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Originally Posted by kddani
My friend who sold it was highly pressured to keep a stock of some of the more popular products - her focus was on the energy drinks and energy bar- type things. She spent a fortune on that stuff, and bought everything that they sold she could possibly use from them. Their products are no deal - she spent way more than she would in a normal store on those items.
And it's not just the products - she paid an enormous amount of money for various seminars to listen to higher ups. Not just locally, but taking road trips to places to hear these people speak. And there were always fees.
And she lost money in other ways- see my posts earlier in this thread where she decided to back out on a cruise with me and several other of my friends two weeks before - losing ALL that she paid for it- flight and entire cost of the cruise. Her higher ups told her that she MUST go to this "meeting" - which incidentally cost quite a bit.
That sort of pressure to alienate your friends and family who won't join your business is exactly why people think so poorly of these types of "businesses".
Companies like this prey on people who are in need of the self esteem boost, and that are natural people pleasers - they more easily fall into the guilt.
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Wow that sucks for your friend. I'm sorry that happened to her. It's people like your friend's "higher ups" that give the business a bad name. You don't HAVE to do any of those things. You don't have to keep stock of a product (which btw I will admit are overpriced). You don't have to go to those business meetings (although i've never paid any money to attend a meeting) or the conventions (which cost about $100).
But don't blame the entire business because of a few douchebags.