How to be diplomatic?

PuzzledDave

You could point them at this video by Penn & Teller, is a great take down of multi-level marketing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncwj9iZ2oJ0

The sound is a little off to prevent it being swiped for copyright reasons, but it's still very watchable.

Hard_Up_Hester

I'm afraid I was blunt when a member of hubby's family got involved, I said 'My neighbour got involved with this company, I was very sad when they lost their home after it failed'.
Hester

PlutoinCapricorn

Hester, I am blunt myself and can easily say 'no'- which probably explains why I don't usually need to! Other, softer, people seem easier targets for emotional blackmail or quickly give in to pestering.

Skintski

I don't normally struggle saying no to this kind of thing but it's a bit different when it's someone close who you don't want to upset.

RuthnJasper

FatVonD wrote: »

Just say, 'I wish you luck with it but it's not for me'.

This is what I would say. I've had various friends involved in these and I wouldn't touch them either.

TBeckett100

If you are in a job already, say that your contract expressly prohibits other employment

I see these recruitment drives on local Facebook pages. As soon as you argue with these people they turn very nasty. One girl said her business was going so well she has reduced her hours as a freelance hairdresser.

TBeckett100

Is this Forever Living perchance?

skateykatey

It seems very much like Forever Living; it seems the world and his wife are doing this. A friend sent me an, obviously cut and pasted, generic message asking me to get involved. I just said I was too busy.

TBeckett100

Well the Forever Living thing just seems to be a bunch of people who haven't worked very hard in life and think face booking and hounding friends and family is the answer to their bank balance.

When the patience of friends, family and neigbbours runs out its time to get more saps to work for you and every sale they make you earn a percentage.

Any advert you read never tells you what the product is but the forever living appears to consist of £120 a week diet packs. To be honest Exante has the same end result for a months worth at the same price

I expect a few a forever living sales people will come on here and say how wonderful running aloe Vera into your scrotum does wonders for fertility but at the end of the day the cost of the product includes a very high mark up.

I have bookmarked these Facebook people who say they are doing well and will have a nose next year to see whether they are still living in their state subsidised homes driving delapidated Vauxhalls. One even tried to convert me but I politely told her I don't need extra income

Next year they will have probably moved on to Avon, Kleeneze, Body Shop at Home, so they can sit at home on their backside hoping to make The Sunday Times Rich List in 2067.

PasturesNew

Skintski wrote: »

... I work in sales myself but for a reputable company who do not rely on a business model such as this but I know sales can be tough.

Go and listen, then say it's not for you, but if there's any help you can give them with ideas, or admin, for whatever they choose to do then to let you know.

I used to know somebody that was in sales, for "a reputable company" and he started with an MLM years ago. Everybody scoffed. Roll on a few years and he and his wife and children had moved out of their ex-council house on the edge of a dodgy estate and moved 4 miles out of town to a respectable village, where they bought a larger house, that included a coachhouse in the garden - and he turned the top floor of that into a handy sales presentation room ... and his kids were having horses and riding lessons .... and roll on what's now over 30 years and he's done well, pretty loaded.

Only the majority of people fail at it, so you can't just knock it because 99% fail. Who knows.... sound supportive, but distanced.