re: How many baws here have a wife/daughter/sister who fell prey to the MLM "influencer" scam?

My Dad was a salesman for Stryker, making maybe 250-300k 12-15 years ago, he has since started his own surgical equpiment sales small company. But one of my high school acquaintences who was maybe 19 at the time reached out to me on Facebook asking me to ask my Dad if he'd like to join his Cutco and Vitamin Supplement pyrmaid schemes for my seasoned salesman Dad to work underneath him in the pyramid selling vitamins and Cutco knives

I didn't even respond.

My buddy sold energy drinks around 2009 2010. Best ones I’ve ever had. They would mail a case every month. Can’t remember the name. The pomegranate was the best

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Creative Memories

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That's a scrapbooking cult. They probably extracted a few thousand from my wallet that year.

i almost got pulled into the LIMU scheme when i was right out of high school. coworker was trying to get me to cough up $600 to join his team and showed me pictures of his "boss" who had a BMW. all i had to do to get that BMW was get 5 other people to join for $600. thankfully my dad explained to me what it was.

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if you're talking about cypress bayou then we're probably talking about the same people.

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This was Lauberge.


I had a good friend invite me and my GF at the time to lunch. We get there and it's him and some other dude in suits and they're trying to get me on board with Amway. I trolled the frick out of the dude he was with. My friend stopped after a week of that BS. I still give him sh*t about it.

ETA: it wasn't Amway, it was Primerica

The lady who lived across the street from us seemed to get in a different one every month. I can't imagine how much she spent.

those MLM people are the worst. my wife had a close friend from high school who she had kind of lost touch with during college and one day they had reconnected. couple weeks later the friend ask my wife if her and her boyfriend could come over so he could practice his sales pitch for a new insurance job he started. that fricker walked in and tried to sell me primerica and after 30 minutes of listening to the pitch i made it clear i wasnt interested. he calls his "boss" on speaker to see if he could do anything to get us "enrolled." i had to kick them out of my house. he came back a couple days later to try again, but i didnt let him in the house. closed the door and never heard from them again.

why is it a scam when its how some make an income, alot of them get nice paid vacations multiple times a year and some even get car bonuses and make enough money to quit 9-5 jobs. Not much different from a salesman or the social media influencers getting paid to push products.

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing small-town boss babes they could make money opening an (insert name here) Nutrition Shop, which is just a shell for Herbalife products.