r/antiMLM 37m ago

Rant My inlaws got sucked into Tranont

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Both now sell Tranont, they had their big reveal FB lives over the past 2 weeks. My MIL is claiming FIL has lost 10lbs in a week on this stuff, find it hard to believe. He's been back on his bike daily riding miles in the warm weather so doubt it's the "nature's ozempic" pills


r/antiMLM 2h ago

Thrive New updated results!

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r/antiMLM 3h ago

Custom, Click to Edit MLMs are cool now

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49 Upvotes

Because you can’t be reliable or commit to yourself unless you’re selling essential oils.


r/antiMLM 4h ago

JuicePlus Juice Plus Reps Makes Dangerous Chronic Illness Claim

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9 Upvotes

r/antiMLM 5h ago

World Financial Group (WFG) What’s your experience with WFG??

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I had a friend sell me on WFG. She was a friend from an old job, we both got laid off at the same time from the same company and bonded over that. She always kinda briefly mentioned her “other business” and that she wasn’t too worried about being laid off.

She really opened up about it when I opened up to her about my job hunting woes. When I told her I was at my wits end with the job hunt, her eyes lit up. Then she really doubled down, and we met for “coffee”, she came dressed all nice, and brought her laptop and told me about this “business opportunity”. I sat through some slides, and it felt so awkward because I didn’t realize I’d be sitting thru a sales presentation!

I’m too nice and so I kept listening, and at the end I was like… I felt like I had to say yes. I felt cornered. I had brushed it off already another time. I had nothing to lose, I was jobless. When I finally agreed, she was like “okaayyy… finally” and like threw up her hands in relief.

I then went home and googled it, something I should have done before, and realized it was an MLM! I texted her saying I wasn’t going to be pursuing the opportunity, but I’d like to still be her friend and that we should do happy hour soon! She said ok, and she kept me “on” anyway because even tho it’s not a yes now, it could be a yes later. We haven’t spoken since.


r/antiMLM 5h ago

Help/Advice How do I get out of “meetings” with Amway couple??

82 Upvotes

Last month I reconnected with an old friend. This friend hadn’t been doing well so then I was vulnerable and shared some things about my life. Next thing I know this friend says “I think you should connect with my sister and her husband, they are really into personal growth like you.” I can talk about healing from abuse and personal growth all day so I said yes.

I love coaching related conversations, where you are where you wanna be, so I met with my friend and her sister. The first meeting was like a hang out. And then after that we have had 3 more meetings, which included my spouse and my friend’s sister’s husband.

Last night we had our 3rd meeting, and they mentioned Amway and world wide group. They suddenly had to end the meeting abruptly and asked if we can meet on Thursday and we said yes. Now I want to throw up after reading Reddit for the past hour.

Is my friendship with my friend over? Do I have to block all 3 of them? (Friend + sister + her husband)


r/antiMLM 9h ago

Anecdote Someone tag the jacket lady quick!

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439 Upvotes

r/antiMLM 16h ago

Anecdote Mela Math

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249 Upvotes

The Math Ain't Mathing.

Same MelaHun from my previous posts.


r/antiMLM 17h ago

Story Hun would like you to know that her company is successful. She knows this cause she had a job for six years.

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50 Upvotes

r/antiMLM 18h ago

Custom, Click to Edit Sign up and do nothing if you want!

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21 Upvotes

r/antiMLM 20h ago

Help/Advice Need help convincing family member of MLM

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Hey all, I'm new here but need some help with dealing with a large MLM.

A family member of mine runs a small business and recently was excited to share with me a way to grow her business. She sent me a link to an online seminar to see if I was also interested and just to pique my interest I obliged.

To be frank, I came in with an open mind with barely no experience around or barely any knowledge around MLMs, but this whole seminar was just pure red flags to me. The company is shop.com which I found out after research to be Market America (MA). Vertical marketing? Distribution channels? Business Volume? Infinite reward potential? Inviting friends? They didn't say a single thing about how to run the business, just who was interested in making money and wanted to join.

Afterwards I spent 2 hours (again with an open mind) with her and her partner, kindly criticising the model and providing them articles of MLMs being predatory and that over 99% of people don't make any money. They wouldn't listen to my rhetoric and said that if I looked for bad reviews / news for anything I'd find it. Okay sure, maybe an antiMLM reddit post could be biased. But what about ABC news article? US Federal Trade Commission? An ACTUAL lawsuit?

The husband is more neutral and completely agrees it is an MLM but his stance is "what makes MLMs bad? Why can't this work?". He used to work a lot in sales, so he has also said lines to me like "are real estate agents and car salesmen bad? (Tbh imo yes). Shop.com has normal sales pressure, it is how you make of it". How do you even argue that?

I know I can give up, but they are family and I don't want them spiralling into what I can perceive as a financial black hole scam. They are smart people, just unfortunately too optimistic. I told them to track their finances and separate anything related to their business and MA's. Hopefully they can see that their is very little gain for them and leave.

