What MLM product is my mate flogging?

[MoonfacedMilksop]

I’ve noticed over the last couple of weeks that a uni mate is posting increasing amounts of total bollocks on Facebook. As expected a couple of days ago I got a message “Hey Hun, how are you babe? I can’t believe it’s been so long since I’ve seen you! I’d love to meet for a chat when restrictions are eased - I’ve got some really exciting news to share with you! ❤️❤️🌸🌈.”

I’m not replying as I don’t want to end up being guilted into buying a load of diet shakes or shitty scented candles or whatever. I can’t work out what she’s selling though. It looks like she’s selling meditation but I didn’t know you could buy that. Books on meditation, maybe?

I’ve (hopefully) attached some of her posts with photos removed. Does anyone know what MLM this is? It’s not important, it’s just irritating me that I don’t know.

Ha I'd need to know too, without asking obviously. Have you tried googling her posts to see who else is spouting posting them?

It doesn’t look like they’ve been copied and pasted from anywhere else. I wish I could post the photo of the orchard one but it would be mean. She obviously couldn’t find a pick your own place open (shut for Covid, I guess) so she’s just scattered a load of pears on her lawn and is holding one up near a chestnut tree as if she’s just picked it .

Lots of talk about joining her at her wellness evening in an enchanting outdoor space (pretty sure that’s also going to be her garden). ‘A special space and time for mums to let go and remember who they truly are’. Which does sound quite tempting because it might be hallucinogenic drugs. I don’t think anyone’s tapped into the acid MLM market yet.

I don’t think anyone’s tapped into the acid MLM market yet
It's only a matter of time!

I have just had a quick google about grounding meditation. Is she selling CBD products?

Apparently there is a meditation MLM called Volo: www.reddit.com/r/antiMLM/comments/8sl60u/volo_the_spiritual_mlm_overview_of_the_website/ sounds a bit like what she’s flogging.

At least it’s not the shit yourself thin coffee.

Ooh she has also typo'd meditation to 'mediation' so it could be an acid fuelled hippie relationship counselling thing!

I'm in!

It doesn’t look like they’ve been copied and pasted from anywhere else.

The fruit picking one has. I googled part of the opening sentence. I couldn't link it to an MLM though.

Some old arse about life coaching maybe, that seems to be a popular one at the moment

(I googled the bit that started "the act of picking fruit...")

Haha I was just thinking about the orchard post, that looks trippy

Do you have any mutual friends you could quietly ask? Maybe they’ve had similar messages.

I’ve been chatting about it with the 2 mutual friends we have as none of us can work out what it is but we also don’t want to reply to the message in case we get recruited/ guilted into spending loads of money.

gillbungalow I think you’re right in that it’s some kind of life coaching thing. Is selling life coaching an MLM now? If she’s the one doing the life coaching it’s going to be a tough sell, she’s notoriously bonkers.

I know a people who have set themselves up as life coaches with a whole bag of woo about meditation, crystals, goddess energies. It's not an MLM that I'm aware of, but they do seem to have similar posting styles and the same people comment with 'you're so beautiful inside and out hun, gorjuss' type replies regularly. It seems to attract similar behaviour from people.

Life coaching was my first thought too.

I’d have to know what she was selling and would let her do her spiel. I have zero qualms about firmly saying no though.

One of the mums in DD1’s class is flogging Usborne books and has messaged me multiple times about it. I posted a FB status basically tearing apart MLMs (didn’t mention Usborne) but she got the message and commented on my thread. She doesn’t try to flog to me anymore!

I also had someone try to recruit me on LinkedIn for Utility Warehouse. Knew it was an MLM from the first message but let him tell me all about it before saying hell no!

Contact her and say her facebook or whatever has been hacked and sending horseshit mlm messages. You are concerned that people will think she has gone nuts and been sucked into this. As that would be embarrassing , she needs to change her password.

^^ genius

@murbblurb fantastic

. Do let us know what happens!!

Invested!!! Any news op?

Sounds like she's already been at the psychoactives if she's bouncing around her garden thinking she's picking pears from chestnut trees

@NiceGerbil

Sounds like she's already been at the psychoactives if she's bouncing around her garden thinking she's picking pears from chestnut trees

In April too

Coaching is the new MLM product du jour; it’s perfect - a nicely intangible “product” and is of course the product is not important to MLM, what is important is recruiting people. Sell someone a package that promises the good life/improved MH/improved relationships etc etc. Do this by conveying the idea it’s changed your life through the use of pastel coloured memes and trite quotes. Sign up your friends so they pay their money and start sharing the same cryptic shit. If you can’t sign anyone up it’s because you need more coaching so you need to pay again. All money in the pockets of a few. It’s all out of the Dummies Guide to Joining a Cult. Some of these coaching MLM/PS’s are pretty sinister.

There are a lot of disciples of Law of Attraction who fall down the pyramid scheme coaching hole. There are also a lot of network marketing gurus who coach MLM sign ups towards “success” which just means keeping them hooked in to the sunk cost fallacy. I can think of a few of those people who have made their money elsewhere/not by legal means who are now coaching people and telling them that their huge success is down to MLM so just follow their lead. None of it’s true.

It’s hard to say which MLM it is because the generic crap they post is pretty much the same across them all. You might be able to click on her fellow cult members and see if any of them make the mistake of naming it (someone will have done).

Someone on my FB is doing the whole life coach thing.
Charging £60 an hour to be a 'listening ear.'
It's bonkers.

Isn’t there an essential oils one that taps into meditation too?