To delete friend who has joined an MLM

[lastqueenofscotland]

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

I have a friend who has switched from Juice Plus to Body Shop at home. I ferl sorry for her, she desperately wants to do well, but the market is set out to ensure failure. The poonique blog was hugely eye opening to me - managed to stop my dh from becoming an usborne bot.

I would hide her posts but keep her added.

She's in a vulnerable position. MLMs prey on SAHP and try to sell them money for the extras or time with their children or whatever else they can use to trigger a guilt response from them. They brainwash them into not engaging with anyone who challenges the MLM movement because we're just "negferrets" and debbie downer.

One day she'll need her friends again once she stops seeing them as potential cash cows.

coconut and all the other bear-baiters critiquing Queen for their SPaG. Why the need to be such twats? Can't you just ignore, respond to the OP or sit and chortle to yourselves?

I hate MLM and I hate SPaG twats nearly as much.

I’ve only just got my first Facebook MLMer.

And I’m darn well keeping them. It’s criiiiinge, yet FASCINATING.

The only person that comments under his ridiculous posts is his wife, who has been mutually sucked. Looking around other examples, they’re textbook.

I'm thinking we have the same friend, know her from work , just started with coffee ads, the omg I've made so much money in 2 weeks and hot 2 promotions, I actually feel terribly sad for her

I have a Male one that used to be a brilliant foodie who loved going out for a big meal and then getting slaughtered at the pub till 2am. Now all he posts about is exercise and nutrition drinks. I thought you’d have to be an oddball in the first place but he used to be so normal and so much fun.

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?

Heard it all now. A career in MLM shits coffee.

Surely nobody unless MLM themselves actually considers this bollocks to be a CAREER

These laxative coffee people are “shit” friends.
Couldn’t resist saying that, apologies

Some friends of ours got into Amway a good few years ago now. They invited us to a party 'to celebrate their amazing news' and we & a number of their other specially-chosen friends were subjected to a lovely presentation about how wonderful their new life was going to be, the tropical holidays they were going to go on, the fabulous shiny cars just waiting for them to pick up the keys.

Wow. All we had to do was buy some cleaning products, find out how great they were, and then we too, could also be on our way to a glamorous lifestyle.

I think we bought a couple of bottles of washing up liquid from them, but they wouldn't leave us alone. In the end, when we moved house, we forgot to tell them All in the days before the internet thankfully otherwise they'd have found us again.

No one has been sucked into mlm

I don't want to pile on but this is just so untrue and dangerous.

Perhaps some people do go into it with their eyes open and genuinely aware of the business structure and actual earning potential.

The statistics of all MLM schemes that have been asked to submit actual financials show that the vast majority of recruits do not make money.

To anyone considering joining an MLM business, think about it - why would everyone be out to get them? Jealousy?! I don't think the FSA in the States would spend millions of dollars going after Herbalife just for shits (insert laxative joke here) and giggles.

It's because they make false, unproven claims to customers and manipulated promises to sellers aka downliners.

If you hear about something too good to be true, it probably is.

ThatCurlyGirl, excellent post. It should be pinned. MLM is insidious and cult-like as PP made reference to. Awful

DH and I run our own business. A real business, with staff, premises, fucking enormous bills and even more hard work. I frankly want to punch these idiots calling it their own business. No it's not, you are pyramind selling. Wake up and smell the laxative coffee.

I block any of them, instantly. I have a zero tolerance.

Wow. So if a famous person, whom u admire, bring out a drink of orange, u wouldnt try it?

yes, that directly relates to the op not wanting to buy pyramid scheme diarrhoea coffee. “A celeb whom you admire with an orange drink”

Me too 🙈 every year the memories pop back up on my social media and I cringe 🤣

I now know that in approx 3.5 yrs, she’s made the grand total of £7000 for that mlm company

It's quite possible she bought a fair but of that herself. It may also count sales to her downline if she has one - women below her in the sales pyramid. Who in turn may also be buying the shit themselves to meet targets.

OP you don't need to unfriend if you just don't want to see their posts. I don't see posts from a childhood friend as I got tired of seeing his sexist jokes. I forget how I did it now but it wasn't hard to find.

Wow. So if a famous person, whom u admire, bring out a drink of orange, u wouldnt try it?

This seems like the right moment to mention Jim Jones and Kool-Aid.

Wow. So if a famous person, whom u admire, bring out a drink of orange, u wouldnt try it?

No, I would just think less of them.

The ASA are cracking down on this now and "influencers" are being fined for promoting products with unproven health claims.

MLMs may well make some people rich, but they make the vast majority of people either less well off or no different at all but poorer in sweat equity aka time they've pumped into it for no reward.

I am not a hater, I've run a business since the age of 25 employing other people, worked my arse off and wouldn't dream of telling my employees or clients lies - especially ones that can be disproven with some non biased googling.

I want women to be successful and happy and passionate about their careers. I don't want them love bombed, fucked over and out of pocket.

So if a famous person, whom u admire, bring out a drink of orange, u wouldn't try it?

What - you don't mean... (drum roll)

The Man from Del Monte?

I'm only here for the Hunbots.

I have a few on my facebook, all snoozed except the one that went off to the shiny wonderful USA (which she paid for, all she 'won' was the invite to go) ... because well, it's like a car crash and I can't not look.

A tip for the hunbots though, if you want to avoid people questioning your intelligence, an attempt to use all of the available letters and punctuation is a cracking start.

No one minds the odd typo, or spelling mistake, but the evident lack of effort really does damage your argument considerably.

@CoffeeQueenOfHerts

"Woman shd support each other."

It might not seem that way now, but we ARE supporting you by giving you a different perspective so you can make your own decision.

Sorry what does MLM stand for?

@CrystalShark I need to know more about this salad based MLM. Just when I thought they couldn't get anymore nuts. I would love to see my husband's reaction to two random women knocking on the door and asking to make him a salad! I found their shoddy website but it didn't have prices on it, not that I expected it to. I assume the £2k is the starter box?

Are the skin care range they sell on these schemes any good? A few Facebook friends are trying this out. (It sounds hard going and a bit pushy though. )
Never heard of the laxative coffee, but it does sound too good to be true.

MediocreOmens yeah I’m basing the £2k on some reviews I’ve read! If you google saladmaster reddit antiMLM you should find some info. It’s mostly Filipino women and men that seem to get sucked into it. They do cooking demos at parties then try pressure you into buying the pans. Claiming that if you sign up to be a rep to sell pans to others you’ll get them cheaper, and so forth. Many a sucker has ended up buying the cheapest thing they sell (which is still ridiculously expensive, a spiraliser I think?) just out of awkwardness to get them to leave :(