AIBU to tell friend the company she's working for is an MLM scam?

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Friend recently started selling XanGo juice and the skin care etc., and it's all she talks about, all she posts about on FB. She hasn't quit her job, which is someting, but it's hard to maintain a friendship with her because she's only interested in ramming these products down peoples throats. We (me and some other mutual friends) used to hang out weekly and have a lot of fun, and now it's been taken over by Friend pushing her products.

She also wants us to get involved and start selling the stuff ourselves.

The thing is it's an MLM scheme, none of the products work, the people who are spending a bunch of money on these things are being scammed

AIBU to tell friend that it's a bad idea, or at least that it's affecting our friendship?

Uh! I have a friend who is doing this to. She is selling a different product though. I keep wanting to say "there is a reason you are having to work so hard to sell this you know. it's shit"

I bet your friend 'really believes' in her product and could feel the benefits to her health within days?

Yep... didn't believe it until she tried it, then found it was the most amazing thing ever and just had to start selling it to spread all the health benefits to more people!

She should know better, IMO.

Tell her. she won't listen and might fall out with you but you're headed in that direction anyway if she Carries on.

Personally what works for me is just letting her rant on about it without seeming interested, but not being rude by yawning or anything, until she realises she's not getting the reaction she wants and she stops and i immediately change the subject. The facebook stuff i have just hidden.

Oh yes, I have a friend who is forever doing this with new wonder slim products - endlessly banging on on FB.

Eventually I did point out to her that since she started doing this a couple of years ago, we're both still fat, but I haven't had to piss off my entire FB friend list whilst living exclusively on compost juice.

She admitted to spending fairly horrific sums on starter kits etc, but she's still plugging away at it. I just leave her to it - if she ever finds one that works, I'm sure she'll let me know...

My lovely friend got sucked into this with aloe Vera products. It was awful to watch her build her hopes up . Her 'friend' was a total witch for encouraging her to plough savings into the scheme .
Sadly I mentioned my concerns and we were never as close again .

I have a friend who does this. I happened to be in her area when she had an 'event', basically watching a couple of DVDs!

They try to get you to sign up to sell even before you have bought the product. I just said 'skint student and not sure it's for me anyway'

What does MLM stand for? I thought these were pyramid schemes

Multi Level Marketing, another name for a pyramid scheme.

I had a neighbour who did loads of these things. She alienated everyone she knew by inviting people to a party or for dinner and then making them sit through an hour long sales pitch.

Is juice plus one of these MLM schemes? A friend of mine seems to think she'll make a huge amound from selling that and keeps banging on about it on FB. She apparently knows someone who made £200k in a year selling it!

Pyramid schemes are illegal. In a pyramid scheme each level pays more for the produce. This means that people higher up the pyramid profit directly by selling the product to their group for more than they paid to get it.
In Multi-level marketing everyone pays the same cost price for products and sells at the same RRP. The company pays bonuses on top to the various levels based on what they sell. MLM isn't illegal.
That's not to say they aren't a hopeless way to try to make money, and that they piss off people's friends no end!
I think Avon is MLM isn't it?

The thing that cracks me up is, my friend (and the others i know) dont actually do any marketting of the actual product, they dont focus at all on getting you to buy it, they are completely focussed on getting you to sell it. I sat through my friend's pitch once and (aside from her complete lack of knowledge on the products themselves) the entire emphasis was on how much of a cut i would get if i recruited X amount of people who sold £Y a month. How stupid is that? They're all going mad to recruit but once they do they're recruits arent selling anything, just trying to get recruits of their own who again wont sell anything! The only thing being bought is the starter kits!

their recruits.

God I know the 1000s of fat people trying to sell people juice +. Feel like commenting just exercise you bunch of lazys!

sounds like the Body by Vi, herbalife, Juice +, etc thats has been on my fb

God I know the 1000s of fat people trying to sell people juice +. Feel like commenting just exercise you bunch of lazys!

My cousin's girlfriend keeps posting on facebook about the aloe vera stuff. I'll block her if she continues

Yeah, i've got a few friends selling the aloe vera stuff at the moment. I'm just waiting for one to suggest i try it for my numerous health problems.