I love Hannah’s calm, informative way of presenting but I’m never disappointed when kitties need the spotlight. Come for the good commentary, stay for photo bombing cats.
The person who works as a housekeeper is a gem. Charging less to help support families who they felt could use the help and stress relief is top tier behavior. ♥️
hey hannah, thank you so much for reading my birthday party story! i know you have hundreds of stories in the bank haha. i wish i had more answers for you and i appreciate all of the commentary, bc i’m still confused too. btw i just turned 22 and my “best friend” is still my best friend and we go to college together now! 💜
I had a similar experience! I was in 6th grade and went to a party for a friend. Before the oarty, we were told to bring money but we didn't know why. I didn't feel co Fortaleza asking my dad for cash so I was the only one who went with no money. While we didn't sample makeup, the rep had a 3 price skincare routine to teach us and sold sample packs to the kids there. We were probably 11-12 🙄🙄
Zeke marked and claimed the camera and by doing so he marked and claimed us all. We all belong to Zeke now! ❤ I love that cat almost as much as I love the mlm content on this channel!
Your warning reminded me of the time an old acquaintance messaged me to hang out And I asked her flat out are you trying to sell me something because I am not trying to buy into anything😂😂😂 she genuinely just wanted to be friends😭😂💜💜💜
That cutco story and your comment reminded me of when i started a job for an internet provider doing customer service. When we were just about to start the training, the teacher said 'so now i will tell you the things you need to purchase and bring to do this job'. My butt clenched and i was in my mind 'oh no...this is a scam'. Then he said 'absolutely nothing. Just bring yourselves every day. Everything you need we will provide' 🤣😅 because it is soooo true: if they ask you to spend money, it is probably a scam
The student teacher one hit so close to home. I had a paraprofessional that worked with me that I felt very close to in school. When I was a teacher, I taught in a very rough title 1 school and the relationships with the staff around you sometimes felt like it was the only thing holding you up. I leaned on this para quite a bit for support, and she ended up pitching me some CBD MLM. I was gutted. Much love to that music teacher, I’m glad she found her own footing. Also, I didn’t know I needed to see an ultra close up of Zeke today, but I’m so glad it did ❤
This brought back so many memories! I had a "job interview" the summer after I graduated high school. Must have been the same company. They got a group of us in a room and tried to convince us to buy the demo set. I slunk out the side door before they could corner me. Someone tried to stop me as I was leaving but I just yelled "I'm broke" over my shoulder. NOPE
I use an embroidery machine during my days in my home office, so I have started putting in headphones so I can listen to tv/TH-cam while I work. So far I've noticed a lot of things I have missed before, like CC Suarez's dog snoring in the background and now, Zeke's MMMRRRR-ing in the background of yours. I love these little hints of my favorite YTers' pets! :-D
The weightloss thing is so sad. I heared a lot of people who are aware of MLM and post about weightloss usually put watermarks claryfing which methode they use to loose weight.
Oh my stars, I've seen her photos on my Facebook from friends in the past! I can't believe that... I will absolutely be commenting and letting people know the truth.
I recently had a friend pitch me a new lifestyle diet. My antenna was raised. I directly asked what company she represented and she responded with Optavia. Thanks to you, I dodged the bullet of supporting friends in an MLM. I’m sad that I really can’t share the truth with her until she starts questioning it for herself.
Zeke was sooo cute! 😻Loving (claiming) the camera. 😹 This morning was chilly in southern Cali, so I put on a soft sherpa-like top. When I sat down to have my coffee, my cat Angelo got on my lap & began kneading like crazy, which he has not done the whole summer. Maybe I reminded him of his cat-mom. 😻
Hannah your videos helped me sidestep a FB message from a scammer posing as my brother-in-law’s sister. We’d met a few times and liked each other’s posts over the years so I was only slightly surprised when she texted me to say hello and ask me how I was doing. I responded and asked how she was. She wrote back saying she was super, that she and her husband were enjoying a new program. 2+2= RED FLAG. I didn’t respond and instead contacted my bro-in-law telling him I thought his sister had been hacked, blocked that poster and moved on. Thank you for helping me be alert!
Ugh my cat LOVEEEEES the Zeke noises! He purrs (his content purr, not the I-am-self-soothing purr) and looks around all curious, like he’s lookin’ for Zeke!!! I love Hannah’s cats and their cute little noises SO MUCH and now my own buddy does too! 😂
I just messaged a girl from HS who has posted her weight loss journey pictures without a watermark to warn her that her photos might get stolen by huns. She hasn’t marked them so far, but hopefully she will.
Many years ago when my mom was in Avon and a friend had a party my mom had the friends mom to agree to a certain amount per child. The parry host paid for the Avon order and it was like a departing party gift except delivered to your home.
@21:16 There was a body builder who was also a competition eater. He showed how easy it is to take a fit before picture, eat a bunch of crap and take a bloated after picture, then switch the captions. The transformation was less than 24 hours and he was showing how easy it was for supplement companies to make false claims with this type of trickery.
Zeke knows what all this stuff is, it's CLOSE UP time! XD Other than kitty, thank you very much for sharing these pieces. It's always good to see that there are folks who disagree with these MLMs.
I didn't even realize Avon was a MLM, my neighbor would sell some, but I don't recall her ever pushing or even reaching out to people. She just had a magazine and would order things if we were interested. Never really occurred to my 12 brain that it might be odd why she would be selling things I'd usually get from the store.
Yes! I used to clean houses and had a customer who made me use her MLM garbage products. They were like using nothing! The bathroom stuff was the worst for me ugh
It’s so baffling to me that mlm huns try to pitch to service providers WHOSE SERVICES THEY NEED, because what if every house cleaner, barista and nail tech just started selling overpriced garbage? It just speaks to the desperation and lack of foresight.
My cooperating teacher also sold an mlm, Thirty-One.i bought a few things and luckily I actually use them still. It's a very uncomfortable power dynamic when the person who holds your entire career future in their hands sells an mlm product; you purchase because you want to do everything you can for them to like you and pass you.
I finally figured it out! The reason I love your videos so SO much is because it genuinely feels like hanging out with a friend, having a chat and sharing info and support. It finally hit me at the end of this video, when Zeke was showing off how handsome he is, you make me feel comfortable. I feel very at ease with you. Most creators would cut those bits out but honestly I think it humanizes you and makes this such a unique and safe space ❤ thank you for everything you do, sending lots of love to you and your family (kitties included, of course!)
