LuLaRich - Amazon docu series about LuLaRoe

[Anonymous]

Oh man. Not that I’m some kind of style icon, but I always thought those leggings and dresses were so frumpy and unflattering. It’s just crazy that they became such a thing.

I have several stay at home mom friends who shilled a number of MLMs, including this one. I always politely refuse to participate and have held my tongue, but man, a few of them were just so f-ing rude when trying to recruit. One messaged me within 3-4 weeks after having my first baby to try and sell me Beachbody - “don’t you want to lose the baby weight and feel like yourself again?” It took all my willpower not to respond with a personal comment and just nicely decline (I still like her as a person and it was just beneath me to make comments like that).

It is… something else, watching them flee various MLMs like rats from a sinking ship and move on to the next one. Because this one is different and special, don’t you know! And these girlbosses really believe in the product, and don’t you want to work from home and support other women?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It preys on less educated SAHMs. DC is full of educated women with jobs.

Not the ones I knew....educated, all of them.

My family member who fell prey to an MLM (not this one but another well known one) has a masters degree and is married to an attorney…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why don’t they make solid colored leggings and more black ones since they have broad appeal? Is this so that they can sell large bulk amounts to reps who will keep buying until they have things that are actually sellable?

The customers wanted the wild prints. Did you miss the part where they explained that they only made small numbers of items in the patterns. That exclusivity or rareness triggers some crazy animal instincts in the brain and women would go nuts trying to find some of the patterns. I need to search here but I swear there were people posting here on dcum lookiing for specific patterns.

[Anonymous]

The random assortment of patterns is how - for awhile, at least - they didn't have to worry about oversaturation. So what if there are already 3 people on your block selling Lularoe? Nobody had the same stuff.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is… something else, watching them flee various MLMs like rats from a sinking ship and move on to the next one. Because this one is different and special, don’t you know! And these girlbosses really believe in the product, and don’t you want to work from home and support other women?

I wonder if that couple featured in the doc (the ones who were fired from LLR) moved on to another MLM. They were a high earning couple (at least in the beginning) and that company consumed so much of their life together. Where do you go from there?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is… something else, watching them flee various MLMs like rats from a sinking ship and move on to the next one. Because this one is different and special, don’t you know! And these girlbosses really believe in the product, and don’t you want to work from home and support other women?

I wonder if that couple featured in the doc (the ones who were fired from LLR) moved on to another MLM. They were a high earning couple (at least in the beginning) and that company consumed so much of their life together. Where do you go from there?

Paul and Tiffany already had a following from a coupon/deal website/blog and an appearance on the Extreme Couponing show. It looks like now they have an online “boutique,” but I can’t tell if it’s another clothing MLM or not. A lot of the people who left LLR started selling basically marked-up Amazon and Wish clothes after LLR but that is a tough market too and got saturated quickly.

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Anonymous wrote:Is there anyone here that bought their leggings? I prefer solid colored leggings but it was a thing that LLR had "buttery" leggings that apparently felt amazing. I have always wondered if there was any truth to that.

Yes, years ago. The first pair I bought I still wear (at home, for sleep, never out) and they are great. Second pair was so small I could barely wear them. I also have a shirt from that time period I still love. Here is was teachers that got hooked into selling (and no, it didn't work out for any of them, they were part of the ones that wanted to stop/couldn't sell the ugly inventory they were getting and couldn't return). The prices were outrageous though. Haven't bought since and the few people I knew that sold tanked within 6 months. But you couldn't talk them out of it as much as we tried (daughters of friends). Live and learn.

Watched the documentary today: made me sick.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why aren't the college and universities where these women paid tuition and took out student loans also considered MLM? That's the ultimate marketing scam and pyramid scheme. LLR was successful because these college educated SAHM moms didn't have careers but had a lot of college debt. I hear stories like this all the time, where a college grad in debt will go further in debt to pay off the student loan debt.

LuLaRoe's whole initial shtick was that it allowed women to keep their SAHM title but still earn income. For certain types of religious women, particularly LDS women, this is a golden unicorn. Most of the women profiled COULD have gotten real jobs because they had the education to do so, but they wanted the SAHM lifestyle. This is one thing that makes LLR a little different than some of the other MLMs; when starting off they specifically went after educated white women who weren't financially desperate.

I agree that regulations re: federal student loans need to be tightened considerably. Specifically, universities that have poor graduation rates and offer low ROI should be banned from receiving them, as should any for profit university. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but the students' tuition and graduation at these places isn't dependent upon recruiting other students, which is why they aren't considered MLMs. Not to say they aren't shitty, but it's a different business model from what I understand.

The first time I heard about it was from a neighbor that dressed very conversatively (no pants) and it was touted as conservative, modest clothing for modest women. I am shocked this was never mentioned in the documentary.

[Anonymous]

The other scam part of this from the 2 people I knew pulled into it (and watched from beginning to end, a mere 6 months) was that the original inventory was very cute. They sold a lot. Then bought more inventory and it became uglier and uglier. They were stuck with unsellable ugly stock and just told "you just have to buy more" so that part is SO very true. Buy more, hoping to get cute stuff, get stuck with ugly unsellable stuff that you then can't return. They sold it all for $1 and donated to charity to be done with it at the end.

[Anonymous]

Yes the legging were super soft but the prints were so tacky and strange that no way could I ever consider wearing them in public. Never bought a pair btw

As a PP mentioned the clothing is styled for obese women. Large goat tent tops, formless swing dresses, and so on. I am sure it was definitely comfortable for obese women compared to jeans and shirts. And tbh I never saw any IRL who was an average or smaller size

[Anonymous]

The company’s incomes disclosure statements regarding how much consultants make - https://www.lularoe.com/lularoe-income-disclosure-statement

[Anonymous]

Ok but what is “ugly” in the context of being unsaleable even, because about 99% of what I saw on screen was absolutely hideous. And the mixing of prints between top and bottom was atrocious. I’m a big fan of neutrals and boring, classic style, so this was essentially a visual assault on my eyeballs

[Anonymous]

I ended up buying quite a few things from LLR because a friend of mine sold it and she would get a big bunch of people on a Facebook live and we’d just chat and have fun and yes, get a little too enthusiastic about stupid patterns we were hunting for. I have a young daughter and she loved the leggings - they were super soft. I got a set so she and I could match for Christmas, that kind of thing. And they had some truly comfortable and flattering solid colored v neck t shirts. I stopped buying the stuff after a while because the quality got worse and worse and the stuff got SO ugly. I wish the documentary would have talked more about that. Like they even made Christmas leggings with pictures of Patrick’s (the designer) face on them. Stuff nobody would ever want. The sizing was also ridiculous. I was able to wear a small black t shirt but I tried a dress once and needed a 3X! It was just total nonsense that resulted in people wasted a lot of money.

[Anonymous]

Are people still seeing friends sell this stuff?

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Anonymous wrote:I could have watched an episode of just the dude who worked for them for 14 months and wanted to watch the IRS takedown from a nearby patio sipping vodka and cran. 😄

Yes! Love him! Unintentionally hilarious!

And he quoted a Star Trek commander! And he’ll NEVER listen to Kelly Clarkson again. Ever.