This thread was reopened by Spam, but the devil made me post a message. There seems to be a religious aspect to many of these multi-level marketing schemes. The sales meetings, particularly, have the feel of a religious revival. We used to rent our Catholic church hall out for Amway sales meetings, but we decided to drop them because their almost-religious materialism conflicted with our way of thinking. They seemed to be an aspect of born-again Prosperity theology (health and wealth gospel), a Christian religious belief whose proponents claim the Bible teaches that financial blessing is the will of God for Christians - that seems to me to be an aberration of Calvinism. All those people with their fancy clothes and fancy cars made us feel creepy. That stuff didn't seem to fit with our food locker, of which we were very proud. If you were to guess that I was one of the primary opponents of renting to Amway, you might be right.
-Joe-