MLM Marketing vs. Reality

The thing with MLMs is that they're not selling a business, they're selling a dream to desperate people.

OMG, so many years of being a PBD and Valuetainment fan, and this is the first time when I look at PBD's business, namely the PHP agency, from a different angle. So many scammers hide in plain sight.

Pro tip: if someone is always showing you their fancy sports car, big expensive house, flashing jewelry, name dropping, showing how much money they have all from their business…but they never show you the product or barely talk about the product… Chances are very high that they’re full of sheet or doing something scummy.

This Patrick guy has always given me the creeps… scammer vibes.

I used to work at Mcdonalds and this whole time i had no idea i already was living the "American Dream".

MLM always reminds me of a high school reunion. Old friends happy to see me and want to know how I'm doing and then i say tough times and they have a "great business opportunity" for me lol

Literally showed this video to my friend to save him from getting sucked into PHP. You’re the best coffee

Best explanation of how a MLM scheme operates is to have a company convince you to go into business opening a shoe store to sell shoes ( but ONLY their shoes) and then convincing you that you can make even more money by convincing other people to open competing shoe stores.

I love the idea of escaping from the trap of a 9-5 to the steel bars of a 9-9

So I got suckered into Amway right out of college. Luckily I was legit refunded the $200 I “invested” when I got out. What really made me realize it was something I didn’t want a part of (aside from being MLM) was when we had some big time Amway guy come talk to us at a meeting we had (about 200 people) and he bragged that he didn’t go see his family the day his mother died because he had to give a speech at the yearly meeting (10s of thousands of people attend) for Amway the next day. He said, “there was no reason I should leave and fly to my family, there was nothing I could do, she was already dead so what was me being there going to do?” And everyone freaking clapped. I got up and walked out, what a sick sick person.

The funniest thing about this video was the MLM advert Google served me before it started. Glorious.

PBD involved in a scam? Shocker.

The saddest parts about MLMs is watching the people that shill them try to defend them

There I was, thinking that PHP was a programming language.

Now we know how Patrick was able to afford his $25M Florida mansion.

The worst is they target college students like crazy now. Because back when I was there years ago, they knew a lot of us were still naïve about the working world. I really hope colleges someday ban MLMs from stepping foot on campuses and if anything just put out more warnings to students to avoid them. Two old buddies of mine were almost tricked into it.

MCDONALDS : 200.000 EMPLOYEES $20 BILLION REVENUES 37.000+ BUILDINGS OWNED

The channel Valuetainment has a lot of useful insights however I was shocked to find out he was running an MLM, very disappointing.

An older man who'd been a friend of my family my whole life got caught up in one of these MLM "opportunities." He'd spent thousands of dollars he honestly couldn't afford and tried to get me to join up. I meant no disrespect...this man had helped my family when we needed it and I'll never forget that...but I just asked, "Mr. William, how much money have you made doing this?" He couldn't answer. It was like a lot of guilt and shame came over him and he ended our "meeting." My father told me that Mr. William had made lots of terrible financial choices, trying to chase this dream.

Well done, Coffeezilla and great inclusion of PBD cuz he seems to fly under most people's radars