How much do people make from the MLM schemes?

[StunnerNotReally]

My facebook suddenly has loads of women doing these.
Body shop and Tropic and the perfume one.

Scentsy seems to be one of the better ones........my friend does it. She doesn't earn loads, probably £200 a month absolute max but it pays for treats for the kids etc.

It amazes me how much people sell on the tat, £50 for a Disney teddy with an air freshener shoved up its jacksie and grown women are fighting over themselves to be the first to get one. 😳

Oh and just remembered another one who does Scentsy..........she must be doing well as she got one of the all expenses paid holidays to Vegas (( I think ))

It couldn't go ahead because of covid and they gave her the cash instead which I thought was good.

The accounts for most of the MLMs are widely available and it's very clear almost no one makes any money at all from them, except the company and a tiny handful of people.

'Hunbot'. Dying.

We have multiple new Body Shop reps on our local FB group. I'm assuming it's people whose incomes have dropped due to Covid.

These pyramid schemes have been around for years, there was an Aloe Vera one a couple of years ago, I received lots of friend requests from very distant acquaintances, they rely on you making your family & friends feel guilty for not supporting you and buying their overpriced crap, you lay out a small fortune on samples and then make a ridiculous low profit on what you sell.

@FamBae

These pyramid schemes have been around for years, there was an Aloe Vera one a couple of years ago, I received lots of friend requests from very distant acquaintances, they rely on you making your family & friends feel guilty for not supporting you and buying their overpriced crap, you lay out a small fortune on samples and then make a ridiculous low profit on what you sell.

I remember going to a talk at a local sports club about the benefits of aloe vera a few years ago. I didn't realise at the time it was an MLM but I did think it was BS. If you listened to the woman selling it, it seemed to be the cure for literally everything! I hope the researchers at Oxford university, and Astra Zeneca have included it in the vaccine ingredients for covid 19!

I made maybe 15 pounds in three months and totally made myself sick with the stress. An ex friend recruited me under her after I told her that my health conditions made it hard to work outside the home etc. I was reluctant at first as I felt I did not have the personality for it etc she said she did not want sales people but people that believed in the product. I looked into it and as I would not be sitting on any stock I thought might as well try.

I was a very bad fit though as I don't like pressuring people if they say no I accept that and never ask again etc. Problem was the stress part of it was making me run fevers and migraines so I explained it was not for me etc. I did get a lecture for leaving but it was just effecting my well being too much

We have multiple new Body Shop reps on our local FB group.

Before the current new low from Body Shop against JK Rowling; my local Body Shop Hunbot plumbed the depths or morality by asking people to buy her goods, which she would then make up into kits and "donate" to the NHS.

Completely straight faced too.

I read this thread last night and then ended up sitting up far too late reading Elle Beau's blog and various links from there. It really opened my eyes! I was vaguely aware that MLM are not a good thing but I had no idea how bad they are. I was shocked recently when an acquaintance persuaded my DH that I would love some of her Arbonne crap for my birthday. He spent £85 on a jar of foot cream and a couple of samples and subsequently had to block her on social media as she was bombarding him with pleas to buy morr. Now I understand why, and I looked at the usual raft of "inspirational" posts on friends' Facebook pages with new eyes today. Up until now I have accepted invitations to all these groups though rarely bought anything. I don't want the stuff but don't want to upset my friends either. But from today I am deleting myself from them all as I now feel that far from supporting them by joining in, I am actually an enabler. Not any more.

Someone posted a link to a list of MLMs on one of these threads, but I can't find it. Does anyone know if doTerra is an MLM? It seems to have all the hallmarks.

@MulticolourMophead

Someone posted a link to a list of MLMs on one of these threads, but I can't find it. Does anyone know if doTerra is an MLM? It seems to have all the hallmarks.

It sure is. But it definitely, definitely isn’t a pyramid scheme... 😉

www.doterra.com/US/en/blog/inspiration-handling-objections-part-one

I’ve found there’s been a particularly strong correlation between Doterra reps and batshit conspiracy theories over the last few months.

