Feel free to tidy up the grammar, I was on a bit of a pre bed/tired rant. Here it is....
Unfortunately
- forever living
- Arbonne
- Juice plus
- Arrix
- Amway
- Herbalife
- Scentsy
- Stella and dot etc etc etc are all pyramid selling schemes. Also known as MLMs/multi-level marketing. The sellers/distributors at the bottom actually end up likely paying in more money for training days/buying product for themselves to use than they make. Most of these drop out silently after losing money and friends/family. But not after going into debt to keep going believing that it's their fault they are not trying hard enough. As that is what they are told.
The only people making money are those many many layers higher, who happily sign up people when they are vulnerable (including disabled people on benefits or struggling to remain in a job) to push themselves further up the food chain. They are encouraged to boast about income and rent expensive houses/cars they cannot afford to show how successful they are to encourage more to join. Wording posts to make people think they are buying houses/cars rather than renting them. For example told to sell their houses and use the money left to rent an expensive house until the money is gone. To show people you are doing well to sign up more people thinking you are doing this amazingly due to the company in the hope that one day you will get there. Unless you hit your overdraft first.
It is common to target women on maternity leave saying that they can work around their family/15 hours per week, when they are expected to work all day, every evening and go away to training weekends they fund themselves (to line the up lines pockets) never actually seeing their families. Also having to pay themselves for their website/training CDs/books/branded table clothes etc. Yes the people at the top show big cheques, but they don't show that they have to work 14hrs a day 7 days a week for that conning others, which is a shit wage and not family friendly. The "free holidays" are actually working holidays, and you don't get any free time for real holidays. Also they have to pay for training weekends/their petrol/going out for meals which they won't deduct from their income to show a real low figure or realistically a net loss. You would earn more working 16 hours per week on the checkout in tesco. Working for tesco you would also have a pension/sick leave and maternity leave. The MLM companies encourage you to work right through your maternity leave/recruit in postnatal ward. That is not family friendly. Ask yourself why they do just not sell through amazon/EBAY, why the need to talk people into recruiting other sellers?
There are so many websites / videos popping up now to warn people, try to help those who feel they can't leave due to debt. They are told not to make medical claims to cover the company, but then encouraged to do so. Anyone trying to help them see the light is told they are negative and to cut them out of their lives.
For more information see the following pages
"Bot Watch" www.facebook.com/liestopper
"Timeless Vie" an MLM parody. Www.facebook.com/timelessvie
Or their blog page timelessvie.wordpress.com
Or numerous mumsnet (for example, there are lots of forums discussing) threads on the subject.
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/legal_money_matters/2569152-MLM-BOT-WATCH-7-lighthearted-chat-and-posts-by-Eyes-about-Younique-Forever-Living-Ariix-It-Works-NuSkin-Stella-and-dot-and-insert-name-of-new-MLM-from-Utah-here?
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/legal_money_matters/2565909-MLM-Bot-Watch-SIX-Juice-Forever-Living-Younique-Arbonne-newbie-ARIIX-and-our-own-Parslai-powered-Timeless-Vie
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/legal_money_matters/2562393-mlm-bot-watch-5-juice-forever-living-younique-arbonne-newbie-ariix-and-our-own-parslai-powered-timeless-vie
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/legal_money_matters/2557917-MLM-BOT-WATCH-continuing-the-talk-about-Juice-Forever-Living-YOunique-Arbonne
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/legal_money_matters/2545779-MLM-bot-watch-LIGHTHEARTED-continued-discussion-of-Juice-Forever-Living-Younique-etc-as-scams-with-laughing
More detailed Blog from someone who lost family members and is trying to gather all the evidence in one place. mlmtheamericandreammadenightmare.blogspot.fr/
Most importantly if you are currently in an MLM then please read botwatchblog.wordpress.com/2016/02/12/are-you-in-an-mlm-having-doubts/