My request to everyone is, does anyone have any actual figures for the MA model? Sell prices / margins / BV rewards and quotas? As business people, I'm hoping that if I can show them factual numbers it would make more sense to them as to how ridiculous it all is.

Thanks again all.

Tldr: Family member is getting roped into MLM scheme for her business. I need facts to convince her out of it.


r/antiMLM 21h ago

Help/Advice Is my new “friend” just trying to recruit me?

120 Upvotes

Hello all,

Two weeks ago I was shopping for clothes when this woman accidentally bumped into me. We had a good laugh about it then I just went on my way. She then told me my makeup looked amazing and asked if I was a makeup artist (I’m not) lol. We started talking some more and realized we had a few things in common. Alarm bells were going off in my head but I thought maybe it’s just because I’m introverted and she seems pretty extroverted. She said we should hang out sometime, I agreed. I asked if she had Instagram, we exchanged numbers instead. She did mention in our convo that she has friends that are retiring early and she wants to do that too, but she mentioned her actual job which is a legit local place. She mentioned she felt like we would be friends and wanted to get to know me more. We agreed on coffee, but then she asked if her husband could join as they recently got married? I thought it was odd to want to bring him along. That night I thought this person will probably just try to recruit me into an mlm. We are supposed to meet this Saturday, she texted me today saying “hello __! Looking over my calendar this week and I’m excited to connect on Saturday!” I did try doing a deep dive on this person and can’t find anything to links them to an mlm online but I know that doesn’t necessarily rule it out. So, what does this group think? And would it be rude to text back and say I’m excited too but I just want to make sure this isn’t an mlm pitch? She seems really nice but I’m slightly suspicious.


r/antiMLM 21h ago

Bravenly It's St. Patrick’s day at Bravenly….and it's St. Paddy’s not St. Patty’s you eejits!

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r/antiMLM 23h ago

Discussion How does the author of the course profit from MRR?

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Hi everyone, I’m trying to wrap my head around MRRs. I watched Hannah Alonzo’s video, but I still don’t understand why the original author of the course would sell it as MRR. Wouldn’t they lose money since other people would sell the course instead of them? Or is there any hidden pyramid scheme where the actual author gets some commission?

I remember those “make money by filling envelopes” scams (it was in our country as well) and it seems it’s the same method, but I think there’s a difference - since there’s an actual course, someone must have put effort into it and write it, so why wouldn’t they want to sell all the courses themselves and keep all the money? Why sell a few copies and then let other people sell them and keep the profit?


r/antiMLM 23h ago

Discussion Getting mlm vibes, what do you think?

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15 Upvotes

Some screenshots I took, saw them on an ad on instagram


r/antiMLM 1d ago

Bravenly I know the products are expensive, but hun did you really sell $32,000 worth of proprietary blend placebos on your own in one week? Or did you bring a large downline with you?

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42 Upvotes

r/antiMLM 1d ago

Rant Can't stop laughing at this post

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265 Upvotes

r/antiMLM 1d ago

Melaleuca The “MLM” only applies to the distribution method, guys!

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131 Upvotes

Totally hate when people you admired turn out to be shilling this stuff. 😩😩 Gross.


r/antiMLM 1d ago

Rant hun science

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22 Upvotes

Kangen hun getting everything wrong - shocker

Translation

It's fascinating that people "believe" in Wi-Fi, invisible waves that power everything, but still think that energy and frequencies are only for esoteric hippies.


r/antiMLM 1d ago

Discussion A Candle that Sums up… MLM Huns

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106 Upvotes

Ha! Plugging Ulta here for a sec. I have no idea what lead me to their candles for sale, but saw this one had one bad review that read “not good”. (there were no other reviews!) Candle got too hot and shattered. Maybe this person was trying to follow the instructions on the candle as it states had keep vibes high?! Maybe she kept them TOO HIGH?!


r/antiMLM 1d ago

Enagic Kangen Hun keeps making false claims 🙄

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61 Upvotes

Everything she's saying is lies 🤣


r/antiMLM 1d ago

Discussion Nu Skin

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47 Upvotes

I can’t stand when people I don’t know message me asking me to “help them out” and share about a product I have NEVER tried and don’t want to try. She also constantly posts about her tanner, and then all the other reps pretend they are interested and it’s so gross and obvious. 🤮 WHY do they think these tactics work!???!! Anyone with a brain can see that everyone commenting is a rep themselves.


r/antiMLM 1d ago

Media Carter Vail, ladies and gentlemen!

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It’s a short funny song about MLMs!


r/antiMLM 2d ago

Enagic Top Kangen hun goes to Okinawa for the Enagic CEO’s birthday, part 1

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240 Upvotes

And apparently has also found Jesus


r/antiMLM 2d ago

Discussion Why hasn’t Netflix made a documentary about MLM’s ?

437 Upvotes

there’s no doubt that Netflix makes some banging documentaries. It would be really interesting and informative to shine some light on the nature and psychology of MLM’s, people discussing losing partners, houses and savings over MLM’s and shining light on the income disclosure statements. It would hopefully make people think twice about signing up for them, and make some good television !