Forever Living Products, UK Reviews 3

Products not good - not worth their high price at all. Bad customer service.

Terrible company. A thinly disguised pyramid scheme reliant upon continuous recruitment. This reliance leads people who are “building teams” and “sharing” the business to pretty much do and say anything. FLP does nothing to stop this but simply shifts the blame to its “independent” business owners when the lies being told about the income opportunity are questioned by the ASA in the UK or Truth in Advertising in the US. Yet, at the same time they reward recruitment over simply selling product and recruiting a downline is where the money is (such as it is these days).
Product does change hands but the customer is almost always someone within the scheme. FLP can’t or won’t say how much money they make from retailing the product to real customers.

As for “heavily regulated by the DSA” this is rubbish. The DSA has no regulatory powers and is a body set up by MLM companies for the promotion of MLM companies’ interests and probably in an attempt to look legitimate and distance themselves from pyramid schemes who don’t have a product.

In many ways MLM is more dangerous than a pyramid scheme because it disguises itself as direct selling, implying unlimited financial gain “if you work hard enough”, friendship, status and an improved quality of life. But the outcome for most is very, very different; increased debt, emotional damage, damage to social networks and relationships - take a look at FLP’s income disclosures for the best spin they can put on the numbers losing money.

The big question is why, in the UK, is nothing being done to examine these companies and update legislation to stop pyramid schemes hiding behind products when the definition of a pyramid scheme is “a trading scheme that relies more upon recruitment than the retailing of products to customers outside the scheme”. Is it because most of the victims are women and so the damage they do is hidden by other economic factors? One things for certain, this isn’t female empowerment.

This is my experience of FLP.

Great company, World class products.
Amazing business opportunity with outstanding training and support.
Very reassuring company to be with, we are heavily regulated by the DSA.
-Very happy
- legit business
- great incentives and rewards