I worked for Cutco for a day, and when my mom found out I was gonna be pitching to strangers In their homes, she made me quit. She knew a woman who was SAd because she had a job that made her do the same
These MLM huns make me so anxious because I love reaching out to people out of the blue and i like to catch up with people. Im always afraid that ppl think I have some alterior motive 😭
I haven't even finished watching the video yet - still on the first story - but I just needed to say something. To the person who wrote in: you are a wonderful human being and even though I haven't benefited from your services, I am grateful to you. I have relatively recently become fully disabled (about two years now), and thus can no longer clean, cook, or even shower, by myself. My husband works full-time overnight, about twelve hours every day, so it's difficult for him to take care of everything himself and both our kids have special needs so they contribute minimally. Our house is an incredible mess. It's basically become a hoarder house and I'm deeply ashamed of it. I'd absolutely love to be able to hire someone to come help us, but we literally can't afford it. We had to decide between buying food for the family or getting my very necessary medications a few times already (the food wins out because everyone needs to eat), which is very bad for me. I am sincerely and eternally grateful that there are people like you out there who help others in situations like ours. Thank you. I hope you know that you are providing a service that is incredibly necessary to some, and you deserve all the recognition for it... and I'm sorry that you had to deal with someone who essentially took advantage of that. You deserve better. Again, thank you for what you do. I am jealous of those whom you've already helped!
I'm probably quite different from your typical audience as I am a middle aged man from northern europe. I have listened to hours and hours of this MLM stuff and its absolute comedy gold. I love the insane cult aspect of it all, even though I dont understand half the products being sold. Keep it up
the concept of paying for products you sell FOR the company that provides those products should always be the first red flag. it reminds me of the episode of SpongeBob where Patrick gets a job at the Krusty Krab, lmao. “It sure was nice of Mr. Krabs to give me a job.” “Yeah, and at $50 an hour, too. When I started working here, I had to pay him $100 an hour!”
I fell for the cutco knife thing myself out of high school, 14 years ago. I still feel horrible to this day for the list of contacts they asked us to give them to "contact other people who might be interested in the opportunity." if we gave them enough names, we could get an extra pair of the $30 scissors for free, so I swept through my phone contact list and wrote down 30 people. 30. I don't know what happened to those scissors but i ruined a lot of friendships, deservedly so. I also remember the lady doing the group interview telling us all we were not her friends, so being rude must be their MO.
At my friend’s birthday party in 8th grade, a random woman from our church was there to give us Mary Kay makeovers. It’s not much of a horror story because I don’t remember a lot about it, just that I got some mascara to try. At the time I just thought maybe she was close with their family so they let her come, but now that I think about it, it’s pretty weird that she was there. Seems like middle school girls are a pretty common target for these indirect pitches to parents because they’re just old enough for makeup and young enough to not know what a pyramid scheme is lol
Yes, so interesting how common this is. There was a Mary Kay makeover party one day when I was in Girl Scouts. I’m pretty sure I was in elementary school at the time.
My niece did cutco for a while when she was new in college. She had moved away from us to her new college in another state so she was alone and jobless and a freshman. I remember she made a presentation to our family my brother-(Her dad) and we all know what Cutco was so he bought a knife set on terms of her quitting...And she did so gladly she got a normal job afterward.
Their knives are actually really good knives. This is how they survive. My brother got sucked in for a few weeks. He made sales to our parents, a neighbor & a friend’s parents. It’s a churn & burn- they hire constantly, most hires make a few sales to family & friends & quit within a few weeks. They just churning thru ppl getting 1-3 sales on most of them
I think this channel should be called the Hannah and Zeke Show! I have seen a lot of people on diet and fitness forums complaining their photos had been stolen by huns.
I had a friend that was heavily into buying that Norwex crap. I made sure I didn’t buy 1 thing from her or i would have been continuously pestered by her to buy more things.
Thank you for reading my story. Yes those pics are mine. I didn't know what a DMCA was, at least not until now. I will be looking into this. No the pictures are not fake its really me. And they were not circulating in 2010 I didn't have the surgery until 2015. Looking forward to seeing the Multi-level Monster Halloween costumes for 2022.
When I was in grade 8, I had just moved to a new school, it was a smaller community. There was only 8 girls in the class and they had all gone to school together since kindergarten. The one girl held a big sleepover with all of us so I could meet everyone. Well, at the party, her mom broke out the Avon catalogs and sold all of us some lip balm and lotion. I remember calling my mom and telling her to bring my $20 from my piggy bank when she came to pick me up so I could get my lip balms. I'm sure a lot of people have similar experiences. It's so easy to sell little makeup products to tween/teen girls.
My Boyfriend’s mom did/ was an Optavia coach and the thing about posing with bags of sugar to show how much weight she lost sounds almost exactly like what my bf’s mom had done. During the holiday season, she and her would post pictures of her and her husband next to turkeys to show how much weight they had lost.
I love the term "Hunbot" it perfectly encapsulates that type. Listening to these horror stories, I consider myself lucky to be an anti social introvert! Also, though I had a brush with an mlm company many years ago, I don't think they are as prevalent in the UK. Or that could be because I am an introvert. 😊
I have an acquaintance who does every MLM imaginable, and every time she switches to a new one she invites me to her social media groups, pages, and tags me in posts. I've told her i'm not interested in any of the stuff she sells (origami owl, scentsty, now its a nail one and makeup) . How do i nicely tell her to stop inviting me to all of her groups cuz I will not buy anything.
I don't think people realize how common it is for educators to target their alumni to their "opportunity". I've seen them also target students and their families who come from financially insecure households and I have had to step in. Many of my colleagues just watch from a distance in order to not cause a rift, some have even indulged and purchased just to keep them at bay. Its really terrible to see and even worse to realize how many students/families they have actually screwed over.
I'm glad the person in the first story made the best decision for their wellbeing, but it's such a shame that MLMs detracted from such an awesome housekeeping concept. As the oldest of three who grew up in a very low-income household (and parents who worked multiple jobs), I can't even begin to count how many times my mom used to say she wished we could afford an occasional helping hand just to lighten a bit of the load.
I just had a "memory unlocked" moment in this video when hearing "Vector Marketing": In 2015, I graduated from university with a marketing degree and I vaguely remember that when I was searching for a job after graduating, I saw job postings for Vector Marketing on Indeed and other job posting websites. I knew I didn't want to go down the "direct sales" avenue of marketing, which is how the job was described in the posting, so I never applied to the company. Because I didn't apply or interact with Vector Marketing, I didn't know until now that the company was an MLM and that Vector Marketing is actually Cutco.
