Anonymous wrote:I’m 37, I have a Facebook account, and I think I’ve only had 2 Facebook friends ever post about an MLM and no one ever bother me about them. I feel like maybe I dodged a bullet.

But I also feel like I’ve never seen anyone wearing those pants?

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Anonymous wrote:Ok I'm only on episode one and only know anything additional about the company from one of the episodes on The Dream. I kinda remember people selling things on Facebook, but not really. Not as much as people obsessed with Rodin + Fields and Beautycounter. Anyway, being from Utah I'm super wary of MLMs and find them both fascinating and so sad.

Based just on episode one, the founders seem like they started with good intentions. Seems like some logical regulation could solve the MLM problem. Like why are "downlines" legal? Shouldn't it be more like a franchise where say they could have X number of consultants per zone? I just don't see how a company where the profit model is a pyramid scheme should be legal. What's the argument FOR the MLM structure?

I get the "network marketing" and "direct sales" argument, even though I personally don't want to buy products from a friend unless they made them, but why the element of getting paid to recruit other consultants?

Because a casual buyer might buy $100 worth of stuff. But if people are "consultants" they are urged to keep "inventory" meaning they buy 5-10k worth of stuff. So the company doesn't need to broadly sell their stuff or sell it at actual businesses at wholesale. They inflate the prices to their consultants who then jack it up further.

Right. I understand. I just don’t understand why that’s legal.

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Anonymous wrote:Do people hate on LLR because of what kind of company it is, or because of the patterned leggings? I've never bought Lularoe because I refuse to support MLM. However, I do buy high-quality patterned leggings from reputable companies. I love them and they make me more excited to exercise. I would be devastated if the public plurality deemed patterned leggings *over*.

LLR leggings aren’t for exercising—not athletic performance fabrics. They’re leggings as pants.

They don’t really need to “perform” for you to exercise in them.

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Anonymous wrote:Do people hate on LLR because of what kind of company it is, or because of the patterned leggings? I've never bought Lularoe because I refuse to support MLM. However, I do buy high-quality patterned leggings from reputable companies. I love them and they make me more excited to exercise. I would be devastated if the public plurality deemed patterned leggings *over*.

LLR leggings aren’t for exercising—not athletic performance fabrics. They’re leggings as pants.

Anonymous wrote:Do people hate on LLR because of what kind of company it is, or because of the patterned leggings? I've never bought Lularoe because I refuse to support MLM. However, I do buy high-quality patterned leggings from reputable companies. I love them and they make me more excited to exercise. I would be devastated if the public plurality deemed patterned leggings *over*.

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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?

DC person here. Never saw these leggings either nor knew any reps!

Arlington had 2-3 high up reps. One left their job to sell full time!

Anonymous wrote:I finished. The #1 most surprising thing of the entire show is that people are still buying LuLaRoe.

Anonymous wrote:This bleach blonde bimbo is disgusting

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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?

DC person here. Never saw these leggings either nor knew any reps!

Anonymous wrote:Watching with popcorn. I can’t believe they managed to get the creators to do this documentary.

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

+1. This mlm positions itself as being somehow different from the rest but it’s not. Oddly, I’ve seen otherwise educated and competent women fall for this one and even my stepmother, who could afford the best, buys some kind of serum from them.