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Posted: 4/25/2015 8:37:13 PM EDT
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I don't get it either. Nothing about any MLM scheme ever sounds sustainable, but people still fall for it, particularly stay at home moms, and in my area especially Mormon mom's - you can spot them by the huge Scentscy marketing stickers on their minivans.
One of my wife's Zumba friends send her a FB message a week or so ago trying to sucker her in to making "revenue streams" in her spare time. Thought it was a hacked account until she asked my wife again in person. She said it took everything not to crack up over all the buzzwords she used to describe her MLM. "Nearium" or some crap like that was the product. |
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Posted: 4/25/2015 8:46:37 PM EDT
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I don't get it either. Nothing about any MLM scheme ever sounds sustainable, but people still fall for it, particularly stay at home moms, and in my area especially Mormon mom's - you can spot them by the huge Scentscy marketing stickers on their minivans. One of my wife's Zumba friends send her a FB message a week or so ago trying to sucker her in to making "revenue streams" in her spare time. Thought it was a hacked account until she asked my wife again in person. She said it took everything not to crack up over all the buzzwords she used to describe her MLM. "Nearium" or some crap like that was the product. They all say the same shit like a broken record. |
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Posted: 4/25/2015 8:56:01 PM EDT
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I had several college friends who got conned into selling "Verve" energy drinks. What a fucking joke. Everyone told them it was folly, but they wouldn't listen to reason. Only after they lost hundreds of dollars did they quit and start to admit that they fucked up.
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Posted: 4/25/2015 8:56:40 PM EDT
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I never understood how people fall for it.
Here's a clue, any time somebody tells you that you have to recruit more people to make money...................run. |
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Posted: 4/25/2015 8:56:53 PM EDT
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I should start scamming fatties.
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Posted: 4/25/2015 9:06:46 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/25/2015 9:23:36 PM EDT
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I should start scamming fatties. That's what its all about. Convince people its a magic pill and shake. |
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Posted: 4/25/2015 9:34:43 PM EDT
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Right now it's the Rodan+Fields crap
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Posted: 4/25/2015 9:40:58 PM EDT
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No Facebook, no contact with family. I win.
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Posted: 4/25/2015 9:52:57 PM EDT
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I have had to suffer through a Mona Vie craze - expensive ass grape juice!!!!
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Posted: 4/25/2015 9:57:40 PM EDT
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I must live under a rock. I have no idea what any of you are talking about.
Off to google... ETA: Nope. Not interested. |
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Posted: 4/25/2015 9:57:59 PM EDT
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As much as I hate to defend MLM because I almost got scammed by one at a job interview a few months ago, my mom has psoraisis really bad, and there's an Arbonne cream that she bought off of a lady in my church, and it works really well.
And Avon Skin-So-Soft is great for repelling mosquitoes. |
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Posted: 4/25/2015 10:00:53 PM EDT
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As much as I hate to defend MLM because I almost got scammed by one at a job interview a few months ago, my mom has psoraisis really bad, and there's an Arbonne cream that she bought off of a lady in my church, and it works really well. And Avon Skin-So-Soft is great for repelling mosquitoes. Deej your post makes no sense to me. 
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Posted: 4/25/2015 10:02:50 PM EDT
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They always target women, or maybe it's women that always fall for them. I think it's a social thing. They all get involved in MLM stuff so they can get together and buy shit from each other. Spending money and talking, it's like a chick Utopia.
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Posted: 4/25/2015 10:07:28 PM EDT
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They always target women, or maybe it's women that always fall for them. I think it's a social thing. They all get involved in MLM stuff so they can get together and buy shit from each other. Spending money and talking, it's like a chick Utopia. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile Ugh. Speak for your own women. 
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Posted: 4/25/2015 10:10:16 PM EDT
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My sister and advocare
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Posted: 4/25/2015 10:19:45 PM EDT
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The one that is driving me nuts where I live is Plexus.
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Posted: 4/25/2015 10:21:53 PM EDT
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MLM is the female equivalent of neckbearding
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Posted: 4/25/2015 10:23:07 PM EDT
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I think sales tactic #5 in their book is: pester friends and family until you alienate them.
