So many months ago, an acquaintance I had not seen in about 8 years called me, left me a voicemail that said something like "Hey (my name). It's (his name). How are you? Nothing much, I just want to ask you something. Can you call me back?" (Note: This was translated from our native language but that would be the gist in English.)

I didn't respond to his voicemail. Although I was really curious, I was also going through something and I didn't want him to ask about that (if somehow he heard about it).

Then months passed and I was helping my family with their food delivery business. I dropped off some food for Greatway Financial, and then bumped into him. That was when I found out that he worked there. To those who don't know, Greatway Financial is an MLM in Canada. We didn't talk about that voicemail but just made some quick small talks.

Days after that, he left me the exact same voicemail again! "Hey (my name). It's (his name). How are you? Nothing much, I just want to ask you something. Can you call me back?"

What do you think? :) Is he trying to recruit me for Greatway Financial?

Has anyone heard about Oppizi?? I got an interview for an internship through linkedin but I can’t really find out much about the company if it’s legit or some sort.

These huns have set up a side hustle, (because their Bravenly ‘business’ is doing so well /s), where they're selling Temu/Shein similar tat.

I couldn't find any other MLMs on the lists of vendors, and nothing at their stall could remotely be considered to be one-of-a-kind or handmade. You'll see in the third slide where they're also ‘secretly’ selling/recruiting for Bravenly. They've hidden the Bravenly name, but you can see Bravenly sachets in those plastic bags.

Buy a shite t-shit, and get the shits from whatever is in the ‘mystery’ bags, and a bit of lead poisoning from the jewellery.

So “Monations” is currently happening in Europe (Monat convention) and an acquaintance is attending and posts this on her story. I just find it kind of funny and ironic how they are literally walking round being presented new product sneak peaks wrapped in pyramids on pyramids everywhere. But of course, Monat is not a pyramid scheme, it’s your business girlboss baby!

*edited spelling mistake

I know that it’s a MLM scheme but what are the reasons for it to be considered a scam? do they not pay you?

i was encouraged by a friend of mine that i have known for so long to join QNET a couple months ago and he said that it’s a good opportunity to make money and that someone he knows has done it for a long time and makes so much money out of it.

I just discovered that my elderly Mother is buying Bellame beverage products from "a friend of a friend of a friend's son's wife", whom she only interacts with on Facebook. This has also led to a realization that she's previously targeted my Mother in various other schemes. Thankfully the last one was so irrational that my Mother figured it out on her own and stopped buying into the products.

Yet, here we are again. I am fairly certain that my Mother is only buying products from the MLM hun and not falling victim to actually joining herself. But I am also not willing to wait around and allow the chance to present itself either.

I plan on having a conversation with my Mother about this tomorrow and show her some of the resources I found here. However, I am having a hard time talking myself off the ledge of messaging this person myself and letting them know that I will not allow them to continue targeting my Mother with this predatory behavior and that it would be in their best interest to remove my Mother's contact information as well as any payment information she may have provided for these products.

What say you all? Take the matter into my own hands and reach out to the hun directly or see how this conversation goes with my Mother?

These were active around 2006-07, and dealt with problems in Quixtar/Amway, and MLM more generally, in a (mostly) serious way. The first was run by Eric Janssen (sp), who IIRC was tragically killed in an accident a few years back. The other was run by "Truth", real name unknown. I'd be curious to know what he is up to these days.

There were a few other podcasts and blogs pretty active around the same time. It was a golden age for anti-MLM podcasts as I recall.

Gros rassemblement Pruvit ce we à Québec avec 2 mentors américains. Ils attendent 500 personnes !!!
Mon amie a laissé son emploi pour faire ce MLM a temps plein. Mais ça ne lui rapporte pas beaucoup à date . Et elle travaille fort .
Vous en pensez quoi?

I’m furious, I’m applying for a pre employment program for women in trades that supports removing barriers for women trying to get financial freedom through the trades

And when talking about options for affording the program outside of the funding they have available was to A. Bake and then sell your baking B. Get creative with home businesses and C. Straight to our face she says sell mlm products, my jaw hit the floor thank god my camera was off bc I can’t make waves because I realllyyyyy need this program bc no one is hiring for first year pipefitters and I desperately want it but like damn lady that is the worst thing to say to vulnerable women

Of course all of the comments are telling how her much they love it, what a great idea it is. It looks like there were some blunt comments that ended up being deleted.

Also, I didn’t see a Norwex flair?

If anyone is looking for a clear, focused rundown of the recent FTC case against Amway, here’s a great article to checkout.

I went to an interview for hmg careers. It wasn’t an interview but a woman talking to us without answering any questions. Then we were transferred to a man who was talking a lot without answering a lot of questions.

What made me hang up on the meeting was this phrase,

“We are the McDonald’s of insurance companies.”

I heard the almost exact same phrase when I went to a similar meeting for Primerica. Of course all they wanted was that you buy their course first before you make any money.

I think it’s the same thing for HMG.

Literally Primerica rebranded.

I’m just curious. Will it ever go under? My social media feed is flooded with shaklee huns. It seems like most of them used to do Beachbody which makes it even more cringe. Is this sustainable long term or will this one eventually fold as well?