Pros
I was able to own all of my customers, had personal relationships with them, was able to work freely in doing what I could to make the customer happy without any management gumming up the works. The pay was nice too, for a no-degree job, I was making $40k a year.
Cons
They cut our pay. Pay was dropped to between $30k to $35k for MORE work - more hours, more driving, essentially working for FREE for a month due to the pay cut. Worst yet, they made us become sales reps in the field - pushing grossly overpriced merchandise to our customers who were suppose be able to TRUST us. Anyone with a soul would not be able to sell a loyal customer an HDMI cable that cost $80 more than anything you could buy at the local electronic store - it was just unethical, and our pay was dependent on it.