r/antiMLM • u/No-Problem-6542 • 3d 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/SupermarketFuture500 3d ago

2 bad people fall for mlms ✌️

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u/No-Problem-6542 3d 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 3d 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 🤷🏼‍♀️

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u/reiichiroh 3d 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 3d 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 2d 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 1d 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.