To want my usually lovely friend to stop harrassing me about Forever Living

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She has recently got involved with Forever Living. We used to be in touch every month or so via email, text or fb (We live opposite ends of the country) but since she has got involved with this it's every single day more or less. She sends chatty messages but always drops in 'Have you thought about it some more' 'They are really good products' etc. Another mutual friend told me she has also been emailing her the same thing, again and again and again. Mutual friend and I have both already told her we're not interested in becoming part of it but we wish her luck and hope it works out.

What has happened to our usually sane and lovely friend? It's impossible to have a conversation with her without Forever Living being mentioned repeatedly. It's like she has been taken over by a cult or something the way she keeps going on about it.

I looked into the company and it seems to be a MLM company. Some of the articles I have read make it seem like a very fine line between that and a pyramid scheme. A lot of people also saying they made no or very little money trying to sell inferior products at an inflated price.

She's not made any money yet but is playing a well off future down to them. Is she kidding herself, has anyone here been selling these products and made any money doing it?

Oh I'm glad I'm not the only one that thinks these people have lost all common sense. My sister also leaves her children with unsuitable carers and then preaches that she loves life as a working stay at home mum. I think the usual saying if it sounds too good to be true it usually is applies! I did actually start to wonder if I was wrong as she goes on about buying a big house, retiring early, sending the children to private school. Good for her if I could actually believe it, but I cannot see how taking 30% of a £20 product is going to make her millions. And how taking a cut off your team members below you sales is going to also make millions. Or even many thousands. It's slightly concerning me though that she'd swear her life on it. She can do what she wants mind, just don't go harassing my I'm law family and my friends who she has only met once at my hen do!

Yeah I have a few flogging the younique mascara too I just keep ignoring it looks awful! Also does anyone remember the juice plus one that was on the go a while back I had friends obsessed with it for ages and then it all of a sudden seemed to stop and disappear ??

I'm hoping this will be the case...it will just disappear!

I have fb friends still engrossed by the juice plus shite.

I swear she will run out of hash tags shortly. She posted a pic of her healthy lunch today, and I swear it looked like vomit.

Her and another friend have inboxed me numerous times- the best claim was that juice plus has been PROVEN to prevent premature births!
That got a response beginning with fuck and ending with off

I have two old friends who do FL (both I know socially but not very well).

One is doing really really well on it and often posts pictures of her with large cheques (as in physically large!) with large figures on them and jets off to places like Hawaii on company jollies.

The other doesn't seem to make anything at all at it.

BOTH of them are now hidden on Facebook for their incessant posts about it. I have had both of them try to recruit me too, and in the end had to be blunt to the point of rude to make them stop.

Add Arbonne to the crowd as well. Seriously expensive brainwashers who are taking a friend for all they can get.

My mum and step-dad got into this FL crap! It was a complete nightmare for at least a year.. and I heard he's going to be starting it up again which I'm dreading to be honest.

Anyhow, I think I posted last year on here about it, so I won't repeat myself.

I was going to ask though, how do they seem to so easily brainwash people? I've seen it myself with my 'normal' mum turning into a raving loony over it all... how are they doing it? What do they say? I know they went to the conferences etc.. is there any video's of the conferences? Just intrigued how they manage to get so many people suckered it..

I'm having the same issue with a friend of mine. Doing my head in and possibly has ruined our friendship because of it.

roland, my friend has gone from being the most fun and clever woman I know, to a total idiot selling this stuff. Boring conversations about bastard bee pollen and aloe vera. Constantly trying to get me to sign up to sell the stuff too. I don't know how they brainwash people but she appears to have been.

you can buy similar products from holland & barrett for a lot less.
I have however just tried the propolis creme and it is good,don't worry I am not away to join the cult.
Was asked to sell but its just not for me,no motivation!

I love the FL stuff (well 2 creams and 1 juice) and have used them for years on humans and animals but it does turn whomever is selling it into an obsessional, boring twat.

