YES! Several times, I might add. Not only men, but also women, and not only random encounters, but also relatives.This is called prospecting! Essentially what this means is looking for potential prospects aka leadsu2023 for people that you might be able to rope in to buy whatever it is that youu2019re selling or sign up. This type of prospecting that takes place especially in public spaces such as grocery stores, coffee shops, etc. is common with multi-level marketing companies. Hereu2019s a quick definition from Wikipedia:u201cMulti-level marketing (MLM), also called pyramid selling, network marketing, and referral marketing, is a marketing strategy for the sale of products or services where the revenue of the MLM company is derived from a non-salaried workforce selling the company's products/services, while the earnings of the participants are derived from a pyramid-shaped or binary compensation commission system.u201dExamples of companies that employ this marketing structure are: Amway, Herbalife, World Financial Group, Legal Shield, among many others.They are certainly NOT scams (at least the more famous ones), but their practices and they hype that they create is highly questionable! Iu2019ve attended a few u201cintroductionsu201d of some of these companies and they all seem to have something in commonu2013they usually stage a fancy introduction, with music, and usually a very young speaker with an overly fancy looking suit. A pitch line that Iu2019ve heard over and over again is something like, u201cI know a friend thatu2019s in the program, heu2019s 22 and about to retire.u201dThe thing about these companies is that too often the people that try to get you to sign up will be so insistent that youu2019ll likely become very annoyed.The people that are involved in these types of companies are not bad people. Theyu2019re people just like you and me trying to make it big in this crazy world we live in.So, whenever you get approached by a friendly stranger at a grocery store, trying to strike up a conversation and trying to establish rapport, be wary about what they want you to sign up for ha!