Met one of my FLbots today for a catch up. She was full of horror stories and seemed to find talking about it therapeutic - kept returning to the subject. She said that they seduced her in with the whole 'work round your kids' idea, but it was awful! She was bombarded on FB everyday from 6am by uplines telling her what to post. She was encouraged to lie, for example to take a photo of her feet in sand and post that she was on an exotic holiday. She pointed out that she couldn't do that as everyone would know - was she supposed to hide in her house for a week? What about the school run?? They were also told to find photos on the Internet and imply that they were of them (eg, my view today), to make claims about products and pester, pester, pester. She said that the women she met were completely obsessed with the FL business and seemed to be 'brainwashed. Like they're in a cult'. She said that she can't lie to people (I know she can't, and she wouldn't want to - she is very lovely) and is now selling the odd thing at cost to friends and family. She sold over £800 of goods the first month and was paid £41, after expenses that's pretty much zero. She was told to go to a 'success day' in London and bought the ticket (£25, nothing else included, just entrance) but she bailed as she couldn't justify the expense of childcare, petrol, etc. Plus she wanted to spend time with her young children. She said she really had no market as none of her friends would spend £20 on a bottle of shampoo. She was told to replace all the products in their home with FL products and to do 1cc per month of personal purchasing - she said this would be very difficult to do as a bar of soap was 0.01cc and would last 3 weeks.
I'm so glad she saw the light so quickly, she was very hurt by her sponsor as she thought they were close but things she has done have made her realise that it's all about building her business now and not about building relationships.
All very much as we have already heard 100s of times but sad to see it close up. 