Multi-level marketing organizations often have greater incentives for recruitment than product sales. They are a creepy way to make a buck.
Yep. My parents were involved in Amway in the late 1970s. It was cultish the way these Amway people swore by this company. Eventually, my parents recognized Amway for the scam it was and disassociated themselves from the organization after filling our garage with several hundred dollars worth of cleaning products.
Two decades later, I had two cousins try to sell me into the "Equinox" scam. I went to one meeting and immediately recognized it as a pyramid scheme. It was funny, they had all these Equinox "ringers" at the meeting driving fancy sports cars and wearing nice jewelry and bragging about their rags-to-riches lifestyle courtesy of Equinox. My grandfather wound up bailing out my cousins to the tune of over $10,000 by the time they had wised up to the scam.