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Posted: 4/25/2015 10:36:55 PM EDT
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Deej your post makes no sense to me. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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As much as I hate to defend MLM because I almost got scammed by one at a job interview a few months ago, my mom has psoraisis really bad, and there's an Arbonne cream that she bought off of a lady in my church, and it works really well. And Avon Skin-So-Soft is great for repelling mosquitoes. Deej your post makes no sense to me. Made sense to me. 
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Posted: 4/25/2015 10:49:22 PM EDT
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A coworker kept trying to get me to get involved with Body By Vi. I'm not sure if it was legit or a scam but it sure smelled fishy. I stayed away.
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Posted: 4/25/2015 10:53:57 PM EDT
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Pretty sure Vector is a MLM scam as well.
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Posted: 4/25/2015 10:54:12 PM EDT
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A friend of mine is in a local mom group and now she's hooked on Jamberry (basically stickers for your nails). She knows I like polish etc and tried to get me to buy in (for $100 but it's less if you host a party!!
 ) but I politely declined. I hate all that MLM crap and being a stay at home mom is like a magnet for those women. No thank you.
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Posted: 4/25/2015 11:03:42 PM EDT
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A friend of mine is in a local mom group and now she's hooked on Jamberry (basically stickers for your nails). She knows I like polish etc and tried to get me to buy in (for $100 but it's less if you host a party!! ) but I politely declined. I hate all that MLM crap and being a stay at home mom is like a magnet for those women. No thank you.My wife wont sell jamberrys and refuses every time her friend asks her to, but she does buy them from her friend. They are actually a legit product and work very well. They have the gel coat look to them, but you can get some great designs as well. My wife works at ASU and gets ASU jamberrys for events and stuff. |
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Posted: 4/25/2015 11:20:49 PM EDT
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A coworker kept trying to get me to get involved with Body By Vi. I'm not sure if it was legit or a scam but it sure smelled fishy. I stayed away. That's what my niece was doing before Thrive. |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 12:32:41 AM EDT
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I took my boy over to Dunkin Donuts last week and a Mary Kay rep was recruiting some of the local SaH moms. They were loud, inconsiderate and jammed up 3 of the small tables instead of using the 1 large on across the store. She was kind of hot though.
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Posted: 4/26/2015 12:44:07 AM EDT
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You are going about it the wrong way OP. You need to capitalize on that hysteria.
A few years ago some neighbors were convinced they would hit it big with some new energy drink. I made a $500 bet they wouldn't break $5,000 the first year. 
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Posted: 4/26/2015 12:45:29 AM EDT
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Posted: 4/26/2015 12:55:28 AM EDT
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Nerium, Plexis, etc. Facebook is trash.
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Posted: 4/26/2015 1:00:30 AM EDT
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You people need to get rich with BNR's Tetrahedron of Success.
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Posted: 4/26/2015 1:03:37 AM EDT
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As much as I hate to defend MLM because I almost got scammed by one at a job interview a few months ago, my mom has psoraisis really bad, and there's an Arbonne cream that she bought off of a lady in my church, and it works really well. And Avon Skin-So-Soft is great for repelling mosquitoes. I've used Skin-So-Soft as a mosquito repellent since I was a kid. Good shit, and smells a hell of a lot better than OFF. |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 2:09:05 AM EDT
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Advocare, Rodan+Fields, IT WORKS.
