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Somehow… LuLaRoe has returned
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AI ad for nutrition shake shop= an unholy alliance
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The ol long con bait & switch
/r/recruitinghell/comments/1vo1fyg/the_ol_long_con_bait_switch/
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Join my downline! Give it a year! Or five! And when you fail, you can always find another job! This and other hun logic.
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They think we are dumb and blind
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"Health" coaching when the two photos look exactly alike
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My mom has worked for Pampered Chef for 30 years. Hoards products.
So my mom has worked with Pampered Chef for 30 or so years. She fell into the trap being a SAHM and military spouse. I just am still shocked she is apart of the company. Instead of cooking shows since Covid, she only does virtual catalog shows and "craft shows," festivals, and farmers markets. She stock piles products when she turns in shows... gets the 60% hostess discount and sells the profucts for full price at these events. Obviously she has never listened to anyone about how predatory MLM companies are, but she still boasts and calls it her home buisness. I am ranting about it today because I was looking through her pantry, and found the PF seasoning blends unopened expired 13 years. 😭 I am devastated how much time she has put into this company she could of started her own....
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How dare you be a conscientious consumer!
So, I live in Scotland. Yesterday, I visited a local small business in my city and discovered MLM products being sold there alongside original craft ones. A shame, really, because the shop owner and the original products both seemed nice but I personally can't not feel guilty contributing to a business if a part of the profits may go towards buying MLM slop the owner has fallen a victim to. So I won't be buying anything. Something to think about, you know?
That was the TLDR of my post in the local subreddit but the reaction turned out to be surprising, to say the least. Most people in the comments seem to think I have some hidden agenda and just want to bash a nice lady for no reason. Oh well, I said everything I could but I think that since the MLMs have gotten a lot less popular in Europe than they used to be in the past (I remember them being all everywhere when I was a kid), people have forgotten how predatory they can be. Which is both a good and a bad thing, because the cycle can repeat all over again.
P.S. The MLM in question was Tropic Skincare btw
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Why you need SEPARATE assets, even if married.
https://www.pinktruth.com/2026/08/11/a-familys-finances-destroyed-by-mary-kay/#comment-341133
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Earth Right mid Atlantic
Hi! I have been job searching for entry sales positions and have an interview set for tomorrow with the company above. I was wondering if this group had any experience with them and could tell me if they are legit and or if they’re an MLM type of operation before I drive there and give them my time.
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Yikes, a “stylist reunion”
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How "Her Last Call" (HLC Council) operates as a high-ticket MLM / recruitment scheme under the guise of "remote sales"
Dealing with the full gauntlet of a high-pressure sales funnel from Her Last Call (HLC Council)—from the initial recruitment setup down to the rep session—was a wild masterclass in manipulation to experience firsthand.
If you've seen their ads or pitches promising lucrative work-from-home remote closing or high-ticket sales, I want to break down exactly how calculated and slimy their playbook actually is once you get behind the curtain. And if you dig into the Reddit-verse, it completely tracks: people who actually went to school with Alexis Mai have flagged that this exact kind of scheme has been her literal MO for years, cycling through partners and programs while running the exact same playbook.
The Impersonal Start (The Name Blunder): Right out of the gate, they set the tone by completely butchering my name twice in the very beginning. It’s a tiny detail, but looking back, it shows you aren’t a person to them—you’re just a lead on a spreadsheet, a quota to hit, and a commission check waiting to happen.
The Energy Reading Miss: They tried to come in with that aggressive, over-familiar "best friend/mentor" script, totally misreading the room and my energy. When I immediately called them out on it, you could literally watch the script stutter and the facade crack.
The Self-Doubt Trap: I’ll be completely honest—every step of the way during the call, I caught myself second-guessing my own intuition. That’s the most dangerous part of these funnels. They are engineered to make you feel like you are the difficult one, like you are missing out, and like you are the problem for hesitating.
The Mask Slip: The second I stood my ground, stopped playing along with their manufactured urgency, and asked actual logical questions about their inflated costs and contradictions, the friendly facade totally evaporated. The desperation set in, and the high-pressure tactics went into overdrive to try and keep me hooked.
It takes an exhausting amount of mental energy to sit across from someone running a predatory funnel like this, especially when your gut is screaming at you the whole time that something is deeply off. But catching onto the swindle in real-time and watching their script completely fall apart is the best proof that the whole model is hollow.
If you’ve run into their aggressive funnels or similar "guru" remote sales programs, trust your gut. If they can't even get your name right or handle being called out on their manufactured energy, run the other way.
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Turmeric tea and similar health products, and why MLMs have brutally effective outreach.
One thing I really resent about MLMs is how they're so much more effective than, say, local food co-operatives in promoting unprocessed foods and similar health products.
There's growing discontent over existing health systems, partly since they operate for profit more and more now instead of as an essential public utility. Older people are especially vulnerable, where highly processed food and medication is more likely to present an adverse effect on them (as a young adult I'm concerned by the environmental impact of highly processed food, but I don't cook regularly in part from a chaotic work schedule; like many I'm also priced out of it). However, this hasn't stopped people setting up MLMs left and right, and I'm concerned that precisely an aging population with generally declining health is just all they need to be effective.
