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Business Bombshells Uk

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Tittie · 16/08/2020 22:35

...the latest MLM to hit the UK and exploit newly unemployed women and other victims of the post-covid recession, launches in September. My Facebook feed is awash with posts about it. There is no focus on the actual products (that part is rather mysterious, it seems to be beauty products); rather, it's all about 'opportunities', 'babes', 'empowering women', 'sisterhood', emojis, and a fuck load of pink. It's all about to change, apparently.

It makes me so angry that these businesses are allowed to run! How is it ok?

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Devlesko · 07/10/2020 13:45

I's ok for these businesses to run because they are businesses.
They advertise vacancies and you can get your benefit stopped if you don't take work offered.
Some people don't have the choice.
Some make a hell of a lot of money if they link to a monthly subscription
Considering it myself in the short term, we all have bills to pay.

Hoppinggreen · 07/10/2020 13:48

No they aren’t
That’s awful
Also awful
No they don’t
You really shouldn’t

MsSponlie · 07/10/2020 13:56

@Towle

That’s what I’m hoping for. I have my views on it but I will reserve judgement on it.
Seems very underhand to take an already established trade and brand name that you know someone needs for their business, put it on another business then sneakily trade mark it and stop the other business from using it.

I'm learning a lot about this Sophie. Getting messages off all sorts of people. Even people that worked for the corporate side of Juice Plus. The person they describe is certainly not the person she is portraying. I won't make videos about that because I like to base my videos on facts and evidence or opinions that are derived from my own observations.

Devlesko · 07/10/2020 13:58

I know somebody who has made a fortune, though.
But the videos are all singing and dancing, she's made up and has panteon subscribers paying her £15 a month, hundreds of them.
She knows it's her singing and dancing earning the money though, not the products. She's a close friend and I've seen her accounts.

I made a lot in the 80's with a smell like perfume, even at 18 I realise that it would be short lived, if people are dim enough to get involved and think it has a long life, then they deserve to be conned, it's not rocket science.
That link from youtube, the woman doesn't look like she could sell anything, such a shame they are forced into losing benefits.

Doingitformoi · 20/10/2020 12:41

I got sucked in by this company and after a month of joining I’d only made a ‘life changing’ £60.
Promoting over priced skincare isn’t my thing at all!!! DON’T DO IT GIRLS!!!
Overpriced as hell and it’s made me breakout in spots!!
It’s a money making scheme for those at the top who claim to have made 13k / 10k in a month ridiculous.

Othering · 20/10/2020 12:50

It's curious how it's such a female dominated field. All MLMs though are like cults who prey on the vulnerable. It boggles my mind how people get sucked in to the absolute nonsense of it all. Surely anyone with 2 brain cells to rub together wouldn't fall for such bullshit and yet so many seem to. Bizarre.

Tittie · 20/10/2020 14:08

I'm sorry to hear that @Doingitformoi , but at least you're out now! I'm interested - what was it like doing the team talks and things, are the other people involved as kind and as supportive as they make out? Are the uplines really pushy?

That's the thing though @Othering , because a lot of vulnerable women are targeted, a lot are desperate. The woman I know who's involved has recently gone through a bereavement and redundancy, she's gained a load of weight, her confidence is low...I can see the appeal. She's been unsuccessful at two other MLMs but I can see how this one might suck you in, and they go on and on about how it's free to join so it seems risk free. Gahhh it's sad.

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MsSponlie · 20/10/2020 14:22

@Doingitformoi

I got sucked in by this company and after a month of joining I’d only made a ‘life changing’ £60. Promoting over priced skincare isn’t my thing at all!!! DON’T DO IT GIRLS!!! Overpriced as hell and it’s made me breakout in spots!! It’s a money making scheme for those at the top who claim to have made 13k / 10k in a month ridiculous.
I've PMed you xx
AntiMLM123 · 02/11/2020 10:52

This is another complete scam. It is basically a pyramid scheme, making loads of 'sellers' lose money due to having to pay £125 for the product, then a further £10 a month just to be able to sell products. You should never have to pay an employer to be able to work.
One particular name is Nina Ritchie who I think is from the UK. She seems to describe her life as perfect, but it definitely isn't fooling me. She won't be making as much money as she makes out. She claimed she made £3000 in 17 days. You can't do that in that sort of company unless you are scamming people. It's a disgrace and I encourage everyone to AVOID.

