Pyramid Schemes, which are illegal in many jurisdictions, are based on the old idea of chain letters - remember the ones that asked you to send an amount of money to the person at the top of the list and then rebuild the list with your name at the bottom and pass the letter on to sixteen or so of your friends. By the time your name got to the top, there would be several thousand letters doing their rounds and you would get rich. The problem is that the chain eventually disintegrates and everyone who has contributed but not reached the top of the list looses their money. In other words, you make money (if you are lucky) at the expense of others. There is no added value to the process, no products being sold and no service being provided.
Modern Pyramid Schemes often appear at first glance to be just like Multi-Level Marketing Schemes - which is why MLMs often get a bad name. There is one key difference - in a Pyramid Scheme, the "associate" is paid to recruit. New recruits pay some, or all, of their joining fee to their recruiter. Quite often, there is no real product involved at all - the money is made by conning others to join. They then find that the only way they can make money is to con yet more people to join. That is why the scheme is illegal in many places.
Watkins pays associates nothing at all for recruiting new associates into their team. Associates make all their income from selling product. The more product you sell, the more money you make.
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With a legal MLM, such as Watkins, your Upline will be around to support you in building a business - we have nothing to hide. Watkins has been around for 135 years - how many of the schemes you hear about have that pedigree?
