MLM complaint thread

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TheLittleLady said:
Those Herbalife fake “Smoothie Shops” are popping up all over me.

We have a local restaurant reviews facebook group where chains & franchises are not allowed, it is for locally owned and operated food only, they try to infiltrate our group. I always post who they are, what they are really shilling and it is amazing how they deny it!
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It seems like if they don’t do it, somebody will.
 
r/antiMLM is one of my favorite subreddits. While a lot of it is sad, some of women just go so over the top to the point of making the comments in that subreddit, which are meant to be parodies, seem normal.

John Oliver also has a pretty good episode on the topic if you want someone to voice your frustration for you.

Oddly, despite the stereotype of it all being middle-aged, middle-class women, the only people I know personally who have been sucked into them were men who were disgruntled with society and thinking it was a better, cheaper way of getting wealthy.
 
What does MLM stand for? I take it we are talking about all of those sell-to-your-friends-and-even-recruit-them-to-be-salespeople pyramid schemes.

I have many friends who have dabbled in that via Facebook. I can only think of one who actually made (really good) money from it. She was always a natural salesperson.
 
Joe_5859 said:
What does MLM stand for? I take it we are talking about all of those sell-to-your-friends-and-even-recruit-them-to-be-salespeople pyramid schemes.
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Multi-level Marketing. I guess I have some friends that aren’t in full blown MLMs because they have no uplines or down lines. Direct sales companies exploit the friends just as much but are less terrible for the consultant/ambassador/rep/whatever
 
I remember one person mentioned that us normal people are always involved in MLM almost everyday. He’s example: If you buy a meal at a franchised fast food, the proprietor of the products earn a portion from your purchase even he didn’t sell directly to you. Means we are involved only that we are the buyer. Same concept of some MLM product when someone from your downline, you earn a portion and you are the boss.
 
Perhaps, but franchised food places at least wait for me to come to them. They don’t infiltrate my friend groups or bother me at work.
 
A franchise actually gives the franchisees things like uniforms, recipes, advertising. A person’s up line in a pyramid scheme does nothing for their money
 
Joe_5859 said:
What does MLM stand for? I take it we are talking about all of those sell-to-your-friends-and-even-recruit-them-to-be-salespeople pyramid schemes.
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MLM stands for multi-level marketing, and yes, it is a pyramid scheme. The Office has a really good scene about it:

aaront said:
I remember one person mentioned that us normal people are always involved in MLM almost everyday.
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The comparisons are so rudimentary that you might as well just call MLMs a pyramid scheme due to the similarities, but of course then they’d get in trouble.
 
I didn’t know that was possible.

R u sure that it’s actually amazon, or a third party vendor? I know they have those on amazon. I sometimes shop for Italian food products , it’s always a different vendor who sells thru amazon.
 
Mebbe.
I’m not entirely sure how Amazon works.
I just know I get the stuff I ordered.
 
Probably 3rd party. People trying to unload stuff they have to recoup a loss or get an edge on the competition.
 
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So there might be a Mary Kay lady earning her pink Cadillac thru Amazon!

I’ve never tried their products, but I’ve been to a party.
 
I’m not familiar with the Mary Kay rules, but its usually against the rules of the MLM companies they work for to sell on Amazon/Ebay etc. It still happens, but it’s often ex consultants trying to get rid of what they have.
 
aaront said:
Same concept of some MLM product when someone from your downline, you earn a portion and you are the boss.
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Um, no. McDonald’s does not recruit friends and family to come eat a burger, then suggest you sell burgers while you buy a required number of burgers per month.
 
Not only that, there are limits to how many McDonald’s there are in your town or area.

People will MLM schemes try recruit everyone they see. There are no limits on how many recruits someone can have.

They claim that there is no such thing as market saturation.
 
I can honestly say I made money through Herbalife, but it had nothing to do with sales, or direct participation in their questionable business model. When I worked in construction, I was involved in two large projects here in L.A. building offices for the Herbalife upper echelon.
 
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