New cell phone service in Australia- is ACN any good?

So here I am, home, setting up, I need a new cellphone. My friend, (whom I am sort of dating), is an ACN rep and wants me to buy a cellphone and plan through him. Although it is Optus. I went to the local phone shop and can get all I need there for an ok price. I asked my friend for details and he gave me a card and told me to look at the website, that I would get the phone in about a week. I understand that ACN is some sort of MLM company, which I am fundamentally opposed to, and plus I feel sort of hustled. Anybody know anything about it? supposed to have killer deals?