The Underbelly of Door-to-Door Sales | Multi Level Mondays

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Blair Zoń

Documentary, Education, Business, Society & Culture

4.4 • 961 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Go to http://mintmobile.com/MLM to get phone plans starting at just $15 a month. Go to http://joinhoney.com/mlm to get PayPal Honey for free. Sign up for our Patreon to support what we do! https://www.patreon.com/iilluminaughtii Welcome to Multi Level Mondays, a weekly series all about multi level marketing, pyramid schemes, and ponzi schemes. We’ve spoken about door-to-door sales before and the dangers of letting a stranger into your home—or going into a stranger’s home as a young seller. But it gets so much worse. These companies abandon sellers on the road, let them take the brunt of a controversy they don’t deserve, and trap desperate people in a never ending, dangerous cycle. Magazine selling is so much more than just a scam. Connect With Me: https://linktr.ee/iilluminaughtii’ Sources: https://justpaste.it/3ieil Writers/Researchers/Helpers: Ali Z-B This episode was edited and mixed by: G. Thomas Craig Album cover art created by: Betsy Primes Intro Song Credits: Last to Fall- Will Van De Crommert Outro Song Credits: Sacred and Profane- Nicholas Rowe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Inflation is literally everywhere, like seriously, please make it stop.
0:05.0	Well, thankfully, Mint Mobile is going to give you a much needed break on your wireless bill.
0:09.2	Mint Mobile lets you order from home and save a ton, with phone plans starting at just 15 bucks a month. Order today at a order
0:14.0	to save a ton with phone plans starting at just 15 bucks a month. Order today at mintmobile.com slash MLM. Recently when I looked into Us born in Southwestern Advantage, two MLMs, I learned
0:31.0	about the shady world of door-to-door book selling.
0:34.0	Now, this isn't uncommon with MLMs or pretty much any other type of business
0:37.6	where young sellers have to enter strangers' homes.
0:40.0	At Cutco, for example, one teenage seller claimed that they were drugged and taken advantage of while on the job.
0:45.7	Jane Doe, the teenager, also said that she had little to know training to know what to do in these types of situations,
0:51.6	making them especially vulnerable when going into these
0:54.3	homes for sales presentations.
0:57.0	Now this is obviously on the attacker, but it's on the company as well.
1:00.6	They should be researching places that aren't safe to enter in the area by seeing who may be registered and convicted of certain types of crimes. And in general, they should be informing their salespeople about proper tactics, what to do if a situation's getting a little sticky,
1:14.0	ways to back out, and things of that nature.
1:16.5	Cutco and other door-to-door companies
1:19.0	should offer proper training to teenagers and adults
1:21.6	to keep them safe.
1:22.8	MLMs should not let teenagers go into homes alone.
1:25.8	There are a million and one things that could and should be done to protect young sellers.
1:30.8	But if it's going to cost a business money, then you can probably bet it's not going to be getting done.
1:36.0	However, while researching Southwestern Advantage, I learned a little bit more than I ever expected,
1:42.0	and it all started with a van crash in Wisconsin.
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