To hate MLMs with a passion?

[dailymailaredicks]

I've never gotten involved with one. So I don't actually know for sure if I could be someone who made £40k a month. But...

I've been pitched again this morning. I wasn't expecting it. Thought it was a brew and breakfast chit chat. Instead, 4 other women there I didn't know. Products laid out on the coffee table like a stall. Then the sales pitch. 3 hours later, "I'll think about it!".

My friend is missing and there is someone else using her body. She didn't even speak the same anymore, lots of sales words and presumptive language. RIP Polly. I'll be here for you when you reach the other side of this.

OP, I agree. A friend of mine as really gone down in my estimation after pitching to me and following up several times. I said I wasn't interested but she is persisting. The products are too expensive and I'm quite aware of how the business structure works.

Honestly @dailymailaredicks I think you are supporting her as a friend by not buying anything.. the quicker she sees it for what it is the better.

There’s a thread on here where a mlm was hanging around near a children’s hospital. The mumsnetter had a very poorly child and the mlm was saying the juice would help (without even knowing why the child was hospitalised). The child sadly died the same day or the next. The mumsnetter was then feeling guilty ‘what if the juice would have helped’.

To be so predatory as to set up shop near a children’s hospital is sickening.

I know someone who is making 10k a month apparently from a MLM. I think it's mainly because she recruits a lot of bots and so has a huge team to earn from.

Yeah. Bet she isn’t really.

She certainly seems to have the house/Range Rover/holidays/lifestyle in keeping with that amount of earnings

I suppose it could be true, but I have seen a lot of smoke and mirrors around MLM earnings....sometimes the bot has a high earning husband who really provides the lifestyle, sometimes there's been a redundancy payment and that money is being used to create an enviable lifestyle for 'attraction marketing' purposes, sometimes after a bereavement money is inherited and the bot buys Louboutins and claims the MLM business paid for them..... all of these are real examples I have seen.

My friend has a 'normal' business but has also recently started with an MLM. I thought that as she has been self employed for such a long time, she was more savvy and would spot this crock of shit for what it is. I feel so sad for her.

I have a FB friend (random from high school) who I have watched go through the cycle with BeachBody. I think she is coming out the other side now with lots of posts about "soul searching" and "doing what's best for my family". She's posted loads previously about how her family have to budget and how she's always been a spender getting into debt (and how B.B. with give her financial freedom ). I just wonder how much all the "retreats" and conference events have cost her, as well as the gifts and "rewards" that she's sent her ten members.
I think a lot of MLM bots don't get the difference between gross and net income.