To ask for help taking the piss out of MLM?

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A woman from school on my friends list joined Forever Living a few months ago and I knew it was only a matter of time until the round robin PM came inviting everyone to join her. Now it has. I've been invited to some "online Christmas Event" and I'm debating whether to join in and take the piss out of them all. Any ideas? Should I share Timeless Vie memes? Anything else I can do?

debbs if that is true, you must be one of the tiny minority as more than 99% of people who get caught up in MLM spend so much personal money chasing the dream that they make no actual profit at all. It is shocking and devastating for them and their families. Worst of all, they think it's their fault they failed! It isn't, it's the business model. Upsets me .

Having said that, those who do appear to make profit do so because they market peripheral products (not the actual lotions and potions from the company).

For example, success days organised by those higher up in the organisation can be real money spinners for the organisers. Additionally, self-help and mindset books, CD's, journals, special diaries etc. That is where the money is.

My juice + Facebook friend has just posted an appalling thing about how it can cure cancer. I am beyond furious.........

Bertrand stay posting... do not go outside ... do not track her down.... then again, no jury could possibly convict you

Would it be very wrong of me to c&p it to here? I can'5 say anything on FB because if I do my brother will see it and he will go completely ballistic.......

Seems to be a common belief that these products are "miracle cures"

Makes me sick

"know one lady that joined Younique. The makeup, the selling, the people she met, all made her feel empowered and in control and as a result felt mentally ready to lose weight. She has and she looks amazing!"

Did she make any money?

This is what somebody has just posted on Facebook about Juice +

It is, in my opinion, beyond shocking. And might go some way towards explaining why many people are so very anti these schemes.

"Is it something I said? Two friends with broken bones. Someone I have known for 35 years dying slowly and painfully from lung disease. One has died from cancer in the last ten days. Several, several with autoimmune diseases. Some with irritated bowel diseases or chronic digestive problems. Skin diseases or fragility. Infections. Arthritis. Heart disease. Depression. Constant colds and coughs.... My lovely friends who seem wedded to their illnesses, as if these define them. None of them are willing to try fruits and vegetables in a capsule. I don't understand it. There's pages and pages of independent science showing how these magic capsules work in the body, and millions and millions of people worldwide who will tell you how their health has been transformed - I show you some of their testimonials from time to time.... But my friends won't consider it. Unless.......?"

Juice + seem to be hitting the weight loss groups at the moment (WW, SW) the problem is pre JP weight loss is being attributed to capsules and the shakes & boosters carry an awful lot of syns/points (which isn't being disclosed)

Fucking hell Bertrand that's shocking. Screenshot it and send to Botwatch on FB, they report posts like this to the ASA

that's appalling Bertrand

How the fuckity fuck will JuicePlus mend a broken bone?

It's all the green shit in there!

It's a magic miraculous cure init.

Doctors won't tell you take it as it stops them from making money

I posted that I really didn't think she ought to be suggesting that it cures cancer or depression, to name but two. And she replied "Well now.... as you know, we have never said JP+ cures or prevents any disease. And it certainly cheered me up."

Will anyone give me an alibi for about 8.30 tonight?

You was babysitting my feral cat

I was going to say before hand that they are usually very careful to say it doesn't actually cure anything but they do imply it. Heavily

Bertrand that's horrible.

And I don't need a fucking overpriced vegetable capsule because I have long ago discovered a thing like actual vegetables. They have not cured any broken legs, but I doubt making them into capsules would either.

Op, have you ever seen Bambi? The little rabbit in it ( Thumper?) Says " my mummy says that of you can't think of anything nice to say, then don't say anything at all " .

You could do with heeding his advice.

I'll be your alibi. Wedded to their illnesses?! How fucking dare she???

Apparently it would have stopped me from being ill all the time. They seem to have shut up now I've been diagnosed as neutropenic

Advertising a cure for cancer is a crime under the Cancer Act 1939.

I reported an evangelical church to the police a few years ago and they took it very seriously (the church removed their posters the same day, and never distributed their cancer cure leaflet again).

Don't take the piss, that's unnecessarily harsh. She'll realise soon enough that she's wasted her time and her investment.

Just ignore all mentions, email requests and Facebook posts pertaining to FL. She'll get the message. She's probably checking her updates and emails by the hour and obsessing over who is biting and who isn't.

If she's thick skinned and pushy enough to ask you personally to buy from her or to join her team just say 'God, No! Thanks but honestly I avoid all these schemes like the plague and I really have no interest or faith in the products from FL so it would be hypocritical wouldn't it? But good luck with it.'

Don't believe a word you hear from a talking rabbit, or its mother.

As Alice Roosevelt Longworth said, "If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me."

The only empowering element of MLM schemes is that the bots lower down the Egyptian tetrahedral monument are empowered to sell as much overpriced and overrated crap to line the pockets of the shills close to the top of it.