To ask you what you know about Forever Living?

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So a friend has started selling Forever Living, she seems to be doing well so far which is great for her but it seems too good to be true, can I ask your experiences with the company, if any? She's a good friend so I'm hoping it works for her, so far the only draw back i can see is a lot of advertising to friends (via fb), which long term probably would annoy folk.

Also the products, anyone tried the weight loss stuff? She has lost loads so if its not just water that will all go back on then I jump on the bandwagon with her :D

Well, if the products were decent quality and decent value they'd be on sale in the shops. If it were a genuine business selling genuine products this kind of marketing would lead to commission liabilaties that would either raise the price far too high or sink the ship.

The bottom line is that recruits only make money through the shares they get of their own recruits' sales, and those of their recruits' recruits, and so on down. That is the very definition of a pyramid scheme.

That the bubble must burst at some point is inevitable. If every recruit recruied six more recruits then In 13 layers of recruitment you have 13 billion people in the scheme. Anyone see what's wrong with that picture?

Once the scheme reaches a certain size it's like a star that's started trying to fuse iron. The commissions payable to all those layers of salespeople can't be supported by the sales unless more people come in and make more sales, and the market for those sales and recruits has been exhausted. Gravity takes over and anyone relying on it kinda gets it in the shorts.

They do make commission on their sales and they have to have certain sales levels to receive commissions from further down - it is about recruiting for consistent income from those below you BUT you can only have that if you are selling yourself as well. I have seen ALOT of it - the HQ are in the next town so masses of them round here. I don't appreciate their methods of advertising - they often don't even mention the name which I find annoying and misleading, there are those that spam until they learn that pisses people off rather than keeps sales. I do know well behaved consultants (or whatever they call them) and there is nothing wrong with this selling scheme if it works for you - its legal I checked. They do offer extensive training but mostly around coaching and management rather than selling and I think they probably need more control over this. I have used their products but as many have said they are good quality BUT expensive. Amway for e.g. offer a similar multipurpose detergent for £11 as opposed £19 odd and there is more of it. This is comparable as Amway have the same structure for selling. If you like the product and want to support a friend then get some - if you don't then don't - let them know their fb is annoying and unfollow them if you want and they ignore you - it is a network marketing style sell as much as AVON and Tupperware were in their day.