No. Dropshipping is a valid eCommerce model where online retailers work with dropshipping suppliers to sell products. You can run a profitable store selling drop shipped goods without recruiting other sellers (as in a pyramid scheme) or even interacting with other sellers. That said, some multi-level marketing (MLM) companies may utilize a dropshipping business model, where salespeople sell the product but the parent company ships product to customers. MLM can be seen as a pyramid scheme because sellers make more money by recruiting others to sell the product. However, MLM is not a typical dropshipping business.