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Who are these people who bother me in grocery stores?

This has happened to me 3 times. I am in the store just looking around and someone, usually a girl, strikes up a convo with me. like " nice purse." or something small like that. Then gets into how her and her husband work for a company trying to expand into this area and want to know if I'm looking to make some extra money while going to school. Who are these people that just wander around the grocery store and ask people this? Anyone else experience this? thee people that do this are usually really nice, one time a girl gave me her business card, but of course I never called.

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  • 8 years ago
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    These are usually what they call 'Multi-Level-Marketing' companies. The deal that they will show you is that you sell something to make money, but if you RECRUIT other people to sell something, you make a percentage of their sales. And if your recruits also bring in other people, you get a percentage of their sales, and so on. It sounds really great.

    What they don't say is that once you join, and get a couple of your friends to join, you are all competitors. So after all your friends have either joined, or are "dead leads" (you know they aren't going to join), then in order to expand, you have to hang out at grocery stores to make new friends. It's a really crappy way to make money, at least in my opinion.

    The products that you have to buy aren't cheap, either. Remember that the person who recruited you (and the person who recruited them, and so on, and so on) all make money on the stuff you buy. So the stuff usually isn't really good quality, or it's really overpriced. As an example, I investigated a 'vitamin chocolate' program called Xocai. They wanted you to consume about $100 worth of chocolate. But you could find similar chocolate in your local store for a fifth the price, and it was uncertain as to whether the special antioxidant boost had any effect on health (it wasn't FDA approved, and it's completely unregulated, so who knows?)

    Multi-level or network marketing is a rock-star model. Compared to people who start up a rock band, very few actually make enough money to live on. In most programs, 90% quit after one year. That means that you need to introduce 10 people to get one who sticks around. And those who make enough money to live on? It's not 'sit back and watch the money come in'. If they aren't hanging out at the grocery store, too, then they will lose their people with every passing year. It's not a happy life, in my opinion. Stay away, have someone else try it for you, and interview them about their experience.

  • 8 years ago

    panhandlers,people in trouble,etc see me coming from 20 yards away and it happens outside in the parking lot! we must have an auora around us ,like a beacon light!

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