Friend trying to recruit me into her MLM scheme

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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?

Ah yes HailHydra this anti MLM thread has been going for four years!

I have lost 3 friends to Arbonne since lockdown started. Two of them are in the beauty industry and one is a personal trainer, they have all been recruited by a friend of a friend who is a salon owner! I understand times are hard, especially when they are self employed but I honestly thought they were all smarter. The insta and fb messages are constant! I turned down joining their 30 day healthy living in May and thankfully they have taken it well and haven't bugged me to much...but in other groups they no longer talk about anything that's not arbonne related

Green trees everywhere it’s a cult more than a MLM. I think it’s the worst one for mind washing

One friend on Facebook is in the body shop cult. I have noticed her posts getting less and less comments and likes.

There were a few raffles with a live winner reveal which was exceptionally cringey to watch.

I would probably buy from her, but the constant hyped up posts, which is like a personality transplant, put me off.

My bot is still only managing to flog her yooooooooonique crap to her daughter...who i happen to know is not in a great financial place.....i cannot understand people who exploit their own kids just to get a sale.

I just got added into a JP group on FB. Full of testimonials on how amazing and life changing everything is. A quick look at the authors shows that many are bots. I've removed myself.

I have a newish friend who's just become as FL "business owner". What this means is she keeps messaging me and asking how I am, but then saying she has X deal coming up or wants me to get some of my friends together so she can host a party. It's all "Can I count you in?" type stuff which is not get style so I know they're just copied and pasted from somewhere else.

I always thought she was such a level-headed person, I'm puzzled she thinks she's going to make money from this long-term. Tbe people who do got in before the market was saturated.

One of my closest friends is trying to lose weight using JuicePlus...she hasnt told me but i saw a post on fb where the bot thanked her for her order....i havent got the heart to tell her its a load of shit.

@SallyLovesCheese it’s not getting in early that means you’ll make money in MLM, it’s building a large downline - that is the only way. You could be one of the first sign ups but if you don’t recruit and rely on selling product your MLM career is dead in the water. Promotions within MLM are paid on purchases not on sales so you need a ready supply of recruits and a big downline purchasing product. If they end up with their purchased product filing up their garage Because they can’t sell it then that’s their problem. Your friend is about to make a very expensive mistake unless she is a ruthless recruiter but even then there’s not much hope - most of the top earners at FLP from 3-4 years ago are now bankrupt, earning virtually nothing, insolvent or surviving on massive HMRC directors loans they can’t repay. If that describes a fair few of FL UKs former top earners imagine how the other 99% are doing :(

@SallyLovesCheese a little light reading for you!

www.talentedladiesclub.com/articles/the-lies-and-dark-secrets-top-forever-living-managers-are-hiding/

One of my friends has started selling Tropic. Overnight she stopped being a completely normal, decent person to someone who pushed the stuff at every single opportunity and makes you feel guilty for not buying. You can’t have one tiny conversation with her without her slipping it into conversation and trying to flog it to you. I find it crass.

One friend has been trying to sell thermomix for a while but has just ramped up her sales pitch with lots of videos of her cooking with her children as though it's a youtube channel. It's so cringy! she is a tallented intelligent woman, I'm not sure what happened!

Ah, my SIL is a doTerra fan. She had a chest infection last winter, kept using her oils and wafting around going on about doTerra being amazing and helping her. She had the cough for TWO MONTHS, not getting better etc Eventually she went to the Dr, who gave her antibiotics.... Magically it was gone in a few days. ..

My ‘Younique’ friend is still plastering herself with make up and posting pictures of herself, even in lockdown when no one gives a shit about what you look like.

She looks like she’s going on a night out, everyday. Even on the school run.

Thanks, YouokHun. That is sobering reading. I hate to think of my friends getting into debt for this. And I feel a bit mean saying I don't want to buy the products and I won't get some of my friends together so she can run a "party" (I use the term loosely - talking at me for an hour while I play bingo and try to spot the words you've told me to write down is not a party!).

FB bot has been sharing her fellow FM bots pages and one claims the following :

Left corporate job due to maternity leave winter last year. Joined FM hoping to make at least £200 but instead has earned tons more including over 12k in one month and qualified for a "Mercedes car plan" also states when she left her corporate job she had barely any cash but now has lots of money. And they state it's free to join FM too.

Another FM bot has earned over 20k in 10 months

Could all this be true ? Is it that easy?

Also forgot to add that they also all paid for Maldives trip and two ppl can go along with you , by "smashing" targets. This all from selling they products they claim

Expose on how awful The Body Shop really is:

@cheeseandpickledonions

I have a friend that has got sucked into the doterra essential oils one. She's always banging on about these oils. One of them will help you not get Covid apparently

You're not allowed to make medical claims for any product without the evidence....

Sorry my mistake, I don't know how I ended up resurrecting an old thread!!