I went to the “job interview” and there was tons of teens my age there. I was barely 18. We all got hired imagine that 😂 I left and didn’t answe any more calls
I went to the “job interview” and there was tons of teens my age there. I was barely 18. We all got hired imagine that 😂 I left and didn’t answe any more calls
The story 2 is super sad! I know how important it is for a young student to get their supervisor approval : i had the chance to connect very well with my phd supervisor and she helped me so much to grow and become the woman i now am. Seeing this woman who exploit her ascending position to sell her mlm is so sad! Lots of hearts to the person who shared the story!
To the music teacher: I am so sorry that happened to you. I am so angry on your behalf. From one educator to another, you sound like someone with a solid educator heart and it sounds like uou have worked really hard to learn and grow. Well done! As a teacher, I adore music and art teachers. And I respect all of the skills that you so generously share with your students. The fact that someone who was your teacher mentor was willing to use approval and false friendship to groom you is absolutely abhorrent. I am shaking thinking about it. How dare she contact you year later to do anything other than to tell you how proud she is of you!
As a small kid in the 80's, my granny always brought me to Avon parties with her. It was a small group of old women who grew up together. I had fun as a kid. In the early 2000's/late 90's, my co-worker at my dad's gas station would once a month bring an Avon booklet to work with her. A lady she worked with at her other job sold it. I bought jewelry and nail polish. I knew it was a MLM but it was another older lady who was selling it. Southern guilt, it's s thing. I stopped buying when the store shut down.
I have never done a real life spit take before until today the second I heard digeorge syndrome. I have full love and support in my heart for the subscriber who sent in that story but I will say as someone who's brother has digeorge she was massively understating. First off to have someone with that condition and to be so independent and high functioning is a miracle in itself and she is a real life Wonder Woman. Secondly Hannah I know we need to have some understanding for those in the cult like mindset however her aunt deserves NO pity WHATSOEVER. This is from someone who has perspective on this condition and the family that surrounds it. There is for a fact NO WAY IN HELL this aunt didn't know what she was doing. The level of mental and physical affect on someone who has that is very obvious and it is absolutely DISTGUSTING that she turned around to try and get her into Mary Kay. I have never felt so personally horrified in my life until this story. She was FULLY AWARE the level she could try and take advantage of her this could've gone south so fast and so hard for that girl you have NO IDEA. You've cried in horror at some stories before this if you understood fully like I do you'd be crying like I am. That was a very narrowly dodged bullet far too close to home. Her aunt does deserve shame, period. There is no amount of money desperation that could make this okay in any mindset. EVER. If you read this Hannah or anyone else I encourage you to read up on digeorge its an extremely rare condition. If anyone is looking for closer examples of the level of advantage one could take please understand that most with digeorge fall into the very strong end of the autistic spectrum. And if the girl who sent that in reads this know that you are a beautifully smart and capable woman. And even though I am a stranger I am so proud of you and your parents should be equally proud. Okay soap box moment over, I hope everyone has a good day!
I now realize I think a schoolmate of mine may have had this. It was long before the autism spectrum was discussed ( I was also really young so would not have necessarily understood the spectrum anyway) . I do remember her having a heart defect and some other things I know she was born with. She was not in our school after elementary school so I don't know many more details. I know there could be a lot of different reasons for her problems but when I looked this one up it did seem to fit with a lot of what I had known she had had growing up.
Watching this on Halloween and a neighbor posted her “candy all cleaned out!” Picture in the neighborhood chat. The table was full of a pampered chef apron and pamphlets- all still there after 2 hrs of trick or treating 😅
I went to SO MANY mary kay parties in elementary school. Lots of mother daughter parties. My mom doesn't use mary kay anymore after finally looking at ingredients (I have severe allergies to common cosmetic ingredients & she is learning she also does too) but back then she loved it bc she'd get a discount. I hated it bc I didnt want lessons on eye shadow or deep red lipstick at 8 years old. There is actually a photo of me and my best friends after a make over and it is AWFUL.
I wear color street. And very detailed they say to never sell to kids, it goes against compliance and ethics and you can lose your website and everything. They have people watch stuff like that because they follow strict guidelines apparently unlike Avon
The cleaning products were probably just water and essential oils. I've seen a lot of those that are advertised as all natural and chemical free. Also a lot of claims of being disinfectant like germs will die as soon as they leave your house 🙄 As someone who looked up how to make their own essential oil sprays (for scent) I found a few warnings about residue on certain surfaces.
I remember getting the sketchy Vector letters in university! Even at 17, I could tell it must be a scam. I also understand bad work experiences really hurting your confidence. I just got sacked for the third time in a year, and of course I need to find another job but I become more and more shy and genuinely fearful every time I have to start at a new employer. I had worked at the same place for over eight years before deciding to stay home with my daughter for a while and I’m terrified I will never find another workplace where I felt comfortable like that. The past two jobs I had, I didn’t even know that employers/coworkers could treat people like that.
My sister joined cutco. She wasn't right out of High Dchool but she was a single mom doing the best that she could. She tried to get me to join it too. I wasn't aware of what MLMs were at the time, but there was no way that I was going to quite my job at Walmart to try and sell knives. I always thought of businesses like Cutco to be scummy and I tried to tell her so. She didn't want to hear it, but also she wasn't in Cutco very long and quite when she found d out that she wasn't getting an actual pay check. She got paid like $16 on her first pay check and then quit. I also had a coworker who said that he didn't get any money from his time with Cutco and had told me all about his experience when I told him about my sister trying to get me to Join. He said that they are a scam and that I shouldn't join. I told him I hadn't planned on if but my sister had. Also just want to say, my husband would have never allowed it either. He even said that it sounded like a scam.
It is definitely on the more extreme ends of actions to take to get them to take down the photos...but they could always try threatening to sue them for copyright violations. Pay a lawyer to write up a notice, and then send that to them. See if that changes their tune. I'm not one to advocate for frivolous lawsuit threats...but if it getting to the point where the poster is reaching their end, it might be an option. I don't know if actually bringing a lawsuit would help, but the threat of one might change minds.
Norwex or Stanley home products.... my mom sold Stanley back in the day it's still around but it was sticky but I don't think they claim it's "chemical free" so my modern bet is Norwex. My mother had an entire storage room filled with products for years to the point that I'm almost 40 and that room called "the Stanley Room"
Awe. Zeke was voicing his displeasure with the hun in that story. What a sweet baby. Loved the close up 😂 I feel so bad for then one girl who’s pictures are being shared without her permission. That’s disgusting.
