Bodyshop at home using the pandemic to sell...?! Surely this is wrong!

[padebure]

Does anyone else have tonnes of people on their social media that have suddenly become part of the Body Shop at Home scheme?

Seems like loads of people on mine are doing it recently...

The latest thing I’ve seen is selling products to “donate” to the NHS.

One particular person is selling face masks and has said she will pass these to the nurses / Drs at her local hospital working on the Covid wards.
She’s done a big write up about PPE damaging the skin of staff and how the face masks will help massively.

She’s asking people to “donate”...

It’s not really donating though is it? People are buying her product and she’s then giving it away.

Surely she’s doing to make commission on this, hit sales targets? She’s always posting about free products she’s received from her sales, which I assume she will get as a result of these sales.

There are four separate people on my social media doing this at the minute.
All using the NHS as a way to sell.

One particular girl is selling her a product for £4 and has said she has sold over 200 now.
I’ve seen her post in a local mum group and others are commenting saying they’d love to donate and help our NHS.

I’m all for charity and of course our wonderful NHS workers deserve this lovely treat, but that’s not what this is about.

Does anyone else think it’s all a bit misleading?

Crappy pyramid schemes are rife atm, thats why fb has a block option....

They are doing nothing good. People are buying a product - the sellers don't care where the product goes, they just want their commission.

If people want to do a good thing they'd be much better off donating their £5 or whatever to the NHS.

It's straight-forward capitalism preying on a terrible situation with a particularly distasteful side-helping of virtue-signalling.

@popsydoodle4444

Can I stop you there.

I'm an Area Manager for the TBSAH;last year my customers donated the cost of handcreams so I could buy a batch of them;Other than taking out the delivery fee I used the rest of my commission and hostess rewards towards more handcreams.

Stop bad mouthing someone trying to do something good.

What's the point? Unless you're trying to gain Kudos online why not just cut out the faff with the hand cream, ask your customers to donate a pound or whatever and give your hostess fees to one of the hundreds of NHS charities instead?

I'm not sure hospitals want big boxes of cosmetic hand cream being delivered to them?

The "donate the cost of a face mask for the NHS" is deliberately misleading when the face mask is actually just a crappy sachet of face cream, rather than you know, an actual face mask .

I’ve noticed quite a few newly recruited “ambassadors” for different MLMs (Ann summers, body shop, Avon etc) pop up on my FB feed. I’ve gone onto all their profiles and it makes me so angry seeing all the posts about their new “business” because they are all without fail, either unemployed, or very low income, single mothers and also not very bright women and have clearly not been head hunted for their marketing skills. They’ve been targeted specifically because they don’t know enough to question any of what they’re being fed and because they are struggling for money.

One on our local site did a raffle which raised 300 then claimed to have spent 300 on the prize but it was cleverly worded. It was maybe 300 'worth ' of products but actually coat the host about 100 so she gained 200 but had worded thos cleverly. Just be upfront!

Even if these people do donate the profits (no evidence) it will still count towards their sales figures and help them reach thresholds etc
Very dodgy and preying on people who want to help
There are so many of them I imagine the directive has come from high up

And this is why we stay clear of MLMs.

Local coronavirus support and info pages on FB full of them

Tenuous links to Covid and the NHS and lots of free advertising

Some cosmetic companies did send product to NHS. I know L'Occitane sent loads of hand creams to hospitals at the very start of lockdown 1. The Body Shop selling masks seems a bit different as so many people will not understand this is not for face coverings.
I don't have any BSAH people on my friends list but I do have a Tropic one. She did a similar lot of posts in lockdown 1 complete with posts and pics of her delivering to a local hospital and tagged lots of nurses who then obviously felt obliged to come onto FB and say thank you.
I did figure they probably have other shit to do at the time! MLM takes a very particular skill set to b e in any way successful. I couldn't do it, although I have been in the beauty industry for approx 150 years .

I have a grand total of 1 mlm seller on my facebook and she is 4000km away😂 I am safe.

I have, howere, become aware of it last lockdown because local uni was "working with BSAH ambassador"😑

Sorry but an MLM seller rocking up to a hospital with a box of Tropic lotions and hanging about taking photos of herself is so unnecessary and likely very unhelpful. I'm embarrassed for her.

I had a very vocal one on my Facebook page in the March lockdown.

Presumably it didn't work out as they've now gone silent on the matter

There are 7 bsah in my small village. I don't know how they make money?

One women on my Facebook really pissed me off. The day lockdown was announced she was posting how she could help people make money and to sign up for her team and she knew what a worrying time it was and that people could make a fortune.
She also did the donate hand cream and face masks to the nhs. Before Christmas she was asking people to donate a pamper package for parents with babies in NICU and how important it is and how much the mothers would love it. People bought the pamper kits for £5, £10 or £15 each and called her an angel for doing it. The next week she was posting her position on the leaderboard and how well she was doing for sales and all of the free gifts she got as a result.
I don’t mind the people that post the catalogue and say to let people know if they want products. When it is manipulating people to buy products to be donated, or the endless raffles, or actually outright lying about how much money they make then I have an issue.

I have tons of body shop reps on my Facebook last time one did collect a lot of handcreams for the hospital they sent them in with a staff member she did also donate her free handcreams that she received however she is a pastors wife and I've no doubt to her honesty the others im not so sure I'm not buying it I really can't afford to support everyone's businesses im on carers allowance ffs

A woman posted this on my local fb board, she got torn to shreds (rightly so!)