And also the person who is briefing you on the business model comes in his Maserati/ ferrari/ lambo and he boasts how he bought it doing exactly the same what he/she is about to tell you.
I actually delivered homecare catalogues while I was studying hoping to earn money for booze (worst job I can say I've ever had cash wise). I actually had a few good weeks with it around Christmas. Generally speaking a job that gives you 15% of sales is ok if you don't have to walk for 14 hours without being guaranteed at least $5-10 hourly. But realistically you need to be an area distributor minimum and have 8-10 deliverers working for you. Ultimately you also get to pick the areas you work then where people might actually spend money. In my area, you were more likely to be sized up to get mugged or for people to want to bludge a smoke than buy any junk from a homecare catalogue. And pissed you off big time when someone would order $500 worth of stuff then decline it when you expected payment before handing over the goods.
But that's how those schemes actually make money for a few people. If I have 20 people doing my leg work, and I am taking 5% of their sales it's easier money.
The whole , hit up your Family for sales thing is because ultimately I think most people get home from these seminars and realise, how am I going to make money off my friends when I only have 4. And three of them avoid me like the plague since the last pyramid scheme I bugged them with