Owing to distrust with anything publicly owned (or not owned by big companies in some cases), with how many people want to be like entrepreneurs, being inspired by its clockwork nature I think also plays into this. For some, it's also not enough to just have friends involved with it but wider society too, also brutally effective towards those where individual freedoms aren't rated as high as community cohesion (parents and En*gic via a relative are a personal example).
What do you think? How and why else is this so bad, and what can be done about it? Is there some sort of "hippie" stigma to, say, local food cooperatives that don't use MLM?
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Watching my 25 year friendship go up in smoke
I am a straight shooter. I was born this way, and I'll die this way. You never have to guess where you stand with me, and I will always be honest. Authenticity is absolute if we are to be friends, because my empath skills know when you're lying.
Betty and I have been friends for 25 years. She's ten years younger, and she's like the baby sister I never had. She's been married Bob for 8 years, and I adore him.
In the span of 6 months, I'm approaching the disgusted mark with them. They've changed into two completely different people. All authenticity is gone. They've become liars about everything, especially on their social media.
Every outing with their 4 year old now becomes, "Kangan water gives me the freedom to take my kid to the park in a Tuesday afternoon, while the cheques keep rolling in"
Well let's see... you are a stay at home Mom and your husband hasn't worked for a year because he no longer wants to work on the pipeline. I don't blame him. His new job is to become a self help guru on Instagram telling you "why you're stuck in life". He goes to the gym everyday, and of course films it. He claims that going to the gym everyday makes him a worthwhile husband and father, and he has broken free of his chains. He will show his boy doing push-ups with him because this is how show your kid you are worth something. Him going to the gym everyday will instill top moral and character traits in his son. Did I mention that he goes to bed at 6:00pm every night so he can wake up at 2:45am to go to the gym? Betty is left to clean up after dinner, and take care of little one until she goes to bed at 11pm. It's as if she's single.
The cult leader they are under the spell of is so disgustingly slimy that I can't look at him. This cat lies about everything, but my friends believe it. He runs these classes on how to use your "home office" to fraudulently cheat on your income taxes. They committed a huge insurance fraud when their storage locker was broken into, claiming expensive items that never had. Betty regularly calls me up to tell me she just wrote off their 2 month vacation to Europe because she's claiming it as business. She doesn't have an office. She works from her couch.
She went in for $30k with Kangan water. After 8 months she hasn't sold one unit and hasn't signed anyone up to be a "business partner". They're claiming that their lifestyle now means they don't have to work, but there is no incoming money. She sold her condo in January of this year and came out with $200k. Their rent is $3k a month, they've already taken 3 luxury trips to sit on the beach, and now 2 months in Europe. That money will be gone by mid of next year. They don't have two sticks to rub together. They own nothing of value. Absolutely nothing.
The relentless lying social media is making me hate them. I can't stand the way they're raising their kid. They won't let him make or play with any new little friends. He just needs to be with them. Never enrolled in any fun classes like tumble time, or toddler art. She said he will have no outside influence by anyone except her and Bob. She still breast feeds at night. He cant/won't be left with anyone, even Bob, because he screams for the boob and will stay up.
I'm sorry I'm venting. I don't want to say this to anyone I know, just to keep totally confidential.
Telling me everything they are cheating on is a death sentence to our friendship. They are guilt free and giddy about it. I'm going to start pulling away now and when she asks I will tell her.
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Cancelling Melaleuca
I was a member for almost 4 years (45 months) mostly for the vitamins. Now I take them every day instead of twice a day so it's more difficult to meet the monthly orders. Plus I'm no longer happy with their lotions and found another brand I like better from Azure Standard. Plus with them there is no required monthly order and you can save by buying in bulk then skipping a few months which suits me better. You just have to deal with meeting the semi truck at a drop location.
It says I'll forefeet some loyalty dollars but at this point to be able to use them I have to buy about $150 worth of stuff or I can't even use those.
I was going to print out the cancellation form and sign then e-mail it back. Should I also pay to have it faxed and also mail it so it has 3 chances of properly getting there? It's still 20 days left in the month so one would think it should be ok. I could edit my backup order to be things I could really use just in case but I'd much rather just end it all and not have to deal with another order.
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Enagic Hun selling house, moving to barn, after saying numbers can’t stop them
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Oh hun, you haven't been served a spit free meal in many years.
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Is this insurance company an MLM?
Apologies if this isn't in the right place but I wanted a second opinion and I figured I'd ask here.
So I have been job hunting this entire summer since moving and I finally got what I thought would be a decent job. It's under the Whittingham Agency which seems to be under Globe Life. My housemates told me it was an MLM. I was looking through reddit and it seemed kind of mixed in the comments but I figured I'd get more info just in case.
Any information on the topic would be appreciated. I am desperately looking for employment but I don't want to be in a rough spot with a MLM either. So any assistance would be appreciated!
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We have Hiring” and “Firing” Cosplay now 😭
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Guys… only $9.99!!!