I always listen to the Horror Stories series in the Morning while getting ready for work. I love it. 😊 But I had to do a double take as in my short time in the MLM world (in Germany!!) and becoming a part of the Anti-MLM movement afterwards I have definitely seen these before&after photos floating around… 😢😮
I'm wondering if the Avon rep billed the parents and the parents just threw up their hands and paid. Maybe the girl's mother never said anything to her about having to pay for the nail polish she picked out as a "gift", lol.
yes! house cleaner I feel you! that is my job as well I own my own company and I love it but I flat out refuse to use anyone's 3 Norwex rags to clean their entire house or their whatever that Shaklee soap is that you just mix different amounts of water to clean different surfaces. all of that crap is garbage. if you want your house clean let me do it the right way otherwise go wipe your magical rags on your own stuff 😂
So, when I was younger… about 7th or 8th grade, I was invited to a birthday party that was a Mary Kay party… I didn’t buy anything but we did get a lot of free samples at the party to play with/ experiment with. I actually really enjoyed it. I didn’t have anyone around that showed me how to use makeup, and I love makeup, so I personally thought it was awesome. However, they did not ask us to buy anything just gave us a brochure to take home with the items we liked circled in it so we could get them in the future. She was amazing and showed me a lot of old school tricks with makeup that I still use today. This was like 25 years ago…. There was not TH-cam and stuff to show you these things, so having someone show me was great. That being said- MLMs are terrible, but I will forever be grateful to that rep for showing me how to properly use makeup so I didn’t walk around looking like a clown lol
Just popped in to say I LOVE your videos, and I cannot handle how cute Zeke is. He reminds me of my girl I lost last year. Forever joining my zoom meetings 😂 I love his little meow and always think it’s my boy at first.
I had a friend in elementary & middle school who had a couple MLM parties... in 5th grade it was a mother/daughter party type thing where some lady pitched us some skincare/makeup type stuff. Then in like 7th grade it was a Mary Kay birthday party. The rep horribly misjudged my pale af skin and started putting a darker foundation on me. Realized about half way through so she just decided to do one half of my face in that shade and the other in a shade that more closely matched my actual skin. I looked ridiculous. Lol! I don't remember them being super pushy on trying to sell us products though. They probably saved that for when our parents came to pick us up... also, maybe the lady just didn't even try for me since she messed up my makeup so bad. Who knows. It was all so weird though.
For the Avon birthday party, I think that the mom probably paid out of pocket for all the product and needed to get to a certain dollar amount to either get hostess gifts. When I was little, guests almost never got gifts to take home after a birthday party, but I noticed that when my kids were little, everyone got a goodie bag with little toys and candy after a party. Now I guess they're doing make up and MLM products. Hands up if anyone had their kid come home with some essential oil or Amway cleaning products?
When my sister was 6 she got invited to her friends birthday party. They called it a "chef" theme and they were going to all decorate cupcakes and cookies in little chef hats. Sounds cute,.right? Well it was all a trap. The mom was a pampered chef seller and legit pressured every single mother into BUYING the "party favors" aka the products. My mom was so mad but let my sister pick out the cheapest item she had available in person -a simple red fruit peeler. This is when I learned about mlms and how bad they were. But my sister ADORED that stupid peeler because she thought "wow I went to someone's birthday and I GOT A PRESENT" she didn't know mom bought it.
The student teaching one reminded me some of my own experience. I had this teacher in high school that was incredible. She also led a club I was in all four years where I competed internationally and she was really a mentor for me. She is a big part of the reason I am successful today. After high school I didn’t hear from her for about 2 years when she reached out to catch up. I was excited to see her and of course said yes. When I showed up only to see she wanted to recruit me for Amway I was devastated. I hadn’t heard anything from her for years and when she reached out it was just to pitch a broke college student her MLM. I deleted her from all my social media and never spoke to her again. I still think about that and how hurt I was that she didn’t really care about me.
My husband’s brother and his wife are on Optavia…she just posted a picture of herself with a bunch of pumpkins saying how much weight she lost in pumpkins. They have lost a lot of weight, but how long can they continue this strict, expensive “diet”??? Luckily they haven’t pitched it to any of us.
Zeke shoving his face into camera is by far the cutest thing I've ever seen.
I love Hannah’s calm, informative way of presenting but I’m never disappointed when kitties need the spotlight. Come for the good commentary, stay for photo bombing cats.
Zeke shoving his face into the the camera is also so very cat of him. What a precious little bean! 🥰
Its actually Zeke's channel, hannah just works here lol
Kitty! He’s so cute.
I rewatched that part 4 times, lol. Hannah interrupting her own thought with “- okay” before the jump cut really cracked me up.
The person who works as a housekeeper is a gem. Charging less to help support families who they felt could use the help and stress relief is top tier behavior. ♥️
But thanks to” Boss Babes”, she stopped and that’s sad for those that genuinely needed it
@@Makeup4ever5 at least they saved her back? Being a cleaner should come with free massages and pain pills
Zeke got a lot to say this MLM Horror Stories. I appreciate his support.
Zeke is a glorious floof
6:10 The tail tip bouncing across the screen ... 😁😁 You know right then he is going to weigh in. 😁🥰
“It’s 100% chemical free!” So it’s nothing. Like it’s literally nothing.
cleaner that consists of absolutely nothing... call that a vacuum cleaner
This 😅😂 it's just a bottle of air 😅
@@Puddleduck1Not even air, air is still a chemical 🤣
@@MacaAracena 🤣🤣 True!!
The surface cleaning product that the cleaner described sounds so weird. Like why was it sticky? What is it made of?
Thank you to Zeke for booping the camera. I feel very blessed on this day.
hey hannah, thank you so much for reading my birthday party story! i know you have hundreds of stories in the bank haha. i wish i had more answers for you and i appreciate all of the commentary, bc i’m still confused too. btw i just turned 22 and my “best friend” is still my best friend and we go to college together now! 💜
I wonder how they would have handled it if there were girls whose parents had rules against them wearing makeup at 13
Ok but who paid for the product???? 🤣
I’m so relieved to hear that you guys are still friends! All too often, these stories end with friendships fizzling out. :(
Glad to hear that your friendship didn't end over this. It's too sad what MLMs often do to relationships and friendships.
I had a similar experience! I was in 6th grade and went to a party for a friend. Before the oarty, we were told to bring money but we didn't know why. I didn't feel co Fortaleza asking my dad for cash so I was the only one who went with no money. While we didn't sample makeup, the rep had a 3 price skincare routine to teach us and sold sample packs to the kids there. We were probably 11-12 🙄🙄
Zeke marked and claimed the camera and by doing so he marked and claimed us all. We all belong to Zeke now! ❤ I love that cat almost as much as I love the mlm content on this channel!
