FOREVER LIVING

[graciesmammy]

Hello my daughter is 8 months and I'm due to go back to work in February a friend told me about a company called forever living. She said I'd be able to work from home and have so much family time, I'm seeing mixed opinions on this company? Is it all to good to be true? My gut feeling is yes or why wouldn't everybody be doing it. She basically told me all I would need to do is buy a box on the products for 200 pounds and recommend them to people she said I would make money each month off recommendations and didn't even have to get anyone to buy a product?? Any advice or past experiences would be great 

Dont do it

Why??

It's bullshit, avoid.

It’s an MLM -
Avoid like the plague. There are lots of threads on here about similar schemes - the vast majority of people lose money. People can basically only make money by recruiting people underneath them, which is why your friend is being so positive about it.

It’s a pyramid scheme, now rebranded as “multi level marketing”. You’ll lose you money. Check out the threads in money matters

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/legal_money_matters/3410826-Why-are-MLMs-Network-Marketing-businesses-a-scam

It is a multi level marketing company and whilst legal, it is really hard to make any money at it, so a bit of a scam really. Your friend may well have been sucked in by various promises and is now desperately trying to make it work. There is a thread on here about MLM s genes in general that will make interesting reading.
PS. Don't do it!

lots of threads about it here, hope someone can link

Don't do it, you annoy everyone around you and people will unfollow you on SM because you'll turn into a pest.

It's a con, pyramid scheme shite.

medium.com/@AestheticDistance/why-are-people-still-defending-mlms-c1d6ea878f83

Don't do it. It's bullshit. You'll lose money and irritate the hell out of everyone you know.

RUN far far away from Forever Living! You'll lose £200 and you'll drive everyone mad trying to sell their overpriced products!

What everyone else said.

I thought the Aloe peddling twats had had their day now!! .. don't do it OP

Whilst technically legal the business model is flawed; only those at the top (of the triangular-pyramid-shaped shape) make a realistic income (after expenses). They make this money from their downlines.

Your 'friend' is just using you to make commission from you signing up. Anything you sell, she gets a cut. That is how income is made in MLM.

You will also have to badger your own friends, family members and anyone you have ever known (Who Do You Know List) to sign up as your downline in order to make any income but it is much worse that that because you will find yourself saying and doing things that are not honest in order to sign people up. Rather like what your friend is currently doing to you, sadly.

These companies are very clever; they use sophisticated techniques in order to persuade people to sign up. FL says it is "cash rich debt poor" and it is. That is because all the risk and debt is on the shoulders of the downlines.

You have been warned...

What that Ferret said, I thought these guys had gone.
Adding my don't to the rest.

Thanks everyone you've saved me 200 quid and a lot of humiliation by the sounds of it 

ellebeaublog.com/poonique/

Have a read of this. It is brilliantly written by a very gifted writer so even if you end up not agreeing it will be an enjoyable way to spend an hour or two.

If you or anyone else is interested in multi level marketing bullshit schemes, watch this John Oliver episode.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=s6MwGeOm8iI

I've just had to block an old friend on Facebook who sells forever living. She hasn't contacted me for around three years and has now been bombarding me with messages about her new business. You will alienate people, lose money and waste time. Stay clear op

Aye. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

That John Oliver piece is so worth watching. 🙂

Steer clear!!

I’ve lost friends to Forever Living. They transformed overnight into bots, spouting a lot of positivity nonsense and spammed everyone they knew
If you looked at their FB it looked like they were doing really well and having fun but the reality was they were spending every waking moment prospecting people and getting knocked back, doing online ‘training’ (being brainwashed by their uplines) and taking loads of grinning selfies

Oh and they never made any money and stopped doing it after a few months to a year

Are they still 'friends'?

As a new(ish) mum, you are a prime target. Work around your baby! Do this and have the best of both worlds! It's all shit.

I almost lost a good friend to FL. She decided to try and recruit at local mum and baby groups. Not good at all. Took her two years to réalisé that she was not going to make it to the top.