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

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They make their money off signing other people up to be sellers, and so on, and so on. If you build a deep enough network, you don't have to sell anything. Other people do it for you.

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This is the new twist. Now they sell the idea like a franchise. Where you build your own team in a region. But, once the MLM establishes a footprint it revises the associate agreement into a purely commissioned based sale and eliminates any cut of your underlings sales.

That's how Leanne Morgan got started.


True.

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I trolled the frick out of the dude he was with.

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I've done that. Make it sound like you're real interested and watch them get all worked up, then lower the boom on them at the end.

I know a guy that at his prime was making around 100k a month doing MLM …. He said the money was in the training not the products.

The he said yea it was all a scam.

I have a relative in Primerica and they appear like they are killing it: luxury cars, trips to xyz destinations for rewards, bragging about income on socials, professional photos in front of expensive real estate, etc. But then I visited them at their real house and,,, didn’t see anything resembling the life they put on socials. Except for the luxury cars. Fascinating to watch.

There was one a few years back that went after men, but I cannot remember the name. I'm thinking it had something to do with beard care products or the like. There were tons of guys pushing that shite on social media for a few years.

According to the Arbonne website, 82.9% of their people are “consultants.” Median annual income is $106. 12.4% are “district managers.” Median annual income is $2187. 3.1% are “area managers.” Median annual income $12,159. 1.1% are “regional vice presidents.” Median income $46,768. 0.5% are “national vice presidents” with median income of $137,683.There is a disclaimer that says “These earnings do not represent independent consultant expenses.” Which include membership fees, renewal fees, event registration fees, travel, office supplies, etc. and the income listed is gross income, so i assume taxes and expenses are deducted from that. It says annual fee is $99 so for 83% of these women, between taxes and fees they lose money on the deal.

ETA so for a .5% chance of making $137k, you have to basically bust arse fulltime and live the program, hitting up everyone you know. No thanks.

At 27-28, young CR got hooked $300 for frigging Pontiac. A Pontiac!

I learned my lesson and passed it along.

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Northwestern Mutual operates like this. One financial advisor with like 8 different designations behind his name will hire a team of 10+ “assistants” (barely educated kids) to sell expensive investment products.

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It’s not even investment products. Had an old friend try to sucker me in for this. I told them what my financial plan was so if they could support what I was doing, I’d entertain them.

Him and this skeeze come back two days later, ignore every goal I laid out for them, and tried to strong arm me into buying disability insurance. Boy did they flip out when I turned it down. Then they had the gall to ask for recommendations for other people to harass.