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Reselling multi-level marketing products on eBay

If you are an employee or know an employee of one of those MLM (multi-level marketing) companies like Avon, Mary Kay, Melaleuca, Jerky Direct, etc. you are in luck with a side income opportunity.

Those MLM businesses always have artificially high prices. They lock customers into contracts to purchase a minimum amount of product each month. They sell to fewer customers, but the ones who do buy happen to purchase the minimum amount and that carries the company business model.

Take Melaleuca, for instance. They sell $4 soap bars! They even call them "gold bars".

MLM companies like these do not sell in retail stores, because their products are commodities on retail shelves, and in commodities it is a race to the bottom.

Employees of these companies, who do orders, work in IT, the customer service representatives, usually get monthly product checks that give those employees a set amount of the product to buy each month. The MLM companies do this for two reasons: to provide a cheap bonus, and because most employees would not pay for these overpriced items and it sounds bad when customers call in and the employees have not tried any of the products.

So anyways, employees usually get sick of the products fairly quick.

Instead those employees should take the most popular products bought on their bonus checks, and eBay them. They can easily undercut the MLM prices, and it's all profit to the employees anyways.

posted by Ideas2NoEnd @ 8:11 PM