To be left broke and humiliated after an mlm

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I didn’t think I’d be rich but I am cringing at my Facebook ‘memories’ and pretty sure everyone was laughing at me behind my back.

There’s nothing MLM about thermomix, the only benefit you get to being a demonstrator is if/when? You sell 5 I think it is, you get one for free. There’s no recruiting or spamming or other products to sell people.

I used to do forever living and god, I cringe when I see memories appearing on Facebook. Me trying to convince people why they should buy shampoo that costs almost £20 and join a team when I had no idea how to mentor. These companies prey on the vulnerable, promise them the world, making out that it only takes a few hours a week and only costs the start up fee. What they don't ell you about is that you have to pay for every event you go to until you have worked your way up the ladder and buy every self help book going because it is apparently going to make you a better person. It can cost a fortune and is very easy to loose money rather than make money

I think there is a clear difference between pyramid scheme MLMs and franchise type selling.

That's not to say franchises are necessarily good and at the end of the day they make the company money. Not all party type selling requires you to recruit teams of people though.

The person on fb flogging Tinnitus Younique is posting about whatever she's been told to post to make it look like a legit business and to make her look like she's making money from it. She won't be.

Tinnitus No idea where that came from!

I don’t laugh at people selling MLM stuff but I do roll my eyes, unfollow or delete them and avoid them in the future.

Tinnitus Younique is a great term - sums up the constant ringing in your earns you get from them banging on about it.

I have a younique bot on fb but thankfully she keeps everything in a separate group page so I don't see it plus she lives a fair distance away now so no chance of being pounced on.

I was at my sales job when a GP from my local practice said she had a side business that covered all aspects of wellbeing that she was setting up and that my engaging manner was what she was looking for, I was also training for a mental health role so gave her my info as I thought as a Doctor that it could be a legit move.
Video conferenced and she put up the info, I saw the words Arbonne and checked out. She was persistent for a few weeks but dropped off.
Thankfully so far I've not had to see her when I go to the doctors.

I've been approached by a few but I never wanted to WFH even when my kids were small, I liked my time out in the workplace.

Tropic (which I actually really like and the stuff is good for people with eczema) seems to have people doing well - everyone I know who signed up for it (there seems to be loads round here) is still doing it. Or is that a trick to make me think they're doing well and they're probably making £2 a week? I don't really understand MLM's TBH!

We live in the same town as a Body Sop outlet where you get 40% off everything if you buy 4 or more products, 35% off if you buy 3 and even 30% if you buy 2. A friend does Body Shop at Home and it seems that she can only ever do 25% off stuff. I feel like commenting why would I buy a shampoo and conditioner off you, only get 25% off (and wait a week for it) when I can nip down to the outlet store and get 30% TODAY?! And how much money can she be making on a £4 bottle of shampoo? About 50p? Seems a lot of effort posting on Facebook 40 times a day to earn 50p! She also spends a lot of her Sunday's at fairs for some reason with her "business"

Is Cambridge Diet an mlm?
It's all gone a bit crazy in the town where I live, one woman started selling it, now loads of her "friends" are. One used to be a friend of mine until I must've upset her by saying that I wouldn't trust a diet that was being sold by a fat person ooops!

Do you really need to ask?

Anything which has unqualified reps selling it, and trying to convince others to sell it too is MLM.

Cambridge diet is yes. And they all say they’re doing well - fake it till you make it is the mantra.

Arbonne is also awful - I know someone who calls herself a life coach and does angel healing and lots of other hippy stuff. That’s harmless - but then she says she’s powered by plants posting all her vegan food and smoothies which then contain that stuff. Kind of takes the edge off for me!

Oh god when my DD was little she had horrendous eczema and SIL said she could get this great stuff for her that would clear it up. I trusted SIL, she's not a rep for anything and I thought she meant something from the pharmacy, and was a bit when she said she got it from a random woman and it was £20. So I handed my money over. It was the lotion I think and I brought DD out in a horrendous rash. It wasn't until I took her to the GP that she said Arbonne is an MLM and best avoided. I'd never heard of it, but I'm still pissed off that o spent £20 on a load of crap (it turns out SIL was going to an Arbonne party and used it as an excuse to buy something!)

Spent a LOT of yest afternoon reading the poonique blog. EYES OPENED BIG TIME!!!!

help it’s a great blog isn’t it?

Gunpowder
That’s outrageous!

One week after I had major surgery dds friends mum contacted me about buying some of her favourite products she was launching for sale (that doesn’t tally in itself they were new so how could they be her favourites). I said no not possible, just had major surgery and am ill in bed. She then pursued me saying it was ok I just had to be available x time for a live stream. I refused. I mean how on earth could I even know if I’d be awake. I was on high strength co codamol, ibuprofen and morphine for the pain. She’s a nurse ffs. She must an inclination of how ill I would have been.

Just noticed the arbonne life coach personage I follow is now saying how excited she is to get home for her aloe Vera shot - has forever on the bottle...

Sigh...

What's tropic like? A friend sells it and claims to have made enough in the first month to take while family abroad etc. That's a whole lot of moisturizer.

Many life coaches are just MLM operators who offer to train you as a life coach for the one off special offer price of £££

A woman who used to work in my local convenience store was a "life coach" who tried to recruit me.

I declined her kind offer, while wondering why she was working evenings for minimum wage if being a life coach was so fucking fantastic ...

I tried Stella and Dot as i liked the jewellery.
....until i realised that i would have no mates or money if i continued.

claims to have made enough

I can claim I'm the Duchess of Cambridge. I can claim that my new kitchen is paid for by a scamtastic MLM. I can claim lots of things.

There is NO WAY that a late entrant into a pyramid scheme MLM will have sold enough stuff in a month to fund a caribbean holiday. Total bollocks.

Why is it always the Caribbean?? I never get that! As if that’s the place we all aspire to go...

My ex friend used to post about some place in the Dominican Republic- only it was a four night “win” that you had to get flights and transfers and spending money for...

Yes, friend just went to South Africa with tropic. 🤔

I had someone contact me on LinkedIn recently, her profile (previous career) was impressive and it sounded like a legit job opportunity so I made myself available for a call.

It was forever living!

Yes please, let me jack in my £50k job to sell that shit. What a joke!

Mummy your drug intake would probably have made you their perfect customer! You’d wake up a few days later to find £1k off your credit card and a box of rubbish at the front door

tartan was it awkward turning her down? Did you sit through the whole spiel?