Arbonne is a Cult. | AntiMLM Rant & Rave 

YES I KNOW YOU THINK THE MUSIC IS ANNOYING you can stop commenting now!! Lol this was first long form video I've ever done. I've since improved. Check out my Lularoe videos or my other long videos if you want - music choice is less jarring. Thanks!

I once had someone invite me on a Tinder date that ended up being an Arbonne sales pitch hahahah

They're not selling products... They're selling opportunity!!! The opportunity to lose friends, family, your house, and more!!!!

Thankyou for this. Im a single mum in NZ , just recently had to resign my full time job to be there for my sick baby girl . Someone messaged me to join Arbonne. If it wasnt for your informative video to help people, I'd be fudged!

About Arbonne.....I remember being invited to a “gathering” in 2006 where I could sample or buy all these Arbonne products. And *no pressure or anything,* but I could also give them $300 and have my own gatherings....I ended up just buying the tea tree oil shampoo and conditioner, which honestly I LOVED, but I remember being surprised at how difficult it was to buy them again! I couldn’t just go online and buy it. I had to find a “consultant” that might be placing an order soon and give her cash and we’d eventually meet up to get my shampoo and conditioner. I’ve had drug deals that were way easier than that. It shows how the scam, ironically, isn’t geared toward simply selling a product, because it’s too easy to do that these days!! No, it has to be this due-paying membership hierarchy where the “product” is really just people with a phantom carrot being held out in front of them of getting their own due-paying members...ugh

I knew a dude at the gym who was really intro Arbonne and I had no idea what it was and I thought he legit started his own successful business. I actually told him once you could just buy all those ingredients in bulk to save a lot of money. That was the last time he talked to me.

My uncle got sucked into Amway and tried to recruit my parents telling them "you're going to be jealous when I'm making a fortune and driving around in a Mercedes." My dad's words back to him will stay with me forever: "When you're driving around in a Mercedes, I'll join Amway." Uncle ended up leaving Amway a few years after that lol.

The clip of the woman crying in the convention because her sister "is judging her" legit broke my heart. Her sister clearly cares about her, but this woman is brainwashed to believe that this is her true calling, and all she needs is people to believe in her. It's so sad.

The arbonne party looked like a cult gathering

My company pays ME to go to business conferences and pays all my travel & expenses. These companies are such a joke. How can they be so blind that they are the customer?!

The thing I hate the most about MLM's is that you cannot leave them (and stop paying the monthly fee, whatever it is) without talking to someone above you in the network. This predatory practice makes it so that they can just talk you into staying, and if you don't have thick skin, it's extremely hard to leave. It's almost worse than religion because you can't just quietly leave and disappear... They'll continue to take your money if you don't actually quit.

My wife's a Regional Vice Presidents with the white Mercedes and all! Everything you're saying in the video... She's been trained/brainwashed to dispute! They have weekly meetings and quarterly "Arbonne Retreat" to dispute facts and common sense. It's been hard on our marriage and relationships with family and friends. At the RVP level, understand we're financially much further behind after trips and expenses. So what am I left with? A broken marriage, broken friendships and a team of "Arbonne Cult Members" that will dispute anything myself, family or friends say.

As a personal trainer the one MLM that makes me livid to the core is beach body. Nothing like “coaches” who aren’t licensed or certified to train people trying to do my job that i worked my ass off getting. Everytime they contact me, we always discuss their qualifications as a coach 😉

This video is so well done. I haven’t finished watching it but I just needed to comment. I was part of Arbonne for 6 months and was actually part of the thousands of people under Debbie Neal. I became a DM in a month into the business, and after that it became extremely hard to move up. I was doing arbonne with my husband and our relationship was getting affected by it. I am so thankful for all of the anti-MLM videos because thanks to them I was able to get out early (still lost money tho).

