Funny because I find that is the one way to run a business WITH OUT forming a pyramid scheme. More on that if you want but lets look at a few things first.
Just to clarify a pyramid scheme is a business set up so that all the money funnels up to the people at the top. The people at the bottom are payed the minimum to keep them working with the promise of more money at a later date which they never received.
And as for the Snake oil part. If you can name one industry which does not have its fair share rip off products then you need to look around.
Lets use the Banjo minnows as an example. Real fishermen know they are not the magic bullets they are promised to be. The Banjo minnows are really just soft plastic jerk baits, so just because they are ripoffs does that mean all soft plastic baits are ripoffs?
And please let us remember that MLM is not a product. It is a system of distributing and marketing products. This system can be used by any company even if their products are snake oil. So your blaming the system that the products are bad? Then why don't we blame TV marketing for Banjo minnows being over price crap and not that it is the way they are made which makes them crap.
fourbizz and nice_bass Could you please tell me where your coming from. Have you guys bought products from a MLM company or actually be involved in one?
Sorry, my mistake. Should have noted that I was being the proverbial tongue in cheek. If I did not hate the similes maybe I would have put some kind of face on there. Really, I was more stating that what you may be doing is okay and not DB'ry. If you are out there working , there can be nothing wrong with it, and I actually like your cross comparisons. Heck, I am sales as well, albeit a different brand.