Your warning reminded me of the time an old acquaintance messaged me to hang out And I asked her flat out are you trying to sell me something because I am not trying to buy into anything😂😂😂 she genuinely just wanted to be friends😭😂💜💜💜
It is sad that you have to do that.
Awesome that they genuinely just wanted to be friends, it's sounding like that's more and more rare these days.
You’ve inspired my next horror movie: “MULTI-LEVEL MONSTERS: ATTACK OF THE HUNS”
Zombie apocalypse movie
😂😂
Omg as a disabled mom I wish I could find a house cleaner like your first story…. It would be a lifesaver.
That cutco story and your comment reminded me of when i started a job for an internet provider doing customer service. When we were just about to start the training, the teacher said 'so now i will tell you the things you need to purchase and bring to do this job'. My butt clenched and i was in my mind 'oh no...this is a scam'. Then he said 'absolutely nothing. Just bring yourselves every day. Everything you need we will provide' 🤣😅 because it is soooo true: if they ask you to spend money, it is probably a scam
I own a cleaning company. My least well paid employee makes more than 99% of MLM customer/distributors.
The student teacher one hit so close to home. I had a paraprofessional that worked with me that I felt very close to in school. When I was a teacher, I taught in a very rough title 1 school and the relationships with the staff around you sometimes felt like it was the only thing holding you up. I leaned on this para quite a bit for support, and she ended up pitching me some CBD MLM. I was gutted. Much love to that music teacher, I’m glad she found her own footing.
Also, I didn’t know I needed to see an ultra close up of Zeke today, but I’m so glad it did ❤
Listening to your precious cat in the background helps soothe the awful feels of some of these stories.
This brought back so many memories! I had a "job interview" the summer after I graduated high school. Must have been the same company. They got a group of us in a room and tried to convince us to buy the demo set. I slunk out the side door before they could corner me. Someone tried to stop me as I was leaving but I just yelled "I'm broke" over my shoulder. NOPE
Poor “neglected” Zeke!!!! Give the kitties some ear scritchin’ from me.
I use an embroidery machine during my days in my home office, so I have started putting in headphones so I can listen to tv/TH-cam while I work. So far I've noticed a lot of things I have missed before, like CC Suarez's dog snoring in the background and now, Zeke's MMMRRRR-ing in the background of yours. I love these little hints of my favorite YTers' pets! :-D
The weightloss thing is so sad. I heared a lot of people who are aware of MLM and post about weightloss usually put watermarks claryfing which methode they use to loose weight.
Oh my stars, I've seen her photos on my Facebook from friends in the past! I can't believe that... I will absolutely be commenting and letting people know the truth.
Zeke just making sure we're listening. Such a good boy.
I recently had a friend pitch me a new lifestyle diet. My antenna was raised.
I directly asked what company she represented and she responded with Optavia.
Thanks to you, I dodged the bullet of supporting friends in an MLM.
I’m sad that I really can’t share the truth with her until she starts questioning it for herself.
Zeke was sooo cute! 😻Loving (claiming) the camera. 😹 This morning was chilly in southern Cali, so I put on a soft sherpa-like top. When I sat down to have my coffee, my cat Angelo got on my lap & began kneading like crazy, which he has not done the whole summer. Maybe I reminded him of his cat-mom. 😻
Hannah your videos helped me sidestep a FB message from a scammer posing as my brother-in-law’s sister. We’d met a few times and liked each other’s posts over the years so I was only slightly surprised when she texted me to say hello and ask me how I was doing. I responded and asked how she was. She wrote back saying she was super, that she and her husband were enjoying a new program. 2+2= RED FLAG. I didn’t respond and instead contacted my bro-in-law telling him I thought his sister had been hacked, blocked that poster and moved on. Thank you for helping me be alert!
Imagine what a wake up call that would have been for her if she hadn't been hacked & was genuinely just trying to pitch you something lol.
@@naeshelle Haha good point. She’s a retired nurse and very down to earth. I did check with my BIL and he said delete the text and block the poster.
omg thats so weird lol like did that person really think you wouldn't find out!? lmao
I admire how empathetic and validating you are to the people who write these stories. I also love the cat close ups ❤❤
Ugh my cat LOVEEEEES the Zeke noises! He purrs (his content purr, not the I-am-self-soothing purr) and looks around all curious, like he’s lookin’ for Zeke!!! I love Hannah’s cats and their cute little noises SO MUCH and now my own buddy does too! 😂
I just messaged a girl from HS who has posted her weight loss journey pictures without a watermark to warn her that her photos might get stolen by huns. She hasn’t marked them so far, but hopefully she will.
Watermarks are also easy to remove unfortunately
Zeke was getting really comfortable with the camera today!!
Many years ago when my mom was in Avon and a friend had a party my mom had the friends mom to agree to a certain amount per child. The parry host paid for the Avon order and it was like a departing party gift except delivered to your home.
I grew up in that era as well!
This was also the age of when Avon more then likely wasn’t an mlm but a regional sales job.
@21:16 There was a body builder who was also a competition eater. He showed how easy it is to take a fit before picture, eat a bunch of crap and take a bloated after picture, then switch the captions. The transformation was less than 24 hours and he was showing how easy it was for supplement companies to make false claims with this type of trickery.
Zeke knows what all this stuff is, it's CLOSE UP time! XD Other than kitty, thank you very much for sharing these pieces. It's always good to see that there are folks who disagree with these MLMs.
I didn't even realize Avon was a MLM, my neighbor would sell some, but I don't recall her ever pushing or even reaching out to people. She just had a magazine and would order things if we were interested. Never really occurred to my 12 brain that it might be odd why she would be selling things I'd usually get from the store.
Hilariously, my cat answered to Zeke’s meowing.😂😂😂
I have to say that I enjoyed how nuanced you are as you were with the Mary Kay Aunt story.
Yes! I used to clean houses and had a customer who made me use her MLM garbage products. They were like using nothing! The bathroom stuff was the worst for me ugh
It’s so baffling to me that mlm huns try to pitch to service providers WHOSE SERVICES THEY NEED, because what if every house cleaner, barista and nail tech just started selling overpriced garbage? It just speaks to the desperation and lack of foresight.
I think the cats remembered they didn’t make an appearance last time and are making up for it now 😅
My cooperating teacher also sold an mlm, Thirty-One.i bought a few things and luckily I actually use them still. It's a very uncomfortable power dynamic when the person who holds your entire career future in their hands sells an mlm product; you purchase because you want to do everything you can for them to like you and pass you.
