To think this woman is full of BS? MLM

[goldbeyondtherainbow]

A woman I know works for a well known MLM company and posts the usual daily affirmations, super positive posts about how life is wonderful and she's doing so well.

In her post today (fishing for new recruits) she claims to earn 10k per month, or at least has on multiple occasions.

AIBU to think that's a blatant lie?

What do they actually make?

As far as I knew the vast majority of them lose money rather than make any, unless you got in early and are in the top few percent which this woman isn't.

Most lose money rather than earn it. Even if she is ‘making’ £10k, that’s likely to be turnover not profit or net profit.

She's not making £10k a month, but the system she is caught in is telling her to "fake it till you make it" and the updates she is posting have been composed on her behalf. she's compelled to either go along with the lying in the hopes of sucking in enough new suckers to sustain the cycle. The alternative would be to cut her losses and leave,

She might earn 10K a month from her actual paid job and she's twisted it? If not she's probably just lying and if she's not lying she has roped loads of poor victims into her downline.

I think 99% of these people don’t make anything and actually lose money.
They lure people in by saying they earn a lot, they don’t. People join, lose money and get trapped.
Disgusting companies.

I have a lovely friend who was suckered into an MLM years ago. Originally she had a separate FB for her ‘company’ which I never liked, so I didn’t get her ‘boss babe’ posts. It meant I didn’t have to challenge her!

However over lockdown she did more and more online training/conferences where they must have pushed the hard sell, and these leaked over to her personal FB. At first I ignored, but then she posted something inaccurate and potentially dangerous. There were a lot of comments thanking/agreeing with her so I commented with the truth. Too late I discovered that all the comments were from other ‘boss babes’ so probably wouldn’t have hurt anyone sensible.

I’ve realised that she must now be cutting me out of FB comments on the company - brilliant! Recently it’s been about how much she is earning...and of course I know it’s all lies. She obviously thinks I’d comment again

What do they actually make?

She may be one of the tiny tiny minority who do make money from it. 99% of people make nothing, or lose money from it.

She's most likely exaggerating, but don't those at the top make a profit out of those below them too. But I'd still say she's lying!!

Anyone I know who has ever been involved in any MLM venture has only ever made pocket money. It is really, really unusual for it to sustain a primary income.

Tell me if I'm crossing a line here but if I was making 10K per month then I'd keep my head down and my mouth shut! It's pretty crass, like mentioning to a friend that you like their shoes or handbags and they immediately reel off the designer or the extortionate price

of course she doesn't earn this!! Good laugh.

@BlackberrySky

Anyone I know who has ever been involved in any MLM venture has only ever made pocket money. It is really, really unusual for it to sustain a primary income.

Or lost a lot of money.

It's pretty sad actually.

if I was making 10K per month then I'd keep my head down and my mouth shut!
THAT!
You can stop her posts appearing in your feed without defriending her. I did thus with a friend who started pushing miracle cure vitamins and her posts were fullbif dodgy claims including one about these super vitamins curing Alzheimer’s, hangover, jet leg and autism! Preposterous as you only had to do a Google search to find our these claims had been disproved.
Bonus point, I also stopped being exposed to her almost daily boasts about her perfect children winning every single prize in whatever they did, collecting the highest amounts of money in their charitable endeavours and playing Rachmaninov at 5 years of age.

An MLM bot who tells blatant lies?! Hold the front page. Out of interest, which cult has your friend got sucked into OP? How long has she been making potentially false income claims?

There are some sobering statistics on how much money people make, or don’t make (as is true for 99.6% of all people involved in MLM) here:

www.talentedladiesclub.com/articles/how-deception-in-mlms-destroys-people-video/

Bonus point, I also stopped being exposed to her almost daily boasts about her perfect children winning every single prize in whatever they did, collecting the highest amounts of money in their charitable endeavours and playing Rachmaninov at 5 years of age.

Those kids must have enormous hands if they’re rattling off Rachmaninov at that age. I’m surprised she didn’t claim Juice Plus (or whatever magic beans she’s shilling) enables five year-old kids to stretch their hands further than an octave so they can easily tackle a tenth on a good day?

@Bengal12 that’s awful, why did you just not defriend? I wouldn’t want anything to do with someone like that.

I have often defriended someone based on their posts.

Hahaha! It was Juice Plus and the kids were on the junior version of it. She would post pics of their vegan breakfasts with the vits next to them with a caption ‘This mama knows what her babies need every day. Plant-based, as nature intended and organic is the only way!’
Interestingly, both her kids were conceived via IVF. Guess you need a different magic potion for that.

@Cocopogo
We were working together and I would see her daily. So would have been awkward.

I do know someone who was making a decent amount of money through one for a while. Somewhere around the £5-£8k a month mark. It didn’t last though, and obviously they are very much the exception not the rule!

A juice plus hun asked her juice plus hun friends how much they earn a month. She posted she got a 100k paycheck. Quick look on companies house shows her company is struck off as insolvent

I have a friend who does MLM

Had to unfollow the Facebook updates

Her product is amazing and the company she works for is amazing too

And she moves companies every year. She must have changed companies 4/5 times now

Each new company and each product more amazing than the last one

If you have any doubt, watch this

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p076n2hg/secrets-of-the-multilevel-millionaires-ellie-undercover

@Bengal12

Hahaha! It was Juice Plus and the kids were on the junior version of it. She would post pics of their vegan breakfasts with the vits next to them with a caption ‘This mama knows what her babies need every day. Plant-based, as nature intended and organic is the only way!’ Interestingly, both her kids were conceived via IVF. Guess you need a different magic potion for that.

Ouch. That's mean if you

@Bengal12 the IVF comments were really bitchy

@Bengal12 odd comment to make

I knew someone like that. Always posting pictures of the car showman she was looking round because her 'business' was doing so well she'd soon be driving a top of the range jaguar. She even posted pictures of her taking her DD round an exclusive private secondary school she'd soon be able to afford due to her business success. None of it ever materialised.

Basic maths will tell you that if your possible customer base are your friends and aquaintences (at most around 1000 people) of which a small percentage is actually going to buy from you regularly (say 2-5 % at most). That leaves you a maximum of 50 people buying from you, probably less frequently than every month. Let's say they each spend £20. Your maximum turn over would be £1000 a month which isn't even profit.