My work colleague is a Utility Warehouse rep/bot. He knows what I think about MLMs. Lovely guy, but very thick skinned and prime for these type of things (lost money on dodgy timeshares etc)

He posts lots on SM about his free pizza once a month, less so about his weekends spent replacing lightbulbs in households of new sign ups

@ItsGoingTibiaK Conspiray theories, eh? Could be interesting to watch from the sidelines

The doTerra MLMbot popped up on one of my local selling pages, advertising a workshop about essential oils, without actually mentioning what brand, etc, so I checked back to the poster's age, and it looked like an MLM but not one I'd heard of.

It may have been in The Dream podcast about MLMs that I heard that US was making headway in outlawing the business model. Obama was totally on board with banning them and declaring them illegal.

Then Trump got in. He set up his own MLM called "the trump network" selling vitamins (what else) in the 90s. Also Betsy DeVos, US Secretary of State for education, is married to Richard DeVos, former head of Amway.

They're up to their necks in it.

MLM’s were even pretty popular 30/40 years ago! (Well before the Internet.)

At that time I lived next door to a woman who started off doing Tupperware parties and must have proved really successful as within 3 years she was Area Manager with a brand new company car, trips overseas etc. but she was definitely a bit shady. (Didn’t give a crap about upsetting anyone.)

Then around 1990 I suddenly received a phone call completely out of the blue from a girl who worked for the same company as me in the early 80’s but hadn’t seen for years. Only knew her to say “Hello” to really. She said she and her husband had recently moved into our area and would love to get together which seemed strange as I didn’t really know her but wanted to be friendly so made arrangements for the following week. Turned out they had started up as Amway reps. 😨. They just wanted to pitch to us along with God knows who else. My God, it was like trying to get rid of the worst type of double glazing salesman! They must have had skin like a rhino! Even then it was obvious money was only made by signing up new recruits.

These schemes are definitely to be avoided imo unless you happen to be one in a million like my former Tupperware neighbour. The only people who really make money are those at the top who are taking advantage of desperate, vulnerable people. 😡

Someone on my FB seems to have become mixed up in a FOREX MLM, to the extent that she’s quit her job to earn ‘passive income’ I’m sure it’s an MLM because she’s at pains to point out that it’s not a pyramid scheme! Seems like a fucking dangerous scam to me. I rather presume my financial advisor might have let me know if there actually were 10% returns on investment on anything legit at the moment.

I can’t quite work out how the FOREX MLM works though? Are the returns made artificially high at first to hook you in? If so, that’s a genuine criminal fraud..

There is some of the dim Geordie shore lot pushing forex on Instagram. I didn't know it was an mlm. They turn off comments in case they asked any questions about it I think.

My yooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooonique bot is posting every hour trying to get huns to join her team...its complete tumbleweed.....no one is commenting on anything... you'd think she'd realise its a pile of shit.

The two travel/perfume hunbots I know of have just booked training courses abroad. One in the Maldives for this August, the other in Santorini for next year. Their friends are going with them.

Apparently everyone is now booking exotic foreign holidays and if you're not then you are missing out and need to join their teams

Is there an MLM essential oils business?
2 people on our local network seem to be saying how amazing they are and the wording seems typical of mlms ....

DoTerra is an oily MLM - I think there may be others.

I'm not in an MLM but I think some are better than others. My sister is in the USA and she makes about $200 a month doing not very much. However, I think she uses the money to buy the product for herself .

One of the more successful bots I know from Arbonne has started putting a disclaimer at the bottom of her posts about how amazing her lifestyle is. 'there are no guarantees, results are different for everyone, annual typical earnings statement available at ...'. hmmm, methinks someone got into trouble at Arbonne for promising the world...

@Constantlurker I wonder if we both 'know' the same Arbonne bot? I've noticed the one I know has done this on her posts recently, too.