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To not get these Pearl Parties

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Idratherbeaunicorn · 16/02/2017 13:12

I see these 'pearl parties' on Facebook live all the time... I don't get it but people seem to be going nuts for them?
How does it work? Do any of you do them?

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TinselTwins · 16/02/2017 23:39

So if I contacted this "wholesaler" and asked for some, they'ld say "no, we don't want to import more so we can supply another person such as yourself, we are going to leave it at 20 forever, cause we are "exclusive", even though we sell 'em cheap and there is no benefit to us to sell to fewer people, since we're not a luxury brand"

JoanofNark17 · 16/02/2017 23:39

www.pearl-guide.com/forum/showthread.php?11002-Questions-About-Oyster-Opening-Pearl-Parties

www.facebook.com/katiealykatzbraithwaite/

The videos are hilarious! Some woman wittering nonsense and opening old vaccuum packed oysters on camera and pretending to be excited by the cheap pearls masquerading as expensive shit!

Bahh · 16/02/2017 23:39

justdont Hun our empire is growing so fast! Time to plan an all-expenses-paid-except-for-flights-hotels-and-spending-money team-building strategy week in sunny costa del benidorm for all our fab #kinderbossbabes

#whoruntheworld #doinitformyself #lovemybabies

Sn0tnose · 16/02/2017 23:40

Ok so this a 100% genuine question. My friend (since childhood) now sells diffusers and waxes. I go to a party out of politeness and buy a diffuser. It arrives and actually even though it wasn't cheap I absolutely love it and I have visitors comment on it too so I told them where I got it from as they asked. So... Have I been scammed? (IYO)
And am I too now part of the scam as I was advised where I got it from?

Did you buy the diffuser because your friend told you that it would help you lose weight, or cure serious illnesses, or that it was worth a lot of money? If so, then yes, you have been scammed. If you bought it because you wanted a diffuser, you didn't expect it to do anything other than diffuse, you liked this one, and you wanted to support a small business, then no, you have not been scammed.

midcenturymodern · 16/02/2017 23:42

This lady is a member of a UK wholesalers where she can buy the genuine akoya oysters and stamped sterling silver jewellery out of her own pocket

It is normal for businesses to buy stock out of their own pocket.

I don't have any pearl pushers on my FB so I have looked at youtube and am flabbergasted.

justdontevenfuckingstart · 16/02/2017 23:42

Great business plan, if I wanted to make money I would definitely only supply to 20 members as a WHOLESALER. That may have been the fucking funniest thing I have ever read.

JoanofNark17 · 16/02/2017 23:42

Ok so this a 100% genuine question. My friend (since childhood) now sells diffusers and waxes. I go to a party out of politeness and buy a diffuser. It arrives and actually even though it wasn't cheap I absolutely love it and I have visitors comment on it too so I told them where I got it from as they asked

So... Have I been scammed? (IYO)

Did your friend pretend it was something that it isn't? Did she tell you the wax was made of unicorn tears or molten gold? If you bought something because you liked it and no-one pretended that it was something else, ot you weren't pushed into buying something you didn't want becaus eyour friend wanted you to, then no scam.

And am I too now part of the scam as I was advised where I got it from?
Question doesn't make sense but you're not part of a scam unless you were also lying or pressurising people into buying.

Danniejade76 · 16/02/2017 23:43

What pearl lady has told her customers that the pearls will cause illnesses or some other lie? Pearls are pearls, if somebody wants to open an oyster and wear pearl jewellery whats the issue?

BBTHREE76 · 16/02/2017 23:44

So no scam verdict on my diffuser then.
But... Based on the definition of the MLM (pyramid business) I have bought something that she made a profit off, that she bought in bulk off someone else. Then as I liked it and someone asked me (like it sounds that the girl who does the admin stuff on pearl parties has done) for more info I am now part of the scam too.

BBTHREE76 · 16/02/2017 23:45

Looks like all scentsy parties will have to stop. Same with body shop at home and Ann Summers. All great leaders in the MLM gangs.

Danniejade76 · 16/02/2017 23:46

Well said BBTHREE 👏

TinselTwins · 16/02/2017 23:47

if somebody wants to open an oyster and wear pearl jewellery whats the issue? one issue is that the chemicals used to provide the "performance" of opening a shell that has been implanted with a fake pearl are most likely very harmful indeed, and the "party hosts" wear no protection at all (see below link from a PP).

