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Friend trying to recruit me into her MLM scheme

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reasonwith · 23/04/2020 21:16

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I have recently been made furloughed by the company I work in as the job role I work in is struggling to pick up work for employees. DH is working but has taken a 30% pay cut so finances aren't strong at the moment. I have a friend who has devoted her life to home working in the last year but quit her job in January to work as an MLM 'team member' whatever that is.

I am fairly active on social media, and so is she, on several local Facebook groups. I run one group where it is rather a safe space for members to post - excluding MLM schemes and any other schemes that exploit people. My friend is a part of the group and usually is a compliant poster. However recently she has been messaging me, asking me if I'd like to join her MLM team. She is a recruiter so makes money from recruiting other people and when they pay in, she gets a percentage. I have refused, and she has kept on insisting. Today I logged onto Facebook and saw that she has now tried to recruit my group members and I immediately deleted the post and got rid of her.

She sent a grovelling message saying it was 'totally unfair and rude as MLM offer good working incentives in this current situation'. I retorted back and told her that she is exploiting a lot of furloughed people and unemployed people to pay an absurd money so she gets money!! After that she stopped replying. However, another friend of mine sent me screenshots of my 'friend' ranting on multiple groups about me, and calling for people to troll me and send me death threats.

She's even sent me a bloody invoice of the monthly payments you have to pay in for the MLMs. I have now blocked her and anyone who is associated with her so she can't use them to get into my head. I am livid. Please share any stories you have of MLM recruitment, so I can feel better.

Surely she was BU about this as she is trying to force me to sign up?

OP posts:
Namechangex10000 · 30/04/2020 18:20

I know a mum and daughter who are part of a perfume scheme, I honestlygot sucked in at first, reading all the shit about this number perfume smells the same as this famous perfume etc, I ordered a few samples, frankly, they smelt NOTHING like true originals what so ever, and I felt a bit silly and almost wanted to say something but I like these people and felt bad despite knowing others will get sucked in, the daughter is now claiming to be going to the Maldives for FREE courtesy of this company - she’s lying isn’t she?! Stop me getting sucked in PLEASE!!!

Msloverlover · 30/04/2020 18:27

Because of this thread, I am well and truly hooked. Just listening to the Dream podcast which is good.

I guess it all rings a massive bell. My mum’s done it all - Amway, Herbalife. Even went to one of those timeshare “free holiday” conferences. She never made a dime and lost money she didn’t have. I could laugh but it’s sad really. She was the ideal perfect target demographic: a broke single parent desperately trying to find an job she could work around her children. Fucking vultures the lot of them.

fivesecondrule · 30/04/2020 18:27

I don't know I had a friend who was going on a cruise to the Bahamas or something with one of these schemes but having read what I've read over the past fews days there HAS to be a catch. I think they do it to keep them going and hitting targets ( presumably by buying the crap themselves).

fivesecondrule · 30/04/2020 18:28

@Msloverlover this is what makes it so sad- my friend also fits right into the right category. Someone desperate to make her situation better, looking for an oportunity to help herself but will inevitably end up worse off for it. Really boils my piss

Msloverlover · 30/04/2020 19:52

@fivesecondrule until I really started looking into all this I was blaming my mum for wasting money she didn’t have. Now I can see how manipulated she was. It’s horrific. Just working my way through Elle’s blog.

fivesecondrule · 30/04/2020 20:18

Yeah totally it's like they have the ability to flick a switch in their personality. Your poor mum hope she's far away from it all now but I bet reading that blog will make your blood boil!

Msloverlover · 01/05/2020 11:59

@fivesecondrule she hasn’t done one for a while, but never say never! Oh apart from losing £1000 on crypto currency Confused. I do love her but god she is terrible with money.

newbiefrugalgal · 01/05/2020 13:06

We had a school mum do an end of year collection for our children's teacher. She made an Arbonne basket - I was furious and embarrassed we had all been taken as mugs. She was the rep 😡

Notredamn · 01/05/2020 13:30

newbie 😲

myusernamewastakenbyme · 01/05/2020 14:00

I'm afraid i have to correct you there @newbiefrugalgal they are not 'reps'....they are 'presenters'.....'consultants' or 'ambassadors' lol

Ifonlyiweretaller · 01/05/2020 14:14

About 30 years ago my mum did Oriflame (make up and skincare). She was great at hosting parties but once promoted to manager I remember her being on the phone all the time pushing her 'protogees' to get more parties. THey all had targets to reach and she had to report to her upline (weirdly I still remember the woman's name!) She really struggled with this side of it and came back down to being a normal consulatant as they were called then.
Looking at it now, I imagine this was an early MLM?

