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

What's kleeneze?

Selling homewares and cleaning products mostly, used to be by only dropping catalogues door to door, taking orders and then delivering products back to customers directly, now moving more into on line selling and using Facebook pages to sell, get 20% cut goods posted out directly from kleeneze.

As far as I know, Kleeneze is a MLM also. I'll stand to be corrected on that one because I have no personal knowledge of them.

How can the whole thing be cash in hand though? Don't the Revenue take even a passing interest in the books of the people in charge or those of the company?

I'm sorry - I see that they have now started to take more than a passing interest.

My facebook feed is full of 'presenters' selling that 'younique' shite.....all accompanied by the presenters photo plastered in make up and a long spiel about wanting to earn a few extra pennies and stay at home with their babies.....it is vomit inducing and i am itching to comment underneath the photo alongside the twats that comment 'can i have some info pls hun' x

Kleeneze and Avon focus on selling the product. Recruiting a down line is secondary.

Any organisation that focuses more on the recruitment than the product is to be avoided.

I think it's because you do get the odd later joiner doing ok out of it scarednoob. Obviously it's much easier if you join at the start, but if you're sufficiently unethical and/or have ready enough access to a lot of gullible people, there's potentially still money to be made.

Careful what you say folks.

There has been talk of solicitors by a forever defender on the v funny thread in Money Matters.

:)

Thanks for the hint, Siwi. That thread is a most interesting read.

Have you seen the spoof pyramid scheme blog?

The HILARIOUS video on there is what has made them issue their threats so watch it NOW before it gets pulled!

:)

Is that the timelessvie.wordpress.com blog siwi ?

Those latest videos are really eye opening!!!

k0lee.com/2008/02/the-mathematics-of-mlms/

Anyone heard of ariix? Quite possibly another MLM company.
Apparantely new to the UK and an old friend who has recently survived cancer has asked me to a "meeting"
She attributes her now good health to these products and is constantly posting on FB about the benefits/money/family flexibility etc.
A quick google search plus the word "scam" has unearthed nothing. Maybe they're too new

Search on 'arix mlm' forever. You might find that to be more profitable.

Think I may need to change my user name ha I support Everton football club and have just realised that it looks like Forever -ton oops

That's a sobering read, Bogey. I feel so desperately sorry for some of the very good people who become embroiled in MLMs for whatever reason.

Wow at the stats on that blog bogey

I should imagine that people are heading over to the Money Matters board and reading the latest thread there on MLMs. Lots of interesting stats/ links on that.

Just had a look, can't believe Forever are threatening legal action

I think they would be very ill advised to do that.

So do I. I am fairly sure what's been discovered and put on that thread is just the tip of the iceberg.
I suspect any legal action would generate unwelcome scrutiny from the press and the currently rather sleepy regulators!

The Revenue would certainly be hard to keep under control at the thought of all that possible disclosure.

On the thread in money matters, MNHQ have posted to say that they have had multiple complaints from Forever Living and FL might go to the police.

Down with this sort of thing!