Can MLM ruin your reputation? Opinions, please.

(except maybe sending a million spam messages)

I know several well respected players who fell into the MLM trap and had their reputation trashed almost overnight.

Some started receiving hate mail almost the instant they were getting involved.

I don't care if it is supposedly taught in Harvard business school and that it's just another way of distributing products, or that Robert Allen says it's o.k. etc.

All that may be true but the vary nature of MLM and the culture that goes with it makes it's very risky to be involved in it in any way (expecially if care about your reputation) and the failure rate is extremely high.

The only guarentee is that you are going to have a lot of unhappy people and your name will start appearing all over the web, but probably not in a way you want!

It's not worth the risk for me.

If I had a dollar for every email, contact or person who told me that their MLM is "different"
It's got the best products, service, founder, and the best double wipper doodle reversed force matrix, I'd be rich! :-)

Jim