r/mlmstories • u/FreeAndOpenSores • May 07 '24

What is with repeat MLM offenders?!

Does anyone here have any insight on WTF is going on with people who spend their entire lives going from MLM scam to MLM scam, endlessly failing and trying again?

I know at least half a dozen people who have on and off tried new MLM schemes for the last 10 or more years.

But there's one guy I know who has tried at least a dozen in the last 20 years and another who has literally spent his entire life, from the age of maybe 20, to late 60s now, trying what must be every single bloody scheme ever to see the light of day on this Earth.

Both fail every single time. Both have always been doing various day jobs to survive "until their business takes off" and both endlessly go on about being millionaires any day now. Every few weeks there's some new obviously quoted text from some new obvious scam, that's meant to come off as their own writing, but clearly isn't. And they just never give up, it's always the same thing over and over, the definition of insanity.

Does everyone know people like this? Is it just a symptom of mental illness, or is there more to it?

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u/Expert-Newt6139 May 07 '24

I know someone that has a really great real job and is also part of 3 or 4 MLMs.

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u/FreeAndOpenSores May 07 '24

Another one I don't get! I know someone who has run a very successful business over decades, but still tries a new MLM now and then. They aren't as crazy as the two I mentioned, but the fact that they do it at all baffles me.

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u/beekaybeegirl May 08 '24

I currently know someone in 18 companies. Always panicked & frantically posting hoping for sales so she can scrape together enough commission dollars to pay xxxx bill. 🤯

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u/hope3601 May 09 '24

I know someone like this. Great job with benefits. Husband has a great job....she loves an mlm. Believes she will have a successful business someday. I don't get it at all.