To be pissed off a "friend" tried to persuade me to take a job by outright LYING about the hours involved?

[throwingpebbles]

So someone I thought was a friend has spent ages trying to persuade me to work for her; selling products as part of her team. She really pushed me to see how I could get a better work/life balance by working for her and made out I could make good money working part time hours around my family

Now I have learnt that in fact to earn any kind of money working in this business you have to essentially "get rid of your kids"!!

Feel really really misled

[DollyTwat]

It's the 'get rid of your kids' that's so horrifying isn't it, accompanied by a weery eye roll - like your kids are such an inconvenience

[JolseBaby]

I work with someone who does something MLM related. Am not going to name it so that this isn't too identifying. She left her job in a blaze of glory because she was doing so well that she wanted to concentrate on it full time. One year later she was back working in our office again - still doing the thing. When she first returned it was on the basis that it was only PT and because she missed everyone. A while later she's still here, still doing the thing and has quietly upped her hours to FT.

[throwingpebbles]

No, thank god! I didn't sign up but I was bloody close after hearing her spiel and watching all these videos she showed me. It's just hard to believe someone you thought was a really good longstanding friend would actually lie about something so massive! And for her own benefit at my expense 😡😡😡

[clarinsgirl]

YANBU. These scams are evil. They turn normal (albeit slightly gullible) people into complete nut jobs. YABU for believing her shite in the first place though.

[throwingpebbles]

I guess I just didn't expect a good friend to lie to me like that clarins !

[lazycoo]

Babez ur making too much of this! Lighten up! All she did was lie to you. Ppl lie every day in life. I'm lying right now!

You need to join the MLM of choice, TimelessVIE.

www.facebook.com/timelessvie

(note this is a spoof)

[lastuseraccount123]

spacedinosaur

[clarinsgirl]

She's not your friend anymore, she's under the influence of a cult and no loner capable of independent thought and actions. At least you've escaped.

Do you plan to challenge her?

[RainOhJoyus]

Massive well done for not signing up. You only make money by recruiting under you, not selling the shit you can buy cheaply in Health stores anyway.

[Bogeyface]

Can someone tell me if Scentsy is one of these?

I am not involved but my cousin has started spamming the FB pages of everyone on her list to the point where most of the family have blocked her from posting on their pages.

She doesnt seem to be recruiting but is all over the place trying to flog her wares.

[throwingpebbles]

I don't think so clarins she seemed so forceful I don't think she would listen to me!
Am reading some of these other links now and they are eye opening!!! I thought it was "just" a scam but it sounds more like a cult!

[SocksRock]

bogey, Scentsy is run along similar lines as far as I know

[Bogeyface]

Thanks socks, I suspected as much.

I would try to talk my cousin out of it but frankly she is ignorant and rude, so I wont. I wait with bated breath for her to start recruiting then.

[Bogeyface]

Mind you, Avon is a total pyramid scheme too. The only way to make any decent money there is to recruit your own team and them to recruit theirs and so on....

[clarinsgirl]

It is a cult. Well done for not getting sucked in. You can at least warn others now.

[RudeElf]

Wow, i thought everyone had pretty much cottoned on to the scam that is FL or slimming wraps or juiceplus or whatever it is. Are people still falling for the spiel?

[throwingpebbles]

Oh, I didn't know Avon was too!!

[Caravanoflove]

I think Stella and Dot is better and seems a good company from what I've seen but pretty much half of the small (affluent) village where I live have given up professional jobs to sell it. Who they sell it to I've no idea as there's only so many Stella and dot parties us remaining few can go to or afford! We are certainly S and D saturated!

[SocksRock]

Now now, they are not pyramid schemes. That would be illegal.

[JolseBaby]

Scentsy is similar and deserves to be ignored if only because the name is so fucking dire and twee. It makes my teeth itch just to look at it.

[Melaw21]

"Get rid of your kids" "do whatever you have to do"

Seems legit

[MaisyMooMoo]

These people are brainwashed. Reminds me a little of Stepford Wives. Your friend has been reprogrammed.

[coolaschmoola]

I have a friend who is very close to fb deletion... She sells some sort of miracle shit products and it really winds me up when she advertises to friends multiple times every single day. What really annoys though - she uses pictures of her children holding products and smiling to sell the stuff!

[Sallyingforth]

How to lose all your friends :(

To make any money at all you would have to chase all your friends and relatives, and cheat them the way she has tried to cheat you.

It's despicable.

[Bogeyface]

Yes Avon is too.

I read an article (probably in my mothers Daily Fail) about a woman who was making millions on Avon. Turned out that he money was coming from the fact that she recruited a team, who recruited, who recruited and she got further up the pyramid each time. She was living the life of Riley on the proceeds of every poor sucker below her in the pyramid.