On Thursday 20 March 2008, rubyshamrock4 wrote:
> Iceskater,
> I found a site through a Google search that had some indicators that
> a MLM is not going to be profitable or that money is not being made
> on sales of product to customers if certain criteria exist.
Yes! Ruby can be taught! (Congratulations! I'm glad you're doing
research and thinking about this instead of using the phrases MLMers
toss out as platitudes!)
> Paying
> beyond I think four levels, they said they profits are coming from
> overpricing product and purchases made by those in the MLM. And it
> is an MLM if it has levels and layers of commissions and
> bonuses...can'
Here's another point: MLMs like to talk about cutting out the middle
man. Look at a simple product, like produce. The farmer raises it and
takes it to a distro center. The center ships it out and it ends up in
local warehouses. From there it goes to the local store. At each step
along the way, value is added to the product because it's moving closer
to you. The farmer adds value because he's created a tomato. At each
point the transport adds value because it's closer to you and
eventually it's at the corner store so you can drive down before supper
and get the 2-3 tomatoes you need for a salad. That's worth a few
cents extra on the price instead of having to drive out to the farm or
to a farmer's market to get it.
But look at an MLM: the product is still shipped, often by UPS or USPS.
That costs money but along with that, there's anywhere from 1 or 2 or
many more people that get a cut for doing NOTHING. I looked at my
ex-gf's system. If I bought something from her, then she gets a cut,
her friend's sister, that friend's sister's Father, then his sponsor,
then one Diamond I know of, then another one I know of above him, then
one guy I know is at the top, PLUS any levels between the first Diamond
I know of and the next one. That's at least 6-7 levels as it is and
not one of them does a single thing to earn the money I'm spending on
the product, yet they all make money FROM me.
> Don't remember the site but they showed up in the top page of
> results, so they would be easy to find if you searched for it.
Maybe or maybe not. Google has many servers and if you search for the
same three terms in a different order, you can get different results
(it's happened to me before). Also, if you're in a different area than
someone else and your search request goes to a different server, you
could get totally different results for the same search. A friend on
the other side of town and I tried that and we got different results.
Hal
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