This sounds like a scam?

It sounds like multiple level marketing. Each person's earnings depend on the success of others below her. I was involved in a scheme like that to sell OTC meds, spices, and other household stuff. Everything got so expensive that no one would buy it. People who start the MLMs get rich. Those underneath work for pennies. Be warned.

It's not necessarily a scam, but one of those legitimate pyramid businesses. What keeps the business growing and it's members earning money if by them recruiting more people to work under them. The more people you recruit to work under you, the higher up the pyramid you go!

Scam or not, I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole.

This is called snowball or pyramid system. From Wikipedia (send the link to your friend):

Pyramid selling. Avoid like the plague!!! You usually have to buy products off the company in order to sell them. If you can't sell them then you ain't getting your money back! Only people at the very top of the pyramid (i.e. the very early participants) ever make any money out of these schemes.

What's all this "like" business...have you turned into a valley girl Turned into $ later on, what's all that about? Any "business opportunity" that charges in this sort of way is suspect in my opinion....$10-20 for shampoo is a lot and I can't see it taking off when you can get well known brands for way less.

Might be a legitimate network marketing company, might not. What's it called?

I have seen lots of these things throughout my life. It seems that the forst people who get into it earn some money if they know when to leave.

We can't earn money so easy.

It depends on the catalogue she's using. If it's a catalogue that can only be used by the person selling the products, then it's not really a scam, but it is a pyramid program, and the person at the top is the one who makes the most on those kinds of schemes. The person on the bottom rarely makes enough to survive on. However, if she's selling out of a catalogue anyone can order from, then yes, that would be a scam.

It's not so much a scam, but your costs are all up front. And unless you're very lucky, it will be a long time before you recoup your ante. And you'll be leaning on the people you recruit. In short, it's a mess.

Not really scam(must not be) but sounds like MLM. Be careful if you decide to invest money,you will have to pester family and friends to buy from you and then they will have to pester someone else to buy from them,you can only make money if your referrals make money and the circle goes on. And as you have already seen these products are usually very expensive,$12 for a shampoo,well you will have to know people with money to invest. Ii`s not a good model of business

It is one of those pyramid scams. She will never make money on it. They make it sound easy but I would call it a scam.

there's nothing fishy about it. This is the recent marketing trend. Here, in India we got almost every second brand doing this stuff, it's genuine 100% but really troublesome or rather I should say it's a lot of work. They "reward" you which isn't much. My cousin is a member of Amway scheme and even after reaching the "diamond" membership she doesn't get much.

Extremely shady. Watch out. Even if it is not. This is not the way to go about it. Imagine ultimately all that cost will be added back to the product the next time you want to buy it. After all, the manufacturer gets an idea how much it would cost to sell.

Depends on the company. With the right company if you can sell like an active salesperson you can make money. I can't seem to sell like an active salesperson.

It's kind of common, a pyramid style "home business"-we'd see it with health food products, or candles, it even exists with Life Insurance. Most of them are not scams, they are just bad business which builds a market off of the concept of market itself, if that makes sense? Companies such as Primerica (not sure I'm spelling it correctly) which are real and do have real products, but they are as much about the concept of building business models off of friends and family etc...and as such they sometimes get sketchy ppl who are just trying to play out getting a buck...they even have motivational meetings. An annoyance of mine is that one will see a lot of these in churches and ppl who use their church "family" as a kind of selling ground and will offer to "help you out if you need a job"-they always push that word "help" but they're mostly just helping themselves. Like I said, real products but questionable sales techniques from sometimes questionable people. It's somewhat akin to the old concept of a tuperware party (again, not spelling it correctly, but those plastic pots and containers). That is not to say though, that there are companies like that which are outright scams.

it's a MLM company probably. Beachbody is another one of those types and I thought about doing it, but when I really looked in the company itself, it sounded like bad news. there is another MLM company that sells weight loss wraps.

It is not a scam. But this is a scheme. Here in India also ladies will be selling articles and get their commission. If we bargain they simply say that they have to forego something from their commission. So I am not allowing them . I do not want a share in their commission.

I would not necessarily call it a scam. It could be, but maybe it is not. Shampoo's at that price is reasonable, if they are from a designer brand. I have seen shampoo's way more expensive than that... Where I would have a problem, is receiving points, instead of dollars right away. My suggestion would be to try to talk to people who have actually gotten paid for those points. Ask them how long it took before they got paid. Did they have any trouble getting the amount they believed they were to be paid. Stuff like that...