I buy whatever I need from one friend who got short shrift from me when she first started out and was constantly messaging/bothering me. She got the message pretty quickly ;)

However, another friend has just taken up fl and she is driving me up the pissing wall. Fb group requests, fb posts, tags, emails, texts. I will have to handle it gently as she can get quite upset if she thinks she's inadvertantly up someone (pre fl) but next time I see her I'm going to have to spell it out for her :(

How the hell does fl manage to brian wash such lovely, normal people?!

Hi. I replied to an ad on workingmums.co.uk looking for people to work from home. Got a reply from someone who wanted me to join her team and got instructed to a website with info about the products but most of it was about recruiting people and making your own team ect. Pictures of people with massive cheques ect.

I have posted before about my friend who got into it, she was at a vulnerable time in her life having been made redundant twice in a short space of time and it was exactly like a cult in the way that people seem to get brainwashed! Thankfully it was short lived with her but it left me feeling very about their tactics.

I had a fb convo with a woman who claimed that she worked 5-15 hours a week and it was enough for her to give up her 3 jobs and spend all her free time with her daughter. It was creepy.

I've seen a FB picture that a FL person who raves about how she gets to stay at home by doing it posted - it was a cute baby saying 'Mummy will you stay at home with me today?'

I think that you have to treat friends that have been sucked into these things as you would if it were a con man or cult. It's just as bad IMO and people who are taken in need support to be able to leave.

A friend from work has just got into FL and I'm dreading it changing her to a FL zealot! I think I'll just have to say I'm allergic to it.

My friend has made a good living out of Avon over the years . It never ceases to amaze me how people keep reordering ever three weeks. I know they sell more than make up and shampoo etc now. She recruits and then gets a small percentage from her people's sales.

Neals yard does some really great deals. I bought the consultants pack. I think it was about £45 and there was £200 worth of products in it. All full size. Plus all the stuff needed to start your own business.They seem to do it running up to valentines day and you're not forced to be a consultant. I couldn't make the time for it. Shame. I would have liked to do it. The stuff does sell itself and smells gorgeous. I got face oil, face balm, liquid oil, frankincense face cream, eye serum . There were three essential oils lavender, lemon and I forget the other one. There was no pressure to be a consultant otherwise I wouldn't have joined. I'll post next time there's another recruitment. Someone may wish to do it.

I've just thought of another one...party lite candles. Some of that stuff can be so expensive.

Is that mom or pyramid selling.

MLM

I have three aloe Vera plants. They were given to me by my good friend. I've used them for scalds in the kitchen or insect bites.

I wouldn't have the nerve to eat the inside of a leaf. Has anyone tried that!

I was diagnosed with Crohns 2 weeks ago and have been out of hospital a week. I'm on a heap of steroids and other meds in an attempt to keep all of my bowels. Part of the reason they discovered what was wrong was that I've lost 3st in 3 months. I'm being seen by a dietician to build me up again.
My friend is VERY pissed off that I won't "support" her by buying any of her products. She knows the state I am in but insists that her aloe Vera stuff will be better than any medication.
I think the friendship is over because of this.

Any Peep Show fans in?

Barbara Bingham: Well, I guess that's everything. Jeremy, is there anything you'd like to ask?
Jeremy Usborne: Yes, Barbara. Yes, there is. Barbara, how much washing-up do you think you could do without any washing-up liquid?
Mark Corrigan: No, Jeremy.
Barbara Bingham: Where's this...
Jeremy Usborne: It's a unique business opportunity.
Mark Corrigan: It's pyramid selling, Barbara, I'm very sorry.
Jeremy Usborne: It's not pyramid selling, Mark. It's...
Mark Corrigan: It's pyramid selling and you're making a fool of yourself!
Jeremy Usborne: You're pissing on my bonfire!
Mark Corrigan: There is no bonfire!
Jeremy Usborne: Because you keep pissing on it!

I can't help but imagine everything Aleksandra says in a rummy Russian accent. Sorry love.

My uncle got into FL and for ages my mum used the toothpaste, now she is averaging on £1000 a year for professionals to keep the teeth in her head. My uncle didn't get rich out of it either. Judging by the amount of products that my mum and uncle have, they spent more than he earnt.

This thread so old!!!
It dates back to July 2014.

I also just had a friend tell me about her new FL (the NAME alone!) venture. What I want to know if Aloe Vera is good for anything beyond scratches and burns?