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coulditbeme2323 · 2026-05-06T11:22:20+00:00

What happened to them? AIBU to miss them? The boss babe quotes, the photos of the white mercs, the CEO of my own life job titles? Where have they gone, and have they been replaced by anything?

Steeleydan · 14/05/2026 07:55

Piknik · 13/05/2026 22:56

Back in the day a mum at my DC's primary m 'launched' her Stella and Dot 'career' with lots of random whatsapp groups and #bossbabe nonsense. Two years later she moved on to Forever Living, and she is now.... wait for it.... a travel consultant. Evangelical about them all and, honestly, she could tick every box on the Bot Bingo Card.

I used to actually feel sorry for her when our DC were small at the local school fairs. We'd all be there pitching in on tea and cakes, the toy stall, face painting or whatever, and she'd be unpacking boxes and boxes of Forever Living products and arranging them with bowls of pot pourri and fairy lights, pasting on a smile and having to try and 'hard sell' to people who just wanted a crack at the tombola and a hot dog. She'd sell precisely none and then have to carefully pack it all away again. She must have spent a FORTUNE on her stock don't think for a moment she recouped even half.

I always think stuff like forever living is so over priced because there are so many people having a cut out of it, eg aloe vera is so cheap in Holland and Barrett! Forever is a fortune

YouOKHun · 15/05/2026 12:06

@Steeleydan you’re right, FLP’s products are very expensive and completely uncompetitive - it’s almost as if the product exists for a purpose other than to be sold to genuine customers isn’t it?! The people in Forever Living are generally their own best customers. Forever Living has recently found itself in the dock in the US over claims that the c.90% signed up who make no money are simply there for the discount when it’s clear they are actually trying to make a living out of the opportunity - these are the people paying the price (in more ways than one). If you were to ask Forever Living how much of their revenue comes from sales to people who are outside the pyramid they either can’t or won’t tell you (people have tried).

Of course they will say, ‘but our Aloe Vera is special’ and cite all sorts of dodgy Hun science about its properties. It’s all bollocks. Now they’ve had to shut down their MLM business in the USA because they risk a $40k fine per false claim, they’ve stepped up their recruitment everywhere else, telling all the same lies they can’t tell in the US anymore. I fear they could hook in more people but the prices may hopefully put some off.

Steeleydan · 15/05/2026 12:09

YouOKHun · 15/05/2026 12:06

@Steeleydan you’re right, FLP’s products are very expensive and completely uncompetitive - it’s almost as if the product exists for a purpose other than to be sold to genuine customers isn’t it?! The people in Forever Living are generally their own best customers. Forever Living has recently found itself in the dock in the US over claims that the c.90% signed up who make no money are simply there for the discount when it’s clear they are actually trying to make a living out of the opportunity - these are the people paying the price (in more ways than one). If you were to ask Forever Living how much of their revenue comes from sales to people who are outside the pyramid they either can’t or won’t tell you (people have tried).

Of course they will say, ‘but our Aloe Vera is special’ and cite all sorts of dodgy Hun science about its properties. It’s all bollocks. Now they’ve had to shut down their MLM business in the USA because they risk a $40k fine per false claim, they’ve stepped up their recruitment everywhere else, telling all the same lies they can’t tell in the US anymore. I fear they could hook in more people but the prices may hopefully put some off.

Juice plus has gone quite too!!!

YouOKHun · 15/05/2026 12:34

@Steeleydan JP was at death’s door last time I looked (in the UK at least). I know a big recruiter for JP, he carries out his JP activities in Europe, recruiting via fear mongering about MMR principally but also other vaccinations and evidence-based healthcare. In the UK he has an Osteopathy practice and hides his MLM recruiting and very dodgy health advice. Anyone with any sense knows those vegetable dust capsules are absolute rubbish! Hopefully JP is going tits up outside the UK too.

Frumpiness · 15/05/2026 19:44

I wish MLMs would be made illegal. There’s been a few petitions about it in the past.

WydeStrype · 16/05/2026 08:08

Piknik · 13/05/2026 22:56

Back in the day a mum at my DC's primary m 'launched' her Stella and Dot 'career' with lots of random whatsapp groups and #bossbabe nonsense. Two years later she moved on to Forever Living, and she is now.... wait for it.... a travel consultant. Evangelical about them all and, honestly, she could tick every box on the Bot Bingo Card.

I used to actually feel sorry for her when our DC were small at the local school fairs. We'd all be there pitching in on tea and cakes, the toy stall, face painting or whatever, and she'd be unpacking boxes and boxes of Forever Living products and arranging them with bowls of pot pourri and fairy lights, pasting on a smile and having to try and 'hard sell' to people who just wanted a crack at the tombola and a hot dog. She'd sell precisely none and then have to carefully pack it all away again. She must have spent a FORTUNE on her stock don't think for a moment she recouped even half.

Yes!

This is very familiar!!