Everywhere I go somebody is talking about essential oils and inviting my wife to parties where they sell them (they don’t invite me, probably because of all the :rolleyes:, and they don’t seem to invite men anyway). I’ve read up on it and it looks like pure woo, so I’m not interested.
Is this catching on where you are? What’s the latest multi-level marketing fad you’re having to avoid? If you’re a man, have you ever been invited to one of these things (doTerra, Mary Kay, Pampered Chef, etc).
God, yes. Ugh. If you’re on any mom groups it’s awful - a lot of them also sell nail polish these days. I think that’s Jamberry. You can’t get away from this crap.
One of my high school (and facebook) friends is constantly pushing this. Every couple of days it’s “I’m just about to put in an order so make sure you PM me with what you want so you can get my discount” or "Allergy season is coming, talk to me if you want to try essential oils instead of drugs this year blah blah blah’. A few months ago she put up a (viral) post about how some guy rubbed it on his head and his hair grew back.
Last week she made a comment about her car dying a slow death, I was thisclose to making a smart ass comment about just using her oils to fix it. “Maybe some peppermint and lavender will help”. But she’s had a rough few years and if this is what makes her happy, more power to her, it’s pretty innocuous, she’s not really shoving it down anyone’s throat…Today she had a Dr Oz link on her page.
Jamberry, that was my next post (before I saw yours). Another friend from school, she’s a teacher now, very smart, I liked catching up with her and seeing what she had to say. About a year ago she posted a picture of her nails, whatever, then a week later she posted them again amazed at how good they still looked, again, whatever…Then she became a Jamberry rep. Now that’s all she posts, all day everyday. I went from looking forward to what she had to say to thinking about unfollowing her because she’s just a walking commercial for Jamberry.
I also have another grade school friend that got ‘sucked’ into an MLM. Sucked into might be the wrong phrase though. When she first got in I thought about PM’ing her to let her know it was pretty clearly an MLM and that she might want to get out, but I decided not to. I hadn’t seen her in 25 years and it’s really none of my business. Within a few months I noticed that she wasn’t ‘selling’ anymore and just pushing off sales to others, which means she was clearly on her way up. Soon she was giving talks and getting awards. That was a few years ago, just recently she bought a Lexus with the money she made from it (she specifically said that in the post). You have to figure with any pyramid there’s still a top and she climbed right up it I guess.
Yeah that’s probably the worst part, the social media thing. Back before social media this stuff was just an annoyance when I went out and about. Now I have to continually block people who are usually funny and interesting because they’re brainwashed.
“I’m going to take this crowbar, and I’m going to beat you with it until you leave.”
I’m not seeing the essential oils or Jamberry in my feed-- I’m inundated with Scentsy crap.
Jamberry isn’t a nail polish, it’s a nail wrap. It’s like uhm…nailpolish that has been painted on to a piece of foil with a pretty design and you peel it off the foil and put it on your nails and heat it up and it makes for some “effortless” pretty designs on your nails.
Neat idea and the heat aspect means they last longer than other nail stickers…but they’re $15 for a sheet. Yeah you can get like 3 manicures out of a sheet if you’re skillful but that’s still super expensive when a bottle of nail polish costs $3.
I definitely don’t see the need in having Jamberry be a MLM thing. I guess it’s easier to sell for $15 if you’ve got people pressuring their friends than it is if they’re just hanging on a rack at Wal Mart.
Looking at some Jamberry results on Google images, many of them look like they just have some stickers on their nails–it does not look like what a painted nail would look like. Who is the demographic for these wraps? Teens? Housewives? Single women?
Yeah with some of them you can sorta see the “pixels” and some sort of screen. And yeah if they don’t fit perfectly on your nails they definitely look like stickers. But, from far away/someone else’s view, they look all right.
I think all of the people you mentioned are the demographic. Whoever wants interesting nail art without paying for a manicure. And without it looking exactly like a manicure.
In my newsfeed it’s Younique the “amazing” 3-D fiber lashes.
It may be easier to sell if you’ve got the MLM salesperson there to explain the concept. The consumer might not understand the product if she sees it on the store shelf.
Vemma, energy drink woo.
I’m a bit confused, things that sell better when people pressure their friends into buying it (nail wraps, oil diffusers, make up, vacations etc) are exactly what MLM is meant for.
On the positive side, being inundated by the “essential oil” crowd is better than having to hang out with people who are into oil-pulling or drinking their own urine, which must be an absolute barf-fest.
I am shocked, shocked to hear this.*
*not that males are immune to falling for various kinds of woo.
I can’t think of an MLM product that can’t be explained in the space of a standard sell sheet.
It takes the brainwashing, love-buzzing, group high and pep rally crap to get people to believe the associated claims and pay an inflated price for the whuteveritiz. Even dimwits will walk by most of this crap on a store shelf, and for good reasons.
The thing is (for me), the Jamberry nails look nice, I’m sure the oils smell just fine, it’s the bombardment that gets annoying. Like I said, I’m getting close to unfollowing (not unfriending) a FB friend because every post is about jamberry now. As for the oils, like I said, I’m sure they smell nice, if it was just about the smell, that would be fine, it’s the healing powers of oils that I just don’t care about and makes me not want to even look at them.
Yes, tons of people into oils and a cousin who posts constantly about Herbalife.
I have to say, I bought the 'Younique" 3d fiber lashes stuff and it really does rock. I wear very little makeup but I like a good mascara- this stuff is the nicest I’ve ever use, bar none. It really does make your lashes look much longer and fuller, very flattering. And hell it was like $30 and I figure will probably last a year if it doesn’t dry out first. That’s not so bad, it’s not like I’ll need more in a month. I don’t know if that was a MLM thing or just a home party or what.
I haven’t heard a peep about essential oils, thank goodness, or nail wraps. I must live under a rock.
Women around here are still selling that grossly overpriced silver jewelry, Silpada.
