons ago, in another life when I was in the fibreglass pool industry, my boss asked me if I wanted to earn a few extra bucks, ' of course', I said, who doesn't ? so he introduced me to a bloke at his house. A nice firm friendly welcoming hand shake . He then got me to watch a vid with people with fancy cars, mansions, fancy boats, people living the high life etc. Already, alarm bells started going off in my head !!!! He tried to sign me up to a pyramid scheme selling household cleaning & laundry products etc. I'm thinking, If this sh*t was any good, why is he driving a crappy old Toyota at 8.30pm at night?? I politely declined. His hand shake was then loose.......... and not so friendly. My boss later aplogised for putting me in a awkward position, and told me that his ' friend' worked up to 96 hrs a week !!!! and made very little money and hardly saw his family. I love my gut instincts HS * I normally only do the word puzzles or read the comics, I got one of the word puzzles finished tho