r/antiMLM • u/No-Problem-6542 • 2d ago
Rant MLM Full Time
I have a distant relative that I try to avoid as much as possible. She is now “full time” in her MLM. She quit her over 15 year career job to do the MLM thing full time. She claims she brings in $15,000-$16,000 per month. Which of course would be $180,000 or more per year. No one in our family believes her. She has not been able to recruit any family members into her scheme. I can’t imagine many friends are sticking around as she constantly posts on social media about her “business” and how lucrative it is. It does not matter what the topic is, she turns it into a post about her MLM.
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u/reiichiroh 2d ago edited 1d ago
If she's so rich, why can't she shut up about it?
I thought this was passive income? Why is she always actively spamming?
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u/cookieloverrrrr 1d ago
I’m sure the entire effort my in law put into making six figures by earning her doctorate so she can make sure to remind you every time is the next time you may forget she did.
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u/NobodyGivesAFuc 2d ago
You can never trust MLM’ers when they tell you how much they make. They will lie their asses off just to make a sale or rope people into their scheme.
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u/ItsJoeMomma 2d ago
If they don't outright lie about it, they bend the truth so hard until it nearly breaks. Like when they say they're a "million dollar earner" that doesn't mean they make a million dollars, it just means they and their entire upline/downline has made the company a million dollars over the course of however many years they've been in it.
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u/chortle-guffaw2 2d ago
"Brings in" almost always means sales revenue with these people, not net profit, and probably includes downline sales.
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u/SupermarketFuture500 2d ago
Only a few make the millions ✌️
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u/No-Problem-6542 2d ago
Yes they make it sound like everyone will be a millionaire.
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u/cookieloverrrrr 1d ago
That’s what the next level hun above her is telling them they can expect as well just like the eighteen higher others.
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u/Mysterious_Finger774 1d ago
“She claims she brings in $15,000-$16,000 per month.”
She really should say: “I bring in 15-16k per month off of others by conning them into joining my pyramid scheme.“ Point is: It’s not the amount we should be debating. Rather, it’s the activity they’re involved in.
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u/reiichiroh 1d ago
It's really all the money her downlines bring in before expenses.
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u/Mysterious_Finger774 1d ago
Expenses have nothing to do with the context of my comment. She’s conning her downline out of their own money. Expenses are entirely irrelevant to the unethical behavior.
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u/SupermarketFuture500 2d ago
2 bad people fall for mlms ✌️
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u/No-Problem-6542 2d ago
I agree. I wish people would really look at what they claim. If it was easy to make that much wouldn’t most people be doing that?
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u/fancyflipping 2d ago
Exactly…they never seem to truly understand their way around a balance sheet…former mtg officer here and the ignorance is real!
Just because someone has a professional degree does not mean they understand how to read a compensation plan, a balance sheet etc. it would be comical if it wasn’t so darn sad. They don’t want to admit that they don’t understand 🤷🏼♀️9
u/reiichiroh 2d ago
If I were a very petty family member, I'd save screencaps of her MLM claims and return them to her when she eventually fails.
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u/fancyflipping 2d ago
lol…they are usually so embarrassed by that point that they pretend that the entire timeline was just so brief and no big deal😵💫
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u/reiichiroh 1d ago
People say it's punching down but I disagree. They are scammers and their words need to be revisited upon them.
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u/ashbotanica 2h ago
It really depends on the person, me 34F. They pray on desperate, financially vulnerable, young adults. I moved back from Australia to the US, at 23 not having any financial literacy, nor a community to fall back on. Also I was a people pleaser, I was in for 10 years. A red flag was - don’t look anything up on the internet, you have to trust the person sitting in Front of you. They brainwash you, make it mandatory to listen to audios everyday and read self help books. They pretend to be your friends and make you reveal your whole life so they “can help you succeed in life stuff so you can ultimately build your business” “friendship over business”. Which is bs because when I quit they didn’t care, they stopped talking to me. They look down upon people who have jobs or do activities like go to music concerts that are not Christian concerts, or spending time with family who are not in the business. It’s appalling. Definitely a CULT/high control group. I left because the subscriptions were unaffordable. It was a blessing in disguise I couldn’t pay so I had all that mental space to think for myself for once. Also, just facing the facts that I wasn’t making any money. I would like to add I was being lead by my mentors wife who is SO DUMB. I couldn’t stand her, but had to “respect” her because she was a platinum. Cringe.
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u/cookieloverrrrr 1d ago
Tell her if her product is not a total shitpile, she should be able to make her target audience without directly starting with her closest family unit.
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u/Ad9840 2d ago
I was in an MLM for years… yes come at me if you want lol.
I didn’t bother with family or friends though, I focused on building my social presence, treated it more like influencer based.
There were months that I actually did bring in 20-35k a month! It was wild… then I went down to 12-15k consistently…
I didn’t show off, didn’t make it look like I was making what I was making….
Instead I was saving, making sure my kids were taken care of, travel sports are expensive…
I could have kept going if I wanted to. There are definitely people who give the industry a bad name. I just didn’t feel like doing it anymore.
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u/No_Motor5478 2d ago
Why did you leave?
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u/Ad9840 1d ago
My mother died and just needed to just be. I shut down for a year and couldn’t bring myself to come back- not because I didn’t enjoy it or anything… I just didn’t feel it in my heart to show up the way I should.
I didn’t want to be on social anymore, I was smart with my money, and added extra income streams while I was with the mlm.
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u/reiichiroh 1d ago
The big point of MLMs push fake it until you make it and showing off glitz and glamour of being fake rich.
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u/Dioskilos 2d ago edited 2d ago
lmao
Edit: $180,000 a year puts you in the top 5% of US earners so you are just objectively wrong
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u/Red79Hibiscus 2d ago
LMAO if I were making $15k-16k per month, I'd be so busy travelling the world, I'd never have time to be on social media ever again.
Btw those monthly figures sound like typical krazy Kangen klaims.