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

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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?

My son's massively debilitating epilepsy syndrome could be cured with regular aloe vera drinks and stopping using a fluoride toothpaste as it's a brain poison- use this aloe vera one instead!!! Obviously I told her how fricking batshit she was, continued telling her publicly on her statuses trying to sell the stuff with almost equally ridiculous claims right up until she removed me and sent me a message asking why I couldn't just support her- mums together! Bloody crackers batshit tomfuckery.

Body shop one, this lady got a 'promotion' after 10 days. Then posted a load of inspirational crap about being a career woman and a mum. The word Mumpreneur was also used - worst word ever.

Amway is the original MLM. Along with Tupperware, although that was actually a good business model.

There's a woman near me who drives a Scentsy branded car. Not only is she in a pyramid scheme, she doesn't understand that she should give way from the right. I nearly drove into the stupid mare at a roundabout last week!

Avon isn’t MLM 😂 Avon is amazing! It’s so cheap. I love their smell a like perfumes.

Avon is run on MLM lines now

@ambereeree Amway is the original and possibly most notorious.

Avon's always been MLM. You don't have to go into the Sales Leader side, but that's who recruits/manages Avon Ladies (and gets paid commission n on their sales)

Avon is however rather less objectionable than many newer ones. Its start up costs are lower, it's rather more realistic about how much you will make from just selling (often around a couple of hundred quid per campaign) the products are competitively priced (often downright cheap) and perfectly good (no £20+ mascara there), and - possibly most importantly - it has no weird/cultish side and doesn't put the same pressure on sellers to spam everyone (and tell them that non-buyers are just envious haterz)

Not said to me, but to a friend who was experiencing migraines. "Oh hun, you need to let me book you up with name of expensive magical water machine (I forget the brand now). Let me know when suits you, what are friends for?!"

It was some ionizing wonder machine bullshit. I snooped on his page and it was full of the typical sorts of wondrous claims these MLMs make. Worringly, the guy had trained in a medical profession.

I once got "Well, Tropic Skincare is so fresh that is CAN'T be sold in the shops...!! We have to sell it at parties because its so fresh."...

Yep, I can only buy my fruit and veg at someone's house over a glass of wine and some pringles - each apple costing £5 because of the commission being paid...

There was one on my local FB group with a very carefully worded post that suggested giving aloe vera to sick babies instead of paracetamol because the latter is full of nasty chemicals.

Otterses that’s really crap but I’m not surprised, judging by the amount of people on the fb groups I’m on who suggest mlm as ‘jobs’ for forces wives. I’m quite glad in some ways that I don’t live on patch.

If you’re moving to Portsmouth then DM me and we can go for coffee and I will not sell you anything

25 years ago I knew a married couple - who I thought were perfectly normal people - ask to come and see me about something very exciting. Turned out to be an Amway pitch. I had never witnessed anything so deranged. The only way to get them out of the house was to sort of play along with how amazingly interesting it sounded. Never saw them again and wrote NUTTER ALERT across their details in my address book.

I had a woman from school add me, and claim that juiceplus would cure my husband's ms. And that studies from Oxford university supported this. My rage knew no bounds.

I was asked to leave the playground when I lost the plot at a friend who told me my ds would be cured if I took him off all his meds and gave him aloe Vera juice and some sort of capsule instead. He'd be "normal" she told me.

Ds has asthma, eczema, multiple allergies, adrenal suppression, autism, adhd, a heart condition, and allergic conjunctivitis, and a few other things. He takes meds multiple times a day, is on immunosuppressants to control his eczema, and has weekly hospital appointments with a variety of specialists. We'd just had a new diagnosis, which had floored me, and she came out with her selling shite. She's lucky I was removed as I saw red and would probably have been arrested for serious assault. I'm not normally violent in the slightest!

I've never spoken to her since, blocked her on everything, and she crosses the road if she sees me coming

My lovely grandma came home from a sale once with 3 bottles of aloe Vera juice coating her over £100 saying a nice lady had told her it would cure my fibromyalgia. A rung the “lady” and said I would be bring the bottles round and I expected my grandmas money back or I would kick up a social media stink about taking advantage of old lady’s on her page.
I got my grandmas money back thank goodness

Girl i went to school with but didn’t talk to was on my Facebook and she contacted me one day to tell me she had the most amazing product that would hangs my life and cure my disability and chronic pain.....Aloe Vera.....

I was amazed at finding out a simple product could cure my genetic disease and asked if this life changing product/secret had been shared with the NHS but sadly the bot didn’t quite get my sarcasm and started telling me that it was something the NHS was surpressing as they want people to be sick, I totally lost my temper (was a bad pain day) and then blocked her.

People I was more accepting of my disability following my accident and getting my pain more controlled I probably would’ve given it a go, I don’t understand why they can’t be banned, praying on vulnerable people and certainly triangle shaped if not a full pyramid

@whitelisbon this is both horrifying and amazing at the same time. Well done you

I just can't believe the brass neck of these people. Ooh look at me I'm an independent business owner working from home and building my business!

No Becky, you're a wanker with a smartphone sat on her arse all day stalking the vulnerable. Piss off.

No Becky, you're a wanker with a smartphone sat on her arse all day stalking the vulnerable. Piss off.

thats the name of the person on my facebook, selling scentsy stinky as friends and I have rebranded it and younique, I keep her on for the entertainment value

Ugh, I mentioned to someone that I was losing weight (probably due to not eating properly since DH died) and was quite chuffed that a particular dress fitted me better. She then tried to sell me her boyfriends Juice Plus (hun) as a lifestyle that would give me focus and help me with my grief. Ffs. The only thing that could help my grief is a frigging time machine, not some overpriced crap that probably tastes like dirty dishwater.

I've got two friends currently peddling Juice plus and Younique. The Younique friend isnt so pushy but you can see her not being comfortable with having to do her make up on camera. The juice plus "friend" is on the ladder so everything can be cured. Acne? Depression? Anxiety? Take this pill and all your ills will go away!

What’s the little yellow pill one? Biohack your aging or something awful. Defriended. Bloody mumpreneur my arse.

@minibunz I was attending a relative’s passing out parade on an army barracks with military housing on it. One of the houses was marked on Google maps as a Younique seller.

Try telling them they're basically an unpaid salesperson.

Who works all those hours for free? Only stupid people.

The BBC MLM documentary is really good

I was very annoyed with MLM ruining a fairly good relationship I had with a beautician mum from School gates friend. While she was doing her training in a salon I let her practice things on me (waxing etc) and when she went fully self employed from home I got my nails done by her every 3 weeks, for £20 which was good.

Then she got into financial difficulties and started doing MLM. I stopped all contact with her when she initially convinced me to buy some rertinoid face serum for my very bad acne she knew was upsetting me and it really burned. I stopped ordering and she started getting a bit stroppy about it. I had been to the GP and got referred for Roaccutane by a dermatologist and she tried to convince me to buy some tablets off her and not take roaccutane - which she could not even tell me what was IN the tablets. It was some step up programme you took various levels of vitamin A, the leaflet was complete bullshit. She tried to tell me she knew more than my dermatologist

Had a “friend” who claimed juice plus gummies or whatever the fuck it was , was curing her daughters “ADHD”

I was so done. Off she fucked