Thanks for that. I found this hilarious comment almost immediately. This person nailed the style perfectly.

Audibly lol'ed at the first reply. "purchase one cancer patient please"

This made me lol

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This is amazing.

My homegirl called me and asked me could I give her $350 to help with her rent!! I told her ok and that I would call her right back!! I called her sister and told her that she asked me for $350 for her rent!! Her sister said, "Don’t give it to her she’s a Lie, she’s trying to use that $350 to get her Babydaddy out of jail because she been crying about how she wanna be under the same roof with him!!" I called my Homie and said I needed $350 in counterfeit money!! After I got the money, I called her and told her to meet me to get it!! A couple hours later I got a call from the County and it was her!! She gone ask me why did I give her counterfeit money!! I told her, "I heard you was crying about how you wanted to be under the same roof as your Babydaddy so there you go!!" ������������������������������ #DontPlayMe #PlayTheLottery
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Hahaha I laughed

I didn't realize that asking for bail was so different than asking for rent.

Essential oils, which are liquids containing oils extracted from plants. Their only real value is that some people like the smell but I've seen them recommended as pain relief for cancer, alternatives to vaccines and so on. It's a dark pseudoscientific world out there in MLM land. I suppose I shouldn't really be surprised that people that buy into MLMs also reject modern medicine.

Decent example here suggesting that people use this snake oil to detoxify from vaccines. Note that she recommends delaying the date at which some vaccines are given, which had obvious negative health implications. The fact that the person that runs the site tries to recruit people under her is of course purely coincidental. I'm surprised that she can get away with this as I was under the impression that the regulators had told Doterra to make sure that their distributors did not claim that their products had any health benefits.

It is amazing how proud these women are who are engulfed in whatever MLM they are in. I have two who piggyback off of each other selling $5 pieces of crap jewelry online. With the time and energy they spend on their "business", they could make a lot more just working a real 2nd job.

These people are dumb but I do understand the mechanism by which they get stuck in it. Part of it is sunk cost fallacy, since they're often forced to buy tons of product and then have to unload it, and they don't want to bail out until they at least break even, which they never seem to do.

There's also an element of pride--they're all supposed to constantly post on social media crowing about the joys of being their own boss and making a zillion dollars, partly to push their product, but mainly to try to draw in the next level of the pyramid. But once you've done this for a while it becomes extra embarrassing to say to tell your friends "uh yeah I ditched my supposed 6-figure income selling yoga pants to work part-time at Target" because then they know you're full of ****. So they stick with it way longer than they should to save face, and see if maybe they can somehow fulfill their own bull**** claims (which they can't).

Apparently, the average buyin for LuLaRoe is upwards of $5,000 so it's easy to see how it can spiral out of control. You get a load of crap you can't sell so you buy different products to try to recoup your losses and before you know it you're over $10,000 in the hole. The people that get taken in by these companies tend not to be financially literate, which is why they aren't running a real business, so they stick with it way past the point where they should bail.

Someone posted a link to a blog an MLM woman wrote about her participation earlier (ITT I think). It was a very good read and probably described the universal experience.

lmao you have to buy in for $5-10k in merch to SELL these sheit products? holy **** no wonder the couple founding members on the top of the pyramid actually make millions.

It is pretty genius marketing by the companies. They get people to pay them to market their product for them.

MLMs come in a few different flavors, from least to most scammy:

a) MLMs where there's no lock-in and money is mostly made by selling products to customers. These are the only MLMs which are legit businesses. Generally what you want for these is products which are overpriced (because you need big margins for the business model) but are actually good products that you can show to people and get them excited about. Successful examples include Tupperware and Thermomix.

b) MLMs where there's an immediate buyin, most of the money in the system comes from that, and you recruit new suckers to make money. One example is ACN, where you have to pay $500 to be a rep. While these are outright scams (really just classic pyramid schemes), they're not so dangerous because you just stand to lose your initial $500.

c) MLMs which force reps by some mechanism or other to buy product, where product sales to representatives - rather than consumers - are the main source of revenue. Typically there are volume quotas and you don't get any payouts if you don't hit the quota. People both buy and stockpile product themselves, convinced they will eventually sell it, and convince their downline to do the same. These are the really dangerous MLMs because the commitment is ongoing and your entire upline will put huge pressure on you to continue to stockpile product. One prominent example is Herbalife. Hey, let's check with Herbalife how much product is sold to consumers outside the company, rather than to reps!

Brutal.

Which one of your idiot facebook friends posted this moronic status?

Essential oils also cure fatal nut allergies!



Think I need to back off from this rabbit hole now.

lol, thats a pretty good one

Probably https://ellebeaublog.com

wow

avon is a pretty good MLM out there. If you make the top level, you make 50% commission on just the stuff you sell.

was just thinking this today too with the nonstop **** people post about them. congratulating an underling who got "promoted" and got a free $100.

the most annoying part, to me, is that they "own their own business". like come on. a paper boy isnt an entrepreneur either

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