Responding to an MLM solicitation

[Anonymous]

I don't think you have to be an a**hole about it to your friend.

How about: "It's great hearing from you! Now's not a great time for me to be buying XYZ product. I'll get in touch if that changes. Good luck!"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why don’t you just support her and buy a product every now and then? Help other women out instead of bashing them?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:“I don’t buy products sold by friends”

Don’t be afraid to be direct or blunt. Mlm people prey on people, especially women, being too nice to say no.

I always say "I don't buy from any of those things."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just a bunch of haters on this site. I sell the beach body items and everyone ASKS me for them, I don’t have to solicit. I’m my own boss, make mid six figures and am happier than ever thanks to supportive and loyal friends and family

I call BS, but here are a couple serious questions: When did you start doing this? How big is your down line? Am I correct in understanding that you net $500k+ per year from selling Beach Body?

She is trolling.

Or at the very top of the pyramid

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Wow, its so great to hear from you, Jen! You wouldn't believe how many of our old high school cheerleader friends have reached out to me recently, and they all just wanted to sell me stuff! Its so nice to hear from someone who isn't a user and who genuinely wants to catch up."

Hahahahaha

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't think you have to be an a**hole about it to your friend.

How about: "It's great hearing from you! Now's not a great time for me to be buying XYZ product. I'll get in touch if that changes. Good luck!"

You are opening the door to being hard sold every few weeks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think you have to be an a**hole about it to your friend.

How about: "It's great hearing from you! Now's not a great time for me to be buying XYZ product. I'll get in touch if that changes. Good luck!"

You are opening the door to being hard sold every few weeks.

Truth! Had a college friend who is now doing Beach Body on the side. I told her it wasn't a good time but sure enough, every month or so when a new accountability group opened I was getting multiple messages to jump on board for this wonderful opportunity. I would ignore the messages but they kept coming. You have to be pretty blunt which is unfortunate. It's even more unfortunate that "friends" will pressure others to that degree.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why don’t you just support her and buy a product every now and then? Help other women out instead of bashing them?

+10000

DCUM women hate on other women.

Stop. MLM are scams. I was a SAHM for 15 years and was invited to just about every single MLM party/talk/wine tasting/girls night out/product demo you can name. Eventually, I just flagged these as junk. One was from a closer friend who apparently took this so personally that she hasn't spoken to me in years. Oh well.

I'm now back in a FT job. The only other women whose help I "needed" were members of the interview panel and my eventual bosses; all, in fact, female.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just a bunch of haters on this site. I sell the beach body items and everyone ASKS me for them, I don’t have to solicit. I’m my own boss, make mid six figures and am happier than ever thanks to supportive and loyal friends and family

+10000

They are jealous

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just a bunch of haters on this site. I sell the beach body items and everyone ASKS me for them, I don’t have to solicit. I’m my own boss, make mid six figures and am happier than ever thanks to supportive and loyal friends and family

+10000

They are jealous

This is something I see frequently on FB posts by people defending MLMs. Your friends and family are not refusing to buy products you because they are jealous of your success. But, it's a convenient out for the seller to believe, rather than acknowledge the truth about the pyramid scheme.

Also, I note that no one who defends these companies is ever willing to share their paycheck, or even just state their take-home income from MLM, including the people who claim to be doing very well. This is a huge red flag.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just a bunch of haters on this site. I sell the beach body items and everyone ASKS me for them, I don’t have to solicit. I’m my own boss, make mid six figures and am happier than ever thanks to supportive and loyal friends and family

+10000

They are jealous

This is something I see frequently on FB posts by people defending MLMs. Your friends and family are not refusing to buy products you because they are jealous of your success. But, it's a convenient out for the seller to believe, rather than acknowledge the truth about the pyramid scheme.

Also, I note that no one who defends these companies is ever willing to share their paycheck, or even just state their take-home income from MLM, including the people who claim to be doing very well. This is a huge red flag.

The previous person might have sold over 6 figures but once she has subtracted what she paid to distribute the product, there is no way to net 6 figures in a mlm.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"I'm not interested"

Or

"I'm not interested in MLM's"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just a bunch of haters on this site. I sell the beach body items and everyone ASKS me for them, I don’t have to solicit. I’m my own boss, make mid six figures and am happier than ever thanks to supportive and loyal friends and family

+10000

They are jealous

Keep telling yourself that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just a bunch of haters on this site. I sell the beach body items and everyone ASKS me for them, I don’t have to solicit. I’m my own boss, make mid six figures and am happier than ever thanks to supportive and loyal friends and family

+10000

They are jealous

Keep telling yourself that.

Right?! I go between being embarrassed for the women who fall for these scams and being appalled how willing they are to embroil their friends and family in pyramid schemes and tacky behavior.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just a bunch of haters on this site. I sell the beach body items and everyone ASKS me for them, I don’t have to solicit. I’m my own boss, make mid six figures and am happier than ever thanks to supportive and loyal friends and family

+10000

They are jealous

This is something I see frequently on FB posts by people defending MLMs. Your friends and family are not refusing to buy products you because they are jealous of your success. But, it's a convenient out for the seller to believe, rather than acknowledge the truth about the pyramid scheme.

Also, I note that no one who defends these companies is ever willing to share their paycheck, or even just state their take-home income from MLM, including the people who claim to be doing very well. This is a huge red flag.

The previous person might have sold over 6 figures but once she has subtracted what she paid to distribute the product, there is no way to net 6 figures in a mlm.

PP here. This is my guess, too. An acquaintance of mine is very high up in a MLM (she's stopped trying to recruit me, thankfully). She has a huge downline because she got in early. She's mentioned that she has close to 10,000 people working under her, which I could believe because she has a huge network of friends and co-workers. She'll post on FB about how her team sold $1M in products in a particular quarter. That sounds impressive until you do the math. Even with the big downline, though, she's still working at another f/t job and I happen to know she's leveraged to the hilt and living way beyond her means. I would be surprised if she's making $3k/month after expenses.