Doingitformoi · 02/11/2020 11:17

@Tittie they’re extremely pushy! They have zoom meetings every Sunday night, which you’ll get grief from your uplines if you don’t take part.
You have to post a huge amount, one of the uplines would tell you to message every single person who liked a status on your socials. It’s completely unbelievable. I just wanted to make money for my family during the unprecedented times, people get sucked in..and yes I did! It’s awful.
I’ve since joined another company and doing extremely well as the products are cheaper, people already buy / so know exactly what they’re getting.
Business Bombshells is crazily overpriced and I’m not certain that the products even work!! My skin has been awful since using it.

MsSponlie · 02/11/2020 11:31

[quote Doingitformoi]@Tittie they’re extremely pushy! They have zoom meetings every Sunday night, which you’ll get grief from your uplines if you don’t take part.
You have to post a huge amount, one of the uplines would tell you to message every single person who liked a status on your socials. It’s completely unbelievable. I just wanted to make money for my family during the unprecedented times, people get sucked in..and yes I did! It’s awful.
I’ve since joined another company and doing extremely well as the products are cheaper, people already buy / so know exactly what they’re getting.
Business Bombshells is crazily overpriced and I’m not certain that the products even work!! My skin has been awful since using it.[/quote]
The products are full of known skin irritants.

DaisyDreaming · 02/11/2020 11:38

I read elsewhere that they just sell one box with 5 skin products in and sellers pay £10 a month to the company

Emsie08 · 17/12/2020 15:51

I dont get why people are against others trying to make a few pennies.. yes i dont agree with the hard sell some people do ...but can just be polite and move on... not everyone who sells products does the hard sell...

Leaannb · 17/12/2020 16:38

@Emsie08

I dont get why people are against others trying to make a few pennies.. yes i dont agree with the hard sell some people do ...but can just be polite and move on... not everyone who sells products does the hard sell...
Its not because they are trying to make a few pennies. Its because they are swindling others. The people who are selling with MLS are swindling and cheating their friends and families. Then wonder why no one wants to be around them or they no longer have friends
Haffiana · 17/12/2020 17:12

The issue with these is that they target people who can least afford to get involved. Essentially people end up spending £100s on 'stock' that they cannot sell, because their friendship circle are either skint or too intelligent to pay those prices.

Add in that they also inevitably lose their friends in their desperation to look like their co-huns, all of whom are also lying because they don't want to feel left out of the 'group'.

The ones that persist with these MLMs are the ones who most need to understand the sunk costs fallacy. You can google it. The earlier you step away from your MLM the better off you will be and the less you will lose financially, but stepping away at ANY point will immediately improve your financial situation.

MsSponlie · 17/12/2020 17:16

@Emsie08

I dont get why people are against others trying to make a few pennies.. yes i dont agree with the hard sell some people do ...but can just be polite and move on... not everyone who sells products does the hard sell...
99% of people who get involved with network marketing/MLM will either lose money or at best make no money at all. They will work themselves silly 24/7 under extreme amounts of pressure for zero money, of they have doubts they are told they're being negative and this is why they're not succeeding, they are made to feel deeply ashamed for this. As a consequence they end up humiliating themselves on social media and pester friends and family to either buy massively overpriced products or join their Pyramid below them until which almost always ends up driving huge wedges between them and their close friends and family members. If they come out without debt they are very lucky, and if they come out without severe mental health issues they're ever luckier.

Do you get it now?

Newtimemommy · 21/12/2020 23:35

Yes and shes actually amazing at what she does, She's put all her time, effort and her life into her company. SO can everyone on this post, please stop sh1t talking her and trashing her life's work.
Understandably, some MLM don't work, but It has worked for Sophie,
and she is now teaching others how to live a woman empowered life, and how to make an income online. STOP HATING ON PEOPLE YOU DON'T KNOW

Tittie · 22/12/2020 07:08

But of course it works for Sophie, she's top of the pyramid!

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