Anonymous wrote:I'm so excited to watch this. I watched the trailer and my husband was like "how do you know this company?"

Every woman knew LLR. And knew someone at least indirectly who sold LLR. And I remember watching the bottom fall out and feeling awful but also like "yep, this is how this things end".

There's no safe mlm.

Do you live in the District? I feel like it was more of a suburban phenomenon. I only heard of it when they had a convention downtown and suddenly the streets were full of ugly yoga pants. And then my Midwestern cousin started selling it. Was it actually a thing in DC otherwise?

Now there is a company Saavi, started by a member of that family. Anyone seeing this?

I'm so excited to watch this. I watched the trailer and my husband was like "how do you know this company?"

Every woman knew LLR. And knew someone at least indirectly who sold LLR. And I remember watching the bottom fall out and feeling awful but also like "yep, this is how this things end".

There's no safe mlm.

Anonymous wrote:Such a shame people are calling it a cult or a scheme. It helped a significant number of women be able to support their families and make some money for themselves.

No one here feels any shame about accurately calling MLMs pyramid schemes. None at all.

Anonymous wrote:Such a shame people are calling it a cult or a scheme. It helped a significant number of women be able to support their families and make some money for themselves.

Yeah, no. MLMs are predatory trash.

Anonymous wrote:Such a shame people are calling it a cult or a scheme. It helped a significant number of women be able to support their families and make some money for themselves.

At the expense of the other women!

Such a shame people are calling it a cult or a scheme. It helped a significant number of women be able to support their families and make some money for themselves.

Just watched the first two episodes. It’s well-done. I understand how people got sucked into the LuLaRoe cult.

I thought the John Oliver episode on MLMs was really interesting. Might check this out.

So glad OP posted about this! I forgot it was coming out and am off to binge it.

I knew a ton about their shenanigans when it was all happening - and I'm still loving this documentary. Super well made.

Anonymous wrote:I’m watching, too. I think the family is crazy, but crazier still are the idiot women who fall for these schemes.

I can see how it would have looked attractive. In most MLM’s you’re all selling the same product so each seller isn’t distinctive. In LLR, everyone got different styles and prints, so you could shop from lots of different people. And the people who got in early and built a big “team” under them really did make $$$ … at least at first. Then the bottom fell out pretty quickly.

I have a distant acquaintance who got 2 of my friends (and a bunch of other people) to sign up under her. That was back when it was $5000+ to get started. She made SO MUCH MONEY off those initial huge orders.

I’m watching, too. I think the family is crazy, but crazier still are the idiot women who fall for these schemes.

Oh wow I didn’t hear about it, I will look it up. I hope their next documentary will be about Rodin and Fields.

Anyone watching? I just finished episode 1. Seems totally crazy so far. The whole thing reminds me of the Trump family in a way? Like, he stumbled into the presidency and basically hired only his family and years-long associates even though, like, Jared Kushner knows f-all about the Middle East … Deanne and Mark stumbled into a successful business and only hired their family even though none of them knew about marketing or how to run a factory.