Have you ever been involved with Multi-Level-Marketing?

[Aristus]

3. I've been approached a number of times.

Long ago, I worked in a bookstore for minimum wage. It was a dead-end job, but it paid (some of the ) bills until I could get a better-paying job. And I loved books, so that was cool. I was good at my job, and usually pretty good with customers.

Every so often, I would have some smarmy guy approach me after I had done a good customer service job. They would invariably start out with "You seem like a real go-get-'em kind of guy who knows what he wants. How would you like to be your own boss and make a lot more money than you're making right now. I'd like to run some numbers by you."

I caught on pretty quickly that these guys were pushing a scam, so I stopped being polite and stopped listening to their spiel. I would just say "No, thanks. I'm not interested."

I always pitied people who got caught up in the direct marketing treadmill...