"Interesting,
Years ago I got hooked on an employment offer which turned out to be an MLM which I was already familiar with, so I played along once I saw that it was not really a job as it was advertised in local paper.
Long story short, it was a company called Equinox which was taken down by FTC several years ago for misleading advertising and all the other cookie cutter charges they could come up with.
Simply put, network marketing is not new, been used for 60 plus years, but the problem is, some companies front loaded new distributors and duped them into thinking that selling overpriced products was easy."
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