My dad visited his deceased friend's widow and bought some Scentsy stuff from her. I've never been so disgusted with MLMs in my life.

My dad had a friend who died quite abruptly and tragically a few years ago. It completely blind-sided his wife and two children, who were both under ten when it happened. One child is now in his early teens, and the other is a preteen. His friend's wife was a stay-at-home mom who relied entirely on her husband to generate income. She had to go back to work for the first time since giving birth.

This woman is vulnerable and struggling to raise children while still actively grieving. In other words, she's a perfect target for predatory MLMs. She lives a few hours away, but my dad was on a trip two weekends ago near where she is, so he stopped by to say hello, see how she's doing, and buy the kids lunch. I was Facetiming him today and noticed a wax warmer and some wax in the background, which I thought was odd. My dad is a 63 year old man; not exactly the target audience for that product lol.

He told me he bought it from the widow, who got roped into shilling Scentsy and had some overstock. My dad's owned businesses all his life pre-retirement, so he already knows what MLMs are, but he didn't know what Scentsy was prior to this. He told me next time he talks to her he'll try to explain the pyramid scheme business model and maybe offer to buy her leftover overstock so she doesn't subscribe to the classic sunk cost fallacy, but man, hearing all of this just made my blood boil.

She lives in a relatively small, suburban area with school-aged children, so I'm inclined to believe another stay-at-home mom or coworker dragged her into this mess, but she's been in that area for years. Everyone knows about her husband's death and all the other issues in her personal life that have ensued since he passed away.

How can someone be so fucking desperate for a downline that they target her? I mean, really? I'm not saying anyone deserves this, but you have to be another level of sick to prey on a grieving single mom. It's just absolutely disgusting.