Retail selling is outright shunned in many groups to make the business more palatable to the broader market of non-sales oriented prospects. All unprofitable distributors writing me had little or no retail sales. Common sense says the more sold per distributor at Suggested Retail Price, the more money each IBO can make. The Member status has effectively eliminated retail markup as a source of revenue for distributors. Since there are no exclusive territories in AmQuix it is very difficult to maintain suggested retail pricing to customers.
Any distributor can sell goods at distributor cost if they wish to.
The charts below show the distributor product markups across two of their catalogs. Many more people are attracted to the business when they are told they do not need to sell. It is harder to recruit people if you tell them they need to sell. It is also much harder to turn a profit without retail sales. This is the AmQuix sales paradox.