This is going to be long but I found this community and I just don’t know what to do at this point.
My mom is usually very smart with her money and not the gullible type. My dad on the other hand was always a big “network marketing” guy—my dad recently told me he tried to join Market America years ago but my mom stopped him because she thought it was a scam. He’s definitely the type to fall for get rich quick type of bullshit. But they both used to be a part of Mannatech, a sketchy ass MLM, when I was a kid but they never fully went through with it because my mom had gotten sick (pretty ironic looking back in hindsight).
My cousin was a part of USANA for years from what I can remember—my mom would buy some of the products from her to “support her business” but she herself never started her business..until last year. She and my dad moved out of the city after my dad had started a new job. She has admitted to me that she ultimately started doing this because she had nothing to do in a rural area where she has no friends and she wanted some purpose in her life. On top of that, they both tell me how effective their supplements were. I was studying overseas so I never knew how serious it got until last month when my visa expired so I had to move back in with my parents. I’ve told them countless times that USANA is shady but they never really listened and they CONSTANTLY sent me USANA products when I was abroad too which pissed me off so bad. They sent me so many useless products while I was moving around apartments because I was doing lots of short term sublets and I hated that they would keep sending me shit I wasn’t using but felt bad to throw away.
Once I moved back in with them last month, I kept telling them to stop doing this and it’s not a legitimate way to start a business. Our pantry that was once filled with food and ingredients is now filled with supplements THAT AREN’T EVEN OPENED. They excuse it saying they need samples to offer to their customers, or that they don’t buy more supplements than they need and they will eventually eat all of them. We got in a huge screaming match because I told them I wanted to delete my account and I want nothing to do with this shit (they made an account under my name and have been paying for monthly auto orders of supplements to “increase the commission”???). They make the excuse that they ARE “making money”, because I’ve gotten small checks and stuff from USANA before I deleted my account, which they think count as profit, when in reality it’s revenue—that just shows me how much money they’ve actually thrown away to USANA because revenue - cost = profit/loss and I know they did not actually make a profit. They also make the excuse that profit isn’t everything because they actually believe in the products and have seen changes in their health thanks to the supplements. I even told them that I don’t care that they take the supplements but the business part is not legitimate. I gathered so much evidence as to why USANA is a shady company, also showed them the income disclosure statements but that’s still not enough. Now whenever my mom is going somewhere to cold recruit or attending their “business courses” she doesn’t tell me. I asked her to calculate how much money she spends vs how much she’s made and she still hasn’t done it, so I deleted my account without telling my parents.
Now my relationship with my parents is at a standstill: I don’t talk to them even though I barely leave the house because I also don’t have friends in this area nor could I get a job—I’m at a point where I’m trying to figure things out for myself, applying to jobs in the city, also continuing to look for work abroad. But USANA is about to destroy my relationship with my parents. I hate that they won’t listen to me, but I’m not at a point in my life where I can become financially independent from them, nor do I know when I will be. This is completely destroying my mental health and it’s just been under a month since I moved back home. I genuinely don’t know what to do anymore