I need advice PLEASE!!!

[trinityisunity]

I am wondering what fellow Christians' views are on Multi Level Marketing (Direct Selling). Is it ethical and legitimate practise or is it just conning people out of money for generally over-priced goods.

Please help with some advice as this issue is affecting my relationship with some people at my church, because of my views on this matter. Maybe my views are wrong but then again they may not. I do not know.

The company is a health supplement research and sales business that was started by a Christian man in the USA, I wont name the company but I am sure many of you would guess who it is.

Thankyou in advance for your advice.
Ben:help:

[christian73]

I am wondering what fellow Christians' views are on Multi Level Marketing (Direct Selling). Is it ethical and legitimate practise or is it just conning people out of money for generally over-priced goods.

Please help with some advice as this issue is affecting my relationship with some people at my church, because of my views on this matter. Maybe my views are wrong but then again they may not. I do not know.

The company is a health supplement research and sales business that was started by a Christian man in the USA, I wont name the company but I am sure many of you would guess who it is.

Thankyou in advance for your advice.
Ben:help:
I don't think there's anything wrong with that line of work. Everybody has to make a living somehow. If it was started by a Christian man, then that's a good start. Some companies can be rip-offs. My advice would be to pray and see what God has to say about it.

[JPPT1974]

Only views that count are God's
Though everybody has opinions
God's opinions are the only ones
That should count
Just pray that it will all go well.

[mlqurgw]

I am wondering what fellow Christians' views are on Multi Level Marketing (Direct Selling). Is it ethical and legitimate practise or is it just conning people out of money for generally over-priced goods.

Please help with some advice as this issue is affecting my relationship with some people at my church, because of my views on this matter. Maybe my views are wrong but then again they may not. I do not know.

The company is a health supplement research and sales business that was started by a Christian man in the USA, I wont name the company but I am sure many of you would guess who it is.

Thankyou in advance for your advice.
Ben:help:If I understand what you mean by multi-level it is akin to a pyramid scheme. Is it one of those deals where you get paid not only by what you sell but bu what those you can get to sell also? If it is it is unethical in my opinion. You are reaping what other sow. The more people you can get involved the less work you have to do. The one at the top is really the one getting rich off the backs of others. Just my opinion.

[GordonSlocum]

Someone is always at the top.

If you start a business and offer a service or goods then it falls in line that you have to make enough to cover all overhead plus more to profit.

I am a Locksmith. I buy a part from a distributor. The distributor buys it from the vender. I sell it to a customer.

The vender buys the material from vendors too.

In the end in one form or the other things are layered and marketed from the raw material right down to the end user.

Several things motivate buying. Need and Greed basically.

I offer you an item at $100 bucks and you want it compulsively now or you need it now and you can't find it elsewhere with in reason and distance. The product is priced higher than the local Retail Sore but it is Closed or they don't stock it.

The price you pay is your decision. If it is worth it to you then it is a fare market price.

If the means of selling and marketing are un-ethical them I suggest you not get involved. If it is not them sell the product and earn a living. Are there lies you have to state or use to sell the product - if so you are knowingly deceiving. You are not the judge of greed and the person buying is responsible for that matter. Sell the product to them.

You are stranded and your auto lock is jammed. It is the weekend. I know you can't get your car fixed until Monday. I charge more on the weekend than during the week. I provide an on the spot emergency service. I will cost you considerably more for this sacrificial service. You don't have to take it. You need your car up and running by Monday to go to work and you can't have it towed in and left at the dealer. You call me and I price the job - you cringe and then sign but say OK I need my car.

I come repair and collect the agreed fee that you did not have to accept. Your need or greed is your motivator. The issue lies in you not the other way around.

Price gauging is wrong but higher prices on the weekend are not. My prices are consistent. You don't have to buy the product of a multi level marketing industry - you can wait and say no. You got along with out it in the past so if you don't like the price don't buy it.


Thanks
Gordon

[mlqurgw]

Someone is always at the top.

If you start a business and offer a service or goods then it falls in line that you have to make enough to cover all overhead plus more to profit.

I am a Locksmith. I buy a part from a distributor. The distributor buys it from the vender. I sell it to a customer.

The vender buys the material from vendors too.

In the end in one form or the other things are layered and marketed from the raw material right down to the end user.

Several things motivate buying. Need and Greed basically.

I offer you an item at $100 bucks and you want it compulsively now or you need it now and you can't find it elsewhere with in reason and distance. The product is priced higher than the local Retail Sore but it is Closed or they don't stock it.

The price you pay is your decision. If it is worth it to you then it is a fare market price.

If the means of selling and marketing are un-ethical them I suggest you not get involved. If it is not them sell the product and earn a living. Are there lies you have to state or use to sell the product - if so you are knowingly deceiving. You are not the judge of greed and the person buying is responsible for that matter. Sell the product to them.

You are stranded and your auto lock is jammed. It is the weekend. I know you can't get your car fixed until Monday. I charge more on the weekend than during the week. I provide an on the spot emergency service. I will cost you considerably more for this sacrificial service. You don't have to take it. You need your car up and running by Monday to go to work and you can't have it towed in and left at the dealer. You call me and I price the job - you cringe and then sign but say OK I need my car.

I come repair and collect the agreed fee that you did not have to accept. Your need or greed is your motivator. The issue lies in you not the other way around.

Price gauging is wrong but higher prices on the weekend are not. My prices are consistent. You don't have to buy the product of a multi level marketing industry - you can wait and say no. You got along with out it in the past so if you don't like the price don't buy it.


Thanks
GordonUnless I am mistaken your description isn't the way Multi-level Marketing works. It is true that the manufacturer sets a price for his goods and the distributor sets another to be able to make a profit but a pyramid scheme is different. In it I talk you into selling my product for a set price. I make money by every item you sell. I talk you into getting others to sell also. Now you make money from what you sell and what they sell for getting them to sell itand I make money from you all. They talk others into selling also and now you make money from what you sell, what the first people you talk into selling and the people they talk into selling and I am getting richer by the minute. The one making the most money is the one who gets in early and is close to the top. Instead of making a profit from the work you do you make a profit from what all the others do too. The problem is that the price of the product stays the same no matter who sells it. Those near the bottom make far less than those at the top and are doing most if not all the work.

[HypoTypoSis]

MLM is the new age barely legal form of what used to be referred to as a pyramid scheme. You have to have a geometric progression of others under you providing income for you to increasingly receive more. Don't walk, run from these sorts of scams.

[christian73]

Only views that count are God's
Though everybody has opinions
God's opinions are the only ones
That should count
Just pray that it will all go well.


:amen: