Younique is even worse because the “parties” are all purely online. And for some stupid reason Facebook lets you just add people to groups without them having to actually accept the invitation so suddenly there are a million posts about that hideous mascara that costs five times what I can get a nicer mascara for at…

Last year I got one of those Facebook invites to a Jamberry party and I had no idea what it was but it sounded wonderful. Was it really a party devoted to jams and jellies? An evening spent slathering preserves and butter on platters of warm muffins and croissants? SIGN ME UP.

That’s so funny, I pretty much could have written out those exact rules just by watching the change in how various people I know started posting on Facebook. It sucks that now I just have a bunch of clones (although they don’t all sell the same thing), and it sucks even more that one of those people I actually care…

I have SO many otherwise lovely people on my Facebook feed doing this. It’s kinda sad really, watching them go from excited posts about the sales “party” they’re hosting, the follow-up posts on the event wall trying to get people to go, and the sad final post about how they’re “rescheduling” the event because it’s…

My childhood best friend started selling Plexus about 6 months ago. While she still has some non-Plexus posts, I have to read them very carefully (no way I’m liking that non-sense to promote it to other people’s news feeds). Sometimes even a cute picture of her kids will be muddled with a caption like “So glad I have…

I’ve got a best friend that sells this stuff. I think these schemes, with no scientific sources are complete and utter cancer. So many times have I been invited out to eat with friends or acquaintances, only for it to turn into some bullshit sales pitch. This is one evil week hack that I cannot condone.

They are just driving around in their 2002 Honda’s with the “Lose Weight Now - Ask me how!” bumper-stickers.

Thats for the overview. I’d be even more interested in an article on legitimate, non-evil multilevel marketing businesses, where the product has real value and the people who work for you are compensated fairly for their work. It could include a few examples and explain commonalities to their path to success. This…

Does anybody know anyone who actually makes a decent living selling MLM products? Various family members of mine have been involved in a series of such schemes for as long as I can remember and it doesn’t seem to benefit them much, if at all. So I’m super skeptical and won’t even buy them because it seems like my…

Plexus, Advo, ItWorks, etc.