By the end of 1995, Taiwanese had joined direct sales groups a total of 2,488,000 times. After deducting redundancies such as one individual joining two or more networks, the figure is 1,986,000 people.
截至八十四年底，全台灣共計有二百四十八萬八千人次曾經參加合法報備的多層次傳銷事業（俗稱「直銷」），扣除掉其中四分之一是屬於一個人加入兩家公司之類的重複人數，實際是一百九十八萬六千人。