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longship

(40,416 posts)

5. Rarely? More like never.

Reply to Drunken Irishman (Reply #2)

Tue Sep 4, 2012, 03:36 AM

Sep 2012

Except those who start the scam. They get filthy rich.

Just ask the DeVos family of Grand Rapids, MI and their evil spawn and in-laws. DeVos started AmWay, one early scams of this ilk. Remember Blackwater? That's DeVos family, too.

Multi-level marketing is nothing but a scam to trickle money from the lower classes up to the upper class.

Any rational society would outright outlaw it.

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Utah - America's Pyramid Scam Capital [View all] jberryhill Sep 2012 OP

When the foundation is based upon a scam ("You'll get your reward in the next life."), it's easy to AnotherMcIntosh Sep 2012 #1

Utah is also the multi-level marketing capital of the world. Drunken Irishman Sep 2012 #2

quick, name the biggest pyramid scheme going in Utah to this very day! nt msongs Sep 2012 #4

Can I get my own planetary downline? jberryhill Sep 2012 #9

Rarely? More like never. longship Sep 2012 #5

Yeah, one of the Devos daughters married.... Aviation Pro Sep 2012 #11

I agree...I've never done it, that's why I said rarely. Drunken Irishman Sep 2012 #12

I had the idea that MLM = pyramid scemes Quantess Sep 2012 #6

They essentially are... Drunken Irishman Sep 2012 #13

You know there's more to it than that jberryhill Sep 2012 #8

Honestly, Salt Lake has so many federal buildings by accident. It is the only inhabitable dimbear Sep 2012 #3

Useless desert? jberryhill Sep 2012 #7

Just for a second remember the drive from Wendover to Tooele. dimbear Sep 2012 #10

Have I ever told you that story? jberryhill Sep 2012 #14

Yup. That crazy thing and the strange messages spelled out in rocks. Surreal. dimbear Sep 2012 #15