Wednesday, May 23, 2007

[MLM Survivors Club] Re: I hope I stopped my friend from being a Usana distributor

I dont think all MLM are bad. I know a few cosmetic MLM companies
where people make decent partime income. But the average person hates
knocking on doors and selling products.

--- In mlmsurvivorsclub@yahoogroups.com, momluvseliana <no_reply@...>
wrote:
>
> In the 24 years I have been on this Earth, it is only recently that
I
> am introduced to these MLM's. Thanks God no one tried to recruit
me
> when I was younger and not yet married because I might have fallen
> for it. ( Alone a I am kinda a sucker.. I trust everyone. Thank
God
> for my husband who is a complete opposite of me, and has been
fooled
> by 2 or 3 MLM's in his 30 years on this Earth.) Well after my
cousin
> and I got into it about Zija International, (after I did the
research
> when my husband told me to) and I told her about what is out there
as
> far as scams and schemes, she thought that "i thought she was
stupid,
> for joining the "business"" Again i just let her know about the
> Federal Trade Commisions reports and various websites about MLM
> schemes. We don't talk anymore because she took it to a personal
> level, saying "you think you are smarter than everyone, but you
> didn't really do the research because Zija gives to charity blah
blah
> blah" Yes, I was actually affected by that comment, but strong
> enough and smart enough to just let her go. Well anyway I joined
> this forum after doing all the MLM research and finding a link to
> it. I have to say "The Five Red Flags" was really interesting to
me
> because everything that it says about MLM's and their recruits was
> exactly what my cousin was into, and it stated exactly the mindset
of
> these people.
> Well i guess you can call it ironic because Yesterday, my business
> partner in our Personal Training Business said to me over the
phone,"
> I need to buy some more Usana vitamins" I said "you are not
planning
> on selling them and being a distibutor are you?" (Because of being
> in this forum and the MLM research USANA was all over the place as
a
> scam. She told me that these two brothers that we went to college
> with were distributors and have been trying to get her to do it
to.
> I said "I am not trying to be a hater, but this is a scam." We
have
> been friends for quite a long time. I said "I don't think you are
> stupid for using the products they might really be effective, but
> just don't be a distributor, and also you can find the products on
> ebay for way cheaper." I told her about the mlm-thetruth.com and
> this forum. I was so rushed to tell her why she shouldn't join, i
> kinda got an adrenaline rush from it. I am pretty sure I have
> convinced her not to be a distributor , but she is coming over
> tomorrow and I am going to give her the 5 Red Flags article that I
> highlithed.
> Man, I think I have been BRAINWASHED to think ALL MLM's are
bad! :*)
>

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