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To delete friend who has joined an MLM

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lastqueenofscotland · 16/09/2019 13:35

A lady I know from work has joined an MLM selling some sort of laxative coffee.
Her FB and instagram are covered in posts for it and about her promotions/trying to get a car etc etc.
She very much fits the profile of people they poach, she’s a SAHM and it’s been a squeeze of late for her.

I think MLMs are poisonous and I hate seeing her posts flogging this nonsense.
AIBU to remove her from my friend list

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ProhibitedRodent · 16/09/2019 17:05

@CoffeeQueenOfHerts Ultimately, if these products were as good as they're being claimed they are - they'd be sold in Boots/Holland & Barrett etc

dollydaydream114 · 16/09/2019 17:05

Fair enough but to say things about my intelligence is just insulting.

Insulting, perhaps, but based on the copious evidence you’ve presented us with, also quite accurate.

YouokHun · 16/09/2019 17:10

CoffeeQueenOfHerts does the coffee actually work though?

She may not know. She may not have seen the product. It’s not about the product, it’s about recruiting a downline. This is the only way to make money in MLM (though not sustainable). Avon is now MLM so should go in the bin with the rest.

CoffeeQueenOfHerts · 16/09/2019 17:11

Thank u so much YouOkHun. I totally understand your view point.

CoffeeQueenOfHerts · 16/09/2019 17:17

Yes id heard about Valentus but see they are back again. Why is RevitalU ceo a crook. Not looking for a fight, arguement or to upset anyone. Just want facts please

Drabarni · 16/09/2019 17:19

I think it says more about you tbh.
You need to be careful who you accept as friends.
Maybe you'd only have a few, fb can be so shallow ito calling people "friends"
Have a cull and see who you are left with.

RosesAndRaindrops · 16/09/2019 17:24

Meh, each to the own.
Annoying? Yes. I wouldn't delete though, just unfollow so you don't see her posts.

Drum2018 · 16/09/2019 17:26

Unfollow her.

MissChananderlerbong · 16/09/2019 17:31

This happened to 2 of my friends. They're nice people so I snoozed them. They've both dropped the MLM after making no sales and I've unsnoozed them now.
It's just exploiting their friends and family to make money! Tedious.

ReanimatedSGB · 16/09/2019 17:37

It's sad to see people, usually quite vulnerable people, getting sucked in to these awful, exploitative cults. I was an Avon rep for a while but that was when Avon was still a reasonable sort of extra-income business (the products were good quality and reasonably priced, and there wasn't the pressure to recruit downlines all the time).

Bouffalant · 16/09/2019 17:38

Ooh fab, a live bot on the thread!! How exciting.

joblotbubble · 16/09/2019 17:44

think it says more about you tbh
You need to be careful who you accept as friends.

Gosh how awful to suggest the OP is at fault because one of her friends joined MLM Hmm

Durgasarrow · 16/09/2019 17:48

Why should "support" mean being sold something by a so called friend that I don't necessarily want? That would make me feel as if that friend is using my desire to be kind to manipulate me for money. I prefer to support my friends emotionally, and if I want to spend money on them, I will buy presents for them or buy them a meal, not become customers for their shitty candles or ugly nightgowns or worse yet their literally shit-inducing coffee.

steff13 · 16/09/2019 17:51

Shes a SAHM but you know her from work?

Maybe she and the OP worked together before she became a SAHM.

And, isn't all coffee a laxitive? Blush

Moomin8 · 16/09/2019 17:51

YANBU it's all you'll hear about!

Weezol · 16/09/2019 17:52

I don’t do Facebook but have browsed some of the MLM threads on here so this is the first time I've seen this kind of thing in 'real time'.

Crikey.

Leftielefterson · 16/09/2019 17:53

Just hide her posts. If you’re willing to delete her for her choice of career you clearly aren’t really her friend though are you OP?

coconuttelegraph · 16/09/2019 17:56

coffeequeenofhearts does your MLM charge you for the use of the letters Y and O?

At least post in full words if you want to convince someone with your argument.

ellzebellze · 16/09/2019 17:57

Why is RevitalU ceo a crook. No idea. Which one?

Companies House info is interesting though.

According to the Revital U website, the company is called 'Revital U International LLC'. Companies House shows that it was incorporated on 17th May 2017 and dissolved on 23rd October 2018 without filing a single set of accounts. Their registered office was at an address in the UK which provides a 'registered office' service, so not an actual office at all but a sort of PO Box.

So Revital U's own website is currently not showing the correct company details. An oversight perhaps.

Companies House shows that a new company called Revital U Ltd was incorporated on 30th April 2019, same two directors as before, but this time with a registered address in Texas.

So between the 24th October 2018 and 29th April 2019 the company doesn't appear to exist at all.

How odd.

CrystalShark · 16/09/2019 18:00

Coffee

You’re either unbelievably naive/stupid, or a shrewd wilful predator who knows exactly what they’re doing and doesn’t care. Which is it?

YouokHun

I had a real LIVE hun show up at my door the other week! From saladmaster. I was in shock haha. My OH answered, I was there too and saw the name on their aprons and quickly said to him/them ‘it’s a pyramid scheme, no we’re not interested, please leave our property thanks’ and closed the door. I wasn’t rude, but I was firm.

My neighbours down the next street weren’t aware of the company sadly and fell for their sales pitch (didn’t buy anything obviously, it’s £2k+ for a set of cookie pans, didn’t let them in the house but did listen on the doorstep). Their con was to say they were from a local catering company and as it’s a new estate our street has been chosen for a healthy eating initiative to get people eating better and more active. And then they offered to come in and make them a salad in their kitchen for dinner 😂😂😂

It’s quite clever really, though I didn’t hear of anyone actually allowing two strangers into their house to make them a salad.

Liaaaaaaaars.

Lucymccoll · 16/09/2019 18:01

Absolutely delete. If all she cares about is selling you something you don't want, she's not your friend. You aren't friends with people to do advertising for their 'business your friends with them because you like each other. If you don't want to try it, don't and don't feel bad about it. If you're fed up with seeing it delete her and don't feel bad about it, you can re add her once she's lost all her money and realised she's done something silly.

To anyone defending them MLMs are always a scam, for people to do well in them there needs to be people under them not doing well so even if this woman is making some money, she's making it off the back of other people's misery.

CrystalShark · 16/09/2019 18:06

Just hide her posts. If you’re willing to delete her for her choice of career you clearly aren’t really her friend though are you OP?

Does your career involve posting on Facebook about it every two hours every single day, trying to recruit other people to do the exact same job as you even though it’s competition for sales, and involve over 99% of your ‘colleagues’ not even breaking even financially?

Give over. To call MLM a career is frankly an embarrassment.

RebornFlame · 16/09/2019 18:07

YAB so U

The statuses liven up a boring evening trying to feed a baby to sleep. They are so wonderfully batshit Grin

#coffeeshits
#livinyourbestshits
#shittingmoney

CrystalShark · 16/09/2019 18:07

I mean, I wouldn’t blame any of my friends for deleting me if every day they were subjected to twenty posts about my amazing job and constant pressure to also come do my amazing job too 😂

Bouffalant · 16/09/2019 18:12

Career? Hilarious.