Are people finally realizing that MLMs are a scam?

[Anonymous]

I feel like I don't hear as much about MLMs these days. 5-10 years ago it seemed like they were much more common/spoken about -- both by the people participating in them and the detractors making fun of the "boss babes." But now I rarely hear about them from either "side." Have MLMs died down? People finally realize they're stupid?

[Anonymous]

Except for the Netflix documentaries I never heard about any of these anyway. One of the perks of not being on social media.

[Anonymous]

Bitcoin is rising again so apparently not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Except for the Netflix documentaries I never heard about any of these anyway. One of the perks of not being on social media.

I’m not on social media and still have been invited to many pampered chef, Rodan + fields and Silpada parties. (Not recently). I find it hard to believe you’ve never heard of any of them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bitcoin is rising again so apparently not.

Is that really an MLM?

[Anonymous]

Oh man, I hope not.

I'm love my Monat products. And I don't even sell. I just love their stuff

[Anonymous]

Stella & Dot “revamped their business model” and no longer follow the home based party/MLM thing.

[Anonymous]

Definitely not. But the main issue with MLMs is that you can not keeping growing exponentially. So I'd think the market for recruiting people underneath you to move you up the line is probably running dry. Now there are so many new ones, people do keep clearly signing up for terrible, stupid products. But I think less people are getting scammed into "selling" these products as a Boss Babe.

[Anonymous]

Have you been on any crunchy mom fb groups? They are absolutely still knee deep in MLM sh*t.

[Anonymous]

Anytime I see someone on my Facebook start to VagueBook about some exciting announcement or something new they are trying (but DM me for info!) I immediately mute them. I keep doing that until they stop posting about their dumb weight loss program that is essentially Slim Fast or whatever nonsense it is now.

[Anonymous]

I agree with OP that the fervor seems to have died down.

What are your dumb friends burning money on for "business ventures" these days? Crypto is mainly a male thing, while MLM mainly female, so I don't think those are are true alternatives to each other.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh man, I hope not.

I'm love my Monat products. And I don't even sell. I just love their stuff

Sure. But why don't they just do a direct sales website like all the legit businesses out there? If the products are good, and the model sustainable, they don't need all these "reps" selling crap to their friends.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have you been on any crunchy mom fb groups? They are absolutely still knee deep in MLM sh*t.

This seems the opposite of a crunchy mom

[Anonymous]

Optavia and some collagen thing seem to still be going strong based on my FB feed (and, yes, I mute as needed).

[Anonymous]

Never cane across one in real life.