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Awesome MLM Rant! on Facebook

33 replies

JeffVadersMum · 01/07/2017 21:28

www.facebook.com/uokhunni/?hc_ref=NEWSFEED&fref=nf

Just had another post pop up from some twat looking for 'ten ladies who want to lose weight' before adding that she is a 'bossbabe' and to start her business just needed 'WiFi and a dream.'

The fuck is she on? First of all, what if nine people come forward to buy her horse piss capsules and slug jizz shakes? Or eleven? Or any number other than ten? Does the whole business model collapse inwards?

Also, what if you happen to live in an area where the rollout of broadband infrastructure has been somewhat lacking, meaning that the only feasible option for connectivity is a 3G or 4G connection? Will the mobile data bandwidth be able to cope with the constant motivational horseshit messages plastered over an image of a barefoot woman on a beach?

Furthermore, why the actual fucking fuck are you telling me that I can pay half the cost if I buy a course of shakes with a friend? I figured that one out for myself, and so did anyone else who doesn't have the IQ of a fucking McFlurry.

'Comment below with your weight loss goals and I will recommend a product for you.' OK hun that's great. I want to lose body fat and tone up / build lean mass to the extent where every trip to the beach at Southend ends up with thirteen unprovoked offers of oral underneath the pier. Now which combination of aloe vera and Dorito flavouring will help me to achieve this hun?

'Don't listen to the people who say that these products don't work.' Great advice. Why trust the words of someone who has already found out it's a pile of thundershite when you could base your decision on someone who is a gnat's cock away from owning your eternal soul.

'It's not a pyramid scheme.' Of course it isn't sweetheart, it's a fucking trapezium. It's actually a multi-level marketing scheme, where the level at the top is very, very small, and as you move down the levels get progressively wider and wider. You have an upline and a downline, whatever the fuck they are, and you get to meet them all at a big conference that makes your average Scientology meeting look tame.

OP posts:
Peachypie83 · 01/07/2017 21:30

What does MLA mean? I keep seeing it.

Peachypie83 · 01/07/2017 21:30

MLM even 😂

HeyRoly · 01/07/2017 21:31

I literally just read that! I love that page Grin

minimonkey11 · 01/07/2017 21:31

Amazing rant! Agree with everything

Supersoaryflappypigeon · 01/07/2017 21:33

MLM is multi-level marketing (basically pyramid schemes)

Gingernaut · 01/07/2017 21:34

Multi Level Marketing.

Legally, pyramid schemes are banned, but the only people who make money out of these schemes (Younique, Forever Living etc) are the people at the top of the food chain.

Suckers who fall for these racquets find they can only make money if they sucker other victims into becoming #bossbabes too.

Like a pyramid scheme. Only not.

Peachypie83 · 01/07/2017 21:41

Thank you 😆

Fluffyears · 01/07/2017 22:14

Yes I would like to be fleeced by your company selling me a cocktail of manufactured fruit flavoured shite! Or I could eat real fruit...

I have a juice plus one 'oh I feel a cold coming on time to break out (insert shitey juiceplus product) never fails to cure the cold!' Well fuck me sideways and shut the front door you have found a cure for the common cold...scientists have failed despite years of clinical research....you must have made millions with your medical miracle!

Grimbles · 01/07/2017 22:16

U ok hon?

Woobeedoo · 01/07/2017 22:17

A mate of mine has recently become a boss babe selling online beauty products and FB spams everyone with the bloody adverts for it. The crazy thing is she can't understand that just because she uses the stuff and loves it, why no one else wants to try it. It's because a) it's fucking expensive and b) we've never ever heard of the brand before.

And I feel it only right and honest to say I am stealing thundershite.

DJBaggySmalls · 01/07/2017 22:23

They sell Juice Plus in a local shop and one weeks supply costs more than a blender.

Sukebind · 01/07/2017 22:36

I keep meaning to ask whenever a mlm thread pops up but I always seem to miss the boat and the thread has gone cold: are Phoenix Cards a dodgy mlm? I know a very kind person who has done very Well, had a lot of people under her and so on but alarming bells have rung a few times from things I have heard from others. I haven't seen it here in the same breath as Herbalide, aloe Vera stuff and so on , though.

Sukebind · 01/07/2017 22:37

Sorry, I should have proof read my post better! Predictive text went crazy but I hope you get the gist.

thenightsky · 01/07/2017 22:48

I lost a good friend to Amway.

VanessaBet · 01/07/2017 22:49

Does anyone know anything about Skincerity? Someone has popped up on my FB raving about it and showing photos which would suggest it can turn back time.

Dozyoldtwonk · 01/07/2017 22:52

I know someone IRL who claims she's near the top of one of these bullshite schemes. She makes out she's flush but she's barely making ends meet she has two other 'working from home' jobs also. Either she's fibbing about her earnings, fibbing about being near the top or the ones at the bottom have no hope or all three. Go figure.

gallicgirl · 01/07/2017 22:52

You know that page is run by the bloke who writes Southend News Network? In fact, are you Simon Harris?

The comments are about as believable as AIBU during the school holidays.

Sparklepants · 01/07/2017 23:03

gallicgirl I think you are right!

Someone obvs wanted some clicks and more followers.

FreakinDeacon · 01/07/2017 23:08

The IQ of a fucking Mc Flurry Grin

JeffVadersMum · 01/07/2017 23:11

No I am not Simon, I follow the page as it makes me laugh

A lot of the Southend stuff I don't find at all funny, but this did tickle me

(Happy to talk to mumsnet mods if needed to show am not affiliated in any way at all, so if you feel I'm worth a report I won't be offended)

OP posts:
GinSoakedTwitchyPony · 01/07/2017 23:13

U need sum a low veera hun ...hth xxx

Top post OP, made me smile. Lost a very good friend to MLM a couple of years ago and still get the rage about it.

gallicgirl · 01/07/2017 23:16

I'm not bothered, I like SNN and Simon is big enough to apologise when he goes too far. He's raised loads for Trussell Trust too, thanks to Katie Hopkins.

ILostItInTheEarlyNineties · 01/07/2017 23:17

I couldn't have read further than "Bossbabe". Hmm

Amazing rant. It made me laugh..Grin

justgivemethepinot · 01/07/2017 23:22

That was a funny page! Im not on faceache but that brings my total Facebook page reads that I like up to 2, thanks OP Grin

LilQueenie · 02/07/2017 00:29

I just read one about a wee kid having a wee next to someones car in the car park. Am I the only one thinking about a similar thread on here.