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?

I’m not surprised that there are so many MLMs based in Utah. Utah is something like 60% Mormon, and I’m pretty sure Mormonism discourages married women from working. It’d be interesting to see how many MLMs aren’t based in Utah!

Also, have a watch of this. John Oliver has loads of good videos.

That a £32 balm made the (very long and thick) neck scar of a cancer survivor disappear. Tropic

@toffee

Not quite true about married mormons (Latter Day Saints) not encouraged to work, more like encouraged to raise their families.
But having said that I do know a few who do sell Scentsy/ doTerra / Younique !

I remember my mum losing many friends because they were into Amway and hassled her so much they really pissed her off. Some were professionals who gave up their careers to do it!
Unbelievable

So do Slimming world and Phoenix cards count as MLM?

I had someone PM me on FB once claiming juice plus would cure my Crohn’s disease. My, did she regret that.

Sure, I had my full bowel cut out, a scar from my section scar to my chest, a different kind of bag for life and a rectum that’s trying to kill me but all I needed were some shakes.

Poundoflard

Phoenix Cards went out of business.

Slimming World - why would you think this was MLM? I don't have personal experience with them but they run weight loss classes, don't they? That's a valid business model. If you go to to a slimming class, you're paying for tips to lose weight. You aren't expected to go out and set up your own group, then recruit friends to run their own groups and so on.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_multi-level_marketing_companies

Omg Arbonne!

The white car!

Such utter shite and they recruit out of stage schools

*white mercedes!!

My friend was stressing and agonising over the decision whether to start taking Tamoxifen after genetic testing revealed she was predisposed to getting certain types of cancer (she was very nervous of the side effects). She posted on FB asking if anyone had any experience/advice, and a mutual friend (whom I hold at arm's length for just this reason) messaged her to say she didn't need to take them as her wonderful Aloe Vera products (Forever Living) could sort that right out.

I was (and still am) livid. Utterly irresponsible and the pinnacle of selfishness - putting her own profits above not just the health, but potentially life, of someone who is supposed to be a friend.

Rather than just being irresponsible and selfish, claiming that your products can treat or cure cancer is illegal.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer_Act_1939

The Cambridge Diet isn't an MLM. It's been around for over 35 years and had been used in NHS trials and has been proven to put Type 2 Diabetes into reverse. Look for the droplet trial.

Consultants aren't in a pyramid scheme and are free to grow their business as big or small as they like with a lot of support from Head Office.

Have to laugh at this reminds me of a school mum. Barely even says hello at school or in passing but added loads of mums suddenly on Facebook. Being polite I accepted as her son would often be at my house.

Turns out she is a ‘bot’. Constant streaming of her doing make up and messages about her good news she had been awarded £10 grand from her company blah blah. Fast forward to seeing her at school gate she is head down speaking to nobody. So strange how these people get sucked in.

Another Mum from school asked me to come round and listen to a presentation she had to give for a new job. Could she practice it on me etc,I agreed. When I got there another woman was also there, turned out she was her forever living upliner and they both tried to recruit me. I was really bloody angry! She did have the grace to apologise to me afterwards but I've since kept my distance.

The Cambridge Diet isn't an MLM

Yes it is.

HTH.

I have one friend that does Scentsy, one that does Younique and one that tries and sells all sorts of shit. I swear she’s on to a different thing each week.

The friend who does Younique now wears heavy make up all the time, like she’s selling her face. She could do with toning it down instead of looking like she’s put her make up on with a trowel every day.

We get a lot of them around here - again, lots of military families as we're very close the barracks and they're a bloody nightmare spamming every local FB group and the school fairs are bloody chock full of them to the point none of the local crafters can get a stall from the events that were originally aimed at their kind of wares being sold (lots of "Christmas shopping evenings" and the like) because of fucking Forever Scentsy Juice Plus stalls.

The one that gets me is that I have a relative who has refused to speak to me for 2 years now - my "crime" is, and no word of a lie, that my children "eat olives and stuff" - but makes sure to keep me on FB to add me into whatever her latest MLM deal is that she's trying to flog to everyone. She's a member of FB selling pages up and down the country and she's "done" Younique, Usborne, Body Shop, Scentzy and some other ones - and is still bloody skint and ignoring her kids so she can post shit on FB for "her business".

It's the whitening toothpaste ones that annoy me. You can clearly see the colours have been changed on the second photo - compare the colour of the gums and it's clear as day.

Grrrr.

Oh god @Jackfruit my FM Fragrance acquaintance does the same with the makeup. Always really heavy, full night out face makeup, even just on the school run.

What amuses me is that all of a sudden these Younique bots are the make up experts!

They magically know all about make up and skin care, having previously never worn a scrap of make up. Despite no professional training whatsoever.

@DontVisitMe

No it isn't.

HTH

Become a consultant! Have freedom and flexibility! Save for your retirement! Sign up through a "consultant" and then sign up your own team of "consultants". No experience in health or nutrition needed!!

If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck...

@DonkeyHohtay

That's not how Cambridge works. You have to have completed the diet and maintain a healthy BMI. There's no pressure to recruit a team. You can have your business as big or small as you want. There are no fat cats at the top living off others.

There is also comprehensive training and a full learning portal to increase your knowledge.

Please educate yourself. It really isn't an MLM or pyramid scheme.

I can't type more as I'm at work, but feel free to look into it further. It's a very successful, reputable diet that is being used in NHS trials. The success rates speak for themselves.

Apparently, Juice Plus, Forever Living and Herbalife can all cure my Crohns Disease.

It makes my shit itch when I get unsolicited messages from "reps" because they have been trawling through support sites trying to prey on vulnerable people who will try anything to "cure" their ailments.

In the past 2 weeks I have been asked to join 6 Body Shop at Home Facebook groups (one friend recruited another and then another etc) and 3 Scentsy groups.

I'd rather defecate in my palms and applaud!

I have a woman who has sold weightless powder for two years and posts these "incredible" before and after shots where she looks exactly the fucking same.

The hair growing supplements are amazing, they make your hair grow 🧐 erm, mine does that anyway.

Plastic wraps. Excellent for landfill.

Shitty coffee. Literally.

And yet I can't look away. 🚗 💥

A friend is organising a get together for the mums of a particular year at school. We see each other around, but this is a chance to all be in the same place, probably be about 25/30 of us. Everyone very positive on the whatapp.

Then one woman, who I thought was pretty grounded and reasonable, comes on to say lovely, I'll be there, and I'm also now a Body Shop Consultant so blah, blah, blah.....

How can they not see how inappropriate this is ?! I just know everybody will now avoid her. We're going for a drink, not to have raspberry hand cream shoved at us. Just despair.