re: Rodan & Fields // Women leaving full-time jobs

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They want to walk into Starbucks at 1030, still wearing their gym clothes so that everyone will know her husband places so much value on her physical appearance that he gladly pays all the bills and put that huge Louis Vuitton bag on her shoulder. It's every southern female's pinnacle of success

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I have no problem with this

I had one in my newsfeed that got into "nerium" whatever tf that is.

Anyone know if its legit?

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some pyramid scheme makeup company

think Cutco for girls

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This is a lot different than Cutco. Cutco is a bunch of high school and college kids selling pretty good knives to their parents’ friends.

This is housewives putting huge down-payments down of personal money for scam product that they hawk on Facebook and cold call people to buy.

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Then 2 seconds later being hassled to come to their stupid R&F party and realizing this is a SALES TACTIC PUSHED BY THE COMPANY to their salespersons.

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I went to one of these begrudgingly.

Drank an entire bottle of free wine and stared at TD on my phone the whole time and left.

Success!

Being that I haven't been approached by 8 of them this morning yet, they aren't as bad as Team National

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Yeah I don't care if you want to use fb to sell your stuff. Just don't trick me and take advantage of my friendship in the process. And don't make EVERY SINGLE POST YOU MAKE on FB be about how "AMAZING" the latest skin product is.

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Back in my more naive days when I was in my 20's, an older acquaintance invited me to a meeting at a local hotel conference room to hear about a great "business opportunity". I was just out of college and broke, so I said "what the hell". Of course, it turns out that it was an Amway thing. I never did look at that acquaintance the same after he duped me into going to that bullshite.

I also spent a week trying to sell Cutco...same time period. The guy that ran it in Baton Rouge was an absolute snake...name was Raphael something, I think. Those knives are good quality, to be sure, but very expensive...and my chronically middle-class family members basically laughed at me when I tried to sell to them.

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FWIW I don't think it's a scam product necessarily. It is ridiculously priced for Mary Kay quality shite. I only know this because my mom sold Mary Kay for a couple months one time and we had tons of stuff lying around for years (it was ok).

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Basically what I mean. Its 10x more expensive than it should be. They market it like its some miracle stuff and its really just standard creams and stuff that you can get at any mall for way less.

They are riding their own ProActive coattails. Its smart business on their part.

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They want to walk into Starbucks at 1030, still wearing their gym clothes so that everyone will know her husband places so much value on her physical appearance that he gladly pays all the bills and put that huge Louis Vuitton bag on her shoulder. It's every southern female's pinnacle of success

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This is what young(ish) moms aspire to be because they look at themselves, dreaming of looking like they did in high school but being loaded at the same time...so they do whatever they can to dress the part.

When in reality, probably 10% of women who appear this way can actually afford it without piling up debt or doing God knows what else to essentially masquerade through life. And, 30-45 year old husbands like it because they have the illusion of looking "rich" and of the trophy wife, making them look attractive to other women at the same time.

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I got no problem holding up the male end of that deal so long as my kids and house are being taken care of.

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Exactly.

My wife works right now as a nurse, but when we have kids we agreed she can stay home with them until they are all in school every day, if she wants to which she does. She'll just keep her nursing license current.

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I have a friend who sells this. She works full-time as a nurse. She makes about 2500 a month off of R&F. Yes, I know this to be a fact. Tomorrow, I will call her and let everyone knows how she makes her money AND works a full-time job. She is also about to get a Lexus -- brand new 2015 with only insurance to pay on it.

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Well that's odd cause I have a friend who makes 7,000 a month of R&F and is about to get her Lexus. Seems like your friend has quite a ways to go.

Does anyone know someone personally that has gotten this "White Lexus"? And no it can't be from someone you met at the R&F Convention in Bora Bora, Las Vegas, Paris, or Venice.

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While Advocare and others are pyramid schemes, so is just about everything else. Why do your bosses push you or why as you as a boss push another? You wanna make money, don't you?

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My wife literally had that same line pushed on her this week when she had an offer to join the world's GREATEST company EVER. Was that published in your friends marketing manual this month? Came from a friend she hadn't heard from in YEARS who acted like she wanted to catch up only to find out the motive.