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Well just over 5 months ago I was sucked into signing up for arbonne. I was given my golden bag and rather enjoyed the products, then the smooth talking consultant comes back to retrieve her bag and talk all about how you can earn extra money and how being your own boss is amazing, gives you the financial freedom you need, blah blah blah absolute ***!!!!! I thought I was a smart women, I went home did my research on the company, asked my sponsor a million and one questions prior to signing on and even came up with a budget for what I would like to invest financially into this business...well it seems my sponsor thought that amount was far too low so now i'm currently in quite the mess because the women ended up paying for the rest she " considered" reasonable to invest to get my personal qualifying volume up to par. ( makes me vomit just thinking about it)

Anyways about the company........they do these recruiting sessions with the NVP which is where they stuff a million vulnerable individuals (mostly women lets be serious) in a room and discuss how great arbonne has been for them and their friends and go on with their pathetic excuse for a power point presentation and talk about the massive cheques they keep getting in the mail for selling products we already need and use on a daily bases.....blah blah blah. I find it most hilarious that they do these recruiting sessions generally in the evening so usually right after work and yet they don't offer you a drink or a appetizer....NOTHING yet they are making $250,000 + a year. Oh and lets not forget they also hound you right afterwards to discuss the presentation and to sign on the dotted line. So not only are you starving but you must fork over a minimum in most cases $2,500.00 which will conviently be placed your high interest credit card.

If you think that you are selling arbonne products think again!!! This entire business is NOT one bit about selling it is about finding "builders" which means finding friends and family to hound to invest their hard earned cash into, so that inturn they too can hound people into multiplying the pyramid. After doing just one party when i first started i was excited but after selling a couple thousand dollars worth of product and being even further excited for my commission cheque to only find out that majority of the products sold were considered " business aids" and when you sign up preferred clients ( which they want you to do since it looks better and they pray that this person will convert to consultant status) that you only get a pathetic 15% profit on. And before you even begin to receive that lovely excuse of a commission cheque you have to maintain a 150 pqv which means you basically need to fork even more of your hard earned cash into the company to receive this bonafide cheque. These are all the little things they DON"T mention at these "recruiting sessions" which by the way they call DA Meetings in arbonne lingo. Also they expect you to invest a minimum of $2,500.00 for a whole lot of *** you don't need to " start your own business". Luckily I didn't invest that much but I invested enough. They also make you print off these prospecting folders they tell you to do it at work....yeah full colour and about 500 sheets since they want you to have enough for every single person at the party!! Well I work in a small office so that wasn't going to happen....$100 dollars later everything was printed and what a load of ***!! Oh and don't get sucked into purchasing the business cards they are awful and another poor investment on your part. So basically you have now spent $2,500.00 on products you don't need, plus around $100 for prospecting folders that you will hand out and get right back, plus $75.00 for business cards, plus your gas, plus your time = setting yourself for failure.

The one and only way to make money in this business is to hound every last person you know to purchase product and pray to the gods that they will also fork over their hard earned cash. I too only wish that they had these blogs that i am seeing today up here about what kind of business this company is running. These sponsors think they have hit the jacket when they finally get you to come on board and trust me they turn to *** when you are unsure or want out. Also from analyzing majority of the groups of arbonne families around me every last one of them that is actually making a decent coin off this are ALREADY wealthy!!! they ALLL have husbands that are very well off....these are stay at home moms that literally have nothing better to do with their time since they have maids and nannies which were already in the mix prior to signing onto arbonne. I feel sorry for the young girls just like myself that get sucked into the dream of wanting to make some extra cash when in the end i'm out a *** load of money!! Another few pointers they don't point out at these " recruiting sessions" with no food or drinks is that you really have to keep in perspective your time and money. You have to waste gas recruiting people, dropping off the gold bag, picking up the gold bag, hosting parties all over the city, going to these DA meetings.....its A LOT!!!! They are all liars that say it takes just a few hours of your time. Thats a load of *** I can't even tell you how much money I am out just from the gas and photo copies alone. All in all DON"T do it!!!! The products are digustingly overpriced for what they are, so good luck finding people that can even afford them. They specify all natural but i got a rash from quite a few of the products and i've done multiple allergy tests and none of the " natural" ingredients have I ever been allergic too in its original state. SO Beware!!!! And learn from everyone that is posting on this website. The arbonne community that is going to comment that I am a just a bitter women that didn't make money at this because i'm lazy or whatever excuse you may want to come up....save your breath! I am merely pointing out simple facts and I am rather angry what has happened to myself and others in the same situation. The only thing I actually got from this entire experience is that I will NEVER in my life do a MLM company and the biggest lesson of all trust no one! You must look out for yourself and yourself only since everyone is only in this for themselves so why bother wasting your time and money trying to get already wealthy people richer.

