Ugh, stupid acquaintances and multi-level marketing

[crabbymelt]

I have to have Facebook for a couple reasons (business, mostly), but my feed these days is loaded with friends trying to sell me crap. I don't know if it's as bad for men as it is for us women, but a lot of people are constantly trying to do "on the side" stuff like Beachbody, Lularoe (leggings), and the bane of my massage profession, crappy essential oils. Beachbody and diet programs are funny because the people who sell it to me don't look like they've been in a gym in years. They keep posting before and after and I stare at the after pic thinking "the after looks exactly like the before". The thing that irritates me the most is that these people honestly believe they're gonna make tons of money from it (as they invest tons of their own).

[chazraps]

Yeah, it's pretty pathetic.

Did you ever see when people were doing WakeUpNow? That was the worst of it.

[chronocross]

One of my friends is trying to get me to sign up for one of these things, she's selling some oils for like $100 and change and swears up and down that she's going to be making hand over fist in money with this MLM scheme.

[Cranjis McBasketball]

The only time I participated in this was to send John Oliver's video on these, which in sending the video itself was a pyramid scheme.

Didn't hear back.

Note, these "businesses" aren't pyramid schemes because those are illegal. They're MLM.

[MC Blowfish]

My friend's wife used to do Jamberry or maybe she still does? I got rid of my Facebook last year. She used to talk about how Jamberry made it possible to be a stay at home mother. I read that and was like no that's because your husband is a vice-president of the company and makes a very comfortable six figure salary in a very affordable city.

[A Platypus Rave is Correct]

my friend tried to get me involved in one of these years ago.

MY favorite part of the person throwing hte pitch.

"it's not a pyramid scheme... goes on how it isn't a pyramid scheme..." *goes to the next slide that shows a pyramid.*

[YAKMAN is ICHIBAN]

My wife's cousin was so into the "It Works!" stuff I had to hide her completely on Facebook

If your product is called "It Works!" I assume it doesn't.

[Rave]

My cousin's big into that Herbalife crap and gets really defensive when called out on it. It's incredibly annoying.

[Shy Guy]

i've seen a few girls try and do the arbonne thing. i've used the stuff,and it does work, but its so expensive to keep up with, let alone try to convince people to buy it

[Kevin Hamilton]

As soon as someone you only kinda know mentions a money-making opportunity, you know some Ralph Kramden bullshit is comin.

[Push R Truth]

Sister is law is all about her shilling of Essential Oils. I like teasing her about how it's never something simple. The "magic" oil is always crazy expensive and from the most exotic sounding plant/root/fruit/nut.

It's never "Corn Oil" or something mundane. It's always "Albino 4 toed monkey's butthole oil after it eats a diet of 100% premium almonds from a single tree in East Kherblacistan, it's gathered by monks and aged for 90 years in the bladder of a yeti"


Also all her "clients" are the sickest people I know despite them dropping piles of cash on every miracle medicine they hear about.

[Cela]

I hate how Facebook has gone from a way to keep in contact with your classmates to a site where 90% of the people are:

A) Blindly posting articles trying to be a shitty HuffPo/TMZ.
B) Saying how awesome it is to be a SCENTSY girl.
C) Bigoted Memers.

[Deleted]

I accidently fell into that scheme years ago. Really regret it

[Toilet Paper Roll]

The worst...WORST ever must have been the "iTWorks". diet crap. My god they sold pills, powders and a belly reducing stomach wrap. One of my wifes relatives who graduated ith a doctorate lost her mind and only started selling this cult garbage.


The worst is they have these retreats, all the women pitching this stuff were really heavy.

[crabbymelt]

I have a degree in neuroscience and massage therapy and did research projects on aromatherapy, so I get super angry at people hacking essential oils without a freaking clue how it works. It should never be ingested-ever- and every day someone on my Facebook feed shares a recipe where you put 20 drops of something potentially toxic to eat into some chicken or something. Or worse- they say it cures stuff like cancer. It makes my head explode. I'm sure there's an oil for that.

[Andy Martin]

Rodan And Fields has become the popular one among my female friends/friends wives lately.

[Limity (BLM)]

May 30, 2017 20:28:05 GMT -5 crabbymelt said:

I have a degree in neuroscience and massage therapy and did research projects on aromatherapy, so I get super angry at people hacking essential oils without a freaking clue how it works. It should never be ingested-ever- and every day someone on my Facebook feed shares a recipe where you put 20 drops of something potentially toxic to eat into some chicken or something. Or worse- they say it cures stuff like cancer. It makes my head explode. I'm sure there's an oil for that.

Fortunately there's an essential oil to help with your problem.

[Red Impact]

May 30, 2017 14:34:40 GMT -5 Push R Truth said:

Sister is law is all about her shilling of Essential Oils. I like teasing her about how it's never something simple. The "magic" oil is always crazy expensive and from the most exotic sounding plant/root/fruit/nut.

It's never "Corn Oil" or something mundane. It's always "Albino 4 toed monkey's butthole oil after it eats a diet of 100% premium almonds from a single tree in East Kherblacistan, it's gathered by monks and aged for 90 years in the bladder of a yeti"

So that's why by Albino-4-toed-monkey's-butthole oil isn't selling. My monks have been aging it in the bladder of a chupacabra.

[Welfare Willis]

Truly low... but not as low as the prices at Leather by Dan.

[El Pollo Guerrera]

May 30, 2017 21:26:59 GMT -5 Andy Martin said:

Rodan And Fields has become the popular one among my female friends/friends wives lately.

Sign me up!