Nebraska - He'll do that same single instance thing for less because he's getting that same amount during the times that he's doing nothing.
I'll admit that pyramid schemes, or multi-level marketing as you so diplomatically put it (

) send me running for the hills. I have no faith in an organization whose financial security depends on adding 'salespeople' to the pyramid. If this turns out to be something like that, I would tend to not want to be involved.
I had a similar experience with a Citigroup multi-level marketer/customer. An hour into my initial meeting with him and he's giving me his pitch on getting me to refer my landscape customers to him for insurance and investments. No thanks.
In the presentation I saw there was nothing about becoming an 'affiliate' or anything like that, but it was a presentation to a group of 20 landscape co presidents, not a single person.
I did also hear about a similar product from a neighbor, but this neighbor is one that I presume every idea of his is a bad one, because they almost always are.

So I went in skeptical, but left not so much.
I'll have to look into this a little more....