To not support a friends MLM page?

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Hey folks,

A friend of mines has recently started selling candles and wax melts etc for a well known UK based MLM company.

I know many women who are part of this sort of thing. I am regularly hounded by an acquaintance who sells massively overpriced aloe products on behalf of a well known MLM company and I have another friend who has recently started selling replica perfumes for a different MLM company.

AIBU to not support this new venture? I don't agree with MLM companies and IMO they are taking advantage of people.

YANBU
I am currently at work and a colleague has been trying to sell me some wax melts that her daughter sells.
She is incredulous at the idea that I don’t have any at all, never have and can’t imagine ever owning any wax related items

The only thing MLM scams are good for is making everyone avoid you

Oh god, not Scentsy?

Partylite??? My sister was caught up with them because the benefits people basically said they wouldn't hound her if she was doing a certain amount of work and parties for them!!!

She left after a close friend stole all her contacts and she ended up with no work and her benefit person changed and the new one said she didn't have to do that to survive.

YANBU

No. You are eminently sensible.

I have a friend with a local shop. I was helping out one day when another friend came in carrying a little bottle of something. She kept angling the lable towards us. When she left I said she had to be kidding and that we had done well not to mention it. Friend asked what I meant so I explained it was an Aloe Vera bottle and we were being sounded out.

Friend told me I was being mean so I asked if she thought the bottle was just being taken for a walk. She remembered that the next week, when I wasn't there, when a similar product was introduced to the neighbours 😊

YANBU - MLMs are terrifying, cult-like things and I'm appalled at how many people get involved with them

Thanks for the replies ladies.

The company is called Darcys Candles.

The companies another 2 girls I know are involved with are Forever Living and FM World. The girl who does Forever Living is really pushy and keeps messaging me. I enquired about a hand gel back when it was hard to get hand sanitizer and she ended up trying to sell me a starter pack that costs £199.75.

Forever Living are bloody sharks. Very scary!

I was genuinely interested in some of their products (Forever Living) but I can't bring myself to purchase anything from a MLM company.

It's almost as if we don't have places where you can buy stuff. Oh, I don't know, you could call them 'shops' or something.

Just decline - and be there for them when it falls apart.

If a friend starts anything like this I try and gently tell them what a scam it is. I have seen people lose thousands from these things first hand, and unfortunately the really gullible fall for the "you can make hundreds a week for 2 hours work" and "look at me in the garden working" etc etc etc. They do prey on the vulnerable as they swallow everything they are told and part with more and more money in order to rise through the ranks.

I don't respond to any messages from anyone trying to sell or recruit, and I can follow their page, but snooze it and not get notifications etc, so they don't know that I am not actually seeing anything.

YANBU. I have a friend who does Tropic and expects us all to fork out what I would deem to be unreasonable for skincare. It's genuinely way out of my budget to spend the guts of £70 or more a month on my cleansing, toning and moisturising routine.

Just say you're not interested.

Just say no. If pestered, say you don't support scammy MLMs. If she starts the patter, tell her it is bullshit and walk off.

Don't support stupidity.

I had to tell a very dear friend that I would not be buying anything from her “party”. The item for sale was a very overpriced micro fibre cleaning cloth. She wanted me to invite friends from my contact list and I declined to do that too.

@ElderMillennial

Just say you're not interested.

Have you ever had a close friend or family member get sucked in? The emotional blackmail is REALLY strong.

You have to be a hard hearted bitch/me to stand firm against it 😊

Sometimes if I like the person I'll accept the invite to the page but unfollow it so I never see the posts.

OP hasn't said that she is struggling to stand up to the "emotional blackmail" @CuriousaboutSamphire Shes asking whther she's unreasonable to not support. My answer is no and it's fine to just say she's not interested.

I have friends doing Essens (is that right? I don’t know, knock off perfume). Younique, Tropic, body shop and Scentsy. I ignore all of them. I don’t have to like their pages or buy anything.

@ElderMillennial

OP hasn't said that she is struggling to stand up to the "emotional blackmail" *@CuriousaboutSamphire* Shes asking whther she's unreasonable to not support. My answer is no and it's fine to just say she's not interested.

I was responding directly to you, not the OP.

And to think, I wasted a self deprecating comment and a perfectly good smiley face!

Sorry @CuriousaboutSamphire if I missed the tone

Grin

S'OK. It happens, lots !

😮 the 😀 didn't work!!!

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Bloody hell! How long has my phone done that in the app?!

Tbf I haven't had anyone very close to me get involved with an MLM but of course I have friends of friends, colleagues etc who have...