What happened to MLM's?

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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Where have they gone, and have they been replaced by anything?

My favourite this country episode is the MLM one where Kerry does ‘eternal vitality’ 😄

Arbonne
Herbalife
Neals Yard
Scentsy
Younique
Kleeneze
Omnilife

All 'living their best life' posing with cars and becoming millionnaires. Really sad because the people who joined up, couldn't really afford the joining fee. The products were SO expensive due to the commissions going to the greedy shites at the top of the pile

My brother tried to get me to sign up for one selling shampoo. Needless to say i reused.

A friend recently tried to interest me in inteletravel (think that’s the name).

It actually made me feel really sad that a) he’d fallen for such an obvious MLM scam and b) that he thought I’d be interested.

He has no training or interest in travel beyond his own family holidays.

I did try to gently question the model but we’re not close enough for me to be completely frank with him (and I know from experience that in the first month or two people really do not like to hear anything against their amazing MLM).

Someone tried to interest me in Monet years ago. I was honest with her and told her it was an utter scam, sent articles, explained how she wouldn’t make much money and also told her how I was deeply uncomfortable with her trying to recruit her friends who were new mothers (including me). She was absolutely furious. Obviously after a few months Monat was never mentioned again. What really annoys me though is that these people never come back and say “I’m so sorry I tried to drag you in. I realise it was a scam. Sorry.”

Anyone involved in MLM stuff makes me think they’re not that bright. Anyone who tries to engage me in it makes me think that they don’t know me well and see me as a potential cash cow. I hate it.

I was thinking this recently. Juice Plus, Forever Living, Younique, Ann Summers, Valentus.. what's happened?

We had internet with them until last year and I don't remember being ripped off by them when we changed provider. UW pay more FIT per unit than any other energy provider, which is why we stayed with them.

Multi level marketing, used to be called pyramid selling

Amway! Don't hear of them anymore

The one I followed (from a wary distance) has gone down a conspiracy rabbit hole. All about the dangers of chemicals, vaccines etc. Despite having a body full of filler, boob job etc. Im sure a new mlm will present itself soon to align with her new values (or they will be forgotten for a quick buck)

A couple of women I know have set themselves up as "Digital Marketers". Except they both seem to spend most of their time trying to persuade others to also become Digital Marketers, by buying courses and "ready made content" from them. They flog packages of cheesy stock photos that you can then sell on to other people.

Oh god, I’d forgotten the “life coaching”, seemed to attract the people with the most chaotic lives who were in no way likely to give wise advice! 🤦🏻‍♀️

Mine sells candles. I follow on FB and have bought, maybe one product in the last five years which was ok but I wouldn't buy again. I keep myself in her group for amusement.

I also see the odd bookseller, and an occasional advert for an estate agent which doesn't entirely seem legit.

Ahh ‘juice plus 🍌🍊🍎🍓🍍🍒🥑🍋🍉🍅🍇🥕’ what a blast from the past

@RampantIvyUW is no longer a Which Magazine recommended provider of energy as Which now acknowledges the structure and tactics used by UW partners and the way customers are treated as problematic. Bizarrely they have yet to cross them off their broadband list of providers. Which Magazine now understands that their consumer satisfaction data is skewed when the consumers are also the sellers.

There’s a few Herbalife women near me, who all seem to be blurring their role pushing shit overpriced powder drinks with being spiritual life coaches. It’s all ‘aligning’ and ‘transcending’ and ‘grand risings everyone’. And they can’t just take 72 selfies of them walking their dog daily, it’s a ‘soul stroll’. If their mate goes with them it’s a ‘soul stroll with my soul sister’. And every day they are keen to let everyone know that they LOVE their LIFE (and adorn the status with thousands of feather and cosmic emojis). They go on a short walk up a hill and ‘didn’t just find the summit, I found myself in the process’.

Like, calm down bro. Just sell your powder drinks and go.

Thank you. I didn't realise. We still make a lot of money from them on our solar panels, so we will stick with them. It's a shame that their tactics are less than ethical.

Someone I know used to ‘work’ for Arbonne (is that the leased white merc one?). That nonsense fizzled out and she’s now all evangelical about some travel MLM, ‘elevate’ something or other. And her SM is frankly, quite scary, fanatical and mostly, sheer fantasy.

We have a neighbour who is always trying to shill the Utility Warehouse MLM cult. I steer well clear of her.

Does no one reply “I saw you in the office today Brenda”?

Yes we have Utility Warehouse where I live. It’s really irritating as the recruitment drive never wavers.

An arbonne rep once really shouted at me. I had just moved into a new house. There was a ton of junk mail behind the door so I threw it all away. A few days later a man knocked on the door and asked for my order or his magazine back. Told him sorry I hadn’t seen it as I had just moved in, maybe it got mixed up with the other junk mail. He called me a stupid woman, didn’t I know those magazines cost him money! Lovely introduction to the neighbourhood

We have Herbalife in our town, posing as a “Nutrition Clinic” preying on vulnerable people who want to lose weight and giving people bone density scans in return for buying their over priced rubbish.

There’s a Utility Warehouse top dog round my way who drives around in a UW branded Tesla. They often have a stand at the Leisure Centre where I teach on a Saturday morning - I enjoy ignoring them as they try to catch my attention on the way out.
Also lots of Nutrition branded slimming clubs which are Herbalife but that part is carefully hidden. You can always tell when people are offering “free wellness evaluations and body scans”.

It’s luxe travel.

I think a lot of them are now flogging digital stationery (and, more to the point, courses on how to create it) on Etsy, from what I’ve seen on there…

Ah, I did enjoy the #bossbabe era so much. So many supposedly intelligent women flogging crap make up. Mind that dreadful hairy mascara? It had actual fibres in it! I used to hate watch the 'how to' make up videos!
Loved Elle Beau!
Currently I have a UW rep on my friends list. I keep her for entertainment value. She won a UW Mini for all the folk she recruited, sorry 'helped'. She has a tent at all local events. I enjoy walking right past her.