I finally figured it out! The reason I love your videos so SO much is because it genuinely feels like hanging out with a friend, having a chat and sharing info and support. It finally hit me at the end of this video, when Zeke was showing off how handsome he is, you make me feel comfortable. I feel very at ease with you. Most creators would cut those bits out but honestly I think it humanizes you and makes this such a unique and safe space ❤ thank you for everything you do, sending lots of love to you and your family (kitties included, of course!)
I worked for Cutco for a day, and when my mom found out I was gonna be pitching to strangers In their homes, she made me quit. She knew a woman who was SAd because she had a job that made her do the same
These MLM huns make me so anxious because I love reaching out to people out of the blue and i like to catch up with people. Im always afraid that ppl think I have some alterior motive 😭
I haven't even finished watching the video yet - still on the first story - but I just needed to say something.
To the person who wrote in: you are a wonderful human being and even though I haven't benefited from your services, I am grateful to you. I have relatively recently become fully disabled (about two years now), and thus can no longer clean, cook, or even shower, by myself. My husband works full-time overnight, about twelve hours every day, so it's difficult for him to take care of everything himself and both our kids have special needs so they contribute minimally. Our house is an incredible mess. It's basically become a hoarder house and I'm deeply ashamed of it. I'd absolutely love to be able to hire someone to come help us, but we literally can't afford it. We had to decide between buying food for the family or getting my very necessary medications a few times already (the food wins out because everyone needs to eat), which is very bad for me.
I am sincerely and eternally grateful that there are people like you out there who help others in situations like ours. Thank you. I hope you know that you are providing a service that is incredibly necessary to some, and you deserve all the recognition for it... and I'm sorry that you had to deal with someone who essentially took advantage of that. You deserve better.
Again, thank you for what you do. I am jealous of those whom you've already helped!
I'm probably quite different from your typical audience as I am a middle aged man from northern europe. I have listened to hours and hours of this MLM stuff and its absolute comedy gold. I love the insane cult aspect of it all, even though I dont understand half the products being sold.
Keep it up
I didn't even know Itworks was an MLM 😢
the concept of paying for products you sell FOR the company that provides those products should always be the first red flag. it reminds me of the episode of SpongeBob where Patrick gets a job at the Krusty Krab, lmao.
“It sure was nice of Mr. Krabs to give me a job.”
“Yeah, and at $50 an hour, too. When I started working here, I had to pay him $100 an hour!”
I fell for the cutco knife thing myself out of high school, 14 years ago. I still feel horrible to this day for the list of contacts they asked us to give them to "contact other people who might be interested in the opportunity." if we gave them enough names, we could get an extra pair of the $30 scissors for free, so I swept through my phone contact list and wrote down 30 people. 30. I don't know what happened to those scissors but i ruined a lot of friendships, deservedly so. I also remember the lady doing the group interview telling us all we were not her friends, so being rude must be their MO.
At my friend’s birthday party in 8th grade, a random woman from our church was there to give us Mary Kay makeovers. It’s not much of a horror story because I don’t remember a lot about it, just that I got some mascara to try. At the time I just thought maybe she was close with their family so they let her come, but now that I think about it, it’s pretty weird that she was there. Seems like middle school girls are a pretty common target for these indirect pitches to parents because they’re just old enough for makeup and young enough to not know what a pyramid scheme is lol
This is so common and annoying . How they use “make over” and all they do is use horrible super barely noticeable makeup
Yes, so interesting how common this is. There was a Mary Kay makeover party one day when I was in Girl Scouts. I’m pretty sure I was in elementary school at the time.
Me too. I think I was in 4th grade.
My niece did cutco for a while when she was new in college. She had moved away from us to her new college in another state so she was alone and jobless and a freshman. I remember she made a presentation to our family my brother-(Her dad) and we all know what Cutco was so he bought a knife set on terms of her quitting...And she did so gladly she got a normal job afterward.
Their knives are actually really good knives.
This is how they survive. My brother got sucked in for a few weeks. He made sales to our parents, a neighbor & a friend’s parents. It’s a churn & burn- they hire constantly, most hires make a few sales to family & friends & quit within a few weeks. They just churning thru ppl getting 1-3 sales on most of them
I recently made my first sale on Poshmark. I'm encouraged and will be adding some jackets I can't wear any more this week!
I think this channel should be called the Hannah and Zeke Show! I have seen a lot of people on diet and fitness forums complaining their photos had been stolen by huns.
I wish these were also available as a podcast on Spotify! I always listen to these when I’m cooking or in the shower 😂
I feel so spoiled with all these new videos! Thank you Hannah!!
They are great videos I love watching Hannah.
I had a friend that was heavily into buying that Norwex crap. I made sure I didn’t buy 1 thing from her or i would have been continuously pestered by her to buy more things.
First cc now hannah with the horror stories. Best Monday ever 🥰🥰
Exactly my thought! Haha
Just came from watching CCs vid. What a good Monday
I thought the same thing! It was perfect timing!
Full "Kitty Face" at the 6:26 mark just made my day 😻
That woman is stunning! That’s so rude of people to steal her photos.
I would love to hear more about the woman who had surgery! She sounds so interesting.
Thank you for reading my story. Yes those pics are mine. I didn't know what a DMCA was, at least not until now. I will be looking into this. No the pictures are not fake its really me. And they were not circulating in 2010 I didn't have the surgery until 2015. Looking forward to seeing the Multi-level Monster Halloween costumes for 2022.
When I was in grade 8, I had just moved to a new school, it was a smaller community. There was only 8 girls in the class and they had all gone to school together since kindergarten. The one girl held a big sleepover with all of us so I could meet everyone. Well, at the party, her mom broke out the Avon catalogs and sold all of us some lip balm and lotion. I remember calling my mom and telling her to bring my $20 from my piggy bank when she came to pick me up so I could get my lip balms. I'm sure a lot of people have similar experiences. It's so easy to sell little makeup products to tween/teen girls.
My Boyfriend’s mom did/ was an Optavia coach and the thing about posing with bags of sugar to show how much weight she lost sounds almost exactly like what my bf’s mom had done. During the holiday season, she and her would post pictures of her and her husband next to turkeys to show how much weight they had lost.
I love the term "Hunbot" it perfectly encapsulates that type. Listening to these horror stories, I consider myself lucky to be an anti social introvert! Also, though I had a brush with an mlm company many years ago, I don't think they are as prevalent in the UK. Or that could be because I am an introvert. 😊
I have an acquaintance who does every MLM imaginable, and every time she switches to a new one she invites me to her social media groups, pages, and tags me in posts. I've told her i'm not interested in any of the stuff she sells (origami owl, scentsty, now its a nail one and makeup) . How do i nicely tell her to stop inviting me to all of her groups cuz I will not buy anything.
