Anyone Else Seeing Facebook People Trying to Sell Products?

[s0me0nesmind1]

Am I the only one getting crap like this? People that I thought had at least some kind of subpar intelligence I will allow to friend me on Facebook - yet I keep coming across shit like this.

Basically, it's stupid women getting manipulated by retarded products for women into selling them in a pyramid-scheme-esque form of fashion. Basically, turning normal people into salesmen in hopes of multiple-sellers to individual friends through word of mouth instead of mass production in stores with advertisements. Only the truly pathetic would fall for this crap, or try such stupid products.

It's not often I deem someone worthy of taking off the friends list, but this is definitely one of them.


Couple Examples:

 

[Naer]

Was tagged in an Oakley sunglasses product ad. Affordable as hell. Wondered if the quality was any good

 

[Phanuel]

Be honest, the only reason you're friends with them is because you want into their pants.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

Was tagged in an Oakley sunglasses product ad. Affordable as hell. Wondered if the quality was any good

Oakleys are one of the most counterfeit things ever made next to Rolex and designer purse bags last I recall....

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

Be honest, the only reason you're friends with them is because you want into their pants.

Well... seeing how I'm married... that would seem kind of hard. I mean, if I want to keep my balls attached and everything

Maybe at one time I wouldn't mind getting into their pants. But that was before the whole "real world" and "working" thing. Actually, both of those women are too stupid to get into the working world. Which explains why they are trying some stupid selling shit.

 

[BoberFett]

Aaaahahahaha, the It Works nutters. My girlfriend is acquaintances with someone who sells that. She would just de-friend this person, except that she has fun subtly poking fun at this person's posts about their pyramid scheme.

Facebook is the perfect place for people to hawk their wares until their friends and family finally block them.

 

[waggy]

a friend of ours was doing that. she was told that it was a scam. about 5 months latter she gets on and says yeah it's a scam sorry. lol

 

[smackababy]

I don't have any of this kind of shit on my Facebook. Mostly, because I am not friends with morons who fall of that shit.

 

[Brainonska511]

Was tagged in an Oakley sunglasses product ad. Affordable as hell. Wondered if the quality was any good

I'm pretty sure that only happens when someone's account is compromised. Those "ads" always look the same, but the link is always different.

People have to be pretty dumb to think that they could get new, genuine Oakley's at such a steep discount.

 

[Greenman]

I'm pretty sure that only happens when someone's account is compromised. Those "ads" always look the same, but the link is always different.

People have to be pretty dumb to think that they could get new, genuine Oakley's at such a steep discount.

Aren't Oakley's a $12 product that sells for $300? I always assumed they were idiot bait for people that need to throw away money.

 

[darkswordsman17]

I had a friend that started hawking some diet supplement company (not Herbalife though, some other one) shit. Fucking idiot sent a mass e-mail to his entire Friends list on Facebook. He also went to like some convention of theirs in St. Louis.

But yeah there's shitloads of this stuff. Passion parties or whatever that was is another one that a lot of women were hawking for a little while there.

Actually its kinda funny how similar a lot of startups are to pyramid schemes.

 

[darkswordsman17]

Aren't Oakley's a $12 product that sells for $300? I always assumed they were idiot bait for people that need to throw away money.

Pretty much, but then that's true of just about all the branded sunglasses. Luxottica completely dominates that and they get people to pony up money for more or less the same shit just under different designer brands.

 

[lxskllr]

I don't have facebook, but I've run into real life examples in the past. Aside from being irritating, the shit makes me sad. Those companies prey on the naive. People get excited about "entrepreneurship", but will inevitably end up disappointed, and probably poorer than before they started.

 

[velillen]

I have one guy who is the bf of a friend so i havent deleted him yet. But he is part of some company...always trying to get people to contact him to sell the product. Can tell he uses material cause its always well written and the "work for yourself and make tons of money!" crap.

Looked into the company one time and its basically a giant scheme. Selling product is meh. But getting someone to join to sell you get like 5% of their sales for being a "coach" to them.

Its just funny seeing him post cause he will talk about working for yourself and all this and then he will post later about coming and seeing him work at his other job lol

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

Aren't Oakley's a $12 product that sells for $300? I always assumed they were idiot bait for people that need to throw away money.

They are damn nice for sunglasses. It's no different than getting Ray Ban's, or whatever other designer ones (Coach) that stupid people buy.

What I will buy from Oakleys are the METAL frames. I would honestly punch myself in the dick if I bought a $100-$200 pair of sunglasses and come home with some plastic in my hand. Also, it doesn't hurt when you have a cousin that works for Oakley that can get 70% off any pair....

 

[Belegost]

Several on my friends list have started Rodan+Fields - so it's a daily barrage of disgusting acne faces followed by obviously retouched "after" photos.

 

[bbhaag]

I'm guilty of this. I try and sell stuff on facebook all the time.
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[s0me0nesmind1]

I'm guilty of this. I try and sell stuff on facebook all the time.
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Pyramid Scheme sales != someone repping their business via social media. Two very distinct things.

 

[OutHouse]

Everyday, but in our community forsale/trade/want fb page.

 

[rh71]

Relative does swarovski crystals but that is legit stuff compared to what's been posted... still annoying.

 

[CZroe]

Multi-level marketing. It's what social media was made for.

 

[Clemenza]

I have a friend that got into selling Plexus last year and it's a daily barrage of that stuff. One time, she posted a picture of all of the bloated corpses from Jonestown and said something like "Don't drink the kool-aid, Plexus isn't a scam." I eventually ended up blocking her.

I have another friend that does world ventures. He posts pictures all the time with his "You should be here!" sign and all of these motivational quotes that he gets from his marketing materials. I blocked him too.

Anyway, who wants free IPad?

 

[n7]

The fucking Oakleys, Raybans, etc. ones where idiots tag their friends in...

I've not yet been tagged by someone (and if they do it'll be unfriending time most likely), but lots of my friends get tagged by their friends which clutters up my feed further :/

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

The fucking Oakleys, Raybans, etc. ones where idiots tag their friends in...

I've not yet been tagged by someone (and if they do it'll be unfriending time most likely), but lots of my friends get tagged by their friends which clutters up my feed further :/

I agree with the previous poster that those are usually accounts that were hacked and link to a website selling counterfeits.

What I'm talking about are usually women products trying to sell to eachother under a pyramid scheme. Apparently this is a rampant thing thats been going on forever, or so my wife tells me... Apparently this is totally common, it's just now getting into the social media world and more women think they can do it.

The wife mentioned the likes of "Mary Kay" and "Thirty One" as other examples where they sell to friends like a pyramid scheme. It's just that they previously used to sell by having get togethers with their friends and showing them instead of rampant postings to all their Facebook friends.

 

[RearAdmiral]

Someone has recently started to push stuff on their linkedin posts. It is pretty sad. This stuff is super frustrating, I remember back in college people trying to pull me into schemes...even on the street. I "had" to come to the meeting to find out the great secret to wealth, he couldn't tell me on the street. I also went to some summer job meeting thing which just turned out to be door-to-door book salesmen. lawls were had.