Now I have seen this pearl opening done abroad at an attraction we visited and DD did buy one, but the opener wore gloves and the pearl was rigorously cleaned before it was put onto some jewellery. The pearl party hosts aren't doing this before handling. They are either being scammed more than their customers, or else they don't want to explain the chemical process that's gone into providing the "show"

The one we saw abroad was clearly a "show", like a carnival, a lucky dip, nobody was claiming they were rare or valuable

glitterazi · 16/02/2017 23:48

I am on Facebook ALLLLLL the time and have never seen or heard of a pearl party.
Only on here. My friends must be all beneath something so cultured as having parties with pearls. Smile

JoanofNark17 · 16/02/2017 23:48

Pearls are pearls, if somebody wants to open an oyster and wear pearl jewellery whats the issue?

Because pearls aren't pearls. You are telling people they are worth up to 80 quid when they are worth about a pound. That is the issue and you know that.

Based on the definition of the MLM (pyramid business) I have bought something that she made a profit off, that she bought in bulk off someone else

No pet, thats the definition of sales, not of an MLM. In an MLM, you recruit people to sell stuff and you take a portion of their profits, and so on. Think about the shape of a pyramid, and how many people need to be at the bottom to make it worthwhile being at the top!

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Idratherbeaunicorn · 16/02/2017 23:48

Lordy, I was not expecting that. My OP was out of genuine curiosity (and was possibly posted in the wrong place).
Danniejade - Thank you for explaining how it works - I still don't 'get' the excitement all over SM, but you've definately cleared up some questions I had :)

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JoanofNark17 · 16/02/2017 23:50

Don't fall for what the bot is telling you OP! Haven't you read any of the other posts?
Unless of course you are a bot and this is just cack-handed spamming?

TinselTwins · 16/02/2017 23:50

BBTHREE you're not getting many direct answers because you're asking nonsense questions thinking you're being "clever" and catching people out. You're not you're just being silly

"If doing what hitler did is wrong, do you not breath air? ha! see! gotcha!"

MontyPythonsFlyingFuck · 16/02/2017 23:50

So Danniejade, are you saying that a. the oysters being opened on the videos are alive, and b. the oysters being opened on the videos were personally responsible for growing the pearls that are found in them?

BBTHREE76 · 16/02/2017 23:51

Scentsy parties pay a cut to the person who joined them up therefore MLM (my friend did anyway)

BBTHREE76 · 16/02/2017 23:51

Avon!!! The ultimate MLM - forgot about that

midcenturymodern · 16/02/2017 23:52

Pearl lady has told customers that the jewellery is exclusive when it almost certainly isn't and is giving 'rough estimates' of pearls which I'd bet my house are way off base.

Wholesalers don't A - have only 20 customers per product or B - sell bagfuls of £80 pearls so cheap that businesses can be run giving away these precious pearls free with jewellery.

JoanofNark17 · 16/02/2017 23:53

Yes, scentsy is also an MLM. Like younique and herbalife and all kinds of other shit people get conned into doing.

TinselTwins · 16/02/2017 23:53

My friends must be all beneath something so cultured as having parties with pearls sadly that's no safeguard. Mine are all local but not friends, they're "sponsored" posts. Where the pearl party lady has paid facebook to show her live party/page/post to x amount of females, age 21-21 (cause I am 21 honest Grin ) , in MyTown, etc...

Sn0tnose · 16/02/2017 23:54

What pearl lady has told her customers that the pearls will cause illnesses or some other lie? Pearls are pearls, if somebody wants to open an oyster and wear pearl jewellery whats the issue?

Dannie, I'm not sure whether you're referring to my last post, but if you are, I was referring to various other scams where people have sold products under the pretence that they were something that they weren't.

And if someone wants to open an oyster that they know contains cheap rubbish from China, then I have no problem with that at all. To be honest, I don't care whether people start selling necklaces made from pasta shells. My issue with it is that pearls are not just pearls and that cheap rubbish is being passed off as quality goods to people who don't have the knowledge to realise they are being conned.

TinselTwins · 16/02/2017 23:56

Avon used to be direct selling, but has moved towards a more MLM model --cause you can't make legit money from direct selling anyways cause you'll off load more cheap tat if the rep/distributer/demonstrator/ambasador IS the customer but they just don't know it … since you bring it up..

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