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level up financial group?
is this a scam or MLM? just recently got a job offer for it, but it seems kinda fishy.. tried looking it up and couldn’t find much.
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Scummy mlm pushers using their job positions to influence sales
Anyone else here dealt with a supervisor or c-suite person creating an 'in-crowd' that is just people who support their MLM? It makes me especially sick since all they're doing is preying on people who think this may affect their jobs.
Friend's boss is going around to employees after they get paid to collect for trips via World Ventures. Before anyone mentions legal recourse, trust me, I live in a country where that's unlikely to bear any results.
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Has anyone ever heard MLM people talk about New Thought?
A family member has been sucked into a couple of MLM schemes (first it was HempWorx; now it appears to be some weight-loss thing), and they've started posting a bunch of stuff about New Thought and this guy named Neville Goddard on their social media. It seems to be some sort of metaphysical, Christian, law-of-attraction thing. This family member and their spouse (who has a lucrative job) have also started putting all their money into silver. Does anyone know if there's any relationship between these things?
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Pampered Chef party offering 20-30% of proceeds to a charity, Is it a scam?
So its been advertised as an online party that you basically sign up to buy items, not really a party in the real sense. Anytime I see something like this though it makes me wonder if they are just using it as a way to boost their sales and make $? I wondered what markup the average pampered chef item is sold at.
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Is my friend being pulled into an MLM?
My friend has gotten her license, where she will be able to sell insurance I think I didn’t get too deep into it but it’s a license she been working towards
Yesterday I got a call from a number I didn’t recognize. It was apparently one of her personal trainers, saying she “needs help”. On the call, the guy said “she told me you’re very ambitious” and I said yeah, not really thinking about it in the moment. He’s inviting me to a Zoom meeting this Saturday. When I asked my friend about it, she was vague and just said “he’ll be presenting.” I’ve also apparently been added to a group chat with her and this guy.
The thing is, my friend and I talk about basically EVERYTHING no matter what and we are close, but she never mentioned any of this. Now suddenly I’m getting cold-called by a stranger and pushed toward a Zoom call I know nothing about. I do find it weird cause I was never told my number will be provided to this person and if it wasn’t for a voicemail I would have never picked up because my phone is always in DnD. But I am really confused because if you are doing training, why does it need to involve me to support you?
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What could this be?
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Homeschooling moms, leave the teachers alone.
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This money trap cost me relationships
Without getting too in depth here, something that has been grating my nerves lately is how effective my “leaders” were at convincing me that my spouse wasn’t supportive of my “business” because he just didn’t get it.
He got it - he is an intelligent person who definitely understands that when money goes out but barely trickles in, that’s not a good thing.
Thankfully my man didn’t leave me…but I lost many friendships by viewing people through the pink colored glasses that told me every living and breathing human was a potential customer or team member.
Here we are, 6 years beyond hanging it up and I’m still coming to terms with the damage done and the time and money lost.
All that to say…take it easy on people you know who are freshly caught up, but never let them believe you don’t see through the bullshit. I could’ve used a few uncomfortable conversations to wake me up sooner!
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How to get someone out of a MLM?
I'm currently staying at a mental hospital. For the past two days I have been spending time with a woman, another patient, here. Yesterday I didn't know much about her, but after I had spent some time with her, a nurse came to my room and told me that if it gets to be too much with her they will do something about it. I didn't understand what they were talking about. Today I learnt she is a part of a MLM and she tried (and is probably still trying) to get me to join as well. Specifically forever living products.
She first wouldn't speak about her job. She said she really wants to help people but that currently she doesn't have the strength to do that, because she needs to take care of herself first. Despite bringing up negative things all the time, she also constantly reminds herself and I that we need to focus on the positive things. We went on a walk and I shared about my life and I guess that made her comfortable to share about hers as well. She started telling me things about the company she works with. How it was started and how their mission is to help people and how it is a family business. How she found great help from their aloe vera products for her skin and gut health. She gave me a business card and asked me what I need help with. She said people often get discouraged from working with them when she tells them about her long journey with the company, because they think they're unable to learn all she knows. At this point I didn't even understand it's a MLM. I don't know much about the topic and this is the first time I've got into direct contact with one. I asked her how she got into working with them. Did she contact them after finding help from their products or did they contact her? She explained that a friend of her mother's introduced the company to her. At this point I started to finally figure it out. She went on to explain how I can join to get my ID number and get 5% off and the more that I spent or something the more percentages I get off. I was not interested in their products or joining.
As we were headed back inside, she started saying something that I can't get out of my head. She started to tell me the main reason she is in the mental hospital, but then went quiet and backed away just like she had done previously when she was about to talk about her job. This and the weird thing the nurse said yesterday made me think this is causing her some distress. And obviously these things could be completely unrelated but I can't help but wonder if being a part of that MLM is actually what lead to some problems in her life. She has worked with them for 15 years. She uses their pricey products every day. It's her only job, so I don't understand how she can afford it. She only speaks about forever with people in real life so it's not like she reaches massive amounts of people online.
Is there something I can do to help her? Or does she need help? I don't know.
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