I don't think people realize how common it is for educators to target their alumni to their "opportunity". I've seen them also target students and their families who come from financially insecure households and I have had to step in. Many of my colleagues just watch from a distance in order to not cause a rift, some have even indulged and purchased just to keep them at bay. Its really terrible to see and even worse to realize how many students/families they have actually screwed over.
I'm glad the person in the first story made the best decision for their wellbeing, but it's such a shame that MLMs detracted from such an awesome housekeeping concept.
As the oldest of three who grew up in a very low-income household (and parents who worked multiple jobs), I can't even begin to count how many times my mom used to say she wished we could afford an occasional helping hand just to lighten a bit of the load.
The cat saying hello to us all had me so tickled 🤣🤣
Zeke's multiple cameos are the cherry on top of the anti MLM cake 😂
I just had a "memory unlocked" moment in this video when hearing "Vector Marketing": In 2015, I graduated from university with a marketing degree and I vaguely remember that when I was searching for a job after graduating, I saw job postings for Vector Marketing on Indeed and other job posting websites. I knew I didn't want to go down the "direct sales" avenue of marketing, which is how the job was described in the posting, so I never applied to the company. Because I didn't apply or interact with Vector Marketing, I didn't know until now that the company was an MLM and that Vector Marketing is actually Cutco.
I went to the “job interview” and there was tons of teens my age there. I was barely 18. We all got hired imagine that 😂 I left and didn’t answe any more calls
I went to the “job interview” and there was tons of teens my age there. I was barely 18. We all got hired imagine that 😂 I left and didn’t answe any more calls
The story 2 is super sad! I know how important it is for a young student to get their supervisor approval : i had the chance to connect very well with my phd supervisor and she helped me so much to grow and become the woman i now am. Seeing this woman who exploit her ascending position to sell her mlm is so sad! Lots of hearts to the person who shared the story!
I swear at first I thought there was a child saying “mom” in the background… nope just meows 🤣
To the music teacher: I am so sorry that happened to you. I am so angry on your behalf. From one educator to another, you sound like someone with a solid educator heart and it sounds like uou have worked really hard to learn and grow. Well done! As a teacher, I adore music and art teachers. And I respect all of the skills that you so generously share with your students. The fact that someone who was your teacher mentor was willing to use approval and false friendship to groom you is absolutely abhorrent. I am shaking thinking about it. How dare she contact you year later to do anything other than to tell you how proud she is of you!
As a small kid in the 80's, my granny always brought me to Avon parties with her. It was a small group of old women who grew up together. I had fun as a kid. In the early 2000's/late 90's, my co-worker at my dad's gas station would once a month bring an Avon booklet to work with her. A lady she worked with at her other job sold it. I bought jewelry and nail polish. I knew it was a MLM but it was another older lady who was selling it. Southern guilt, it's s thing. I stopped buying when the store shut down.
I have never done a real life spit take before until today the second I heard digeorge syndrome. I have full love and support in my heart for the subscriber who sent in that story but I will say as someone who's brother has digeorge she was massively understating. First off to have someone with that condition and to be so independent and high functioning is a miracle in itself and she is a real life Wonder Woman. Secondly Hannah I know we need to have some understanding for those in the cult like mindset however her aunt deserves NO pity WHATSOEVER. This is from someone who has perspective on this condition and the family that surrounds it. There is for a fact NO WAY IN HELL this aunt didn't know what she was doing. The level of mental and physical affect on someone who has that is very obvious and it is absolutely DISTGUSTING that she turned around to try and get her into Mary Kay. I have never felt so personally horrified in my life until this story. She was FULLY AWARE the level she could try and take advantage of her this could've gone south so fast and so hard for that girl you have NO IDEA. You've cried in horror at some stories before this if you understood fully like I do you'd be crying like I am. That was a very narrowly dodged bullet far too close to home. Her aunt does deserve shame, period. There is no amount of money desperation that could make this okay in any mindset. EVER. If you read this Hannah or anyone else I encourage you to read up on digeorge its an extremely rare condition. If anyone is looking for closer examples of the level of advantage one could take please understand that most with digeorge fall into the very strong end of the autistic spectrum. And if the girl who sent that in reads this know that you are a beautifully smart and capable woman. And even though I am a stranger I am so proud of you and your parents should be equally proud. Okay soap box moment over, I hope everyone has a good day!
I now realize I think a schoolmate of mine may have had this. It was long before the autism spectrum was discussed ( I was also really young so would not have necessarily understood the spectrum anyway) . I do remember her having a heart defect and some other things I know she was born with. She was not in our school after elementary school so I don't know many more details. I know there could be a lot of different reasons for her problems but when I looked this one up it did seem to fit with a lot of what I had known she had had growing up.
Watching this on Halloween and a neighbor posted her “candy all cleaned out!” Picture in the neighborhood chat. The table was full of a pampered chef apron and pamphlets- all still there after 2 hrs of trick or treating 😅
I went to SO MANY mary kay parties in elementary school. Lots of mother daughter parties. My mom doesn't use mary kay anymore after finally looking at ingredients (I have severe allergies to common cosmetic ingredients & she is learning she also does too) but back then she loved it bc she'd get a discount. I hated it bc I didnt want lessons on eye shadow or deep red lipstick at 8 years old. There is actually a photo of me and my best friends after a make over and it is AWFUL.
I wear color street. And very detailed they say to never sell to kids, it goes against compliance and ethics and you can lose your website and everything. They have people watch stuff like that because they follow strict guidelines apparently unlike Avon
the camera boop!!! what a lovely interlude
The cleaning products were probably just water and essential oils. I've seen a lot of those that are advertised as all natural and chemical free. Also a lot of claims of being disinfectant like germs will die as soon as they leave your house 🙄 As someone who looked up how to make their own essential oil sprays (for scent) I found a few warnings about residue on certain surfaces.
I remember getting the sketchy Vector letters in university! Even at 17, I could tell it must be a scam. I also understand bad work experiences really hurting your confidence. I just got sacked for the third time in a year, and of course I need to find another job but I become more and more shy and genuinely fearful every time I have to start at a new employer. I had worked at the same place for over eight years before deciding to stay home with my daughter for a while and I’m terrified I will never find another workplace where I felt comfortable like that. The past two jobs I had, I didn’t even know that employers/coworkers could treat people like that.
