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[quote=ZachF]This is real simple.  Ask her what she thinks are the ten best products they sell and the purchase cost of each.  Or five. 
 Then tell her you will get back to her.  Go on ebay and put those in a search.  She should be shocked to learn that a bottle of something that she is trying to sell retail for $24.95, or whatever, is on ebay with an asking price of $5 and still may not get sold at that price.  THAT is her competition and she doesn't stand a chance.

Who are these people (in my best Jerry Seinfeld voice) listing this stuff so cheaply on ebay?  That will be her once she finally admits failure and is stuck with all the products she bought and can't sell.

These companies make money by selling large quantities of their stuff wholesale to people they can convince, like your sister, that there is a willing market out there for their wonderful products.  The products are stacked up in spare bedrooms and garages of these gullible people all over the country.

I've actually known a few people who were successful in MLM.  Call it Amway, Quickstar, whatever.  Exactly 2.  I won't bother to mention, nor could I recall and count all the people I've met who tried and failed at it.  The two I know both worked full time, good paying jobs and they were among the best in the country at the MLM thing as a sideline.

They both had their wives fully involved and yes, it was very cult like.  They worked it every single day and spent many evenings a week putting on recruiting seminars in a hosts house because to make any money at all, you spend all your time recruiting new members to buy the products these members hope to sell.

Both of these guys were top level, professional sales people who would be successful in most any sales environment. No one else I've ever met could possibly do the job I saw them do.

For some reason, people get conned into thinking that sales is easy and any idiot can do it.  By your description, your sister is the farthest thing from a sales person and has no business getting involved in this, any more than she should perform brain surgery.

I feel for her and I know you are concerned for her, as you should be.  Especially because she left her job to do this which means she really drank all the Kool-Aid they fed her.  It takes someone with years of successful sales experience, tons of charisma, a driving desire, and total support from her spouse to make this work.  As you say, she has none of that and there is zero chance she will profit from this.  In fact, she will take a loss.

Try to talk some sense into her before she buys any more product.  Help her to open her eyes and see that the demand is just not there and she is not cut out for sales and marketing or she would already be doing that job somewhere.  And ask her, why would anyone buy this from you at $XX when they can buy it online for like 1/4th $XX.

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