re: Anyone here had success running a pyramid scheme?

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Less than 2% of advocare folks make even 40K per year. 55 % make 6-7 K per year before expenses.

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I think what most people miss out on is the structure of these kinda businesses. The advocare guy selling $4,000 a month doesn't make jack off of it. Say you buy a can of spark at a 40% discount as an "advisor". You pay $31 for a $52 product but you also pay the 9% sales tax(varies based on location) on the retail price up front, even if you discount it when you sell it. Also you pay shipping which even if you plan well will add a dollar or 2.

You've paid nearly $40 for a product advertised at a retail of $52. The "plan" is to sell it at retail plus tax plus realistically you could hit them for shipping too but good luck selling products for retail plus 10% or more. Most instances you can buy a comparable product and purchase via amazon or other means with discounts and free shipping.

Thats where the pyramid comes in...the guys who really make money have to layer on a ton of other people selling and adding signups.

They have a handful of products that I like and quite a few I don't, I bought enough to get advisor discount on product for myself and a couple friends mostly because we like their spark and a couple of other niche products. When it comes to protein etc, I don't like their product so I don't buy it.

Anyone who I am friends with on Facebook gets blocked immediately when they start posting about their new job with rodan fields, advocare, beach body, etc

All that bragging is such obvious bullshite that is designed to lure in more suckers.

Think about it. Who would go around bragging that since they went to work in a legit job at ABC, Inc. they are taking expensive vacations, driving a luxury car, and bringing in $$$$ per month? Almost no one. Yet almost all these multi-level marketers do. Assholes.

I remember when the airplanes crashed in the late 80s

I remember doing a mail scheme a long time ago with friend. Got a letter with my name on it and seven others. It was supposed to make us thousands and thousands of dollars if it worked. I had to send one dollar to each person on the list, put my name on the bottom and move everyone up after taking the first guy off. Then make copies and send to seven people with directions to do the same. We were not going to send it friends and look stupid. So we looked up seven names in the phone book and sent them. Not surprisingly, we did not get any returns and were out of seven dollars.

You didn't have success spelling the word success.

I think rainbow vacuum is just a persistent door to door business, they've been around forever and people love their stuff. My cleaning lady brings her professional looking rainbow when she comes. And my aunt had a behemoth one back in the 80s

One of the guys that started Amway owns the Orlando Magic.

Yeah and the ones who start these "businesses", and I use that term loosely, make money while over 99% of the others in their "business" lose their asses. That's not a made up statistic.

The 30killionaires on Facebook are putting on a show to try and lure in others. Behind the scenes they are racking up debt pumping all of their money into minimum monthly purchases, with the ultimate hope that others join their downline so that they can stop recruiting and live the high life. For over 99% of them, it never happens, and sadly many of them lose everything. Marriages, savings,etc.