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Someone trying to recruit sellers for Forever Living in

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Royalsighness · 13/04/2015 14:14

The maternity hospital waiting room, AIBU to find this absolutely disgusting? She came and sat next to me grinning and asking me questions about if I had any other kids and if I worked and I saw the brochure hanging out of her bag and went to the toilet, came back and she cornered another woman and had the brochures out showing Her. What is this company doing to people?

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Mummyofonesofar · 13/04/2015 15:19

I sound like I work for them now but I went to a launch night thingy but never signed up. They collect the leaves but only use the inside gel in their products whereas other Aloe products just mush up the whole leaf. I do think aloe vera is a wondering product and my Nan uses her little plant in her kitchen for every cut and burn and it does heal quicker but having seen my Mum do tupperware, avon, candles etc etc over the years I am not sure I think the next craze will earn me enough to not work

Oldraver · 13/04/2015 15:35

Someone I knew a while ago has got into this......this was a recent post

What another gorgeous sunny morning and it's nearly the weekend! If you are looking at that weather and wishing you didn't have to go to work, want more time at home with your kids or hated getting up after the long bank holiday weekend, then there are other options. You can build a sustainable income from home and I can show you how

She has been doing it a few months and talks about how inspiring these people are and calls herself a 'Business Developer'. I really never thought she would fall for it all

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Royalsighness · 13/04/2015 15:53

Someone I care veryuvh about was set upon in her own home under the guise of a friend visiting her newborn baby, she didn't leave for 5 hours pressuring her to buy a starter pack. I'm sure the company encourages this sort of predatory behaviour in their staff. I've simply told them I have a part time job that earns me a fair amount, I still get to see my son and study towards a degree. Some of them are saying how amazing it is to be able to spend time with kids but they must be spending 80+ hours a week on FACEBOOK! And with the seminars, conferences, meetings and success days Aswel they don't really get any more time with their families than I do! One of their very high up recruiters stopped me in town once while i was with my son and gave me her card saying she was from a product testing and motivational speakers company, she emailed me a few things through and I realised who she was working for, she has emailed me regularly for a year with no response asking if I have watched the video yet!

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Sparklingbrook · 13/04/2015 15:54

So is recruiting more people to sell the product more important than selling the product?

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Royalsighness · 13/04/2015 15:56

Yes! They get silly little badges and titles for recruiting people into it.

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Christinayangstwistedsister · 13/04/2015 15:57

Why call it forever living...sounds a bit sinister to me

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Royalsighness · 13/04/2015 16:00

It's all very wicker man in my opinion

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specialsubject · 13/04/2015 16:00

health 'supplements' - harmless but unproven. Exactly the same as you can buy in Wilkinsons, or H and B if you are made of money.

wispywoo1 · 13/04/2015 16:02

Seems that way Royal. I have an old friend who has taken this up and she is also constantly going on about 'owning her own business'. Always posting screenshots of comments from her 'clients' and posting very mushy quotes. I'll be hiding her updates soon!

GlitzAndGigglesx · 13/04/2015 16:05

A woman at soft play tried to drag me in telling me she has just bought w new car fresh out the show room. I said "that's nice but I don't drive" then she started banging on about how I'd be able to afford all this luxury stuff. I think it's a cult commission based cult thing

Delilahfandango · 13/04/2015 16:06

I had one on my FB - totally full on about how fantastic it was for a few months! She's shut up about it now as it obviously has not bought the riches that were promised!

PreemptiveSalvageEngineer · 13/04/2015 16:07

It's all very wicker man in my opinion

Oi! That's giving human-sacrificing silly 1970s caricature of Pagans a bad name!

FuckyNell · 13/04/2015 16:12

I went to a 'pitch' last week and the woman basically said that you will get breast cancer if you don't use their deodorant. Astonishing.

Fluffycloudland77 · 13/04/2015 16:15

It's for people who don't want a proper job isn't it? Modern day Del Boys.

A relatives in-law does similar on fb, it all seems to focus on how "fit" she is.

sparechange · 13/04/2015 16:16

Yes, that's how it works. If you recruit people to sell the stuff to their friends, you get a % of all of their sales.
The 'fake it before you make it' lifestyle running up credit cards bills is supposed to make your friends think this is the Best Thing Ever, and sign up so they can have a piece of the action

JoanHickson · 13/04/2015 16:17

I thought pyramid scheme's were not legal.

NeedABumChange · 13/04/2015 16:19

Their lip balm is very good. One of the girls I worked with used to be a supplier on the side and when she did a runner with some bloke and a wad from the till she left all her stock behind. Some of it was okay but way overpriced. We sold most of it on ebay and put it towards the Xmas party.

Welshmaenad · 13/04/2015 16:20

They collect the leaves but only use the inside gel in their products whereas other Aloe products just mush up the whole leaf

Well, that's bollocks, lots of decent aloe products use hand filleted aloe.

TheWitTank · 13/04/2015 16:22

I have a friend on fb flogging it -along with others doing actidiet, younique, and some stupid juice cleanse thing. It's relentless boring, simpering posts about how this product will change your life (mascara will change my life? Riiiight. ) and how they don't have to work much and just LOVE their job. I've recently unfollowed all of them.

worksallhours · 13/04/2015 16:32

What angers me about it is that outfits like this play on people's naivety.

The fact is that to "earn" £4000 a month (which is the figure that keeps popping up on the fb feed), you need to shift a lot of product to get anywhere near the level of turnover to produce that kind of income.

From what I can tell, a bottle of one of their gels is about £20 and, as a distributor, you get a 30 percent discount so you purchase it for £14-ish. To "make" £4K a month, you would need to sell 666 bottles of the stuff a month because, basically, you are making less than £6 on each bottle.

Please someone tell me how you shift 666 bottles of a £20 product or the equivalent every month through a supposedly part-time, home business? You'd have to sell 22 every single day!

aloysiusflyte · 13/04/2015 16:35

I've got a few on fb - friend of a friend posted the other day that she'd been up all night with sickness but wasn't it lucky that she would be able to take aloe probiotics that would make her better. One of her friends asked her if she had invented the sickness bug just to promote forever living again - that didn't go down well!!
Ignore these people, these kind of schemes never work in the long term.

AgaPanthers · 13/04/2015 16:39

They are liars recruiting liars - that's part of the technique, basically they suck in the stupid and encourage them to get into debt buying shiny shite to impress on others that they are making sooooooooooo much money selling their cunt oil, and then they can suck in others with that.

Pyramid scheme, with a sideorder of crap to distract from the pyramidyness.

TheShouldersOfGiants · 13/04/2015 16:46

Bain of my life, my facebook was back to back posts about their perfect lives and businesses and how successful they all were, commenting on each others posts about this weird world they're all sucked into.

Funnily enough, I did the Clean 9 Cleanse from Forever Living () for research purposes (a blog), I didn't pay for it, it would have cost me £120 for 9 days if I had) it involves starving yourself for 5 days by taking supplements and aloe gel shots, then just not eating shit for the remaining 4 and surprise surprise you lose weight. I felt like shit the whole time and the aloe vera stuff tasted disgusting.

You can also buy this crap they pedal on ebay or alternative brands off your own back (if you believe the hype of it) for a fraction of the price.

All in all a farcical circus.

TheShouldersOfGiants · 13/04/2015 16:47

Aga cunt oil

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Royalsighness · 13/04/2015 16:52

Cunt oil and farcical circus

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