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Original poster

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

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throwingpebbles · 27/01/2016 21:39

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

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Bogeyface · 27/01/2016 22:48

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1306016/Woman-lost-job-named-millionaire-Avon-lady.html

Here you go, I fucking KNEW it would be the DM!

AyeAmarok · 27/01/2016 22:48

It's not your friend's fault, really. It's a cult that brainwashes the hard-of-thinking, and she's been suckered in.

Be glad you didn't.

RudeElf · 27/01/2016 22:49

I admin for a local jobs page on FB and i would estimate that 80% of the 'jobs' Hmm advertised on it are from these pyramid suckers sellers. They all have "5 vacancies for new team members, part-time/full-time, work around your family" bleugh! STOP! Enough.

shazzarooney99 · 27/01/2016 22:54

I once added someone who was selling youneek? products, i sonnn blocked her she was doing my nut in

20thcenturyschizoidwoman · 27/01/2016 23:01

Aw OP you are turning down the opportunity to #flaplikeafinch and be a #bossbabe

You look ok btw

Ratarse · 27/01/2016 23:01

Is this that stuff that comes in needle dispenser bins? It looks like bull sperm. Does anyone buy that crap or fall for the sales pitch? This woman is something isn't she, David Trump's love child!

Viviennemary · 27/01/2016 23:02

I don't know why people get sucked into these things. If it's so good then we'd all be leaving our jobs and doing a couple of hours a month and earning £100K a year. It's cobblers.

Crazypetlady · 28/01/2016 00:41

Those ounique lipsticks cost£15 I can get a MAC one for that. It's all so ridiculous.

AndNowItsSeven · 28/01/2016 00:43

I always get confused with Vanilla Sky when people mention Forever Living.

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throwingpebbles · 28/01/2016 06:26

Do you know, overnight and after reading some of the links etc I have gone from being angry with my friend to kind of feeling sorry for her. Like how can this organisation have turned her from someone I could totally trust into someone who is prepared to lie to me in order to make me spend quite a lot of money?!

Ok I am still a bit angry

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Katenka · 28/01/2016 06:51

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.

yes thank god! You have dodged a bullet. I think people who get involved in this must undergo some sort of mental conditioning. I have known people go from lovely to completely ruthless when signing up.

My personal trainer joined Airbon or whatever it's called. Arranged for all his clients to come to a meeting and put loads of pressure on his clients to sign up.

He was lovely but became completely ruthless. I ended up not using him anymore, because of it. Was so weird.

He was constantly showing me the Mercedes he had been given (loaned) for signing so many people up. And reminding me about the holiday to Vegas he got for free.

He did get these things, but honestly he became a cunt and I think most people signed up because they felt pushed into it.

Katenka · 28/01/2016 06:54

Oh and yes he made a lot because he signed his girl friend up who had her own salon.

She replaced all her shampoos and conditioners with it and so her staff had to sell it for her.

So she had a team of 15 people selling products for her so her and her boyfriend could reap the rewards.

They have since split, she ditched Airbon and he had to give the merc back

Stampynono · 28/01/2016 07:09

I supposes Avon does work the same but some of their products are good and not overpriced. I used to do Avon about 10 yrs ago and there was no pressure to recruit more, they were happy with the couple of hundred pounds of orders and I was happy with my £50 a month.

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throwingpebbles · 28/01/2016 07:18

Yeah that's why I am shocked by Avon. I know a couple of people that do Avon and never had them try and recruit me, they just seem to want to sell the products
My "friend" hardly mentioned the products it was all about joining her team and then signing more people up ...

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bumbleymummy · 28/01/2016 07:23

I wonder how they convince people that's it's 'not a pyramid scheme'. It's kind of obvious isn't it?

PennyHasNoSurname · 28/01/2016 07:26

Am sure someone did the maths on here one day that showed there isnt actually enough people in the world to take you to the levels they advertise Grin

Well done for dodging that bullet

Nannaboppa · 28/01/2016 07:27

I kow a woman who sells the forever living stuff. She's absolutely raking it in! Given up her full time job, 5 holidays a year (paid for by them) she's a manager at only 25 she stays in bed till 12 most days then sits round watching daytime tv. Hardly any work but loads of money. The fact her Boyfriend is very well off has nothing to do with it at all 😜

PixieChops · 28/01/2016 07:40

Is Tropic the same kind of thing because I almost signed up for that once? Decided against it and I make my own natural products instead.

StillDrSethHazlittMD · 28/01/2016 08:15

I'm just astonished there are still Mumsnetters who don't seem to be aware of FL and the similar pyramid schemes, the amount of threads there have been about them over the years.

Clarella · 28/01/2016 08:30

I guess there's many out there who aren't aware of use mumsnet - and get sucked in.

I hadn't heard of FL till December or that legal pyramid schemes still operate.

Clarella · 28/01/2016 08:32

Bumblymummy - I've seen a diagram where they turn it upside down. Like an icecream cone. (Think it's on the timeless vie site) (which incidentally I enjoy reading for entertainment purposes!)

chrome100 · 28/01/2016 08:47

I joined a running club a few years ago. One of the ladies was very friendly to me and invited me to a gathering at her house the following week. "How kind," I thought, "to make such an effort to welcome me".

Well, I soon found out she wanted to sell me some shite spa products. Ever since then, her only contact with me has been trying to sell them to me so I defriended her on Facebook.

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throwingpebbles · 28/01/2016 09:02

Sounds like a common thing then that people try and recruit and get pushy and as a result lose friends

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bumbleymummy · 28/01/2016 09:04

Grin clarella. Really? Was it a Simpsons episode where they said something like, "this isn't one of those dodgy pyramid schemes - this is a trapezoid!"