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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t understand why this is illegal. I mean of course it’s a scam but I don’t see where they lied to anyone except the refund policy for which they were rightfully sued. I feel bad for the women who signed up but I also don’t feel like they were victims of a crime. Especially the woman who ended up bankrupt - sounds like she profited but just spent it all?

I’m super liberal fwiw and I recoil at the ahole couple running it talking about “personal responsibility” but I also don’t feel like this should be illegal. As long as they’re transparent about the pyramid, which it sounds like they were, I don’t see how there can be a law against it. Seems on par with churches, gambling, and weight loss plans to me. [/quote]

Remember the graph that was created by WA state that showed how much the women earned from bonuses from people beneath them and how much was earned from actually selling clothes (negative number)? The whole premise was you can have your family and still work and yet when people paid (even being told to go into debt to buy into this) for the products for them to sell, they were told if they weren't doing well, it was THEIR fault, if the products were inferior, it is YOUR fault for complaining when others aren't, give your kids cereal and hire someone to help raise them because selling is what you need to do all the time, when your business grows, give it to your husband, etc. None of these things are said at the beginning...at the beginning all that is said is you can make x-dollars, have cars, homes, purses, designer stuff, etc...just by selling LLR and still being a full time mom. None of that was true.[/quote]

That’s just marketing. In theory, if you sold 10,000 leggings or whatever you could buy a car. I didn’t get the impression that they lied about the uplines. [/quote]

No, that’s not what happened. They may have bought cars, but I’m the end they lost everything from their “profits.”  The market was over saturated, their return policy was awful and you had to buy products upfront and they refused to fix shoddy products.

Read here: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.buzzfeednews.com/amphtml/stephaniemcneal/lularoe-millennial-women-entrepreneurship-lawsuits

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2016: “In her prime, she estimates she had $80,000 in inventory and was doing approximately $12,000 to $18,000 in sales a month.”

2018: “ But by the time Willis, a 36-year-old mother of two from Kenosha, Wisconsin, finally quit the multilevel marketing company, or MLM, in 2018, she said she had around $50,000 in credit card debt from her business. She had to cash out her 401(k) to pay it off. After approximately two years and countless hours of working for LuLaRoe, she said she never made a profit after the first year (and that year, she said traveling to LuLaRoe events and other expenses ate away at any profit she had made). When she wanted to quit, she still had around 3,000 pieces of LuLaRoe clothing in her home, stuffed into every spare nook and completely cannibalizing her dining room. She ended up selling her last 500 pieces for a dollar an item, just to get rid of them.”

They lied about their sales because that’s what made it appear it wasn’t an mlm. Didn’t you hear them say over and over - robotically- this was sales for a wanted product?  No, it was an mlm. I think you missed the entire point of the documentary.

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