Daughter been offered work via Facebook ?? (Health Boss / Juice Plus).

Korkyb

Hi all

Not sure if this is the correct forum to post this but...

My 20 year old daughter has been contacted by a friend of a friend via facebook and offered a way to make a little bit of money.

Its by advertising products for a company called "Health Boss" (I think it sells / promotes "Juice Plus" products).

The girl that contacted my daughter did tell her that she gets a bonus for recruiting other people so seems to have been up front about that.

I may just be getting old & maybe this is the way of the world now but I'm obviously concerned in case there is anything amiss about this offer.

My daughter has a decent, & relatively secure job so doesn't really need to do this for financial reasons but is interested as she is a bit bored at the moment (as is most of the population I guess).

Can anyone give me any information about this company / what she might be asked to do & ultimately is she going to end up being out of pocket in some way  ??

Thanks all & stay safe!

jonesMUFCforever

It's a form of pyramid selling - she won't make any money. Please tell her not to put up any money for stock.

Retireby40

Pyramid scheme. You make money roping other naive people into doing the same. Avoid. Plus its arguably one of the most annoying things on social media. Basically the friend of a friend will make money when your daughter buys all these products to sell. Your daughter will be stuck with products she cant shift and she will be told to try get friends to join and waste their money.

If your daughter does need extra money better trying to get an extra few hours in work overtime or when things get back to normal take a small bar job or something at the weekend.

Misslayed

Please ask your daughter to Google MLM, or Multi Level Marketing. It will horrify/enlighten/warn her. 

strawb_shortcake

I have a few FB friends that do this, they try to sell their products, then a few weeks later encourage you to get involved by telling you what fantastic money they are making, would be interested to know what their profit margins are. It does feel as if the recruitment of new people is the harder sale than the products.
Other than a friend of a friend that kept it going awhile it doesn't usually last long and is never mentioned again

Pollycat

Korkyb said:

Hi all

Not sure if this is the correct forum to post this but...

My 20 year old daughter has been contacted by a friend of a friend via facebook and offered a way to make a little bit of money.

Its by advertising products for a company called "Health Boss" (I think it sells / promotes "Juice Plus" products).

The girl that contacted my daughter did tell her that she gets a bonus for recruiting other people so seems to have been up front about that.

I may just be getting old & maybe this is the way of the world now but I'm obviously concerned in case there is anything amiss about this offer.

My daughter has a decent, & relatively secure job so doesn't really need to do this for financial reasons but is interested as she is a bit bored at the moment (as is most of the population I guess).

Can anyone give me any information about this company / what she might be asked to do & ultimately is she going to end up being out of pocket in some way  ??

Thanks all & stay safe!

Why does 'Health Boss' think your daughter will be able to advertise their products better than they can?

TBH, if you regularly read Praise, Vent & Warnings board and Consumer Rights board, the mere mention of doing any sort of business involving Facebook results in the proverbial bargepole being mentioned.

But if it's not going to cost her any money, is going to keep her occupied and isn't going to hack her friends off by her trying to get them to buy products or recruit them to advertise Health Boss products, I guess she doesn't have anything to lose.

I wouldn't want a friend of mine trying to get me to buy over-priced juice products.

barbiedoll

These schemes, and their products, are a laughing-stock all over FB. Your daughter will make absolutely no money, and if she starts pestering her friends to buy these dubious-sounding items, none of which are of any benefit to anyone's health, she will probably find herself being unfriended or blocked by at least some of them.

If she's really that bored, tell her to have a look at some of the "citizen science" projects online. She won't make any extra cash, but she can contribute to actual scientific research, by counting penguin colonies, classifying galaxies, or any number of other schemes, all of which need ordinary people and their observations to make up the numbers needed for meaningful data sets.

If she's not particularly scientifically-minded, what about crafting? Recycling and making stuff from other stuff is enormously popular right now, there are loads of websites dedicated to this.

Anything is better than flogging the MLM tat, and ripping off her friends!

MovingForwards

I had a friend keep pushing me to take on a similar kind of thing, we're no longer friends as there's only so many times I will say no to someone.
Take a look on local selling groups, how many people are pushing to sign others up to these fantastic schemes, then look at their own profiles all you see are the spam advertising, never anything to do with how all this magic money is being spent, after all, if it's that we'll paid why not be having a few holidays a year, replace the kids clothes, furniture and anything else which is long overdue.

If she is that bored, she can take up a new hobby, learn a new language, volunteer or a million other things to pass the time.

Korkyb

Thanks everyone.
I've sent her the link to this thread & she has decided against pursuing a career in MLM.

Pollycat

Korkyb said:

Thanks everyone.
I've sent her the link to this thread & she has decided against pursuing a career in MLM.

Have to say kudos to your daughter for not being daft enough to go for it without sense-checking it first.

wilfred30

To be fair, I think that kudos belongs to the OP rather than their daughter