Facebook is full of it all |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 6:47:49 AM EDT
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Pretty sure Vector is a MLM scam as well. Vector (Cutco knives) is definitely one where they make you pester your friends and family. They don't give you leads, you have to generate them yourself. That's the reason all these products are annoying. You have to work your own social network. Their recruiting tactics are dishonest and scammy too. |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 7:00:04 AM EDT
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I've used Skin-So-Soft as a mosquito repellent since I was a kid. Good shit, and smells a hell of a lot better than OFF. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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As much as I hate to defend MLM because I almost got scammed by one at a job interview a few months ago, my mom has psoraisis really bad, and there's an Arbonne cream that she bought off of a lady in my church, and it works really well. And Avon Skin-So-Soft is great for repelling mosquitoes. I've used Skin-So-Soft as a mosquito repellent since I was a kid. Good shit, and smells a hell of a lot better than OFF. They used to sell SSS at the recruit PX on Parris Island. It worked really well. |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 7:05:29 AM EDT
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I took my boy over to Dunkin Donuts last week and a Mary Kay rep was recruiting some of the local SaH moms. They were loud, inconsiderate and jammed up 3 of the small tables instead of using the 1 large on across the store. She was kind of hot though. You know what they say. It's all pink on the outside. |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 7:17:29 AM EDT
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I had a tough time talking a family member out of wasting a bunch of money on Isagenix.
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Posted: 4/26/2015 7:20:24 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: MLM is the female equivalent of neckbearding Involves more emotional blackmail, though. |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 7:43:26 AM EDT
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My sister and advocare the entire day shift at my work is into advocare, cleansing and shit is all they talk about. they left a sample of the spark for me taped to my computer. i work out at the physical therapy gym at night and drink muscle milk and they tried selling me on the advocare protein stuff. Sorry, I get my shit from costco for $24 for several months worth instead of hundreds of dollars a month. |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 7:44:56 AM EDT
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That thrive shit is hilarious and garbage, but the real scam is essential oils. Do you know any "oilers"?
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Posted: 4/26/2015 7:48:02 AM EDT
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Not this one, but my wife falls for all the other ones.
and my daughter fell for cutco once. once she realized what was involved, she told them no. My wife has done almost all mentioned in the thread, and talked to me about 100% of them. I remind her that they dont work,and never will. and Deej, when you say "i hate to defend" that usually means you're about to. But you didnt. You mentioned 2 well known and widely available long running products, not MLMstuff, so your post really doesnt make sense. |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 7:48:15 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Right now it's the Rodan+Fields crap Same here...had to unfollow a cousin b/c of it. Non-stop. And now she's brought in one of our aunts and other friends from home town. Apparently she does pretty well with it...as in makes more than her husband who's a production supervisor with a big manufacturer....so apparently she got in early enough |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 7:48:50 AM EDT
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That thrive shit is hilarious and garbage, but the real scam is essential oils. Do you know any "oilers"? yup, my sister got my wife into oils.such stpuid. she thinks they actually do someting, but she's an idiot hippy at heart. |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 7:49:24 AM EDT
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MLM is the female equivalent of neckbearding This |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 7:49:34 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I think sales tactic #5 in their book is: pester friends and family until you alienate them. In order to be fairly "successful" at it...this absolutely happens. Every time. |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 7:54:31 AM EDT
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There must be plenty of suckers out there. Amway doesn't seem to be going away anytime soon.
Oh, before I forget. Anyone interested in getting in on the ground floor on a calling card opportunity? |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 8:06:27 AM EDT
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MLM companies have gotten smart and offering actual products. For years the only "product" most of them sold was the actual business of selling "opportunities". There were a few legit MLMs like Avon, Tupperware, and eventually Pampered Chef. Part of the problem is that they were so focused on the downlines that they easily saturated the hell out of market areas so that everyone you knew was selling, and no one was buying. Not to mention that the prices sucked, and the product quality was questionable.
Once burned by an MLM, a lot of people walk away. But there seems to be a personality type that is addicted to the concept of "easy money" and try out every new one that comes along. Now you have wraps, weight loss pills or powders, and other health MLM companies that the FDA is just waiting to smack for making unverified medical claims. I see so many of those posts on Facebook where they show before and after shots of "15 minutes" in a wrap can make you look like this. Its so obvious that they changed their posture, angle, and lighting to look a little better. But some people are too fucking stupid to recognize it. Some of the people selling this shit and making the claims are also spending 2-3 hours a day at the gym. That is how they are losing the weight, not the product. I had a PT coordinator in the Navy that was huge into exercise and would stand in front of my unit saying "If you work out, you can look like me". Yes, he was a short, well muscled, Lieutenant. But we later found out that the jackass was on steroids the entire time. He popped positive on a piss test and got caught buying. Have fun in the brig. I have told my wife that she can go to the parties if she wants. Its an ok time to socialize. But she is not hosting any parties at our house and never getting involved with selling. Pampered Chef was a enough. Other than a few mixing bowls, and a few spatulas, that shit has been sold (at a huge loss) because we never used it. |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 8:17:12 AM EDT
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It's sad watching people get suckered into these things.
