Herbalife

Amber_Sunshine

Wise move, at the 'market study' I attended, it looked like all the vendors/distributors/agents had been snorting the weight-loss powder, they were so happy-clappy.

bonsibabe

Like many others, I too was conned into spending a lot of money that I could ill afford to start up the "business". The only winners in this are those at the top who no longer have to work at spamming others, they just sit back and reap in the profits from a residual income from the poor people at the bottom who work their backsides off for little reward.

I contacted the head office to get a refund as I felt completely conned and that was over a year ago, they did not even have the decency to get back in touch with me, when I contacted them, they claimed to have no knowledge of who I am, despite them taking money from me quite happily.

Personally I would not touch them with a bargepole, but thats just my personal experience talking.

NigeWick

Fatboynotveryslim wrote: »

Herbalife is a pyuramid scam with product

If there is a product and one can earn by selling that product, please explain how it is a scam. What is a pyramid scam?

SnowyOwl_2

An ex friend of mine became a distributor for Herbalife. She flogged some to me, it was good if you used it as it is described. But she was taught to be so incredibly coy about revealing the price of the products. And she was also instructed to recruit more distributors and she'd get a cut of their earnings. That was the death of our friendship - I could tolerate her flogging these things to me, but she turned into this pushy cow who wouldn't accept that I didn't want to be a distributor, and it dominated every conversation no matter how many times I said no. I ended up telling her where to get off.

misfire

Herbal life sounds very like amway which my best friend was involved with years ago... You meet someone who is a Amway rep - you become friendly and get sucked in.... or you enter a beauty/make over free prize draw at a fete/fayre... and you win....its a con everyone 'wins' its a way for the Amway rep to suck you in.

As a Amway rep you have to attend lots of seminars - All the seminars YOU have to pay for (if you dont go you are responsible for your business not flourishing as you didnt attend) then YOU buy tapes of the seminars - you try and get every friend and relative to join as this way you earn money of what they sell (and they tell you its not a pyramid scheme....) your friends feel they have to buy the products that (although some were good) were increadibly highly priced.... You get a small comision.... AMWAY top dogs its win win win....

I googled the company and found lots of horror stories.... i sent them to my friend (in a bit of a tackless way admittedly).... we didnt speak for years because of it ..... luckily she is now no longer involved and we are very good mates again.

Herbal life sounds similar from the above posts - one of my ladies at church got involved...... i avoided any mention of it... must find out if she still does it.

Any scheme where you have to get others involved and you then get a % of there sales sounds too like Amway and well dodgy to me and i would advise extreme caution if you are thinking of joining anything like that.

I must say that The above is just my opinon - from my experience with my friend - i may be wrong but this is how it came across to me.

petestan

njbadger wrote: »

The are governed by the DSE which is a standard all distributors are MEANT to follow when selling the products and recruiting.

It's actually the DSA that upholds the standards for you and all the other Direct Selling Companies. Link