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To think this woman is full of BS? MLM

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goldbeyondtherainbow · 15/05/2021 16:23

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.

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Keepyourdistance000 · 16/05/2021 21:06

Travel MLM bots are some of the worst. Someone I know is an independent travel consultant and recruits others.

Apparently business is huge and travel demand is going through the roof.

Not to mention all the ✈🏝🌏❤☀️ emojis in between 🍾 every ☀️ sentence 🙄

Keepyourdistance000 · 16/05/2021 21:09

The other FM/MLM hun I know is quite well known in the South East and keeps posting her £10,000 pay slips, her new cars, holidays booked, cosmetic treatments etc etc.

She has thousands of followers and hun friends.

Must admit I was very tempted to join her at one point.

thelongwayhome · 16/05/2021 21:19

My friend's sister is always posting in a local selling group about how she has earned her £800 bonus with some MLM, maybe FM, and she's going up another percentage (not sure what it means), but my friend has assured me she doesn't recieve any such bonuses and the commission she makes largely comes from products she buys herself, so it's just a very small cashback and not profit. She's hemorrhaging money, and is always asking to borrow money from others.

TrinidadQueen · 16/05/2021 21:59

Yes, the one I follow says that just saying yes to the opportunity will change your life for ever.
With that said, she does seem to do genuinely well from it. There are a few who do but for many, it is a non starter. It's very misleading and wrong to target vulnerable people saying how their lives will be transformed for the better through joining up. Let's face it. That is not true for most of these women who sign up to it.

Onlinedilema · 16/05/2021 22:35

Can I ask a question?
Is this what this fake perfume people are now selling is?
I keep getting messages asking me to join these sales teams. It looks like overpriced crap to me.

Smellycat56 · 16/05/2021 22:39

I actually find it really morally wrong that people go online and try to persuade others to join the same fucking car crash they've gotten themselves into by telling blatant lies!

An ex school friend of mine has recently got caught up in one and the daily affirmations and lives are total cringe. I could almost understand sacrificing your integrity, adding multiple strangers on Facebook and having the gall to message people you haven't seen in years offering to help them lose weight if it actually paid well. But it doesn't. And it really annoys me that by 'faking it til they make it' (or outright lying as I call it) they are enticing others into the same predicament.

Mind you that's how cults work I suppose.

BSintolerant · 16/05/2021 23:00

@Onlinedilema

Can I ask a question? Is this what this fake perfume people are now selling is? I keep getting messages asking me to join these sales teams. It looks like overpriced crap to me.
FM is the expensive fly spray MLM. They make ludicrous claims that the perfume is exactly the same as, say, Chanel No5 but FM puts it in cheaper bottles and packaging which is why it’s much cheaper. Yeah ... right ... and I’m the Queen of Sheba.
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