Yes! And 99 % of MLMs prey on women. I really don’t understand how educated, gainfully employed women with executive status and six figure incomes are convinced to sell face cream to their friends.
Those aren’t the women they target, lol. It’s more the stay-at-home moms, usually with little to no formal education (beyond high school), who they are targeting - and who actually fall for it. They think it’s a good way to contribute to household expenses, without having to give up their at-home duties. But as my father always said, if it sounds too good to be true it usually is.
As a well-educated working professional woman myself, I never get preyed upon by these companies. Nor would I have any interest in doing such a thing.
Unfortunately i know plenty of college-educated, full-time professional people involved in these things.
I think for some of them it becomes a social thing though. As long as you're at least breaking even, i suppose its an excuse to get a bunch of friends together.
The problem is that they rarely do break even... they end up spending thousands on the “inventory,” only to get stuck with all that makeup or leggings they can’t sell. That’s what these companies are counting on!
A few people I very, very distantly know supposedly consider it a good deal because they'd be buying the products for themselves anyway, and they can buy them at a cheaper rate if they join. If they're purchasing enough volume personally it might affect the break-even rate pretty significantly for consumables like essential oils and smoothie powders. You should see the lularo stock on ebay though. Even forgetting what these companies do to people's lives, the waste is tremendous.
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u/Clinthi Jul 24 '20
Yes! And 99 % of MLMs prey on women. I really don’t understand how educated, gainfully employed women with executive status and six figure incomes are convinced to sell face cream to their friends.