re: Anyone involved in Direct Sales or Network Marketing?

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You think it will go away completely?

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I don't know, but their business model is basically the same ol' multi level marketing tactics that were rampant in the 90s. At some point either people are going to move on from the product or they are going to run out of people to buy the product. Both are disastrous.

What I am starting to see is the redneck white trash with no sales experience on my FB feed is getting involved with Advocare. Possibly scraping the bottom of the barrel, so to say.

Just an observation. If someone is making money doing it and is not breaking the law, I can respect that - but its been pushed to me by a dozen different people, and my research says that it only works if you can get people, not sell product.

As far as how my in-laws lost everything, they fell into the same trap - at first it was a small investment of cash and large investment of time. They were going to Days Inn conference rooms and making sales pitches and getting 20 people to sign up and getting a nice check back. Then they would go and buy a car they couldn't afford.

Then they would go to a Marriott conference room, make a sales pitch and get 100 people to sign up. Then they went and bought a house they couldn't afford.

Then they both quit their jobs and would go to another hotel conference room and get 150 people to sign up.

Another boat, a truck to pull it.

And then all of a sudden the company went under, and they had no way to make the payments on any of it.

It wasn't exactly the network marketing that caused it, it was the promises of the riches combined with their greed. But they wouldn't have gone through all of that if they wouldn't have been sold a bad bill of goods.

That's why they have a bad rep - and that's the question you asked.