This thread has gone off-topic a bit with the whole discussion of pyramid schemes....but please do your research before calling all network marketing companies pyramid schemes. It is a pliable way that many companies bring their products to market, and even Donald Trump and Warren Buffet and Robert Kiyosaki are involved in networking products to market. It eliminates the need for heavy advertising and marketing dollars, thus allowing the $ to be paid to the sales force. Companies without products that just recruit are what gives the profession a bad rap. When you think about it, the government is a pyramid, most companies are a pyramid, and within network marketing and many other industries there will be good and bad, but not all are "schemes".