I haven't got any M­L­M (Multi Level Marketing) experience, No one has ever asked me to sell M­L­M products, and I've never sold any M­L­M products. That's my background until first half of 2006. One day, when I'm doing my IA in a garment industry, I had a call. That's a call from my friend (let's call him X). I know him because I took the same major as him in the same university. We've ever done an assignment together before. I took the call and then he told me that he had a friend (let's call him Y) who wanted to find a marketing person in supermarket business. He gave his phone to his friend so I could talk to Y. It's quite noisy there and I'm in the middle of something, so I actually felt a little bit irritated with the phone call. Then, Y introduce himself to me. He told me his intention to find someone capable in marketing supermarket and asked me to meet. Deep down in my heart, I'm not interested with the offer, so I told Y that I did not have any interest in that thing. Y said to me that It's all right, he also did not want to tie me because he hadn't known me, so it was uncertain whether I was the right person for him or not. Again, he asked me to meet, but this time he offers me time and place to meet, he said, "How about at 4 PM in CiWalk?" (CiWalk is a famous mall in my hometown). I refused it, "Sorry, I think I can't meet you this afternoon." Even I had said that, he keep asking me, "How about tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, Monday, ...?" That time, I tried to give myself time to think, so I make an appointment to meet him on Tuesday at 4 PM in CiWalk. After he confirmed again, the conversation ended.

Tuesday, in the morning before I went anywhere that day, I called my friend (X). On the phone, I asked him what his friend (Y) wanted from me. He asked back to me what he (Y) had said to me last time. I said I didn't hear him clearly because of the noisy environment and I also said truthfully that I was lazy to attend the meeting. He said that I should tell him if I would not go to the meeting. I asked him whether he would also come. He said, "Probably." That time, I did not tell him my decision whether I would come to the meeting or not.

Tuesday, in the evening after I finished my business in my university, I went to CiWalk earlier. I did not want to disappoint him. I arrived there about half an hour before the agreement. I waited, look around (I didn't know how Y looked like), and guessed everyone I meet whether he is Y or not. I checked the time in my cell phone several time.

4 PM. Nobody contacted me, last time, I hadn't asked our meeting point. I didn't know where I should wait. then I thought -I will wait about 15 minutes, If anything happens, I will go home-

About 4.15 PM, Y contacted me. He asked me whether I would attend the meeting or not and I answered him, "Yes, I'm in CiWalk now." He said, "Oh, OK, I will go there as soon as possible, now I'm in IP" (IP is another famous mall in my hometown, It's about half an hour from there to CiWalk).

I waited and waited. Several times later, I had a phone call, It's my friend (X), he asked me where I was. So, I met X in a food court inside the mall. He brought a bag, I could see a laptop there.

Several minutes later, Y came and joined us. I sit in front of X and Y sit beside me (looked like I was cornered...^^;). Then my friend took a book and showed it to me... the presentation began. At first, because I did not see the book cover, I did not know that It was TianShi. Later, my friend, X, told me about the company. In conclusion, X and Y asked me whether I interested or willing to join them or not.

Once, Y asked me what kind of problems I thought I would have if I joined them. The first problem I said is to gain another people to join me. He explained to me, I would just need to make a list of some people, then submit it, the team would choose whether they are worth or not (I think the team would confirm whether they had already joined or not), then I should make appointments (like X made appointment with me), then if I had not ready to do it myself yet (explaining), other would do it in my place, I would just need to sit nicely and smile.

The presentation itself took about half an hour, after that they still want me to stay to talk about several things, but they said this one is more like relax conversation. But I refuse it, my reason, "I promised my brother to accompany him buying thing, beside that, You, yourself, come late, so I have to wait."

Actually, It's really interesting, but I feel a little bit ... like ... fooled. At first, they told me about marketing supermarket, in the end I had pay some (to make a membership + buying their products) and my work is looking for people to join. That's just me, you may not feel the same.

My mistake: I did not strictly refuse it from the beginning.

Maaf, tanpa mengurangi rasa hormat, aku mengalami ini di Indonesia dan aku kira jaringan M­L­M di Indonesia juga cukup besar, maka artikel ini tidak tersedia dalam Bahasa Indonesia. Terima kasih atas perhatiannya.