Reply to LuLaRich - Amazon docu series about LuLaRoe

Forum Index » Entertainment and Pop Culture

Reply to "LuLaRich - Amazon docu series about LuLaRoe"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[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 what the MLM expert said about how many levels of a pyramid there can be until there just aren't enough people in the world anymore? (I think it was 12 but I could be wrong.) That's why it should be illegal - because they sell the idea that there's an endless amount of money to be made but that's not actually true if you over-saturate the market with consultants. Eventually there won't be anyone to sell it to anymore. [/quote]

Supply and demand. In the beginning there were not a lot of consultants. And those leggings were hard to find! I remember someone telling me about them and then trying to buy some and being totally unable to figure it out. And then I searched on facebook and got into one of these groups and did a live party or whatever, and got swooped up in trying to get a good pattern. It was crazy and I remember thinking it was insane. I think I went to two of those, ordered some leggings, and then I was over it. My SIL hosted a party at her house in Fairfax around the same time for a bunch of different 'small business moms' some of whom had real crafts but there was a LLR person there and I got a shirt. Anyway, in the beginning everyone was talking about how soft the leggings were and they were impossible to find so when I had the opportunity I bought it up.

But fast forward a year and I had like 10 FB friends selling it, trying to get me to join their groups, everything was ugly. There was WAY too much supply, demand fell off a cliff. Especially for the ugly patterns because there was enough halfway decent stuff around that no one felt compelled (and I have to say the way they ran those parties you felt LITERALLY compelled to buy, like an auction or something) to buy the ugly stuff. [/quote]

You're just the kind of person that they want to invite. I always say no to invites like that.  I'm not compelled to buy anything.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics