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This is reassuring, if anything. Those numbers make it sound like it's mostly just a business with an unusual sales and marketing mechanism. The vast majority o
by dmurray 6y ago
This is reassuring, if anything. Those numbers make it sound like it's mostly just a business with an unusual sales and marketing mechanism. The vast majority of the customers aren't taking part in the "pyramid scheme" part of the enterprise. They're just buying herbal supplements because they make them feel better or maybe their neighbour pressured then into it. All slightly skeezy but no worse than most retail businesses selling discretionary items.
It would be much worse for society if most of the "individual sellers" were buying large quantities of the useless product, intending to sell it on but never being able to.
What proportion of people in the distribution/consumption pyramid for Coke earn above minimum wage from distributing or consuming Coke? Surely a lot fewer.
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- gruez 6y ago>The vast majority of the customers aren't taking part in the "pyramid scheme" part of the enterprise. They're just buying herbal supplements because they make them feel better or maybe their neighbour pressured then into it. All slightly skeezy but no worse than most retail businesses selling discretionary items. That's one interpretation. The other interpretation is that herbalife has reached a saturation point where there aren't any suckers to sign up anymore, and all the "customers aren't taking part in the 'pyramid scheme'" are just the bag holders.
- jjeaff 6y agoI'm guessing all those people buying it at the bottom are doing so to meet monthly minimums. Judging by my experience trying the product, I can't imagine people really want it that bad.