To ask you to share your "friend's" crazy mlm claim

[m0therofdragons]

I don't have mlm friends so this was a surprise treat from one who's just started selling Body Shop products. Now, I like body shop and have fond memories of my teen years spraying white musk constantly, but magic cream that vanishes stretch marks? It's not a bloody rash

Anyway, it prompted me to ask, what other wild mlm claims have you seen recently?

About 4 years ago, I got invited by a friend to a "party". Turned up with a bottle of prosecco to be greeted by a Forever Living sales pitch from her senior salesperson. Apparently, drinking aloe vera cures cancer, MS, and in one case cited, paralysis.

I held my tongue because she was my friend, but refused to sample or buy any products. One of the women who applied some handcream broke out in a rash within seconds.

Friend has never spoken one word to me since, so I'm sorry I didn't give salesperson a piece of my mind.

There's one who I went to school with, don't know which one however she puts up pictures of her lavish lifestyle. What she doesn't mention is she's got a footballer boyfriend who pays for it all.

I had one telling me how much her old dog was since she started using the products she promotes on him... I just thought, that dog is half the age of my dog and looks like he is ready to go. It left me wondering if products used in humans are actually toxic for dogs.

It pisses me off when women sell their “friends” shit they don’t need while being bankrolled by their husbands.

I’m perfectly happy with my job - decent hours, ok money, close to home. There’s no way I’d give that up to lure people round to my house hoping they buy a bottle of something. It’s hardly being entrepreneurial if you’re relying on cheating friends out of their hard earned cash!

Squirrel, I was also invited for a party just to find myself in the same situation. I was invited to a “party” so I came in with a bottle just to find out the host was selling some paper products on support of some Far East country charity.

It just felt ridiculous, all of us drinking cheap wine (not mine, that went straight into a cupboard) and saying how beautiful the hand made paper was with no idea what we could do with it afterwards... friend found it a bit offensive that I only came out with a roll... which has finally gone to the bin this week after gathering dust on top of a shelf for years.

I wish it had been a Tupperware party, at least I could have got something I could actually use

One of my school mum pals has become an MLM bore. Her entire FB is make up and perfume and she can talk about nothing else. Fuck me it's dull and a PiTa.

I have one who did scentsy (overpriced), the body shop (I walk past two of them every day).....now its some weird weight loss patches that’s isn’t very clear exactly how it works.

I was told the aloe Vera juice would help my severe pain caused by a serious health problem. I refused to buy anything from her as I will only take medication prescribed by a doctor or other medical professional. She hasn’t spoken to me since which suits me fine!

The worst thing I ever read was an aloe vera MLM bot trying to sell to a friend. The friend explained she was not interested as she was busy with hospital appointments for her DD who had just been diagnosed with cancer. The bot told her friend 'oh aloe vera cures cancer.' I don't think you can go any lower than that - totally despicable.

We had new neighbours in my small block of flats once. The woman saw me one day, introduced herself, was very smiley and pleasant. So much so I mentioned to my DH how friendly she was.

The next day I came in from work and my DH said - don't say anything. I asked what he meant. He pointed to an Avon catalogue which the neighbour had put in the top with a note saying she would be around in the next few days for an order! I said, I thought she was a bit too friendly. My DH said I was cynical.

I left it a couple of days and then put the catalogue back through her door with a note saying I would not be ordering anything but thanks for thinking of me. Polite but firm. Whenever I saw her again she used to glare at me and blank me.

I assume Avon is classed as MLM?

I saw a neighbour selling her Arbonne products at a local fete / table top / craft sale. She was insistent I had to buy something, I said I was feeling a bit hungover and she told me that one of her nutrition sachets would “cure” my hangover, as in vanish it out of existence instantly. I raised an eyebrow and said “really?” She snapped back “Yes of course. I’d be mental to claim this could do something it didn’t wouldn’t I?”

I actually bought it in order to preserve good neighbourly relations

It didn’t cure the hangover.

@HelloYouTwo did it work?

@HelloYouTwo cross post. Not a surprise. Did you point it out to her?

Yes odd that it didn’t work. It must have been my own negativity preventing it from doing its magic. I avoided her like the plague after that and have moved house since.

should have asked for a refund.

I've also seen the cures cancer one. A mutual nurse friend explained how Radiotherapy actually works. His reply was 'well that's your opinion'.
Also have a Body Shopper who regularly posts about all the lovely treat holidays they go on courtesy of her 'business'. Doesn't mention that her husband is a director of a big blue chip.

At DD's old school they had to send a letter out asking parents to stop touting for business in the playground due to the amount of MLM's doing the rounds.

It came to a head when a juice plus wanker approached parents of special needs children and tried to flog aloe shite to them because it would 'cure' them. Twat.

When I got diagnosed last year i did have one person ask if I'd considered using essential oils instead of chemo. I said I'd rather actually recover rather than waft oil around whilst cancer eats me alive. She's not spoken to me since and I'm in remission so happy days all round.

An old school friend is a Younique bot (she does also have a FT job, which she never mentions 🙄). Her whole FB feed is ‘inspirational’ quotes and live videos and ‘OMG HOW EPIC IS THIS??!!!’, fucking irritating, I stopped following her. She goes on the bloody seminars and ‘training weeks’ abroad (my parents know her parents). Another does Body Shop; she’s actually really lovely and I feel a bit sad for her when I see her posts. You’d need thousands of people buying from you every week to get a living out of it.

The miracle body pebble! It's basically one of those shit hotel soaps with some grit and moisturiser in it. But it will change your life hun
For only £8!

Best one I saw was someone who claimed that their little yellow pill could cure CFS/ME and other similar conditions by preventing and reversing the damage done by oxidative stress and linked to a study (first for a MLM) they claimed proved that oxidative stress caused CFS/ME, Fibro and RA. The study turned out to be an abstract for the study and didn't prove what they were saying. I'm still trying to find the actual study the abstract was from...

I have a friend who got sucked into constant MLM crap. The worst one was some kind of weight loss capsules. She would post pictures of herself on the scales each week. Her weight was falling but she was using them as well as going to slimming world.

She flogged everything from cryptocurrency, stupid herbal painkillers, the body shop and more slimming crap.

I felt sorry for her as she is a single mum working as a carer and struggles financially. The people egging her on on her friends list were likely exploiting her, and I know she must have spent money on those herbal capsules.

Luckily she seemed to see sense, probably after never making any money, and has stopped it all now.

Yep. I’ve got permanent nerve damage, and pain, from a spinal injury. Apparently aloe vera (and crystals, apparently) will ‘fix’ my nerve damage, although it’s long since classed as permanent.

I have a family member who is vile (they have convictions for violence and ended up banned from our local town for a while) I end up out of contact with them.

One of the people said family member used to bully recently sent me a screen shot of said family member who is now well into an MLM.

It was a whole new level of embarrassing with photos of them looking just terrible. The captions however were their usual arrogant self saying the miracle weight loss was down to this particular MLM. . . No, it's down to the fact you're on bail conditions and could face a custodial sentence!

@TanMateix

You're not wrong.

A great deal of topical/ingestible ingredients that are completely safe for humans are indeed wildly toxic/inflammatory for dogs and other animals.

How utterly insane that she's just using human products on a dog without her vet's recommendation.

...I mean, I realise that it takes a fairly wilfully oblivious sort to pursue MLMs, but WOW.

Unless... She does know the dog can't pay for them, right?

Maybe she thinks she's tapped into an exclusive new market.