How much do people make from the MLM schemes?

[StunnerNotReally]

My facebook suddenly has loads of women doing these.
Body shop and Tropic and the perfume one.

[LindaLovesCake]

None.

They buy all that stuff at the start for their ‘kit’ and that’s how the profit is made by the company,

[AfterSchoolWorry]

Fuck all !

[LindaLovesCake]

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[StunnerNotReally]

So what is the point of the "teams"?
I have a woman trying to get me to be part of her body shop term

[BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz]

They probably earn a bonus for new sign ups.

[isabellerossignol]

Pish all

[Raella50]

It’s a scam

[LindaLovesCake]

Tell her you are boycotting the BS because of their Twitter gaff.

MLMs are pyramid schemes.

[BigGee]

Nothing. A massive percentage, into the high 90s, lose money.

[TheFormerPorpentiaScamander]

None. I probably spent more than I ever made. Actually I know I did because I never could access the money I made as I didnt have the right ID to verify my account
Of course my 'uplines' and friends who also fell for the mlm bullshit told me I wasn't working hard enough.

[KindKylie]

I am so fed up with these things. I am added to WhatsApp and Messenger and FB groups almost daily at the moment by really random person that I worked with for a while 10 years ago etc.

I can't see why I would suddenly need the items they're selling, nor how it makes them much money compared to the hours they must put in to badgering everyone with stupid raffles and photos of stock items etc.

Tropic, Scentsy, Younique, Usborne, Body Shop... They're all trying to recruit each other too which just seems barking - why saturate an already tiny market in a small geographical area?

[StunnerNotReally]

Yeah I was thinking that. So she has recruited about 4 team mates already and we are basically all from the same town. So when someone joins your team from the same town,won't they just take some of your customers from the area?
I find it all so confusing

[LindaLovesCake]

The new team member will need product to demonstrate and will need products to use on herself so she knows how to talk about them to sell them. So she spends £150 on stuff she wouldn’t have done ordinarily. Then she gets her mam and her sister in law and three people at work to buy something to be supportive and then that’s it.

[morriseysquif]

I earn quite a lot actually, when I make the effort but its not perfume or skincare.

[BlackCatsRule88]

The talented ladies club website has a number of good articles that spell out just how little the vast majority make and how rampant the lies within the MLM industry are. Building a team is mostly how they make money, often the products are secondary.

[Mycatismadeofstringcheese]

This persons story about Younique and the tactics they use to part the people who sign up with their money is eye opening

ellebeaublog.com/poonique/

[BobbieDraper]

@morriseysquif

What do you make the most money from;
A) selling product to customers

Or

B) from recruiting new salespeople/team members

?

[HatRack]

Negative £200

[RomaineCalm]

They earn thousands of pounds a week. Enough to drive a big Range Rover and buy designer stuff. This is made even better by the fact that they only need to work a few hours a week and can fit it in around school etc. Every so often they get the chance to jet off to an amazing conference full of motivational speakers and other equally successful business-people.

Or not.

[blue25]

It’s a load of bull. Don’t fall for it.

[BuzzShitbagBobbly]

I was watching a show about landlords and dodgy tenants earlier.

One couple owed almost 10k in rent.

I actually scoffed out loud when I saw her in her fleece top, complete with motivational quote on the back.

No bloody wonder they couldn't afford the rent!

[purpleme12]

I'm not taken in by them but I do wonder how the car comes about if they're not making money from it? I'm a bit confused about it all

And this Arbonne thing. One of the people on Facebook I used to work with does it. It seems different to all the rest. But people on here still say it's an MLM and you don't make money from it?
What's all this about everyone being paid too go to America for a big conference thing? I don't get it

[Menaimum]

@purpleme I knew an Arbonne sucker- they pay for those "conference" trips themselves- not from profits but it's part of their investment in "their business" as a boss lady.

[AriettyHomily]

Fuck all.

Snooze the friends, reconnect when they come out the other side.

[CrazyKitkatLady]

There’s a really interesting podcast called “The Dream” that addresses MLMs in its first season, I listened to it on Spotify. It’s American focused but they all work in much the same way.