My sister doesn't have very good critical thinking skills. She's gotten taken on a meal-replacement shake MLM scam, and some kind of fancy reusable grocery bag scam. I knew an engineer at my last job who was about to buy in to some juice MLM scam. I had a long talk with him, showed him the Bullshit episode about MLMs. We both left that job at the same time and I lost touch with him. I don't know if he went through with it or not. At my current job we've got an engineer who is becoming consumed with it. The guy makes $110k+ as an engineer, and is a shoe-in to replace one of our program managers who is retiring soon. For over a year he's been making comments like, "if this side thing works out, I wont have to work here much longer." We invited him to a going-away party for another coworker, and he spent the last two hours of the party outside sitting in his truck on a "conference call" for his MLM scam. |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 8:27:55 AM EDT
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Essential oils
Wraps Nerium Advocare Jamberry Etc... all over my fb page. The chick who believes in the oils posts nothing but her personal day to day testimonials on how well they work. I especially loved "i have a swollen eye so I'm going to put treebark oil on it, which is good for swelling, and in 30 min I'll post to show how it works! " The next post it looked worse and it was captioned "well its not working great, but oils are good for everything buy some!" I know a girl who does Nerium with her mom. Constantly posting pictures from conferences and events. But they're at the level where they make a ton of money and have actually sold enough to get gifted lexus from the company. But that's about 1 person in a million and they act as if anyone can do it. My wife did Pampered Chef later in college and made a bit of money as well as getting tons of free stuff. But (good for her) she hated doing it because she hated having to put pressure on friends and family. (She had a conscience). So she stopped. |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 8:28:25 AM EDT
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MLM companies have gotten smart and offering actual products. For years the only "product" most of them sold was the actual business of selling "opportunities". There were a few legit MLMs like Avon, Tupperware, and eventually Pampered Chef. Part of the problem is that they were so focused on the downlines that they easily saturated the hell out of market areas so that everyone you knew was selling, and no one was buying. Not to mention that the prices sucked, and the product quality was questionable. Once burned by an MLM, a lot of people walk away. But there seems to be a personality type that is addicted to the concept of "easy money" and try out every new one that comes along. Now you have wraps, weight loss pills or powders, and other health MLM companies that the FDA is just waiting to smack for making unverified medical claims. I see so many of those posts on Facebook where they show before and after shots of "15 minutes" in a wrap can make you look like this. Its so obvious that they changed their posture, angle, and lighting to look a little better. But some people are too fucking stupid to recognize it. Some of the people selling this shit and making the claims are also spending 2-3 hours a day at the gym. That is how they are losing the weight, not the product. I had a PT coordinator in the Navy that was huge into exercise and would stand in front of my unit saying "If you work out, you can look like me". Yes, he was a short, well muscled, Lieutenant. But we later found out that the jackass was on steroids the entire time. He popped positive on a piss test and got caught buying. Have fun in the brig. I have told my wife that she can go to the parties if she wants. Its an ok time to socialize. But she is not hosting any parties at our house and never getting involved with selling. Pampered Chef was a enough. Other than a few mixing bowls, and a few spatulas, that shit has been sold (at a huge loss) because we never used it. Saw something a while back about the before/after pics. They are actually after/before pics. Well muscled guy goes and works out, takes picture with oils, etc. Then he goes and has a bunch of salty snacks, soda, pzza, etc. Makes himself bloated, lets his stomach hang out, etc. Takes the 'before' pic. Nice scam. |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 8:32:47 AM EDT
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A buddy of mine has been going to some bullshit UnFranchise seminars about turning his "everyday spending" into cash flow and is trying to recruit my wife and I into joining Market America. We just laughed at him.
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