I truly hope that this reaches others!

Cheers

Location: Woodbridge, Ontario

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Became a consultant a year ago and spent less that $200 to start. Don't spend any more money that I would on products from other brands.

Every event I've been to has included food and drinks and I have never been treated the way you were. Sorry to hear it, but your bad experience doesn't define a company.

Guest

As the husband of a 7 year arbonne consultant that can never quite reach that $10,000 a month in sales mark, I can attest that you are absolutely correct. This business cost my family time with their mother, tens of thousands of dollars in credit card debt, and a nearly broken marriage.

She attends meetings, spends her ever waking hours on training calls, and partys. She hides her financial information from me, and spends our household money when she can't make the business pay for her trips and gas.(this is more often than not) I am not allowed to talk to her about it because I'm not being supportive, when she doesn't make her $10k mark each month it's because I was unsupportive and she was trying to please me. So it's my fault. I feel horrible seeing her ruining other people's lives pushing this family destroying business on other people and just wish i could see it stop on a positive note.

Unfortunately her manager and everyone above her just "absolutely adore her" she has drive away all of her previous friends of years and is stuck in this circle of vampires. I fear it will ultimately consume my family.

Latresha Jhf
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I hit the $10,000 mark 6 months into my business and Iโ€™m close to the $40,000 mark. Maybe itโ€™s a lack of work.

Guest

In my opinion Arbonne are a cult. Only the top make any money and they push anyone who signs up to "have their own business" into basically targeting everyone and anyone with a pulse into joining their MLM (pyramid scheme).

It costs a load of money to buy enough products to look like you are into to too. I'd say to anyone who is being targeted to run a mile. There are other MLM's that don't require any real investment and that don't encourage you to meetings in Vegas.

Its a sickening display of fakedom that left my partner owing ยฃ12k on a credit card and into losing time that she'll never get back too. Beware.

Guest

Investing is 99% for the people who are already rich and i know a bunch of โ€œArbonneโ€ reps and I gotta day itโ€™s a genius business model. For the 1% at the top.

Most people are gullible and will fork out money to believe in something so pure while the top tier of the business takes all that money itโ€™s a business model thatโ€™s pure genius.

Theyโ€™re not selling products to you they sell you to the products. Bad experience with the people ik in arbonne cause theyโ€™re both not the sharpest knives in the drawer and itโ€™s just a whole bunch of *** they say and most people will never make enough money to be bothered with off it but itโ€™s not arbonnes fault for being smart as *** its the peopleโ€™s for believing it

Guest

I found a majority of the "facts" stated to be completely untrue of how Arbonne works. Very sad that someone would bash a business with false facts.

Guest

I am not going to begin to argue with you because you are clearly very passionate about your opinion. But I am an Arbonne independent consultant and never have I ever been pressured to put $2,500 of my own money into my business.

In more ways than that, your post is inaccurate and rude.

I'm sorry you misunderstood the mission of the majority of Arbonne's Independent Consultants, I think you truly just had bad luck. I hope you can move forward from this without hate in your heart and stop criticizing and hurting people who are actually making a difference in people's lives.

Guest
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Could you please share your own personal, honest experience as an independent consultant? I feel like i see such extreme different views that I don't know what to think of Arbonne...

Guest
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Arbonne is about sharing love and being healthy. NONE of us only care about money, we care about your health and your well being.

