@ossobuco,
Quote:I don't get why you two can't fire her.
Just that she's making money for you?
She is not their employee this is a multi level marketing deal where whatever she earn a percent go to them as they recruited her.
I have no clue how you would go about breaking that relationship as they have no control over her other then part of her cash flow go to them just as part of their cash flow go to whoever recruited them.
They could stop aiding her, at the cost of perhaps reducing their own income.
It is a very strange business model and hopefully somewhere down the chain someone are selling goods to the public and not just recruiting people and selling things to them otherwise it is a Pyramid that will collapsed.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-level_marketing
Multi-level marketing (MLM) is a marketing strategy in which the sales force is compensated not only for sales they personally generate, but also for the sales of the other salespeople that they recruit. This recruited sales force is referred to as the participant's "downline", and can provide multiple levels of compensation.[1] Other terms used for MLM include pyramid selling,[2][3][4][5][6] network marketing,[7][8][9] and referral marketing.[10]
Most commonly, the salespeople are expected to sell products directly to consumers by means of relationship referrals and word of mouth marketing.[1] Some people use direct selling as a synonym for MLM, although MLM is only one type of direct selling, which started centuries ago with peddling.[1][7][11]
Companies that use MLM models for compensation have been a frequent subject of criticism and lawsuits. Criticism has focused on their similarity to illegal pyramid schemes, price fixing of products, high initial entry costs (for marketing kit and first products), emphasis on recruitment of others over actual sales, encouraging if not requiring members to purchase and use the company's products, exploitation of personal relationships as both sales and recruiting targets, complex and sometimes exaggerated compensation schemes, the company making major money off its training events and materials, and cult-like techniques which some groups use to enhance their members' enthusiasm and devotion.[10][12]
In contrast to MLM is single-level marketing, where the person is rewarded only for the immediate income between the exchange of a product and monetary benefit.[13]
