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I was hounded by my sister/cousin for 2 years. After avoiding her because any conversation always ended with Arbonne, I decided to give her a chance (I missed her and knew it was the only way I was going to hang out with her again).

1 month into it I discovered so many things... Everything is a contradiction... It's only part time / you have freedom... Really????

Do you want to drive around .. Spend every waking minute thinking about arbonne .. Hounding every person you know ( I scared 3 people away that won't talk to me) ... Your family suffers ..

Your weekends are gone and every party is costly... A "proper" order is 1,000 ... Yup and he Mercedes is just a check they give you a month to lease the car... The products are not that hey claim to be and even a month into it I was told it's not about the products..

Just another contradiction .. The family thinks of her as a used car salesman and now runs the other way at family functions .. Her only family is Arbonne .. It's very sad.

Also leaving is like leaving the mob..

I am officially on the witness protection program.. Not bitter just feel scammed and that's my fault for allowing my heart to make one of the stupidest decision I've ever made that cost me my relationship with my best friend.

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As a husband to someone whoโ€™s done Arbonne for six years I can confirm all these statements are true. Still no Mercedes, sheโ€™s driven me to taking anti-depressants and our marriage is on the brink of collapse when weโ€™re 2 months off out 20th anniversary.

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I was an RVP with this company for 5 years. A total of 11 years.

As RVP I had a Merecedes Monthly Bonus and other perks and earned anywhere from $5000 to $7000 dollars a month as RVP. The truth about Arbonne is that it is not the company it used to be under the original founder and visionary, Peter Morck. That is not to say that the products arenโ€™t good, but the formulas were changed and it is not as high quality and in the quantities it used to provide, therefore it doesnโ€™t the same value for the price it use to have on each drop. In all fairness, the products are good, better than most the ones you can buy at your Walmart or Walgreens stores.

But not as good in quality or exceptional as they used to be! What bothers me is that they continue to use the same โ€œlingoโ€ they used when the products were exceptional. There are many competitive excellent products in the market that are as good or better with even fewer harmful ingredients than Arbonne has. If they will just be honest and candid about this fact, I would have more respect for them.

Do your homework, for me I am looking for value (high quality) and the price (most economical). The ingredients in high quality products will have botanical (raw or natural) value, but also technology (science) which will require a few synthetic ingredients to make it work for results. I donโ€™t mind that as long as the majority of the focus is on the plant based ingrefients. I believe thatโ€™s what Arbonne has, but also there are many other products that far surpass them on quality, quantity and results now.

What Arbonne offers is a person to person guidance and a culture of togetherness and successful personal monetary gain and that is a good thing on and by itself.

No need to lie about the supremacy because it is working against them. Tell the truth up front and you will not be thought as a scammer!

Guest

Incredibly accurate description about the negative side of MLM. There are some that do live the dream life, that can blend and make it happen...

but mostly it is 24/7. Sad

Guest

Why would you talk to your family and friends about it more than once? Especially if they said no?

How could you be successful in any business by "hounding" people? Hearing this makes me sad about the intelligence level of some out there. Why would any salesperson hound their friends and family? Name one other business where that would work.

You made a mistake and so did your friend. Not by joining arbonne, but by doing it badly.

That was your fault. Good luck here on pissed consumer.com!

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Why are you on This site? Doing it badly ..

Really?

You have to hound people end of story I would love to hear your way and how great you are doing at Arbonne international . Com please enlighten me

Guest

Yep, everything you said is true. Very sad to hear though, I hope you can move on soon. Life is too short to be angry or sad!

This was posted by someone else on another thread, but is worth revisiting:

"Ten Big Lies of Multi-Level-Marketing"

http://www.mlmwatch.org/01General/10lies.html

Guest

Well written and I couldn't help but laugh at your comparison to leaving the mob! (sorry--I know it was probably a painful experience for you but that was pretty funny).

Guest

Your post does not quite make sense. You sound more jaded than anything else & if something like that could ruin your friendship, you were not as good of a friend to her as you tell yourself you are.

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Hey Eve you might want to read it again... Makes perfect sense..

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reply icon Replying to comment of Guest-933446

The post was clear and concise Eve. In the crazy world of Arbonne nobody is allowed to critize the company or tell it how it really is. It truly resembles a cult and not a 'business' of any sort.

Guest

Well said... lol

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