Annoying message on Facebook from SIL
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Anonymous
Why the Eff does this bother you so much? Seriously, how is this hurting you? Geez, you either buy a dang spatula or not but it’s not like she selling babies on the Internet it’s freaking kitchen stuff it affects you not a bit. 
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Anonymous
geez..why does this bother you so much. it bothers the op because now she has to say no or buy some crap she doesnt need. |
Anonymous
They are doing Facebook parties where they send you a hundred posts about the products. |
Anonymous
One thing will lead to another so I don’t see what’s wrong with saying NO. It’s a complete sentence. |
Anonymous
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Ugh, MLMs are the worst. The manipulative twaddle of "because we're family" is all out of the playbook they give them upon signup. You can find copies of them online.
When you try to say no thanks or to give them factual information about the garbage business model that is MLM, you get the same answers: well, MINE is different and special, I'm just doing it for the discount and/or my vision board says I'm going to be able to retire my husband by selling pizza stones that cost 3x of comparable products from businesses that DON'T screw women and their downlines because you will feel obligated and sorry for me. Hard pass. |
Anonymous
Because it's an MLM. By definition, the "business model" is trash. Information is freely available online if you want to educate yourself. In short, they target poor women and women who desperately want to not work outside the home and spend more time with their kids. These are people who don't know the first thing about business, and will take to FB and Instagram crowing about how they are "small business owners," when what they really are is pawns for the MLM. The few people who do make money do it at the expense of those underneath them (who are the reason they make money -- not selling hilariously overpriced brownie pans). The people who tell you they "made" $XX a month or a year doing PC or any other MLM are not telling you actually what they made -- only what their commissions were. They aren't telling you about all the money they spent to make those commissions -- in many cases, more than the commissions themselves. People who get defensive when confronted with these facts are invariably MLM people themselves, so feel free to ignore. |
Anonymous
No. Buy nothing, OP. You are doing her no favors by doing so. This is the literal MLM playbook. They tell you to start with your immediate circle, close friends and close family, who they know from experience, even if they don't want your stuff, will make at least one pity purchase under the guise of "support." So after the first month or two, the new "business owner" will say "hey, this isn't so hard. Look at all this stuff I sold" and get further sucked into the MLM, then be stunned when those same family and friends don't want to keep buying overpriced kitchen supplies and when the MLM instructs her to expand to her next outermost circle of contacts, most of those people won't be invested enough to make pity buys, and if they wanted anything from Pampered Chef, the "market" is completely saturated by people with existing "businesses" from whom they are already buying. The vast majority of people sucked into MLM *lose* money before they finally get out. IF you tell her this, she will parrot the line her upline told her to say: "Well, that's because they didn't work the program or have the drive I do. You get out of it what you put into it!" Total BS. Look up the first season of the podcast The Dream to learn the truth about the MLM business model. It aggregates information from multiple valid, easily-researchable sources. |
Anonymous
Awwwww In a pandemic and an unsolicited brownie pan is her biggest issue. Honestly her follow up responses make her sound like a condescending jerk. |
Anonymous
| "Thanks for the link, Ann. There isn't anything I need right now but will keep this in mind or if I hear of someone else needing something. My friends really like the bar pans so I'll see if anyone needs a replacement!" |
Anonymous
This right here is the best answer!!! The bar pan is amazing though lol. |
Anonymous
| Just buy a couple things and move on. Have your husband do the buying if it bothers you so much. |
Anonymous
| I’m pretty anti MLM, but I find myself a little more lenient since COVID. I get that people are trying to make ends meet however they can. |
Anonymous
I'm the PP that asked how it was a scam. FWIW, I agree that the business model is trash, and the compensation framework sucks. but its not a scam. There's nothing dishonest about it. They tell you how they are going to pay you, and then pay you that way. That's not a scam. Words matter. If people go in eyes open, that's not a scam. |
Anonymous
Trust me, I'm not in an MLM. But pampered chef is not a scam. Herbalife and any of those bullcrap ones where you buy products upfront and have to invest your own money. Scam. People earning commissions on sales? Not a scam. You can argue that their efforts would be better spent in another line of work. But you can say that about quite a few professions. But it does not sound as if pampered chef is dishonest in any way |
Anonymous
+1 |