It doesnโ€™t matter if you love or hate Arbonne, a TRUE Arbonne Lifer loves everyone where they are at. Much love to you and everyone on the planet!

Guest

YOU are right on with your review this company is more like the real housewives of B.S. we are trying the products they are greatly overpriced.

Dont taste good this is in fact a pyramid scheme period I had a very successful business retired at 40 and would not sell this product funny how all the b.s. never make the claim of how this food product is a life changer how can anyone look another in the face and claim this is a good idea it is a gimic with all the red flags in place

Guest

This review makes no sense to me. I also signed up as an Arbonne consultant, mostly for the discount.

The reason I signed up is that you DONT HAVE TO BUY ANYTHING to be a consultant. There is no credit card, so anything high interest is your own credit issue. I buy products my family uses, but that's it. No one pressured me to buy anything.

I let friends use products and if they want to buy them. great.

If not, also great. I think you have a consultant problem here, not an Arbonne problem.

Guest
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This blog doesnโ€™t make sense.... you only pay $25 enrolment to become a consultant and you are up & running.

No website build, no buying stock, no logistics cost, no advertising costs, no photography cost, no advertising cost, no insurances cost, no staff cost.

They literally give you everything to start running your business for $25! if you put $2,500 on a credit card thatโ€™s your own mistake.

Guest

Your sponsor clearly got it all wrong.. it was only $49 for me to join..

I purchased the health line to help with my personal training. All of that was NO WHERE near that much.. The company as a whole is pretty *** that is if you have the drive and are passionate about the product. Itโ€™s definitely not a pyramid..

thereโ€™s no auto pay, we have to meet our goals like everyone else, and anyone can pass anyone.. thereโ€™s no set level. Itโ€™s what you put in. So 1.

Your sponsor jacked you up & 2.

Entrepreneur life is full of investment (maybe now 2500 at startup..) but thereโ€™s a lot of sowing. If you keep at it and stay persistent, youโ€™ll get it.

Guest

Not sure who your sponsor is, but $2,500 to start up is asinine. I spent $250ish and Iโ€™m doing just fine.

Guest

โ€œ$2,500.00 which will [conveniently] be placed your high interest credit card.โ€ At the end of the day, no one can force you to put anything on your high interest credit card. You allowed that to happen.

And $75 business cards? Another bad decision. You can order cards online for much cheaper. As far as some woman paying out for a more expensive package and then expecting you to pay her back, forget it.

I wouldnโ€™t feel obligated. If I didnโ€™t give her permission, she can lump it. Maybe then sheโ€™ll learn not to pull that one again.

To be in business, we need to have a backbone. You will hear good and bad stories in MLM and they vary depending on who you deal with (some unscrupulous consultants out there) and how you handle your end of things.

Guest
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I agree!! Sheโ€™s blaming her bad choices and poor money handling skills on Arbonne, when sheโ€™s the only one to blame. Itโ€™s SO frustrating how people tie that into blaming the company, and not themselves.

Guest

Iโ€™ve been with Arbonne since 2008. Never any issues. Like any job, there are bad managers and Iโ€™m sorry you ended up with someone like that.

Guest

This is sad I have never had an experience like this and I started Arbonne a year ago, still love it

Guest

Arbonne consultants asking for $2,500 sounds like either an exaggeration or you got paired with people who are running their businesses improperly. It has never cost that much to sign up to be a consultant, and the products start under $20 each.

Maybe the consultants you paired with didnโ€™t inform you properly of how the business works, because your description is not an accurate representation of reality. Sorry to hear.

Guest

It makes me sad that this consumer had a poor experience with Arbonne. Iโ€™ve been at a consultant level for the past seven years mainly so I can use the amazing products.

All of the women in the Nation I am a part of are wonderful women who want nothing more than to help the successes of everyone around them. This review has nothing to do with the integrity of the company at large, but perhaps a more individualistic side of a poor experience.I assure you Arbonne works both from a consumer and a business standpoint.

Negative personal reviews like this arenโ€™t helpful. Speaking from a chip on our shoulder isnโ€™t educating people, but rather, fueling a fire that doesnโ€™t need to be fueled.

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