YouokHun · 01/05/2020 15:16

I'm afraid i have to correct you there @newbiefrugalgal they are not 'reps'....they are 'presenters'.....'consultants' or 'ambassadors' lol

I’m afraid I have to correct you there @myusernamewastakenbyme they are in fact “customers” Grin

myusernamewastakenbyme · 01/05/2020 15:19

@YouokHun GrinGrin

ooooohbetty · 01/05/2020 18:49

I had a message on fb a few days ago from someone asking if I wanted to buy any fake perfume and also if I wanted to join in with a list of benefits including a car bonus. I asked her if it was an mlm and she said no but I knew she had no idea what I was talking about.

Gingerkittykat · 01/05/2020 19:49

I know a man who is a high up in Herbalife, by high up I mean number 1 or 2 in the UK. He does make a fortune and really does have a porche and massive house.

He is making videos right now capitalising on the current crisis and urging people to join as consultants if they have lost their income and also buy the products to improve their health right now.

Completely scummy behaviour, I was hoping these companies would lose money right now as so many people are struggling and won't have money to spend on the crap they peddle.

Shhhhh223 · 02/05/2020 08:31

Arbonne huns have been told by Head office to remove all posts that make income claims and about the products curing illness, they also apparently had to stop the getting people to buy product for the NHS. I think they might of been told off. I’ve noticed my bots toned it down massively which I bet is annoying her loads. How can she recruit if she cannot brag about income ect! Hopefully it will stop her getting unsuspecting people to sign up so easily

YouokHun · 02/05/2020 09:48

@shhhhh223 here’s the message the VP Huns have got. If you read it you’ll notice it’s not a proper telling off. This was before the FTC sent Arbonne a formal letter this week but it was after pressure from organisations and a lot of calling out on social media. This is from HQ and delivered to top Huns but are they really going to police what their downlines do? No.

Friend trying to recruit me into her MLM scheme
SSDGM · 02/05/2020 13:05

I’ve noticed that Arbonne has taken it’s “immunity booster” off the market and it won’t be back until it’s had a name change. The bots have also lost the ability to tease the White Mercedes payments in front of their prospective victims downline.

Juice plus needs to be next. I once had a ding dong with a bot after I pointed out the content of their supplements compared to a £4 packet of supermarket skin, hair and nails pills. The bot was scrabbling for answers, the final one being that it wasn’t what was IN the expensive piss pills, it was what WASN’T in them. Ok Hun.

Shhhhh223 · 02/05/2020 13:50

It’s really really annoys me when they claim their products are superior to shop ones and that the shop ones cost pence to make because they have to go from manufacture, distributor, delivery driver shop ect BUT fail to see that the MLM products have to go from manufacture, the MLM, the top rung of the pyramid, second, third, fifth ect AND the “business owner” ( I use this loosely ) is the number one consumer! So many holes in their explanation!

PanamaPattie · 02/05/2020 16:00

“We are classy”. Lol.

LittleMissDancersmum18 · 02/05/2020 18:03

Can I just ask is Scentsy one?

radioband · 02/05/2020 20:53

I have a lady on my FB friends, I do know her briefly. She seems very successful with it, I do know this is how they have to appear but she has been on holidays etc. I get the impression the organisation pay the accommodation but they have to pay flights, others costs etc? Is that right? Also she has banged on about getting a car bonus for a few years but no car has ever materialised? I think she is one if the lucky one in terms of how successful she has been but god she bugs me. 'I'm so excited' clearly a line this MLM are told to use 😡

HailHydra · 02/05/2020 21:31

@LittleMissDancersmum18 Yes and a vile one. Especially under the lockdown. Trying to give a "whiff box" from household to household

LittleMissDancersmum18 · 02/05/2020 21:34

@HailHydra Okay thanks, someone has tried to add me to a Facebook page selling it so wanted to make sure before I declined.

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