My sister joined cutco. She wasn't right out of High Dchool but she was a single mom doing the best that she could. She tried to get me to join it too. I wasn't aware of what MLMs were at the time, but there was no way that I was going to quite my job at Walmart to try and sell knives. I always thought of businesses like Cutco to be scummy and I tried to tell her so. She didn't want to hear it, but also she wasn't in Cutco very long and quite when she found d out that she wasn't getting an actual pay check. She got paid like $16 on her first pay check and then quit. I also had a coworker who said that he didn't get any money from his time with Cutco and had told me all about his experience when I told him about my sister trying to get me to Join. He said that they are a scam and that I shouldn't join. I told him I hadn't planned on if but my sister had. Also just want to say, my husband would have never allowed it either. He even said that it sounded like a scam.
One of these days I’ll have to send in my Cutco story…worst month of my life
I love seeing/ hearing Zeke in your videos.. he is NEVER a problem. He calms me, makes me happy, i love himb!! He adds value
It is definitely on the more extreme ends of actions to take to get them to take down the photos...but they could always try threatening to sue them for copyright violations. Pay a lawyer to write up a notice, and then send that to them. See if that changes their tune. I'm not one to advocate for frivolous lawsuit threats...but if it getting to the point where the poster is reaching their end, it might be an option. I don't know if actually bringing a lawsuit would help, but the threat of one might change minds.
My mom and grandma used to sell avon no clue it was an mlm, my city even used to have an avon store
Yay, a new Hannah and Zeke show!
Norwex or Stanley home products.... my mom sold Stanley back in the day it's still around but it was sticky but I don't think they claim it's "chemical free" so my modern bet is Norwex. My mother had an entire storage room filled with products for years to the point that I'm almost 40 and that room called "the Stanley Room"
hannah you are just my absolute favorite. thank you for making my monday morning so much better
Everything is made of chemicals. That whole chemical-free thing is just ridiculous.
I like how unfazed you are by Zeke’s butt in your face. A true cat person, through and through.
Soon enough she’ll have baby butt in her face too lol
Awe. Zeke was voicing his displeasure with the hun in that story. What a sweet baby. Loved the close up 😂 I feel so bad for then one girl who’s pictures are being shared without her permission. That’s disgusting.
I always listen to the Horror Stories series in the Morning while getting ready for work. I love it. 😊 But I had to do a double take as in my short time in the MLM world (in Germany!!) and becoming a part of the Anti-MLM movement afterwards I have definitely seen these before&after photos floating around… 😢😮
I'm wondering if the Avon rep billed the parents and the parents just threw up their hands and paid. Maybe the girl's mother never said anything to her about having to pay for the nail polish she picked out as a "gift", lol.
Omg, I cought myself chirping back to Zeeke. 😂 My own cat did not appreciate the competition and left me. 😅
yes! house cleaner I feel you! that is my job as well I own my own company and I love it but I flat out refuse to use anyone's 3 Norwex rags to clean their entire house or their whatever that Shaklee soap is that you just mix different amounts of water to clean different surfaces. all of that crap is garbage. if you want your house clean let me do it the right way otherwise go wipe your magical rags on your own stuff 😂
So, when I was younger… about 7th or 8th grade, I was invited to a birthday party that was a Mary Kay party… I didn’t buy anything but we did get a lot of free samples at the party to play with/ experiment with. I actually really enjoyed it. I didn’t have anyone around that showed me how to use makeup, and I love makeup, so I personally thought it was awesome. However, they did not ask us to buy anything just gave us a brochure to take home with the items we liked circled in it so we could get them in the future. She was amazing and showed me a lot of old school tricks with makeup that I still use today. This was like 25 years ago…. There was not TH-cam and stuff to show you these things, so having someone show me was great. That being said- MLMs are terrible, but I will forever be grateful to that rep for showing me how to properly use makeup so I didn’t walk around looking like a clown lol
Omg I had an optavia rep send a recording of her singing me happy birthday! Must be something they’re taught
Just popped in to say I LOVE your videos, and I cannot handle how cute Zeke is. He reminds me of my girl I lost last year. Forever joining my zoom meetings 😂 I love his little meow and always think it’s my boy at first.
I had a friend in elementary & middle school who had a couple MLM parties... in 5th grade it was a mother/daughter party type thing where some lady pitched us some skincare/makeup type stuff. Then in like 7th grade it was a Mary Kay birthday party. The rep horribly misjudged my pale af skin and started putting a darker foundation on me. Realized about half way through so she just decided to do one half of my face in that shade and the other in a shade that more closely matched my actual skin. I looked ridiculous. Lol! I don't remember them being super pushy on trying to sell us products though. They probably saved that for when our parents came to pick us up... also, maybe the lady just didn't even try for me since she messed up my makeup so bad. Who knows. It was all so weird though.
The kitty noises are absolutely adorable 🥰 I love it!
For the Avon birthday party, I think that the mom probably paid out of pocket for all the product and needed to get to a certain dollar amount to either get hostess gifts. When I was little, guests almost never got gifts to take home after a birthday party, but I noticed that when my kids were little, everyone got a goodie bag with little toys and candy after a party. Now I guess they're doing make up and MLM products. Hands up if anyone had their kid come home with some essential oil or Amway cleaning products?
When my sister was 6 she got invited to her friends birthday party. They called it a "chef" theme and they were going to all decorate cupcakes and cookies in little chef hats. Sounds cute,.right? Well it was all a trap. The mom was a pampered chef seller and legit pressured every single mother into BUYING the "party favors" aka the products. My mom was so mad but let my sister pick out the cheapest item she had available in person -a simple red fruit peeler. This is when I learned about mlms and how bad they were. But my sister ADORED that stupid peeler because she thought "wow I went to someone's birthday and I GOT A PRESENT" she didn't know mom bought it.
The student teaching one reminded me some of my own experience. I had this teacher in high school that was incredible. She also led a club I was in all four years where I competed internationally and she was really a mentor for me. She is a big part of the reason I am successful today. After high school I didn’t hear from her for about 2 years when she reached out to catch up. I was excited to see her and of course said yes. When I showed up only to see she wanted to recruit me for Amway I was devastated. I hadn’t heard anything from her for years and when she reached out it was just to pitch a broke college student her MLM. I deleted her from all my social media and never spoke to her again. I still think about that and how hurt I was that she didn’t really care about me.
My husband’s brother and his wife are on Optavia…she just posted a picture of herself with a bunch of pumpkins saying how much weight she lost in pumpkins. They have lost a lot of weight, but how long can they continue this strict, expensive “diet”??? Luckily they haven’t pitched it to any of us.