PoetrynMagick wrote:

>But, does this company have a bad rep.?

MLMBigmouth gave Herbalife a score of 10 out of 14.
One of the things they checked was "good reputation:
no".

At an STL, I attended, one of the people who have been
in for a decade or so, mentioned that one could now
tell people it was Herbalife, before the individual
signed up. [Yup, you only found out what the company
was, after you paid your $4K "fee" to sign up.]

There are two current class action suits against
Herbalife, and/or major downline "organizations".

> say "Gee, my "uncle" did it and go burned." What do
> you say to that

Statistics from a Herbalife STS I attended:
Out of ten distributors you sign up:
3 do it only for the discount. (They stay for as
long as it takes for them to get to their target
weight.)
3 will be "the distributor from hell". (They
usually quit within 3 months)
3 will work it for less than six months.
1 will work it seriously for a year or more.

Statistics from
http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/0,4621,300838,00.html
are that one in five people that you sign up, will
remain active.

Statistics from other MLM companies imply that 95% to
97% that sign up for an MLM will leave within three
months. The most common reasons for leaving are:
no viable income; poor upline; lack of training; lack
of support; poor prospects; over-saturated market;
wrong mlm.

The major response to all that, is to require your
prospects to do _due dilligence_ before signing up
with herbalife, or any other MLM.

One thing is to ask for specifics. How was uncle bob
burned by the mlm in question. Focus on how Herbalife
is different from that MLM. If it is Herbalife,
acknowledge that there are problems with some downline
organizations, but those problems do not permeate the
company as a whole.

The majority of MLM distributor abuse comes with
"tools" programs. If you stay out of the Herbalife
downlines that emphasize "tools" rather than product,
you eliminate that issue. [If you have already signed
up with one of the "tools" oriented downlines, then
you're out of luck.Just ignore the "tools" part, and
focus on personal retail sales.]

> and does the product still outshine any bad press?

That depends upon your POV. Roughly 5% of the general
population is allergic to soy, with 1% being
hyper-allergic to soy.

For some, the weight loss does outshine the deaths.
For others, the deaths overide the weight loss.

xan

jonathon

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