What happened to MLM's?

That’s a real job 😂

I’ve still got a couple of friends doing Tropic or Monat. And a few who’ve been sucked into that life coach shit, where you pay to have “life coaching” from someone and it turns out to basically be them telling you to set yourself up up as a life coach on their team and so it continues. Don’t think anyone is actually doing any life coaching at any point. The most that seems to happen is that they write their “inspirational life story” for a self published book that sells approx 3 copies.

There's a brilliant YouTuber who picks apart MLMs and dodgy influencers, she's US based and it's all alive and kicking over there. Some of them are dangerously "God" orientated. T'is both scary and entertaining at the same time....

replaced by ‘TikTok’ shop

Interesting, the only person I know doing an mlm these days is also doing the travel consultant one! I really don’t understand why anyone would use one of these ‘travel consultants’

Jesus Christ. Some people just really have no shame, do they?

I used to have a coaching role and I get bombarded with adverts that are just people trying to get me to pay to learn how to set up as a life coach. Some are cheap some are very expensive and slick - but they are all a con

They've gone on to 'coaching', drives me crazy. Get a job! You will genuinely be better off with pension, paid holidays etc

a woman I know is always involved in some sort of MLM, she’s currently used her young nieces dog dying as a way to advertise her shit hair oil and has also reposted how the hair oil cures hair loss from cancer 😬

I have two people on social media who have moved on from their original MLM scam to new ones. Apparently the products are better and the values of the companies align with their values. Sure. I also have a couple of the travel agent people on social media and I think they’re a bit MLM too.

I don't get why they're any better than a traditional travel agent for people who want that sort of service either.

You mean realtors!! It always makes me laugh

I had a few people from school/uni whom I'd not seen or spoken to for years contact me when I had my first to try to recruit me into selling shit. One was aloe vera stuff and I can't remember what the other one was. I guess they saw a new mum and thought it was a good time to swoop. I was pissed off enough that the internet, on figuring out we had had a baby, had started bombarding me with stuff about weight loss and stretch marks, while my husband was getting stuff about affair websites. It was actually the worst time to approach me, although there would have been no good one.

I told them I hated sales and was shit at it, and that seemed to do the trick.

Oh dear. On the one hand, I feel sorry for people who get sucked in, but on the other, the way they treat their friends and family as cash cows and get pissy when they say no really pisses me off. Luckily, I haven't had social media for years now, so I don't have to see it.

No- those posts are usually deleted around about 8 am the next morning though....

I'd find it fairly amusing on occasion if it were not for the fact she's old enough to know better; clearly has a problem; and is losing money (I assume) hand over fist.

Yes, her babe is actually Gracie. There is much I could say about her antics but it’s potentially outing

Next winner of The Apprentice right there.

Was I right about her name?

As sales pitches go, it's not exactly a winner, is it?

Same. It's very worrying actually.

Then one facebook friend who is now an 'independent travel consultant' periodically gets shit faced and screeches on fb about how none of her friends 'support her' and they are all cunts.

I’m definitely not. I know her personally.

She was on Young Dumb and Living Off Mum, and she was a horrible bully

I think you're probably confusing her with someone else.

At the time, there was a claim doing the rounds that Younique foundation was so good it could cover up Sharpie. A few sellers even did videos of themselves drawing on their faces and then covering it with the foundation. Needless to say, the videos were very sped up, often jumped and the drawings were rather delicate.

Grace (I think that was her name) went viral after doing a video taking the piss and proving it wasn't true. She wrote POONIQUE across her forehead, drew genitals on her cheeks and then started rubbing the foundation over her face with the brush they were always told to use. Obviously it didn't cover up the Sharpie, but it smeared it everywhere and turned her face blue. She was giving brilliant commentary all through and finished with something like, "You just end up with a blue face and look like a twat. I'm supposed to be going out tonight!"

Younique was furious and everyone else was pissing themselves.

It's an MLM that claims to offer cheaper utilities like broadband and electricity, all combined into the one package, I think, but at the basic level, it operates just like every other MLM, with any profits going to the people at the top for the most part.

She is not fabulous, she is an absolute monster

This is what I don't get with it, because I'm sure they're just looking at the same websites I can look at. And if I use them, I have the added misfortune of having to speak to another human.

I genuinely can't see the benefit in this. I know a couple of women who do it and kind of (rather meanly I suppose) waiting to see how long they keep trying to flog this before returning to a regular job.