My mom used to bring me to Arbon meetings when I was a kid, and I remember it vividly. A room packed full of women all sitting in a circle with wild, desperate eyes- all talking about how well it was going

Little known “mouth to mouth” advertising is a frontier marketing strategy in which you invite prospective clients to a business meeting holding a mouthful of Arbonne meal replacement shake with at least two minutes of uninterrupted eye contact before drawing the prey in close and spitting it into their mouth. See also: mama birding, MLM consultation

I understand "rant/rave" is a marketing choice for your video, but this is a thorough critical analysis. It's mathematics and logic and you presented it in such an easily understandable way. Thank you!

I've seen footage of that crazy cult conference before, it terrifies me. That poor woman being told to leave her sister behind, what an absolutely disgusting thing to say. Unforgivable.

I was on a flight to Gold Coast, Australia where an arbonne convention was being held. There were at least a dozen arbonne representatives on the flight talking VERY loudly. I overheard that one of the woman on the flight, a professional singer, sung at the Las Vegas convention. When asked if she was paid to perform at the show her response was, ‘No I didn’t get paid because obviously it’s such a privilege, so performers aren’t paid.’ The group of women with her were agreeing about how much of a privilege it was and how lucky she was. A privilege to perform for free? Lucky to not get paid to do your job? 🙄🙄

I've been watching anti-MLM content for a couple years now and for some reason it was while watching this one that I realized MLMs are just microcosms of unchecked U.S. capitalism.

My friend who joined arbonne keeps saying to me that Arbonne is not a pyramid scheme/MLM, she said it’s a network marketing company which is another word for pyramid scheme 😭 She invited me to her “event” She didn’t really explain what the event was but I was like ok and I came anyway but because she was really hyped about it and the way she described it it sounds like a big deal I was expecting like a proper event people gathering with free drinks etc, I was half an hour late and when I arrived it was just her and her Arbonne mentor, in a bakery…

I almost joined arbonne when I was 19 because I didn't know anything about mlm, and it first sounded so attractive until I found out you had to pay money to sign up and get your friends to buy stuff from you and I was like "listen lady, I am a broke college student and I barely have $100 in my bank account and literally can't afford to buy a starter kit and my friends literally can't afford to buy any products from me" and she got so mad and I realized hmmmm this might be a scam lol then I learned about mlm and was like ohhhh

I used to direct high school theatre. One of the kids mom volunteered to do makeup for our performances. I came to find out that this woman was a MaryKay rep and told all of these 50+ TEENAGE boys and girls that they each needed to buy two shades of foundation, a mascara and a lipstick of their own because it wasn’t sanitary to use the same makeup on everyone. I have never been so disgusted. It’s insanity.

Imagine being the very last person in the world to be recruited, and there are literally no more people left to recruit, so they get stuck on the lowest tier forever; would they then be the only person to never be pressured into recruiting others? Or, do they get sent out on a space mission to find "intelligent lifeforms" on other planets so they can offer them a "wonderful business opportunity"....😂

My sister got sucked into this about 10 years ago. No talking her out of it. It finally stopped after my brother in law put his foot down. Thank god. She resented it and still wanted a white Mercedes when she picked out a car a couple of years ago. She is a smart professional. Wtf. I'm sending this to her. Thanks for the empathy. New subscriber. 🌺

I was once invited for a coffee with a new friend (or so I thought) and just as we sat down she pulled out her Arbonne catalogue and read me a sales pitch without even looking up from the book. I was gobsmacked. I wanted the ground to swallow me up. I felt embarrassed for both myself AND her. I then found out she'd tried to get another friend to go to a 'networking' event but she'd had the foresight to ring the hotel beforehand and found out it was an Arbonne recruitment day! So underhand!

Ewww. The part of the video where Rachel Hollis tells the woman she can choose to not interact with her sister if she questions the company. So gross. Bad enough Hollis is a complete fake who just shouts out the cliche quotes section of Pinterest and calls it her own words 🙄

wow, midsommar 2 looks promising

Once you realize that as a consultant, you are actually the one getting hustled, then you understand the game, count your losses and leave it alone. Be kind to yourself. We all make mistakes.

My parents fell for an MLM when I was a teen. It was to sell a round coaster shaped glass with groves and a small device you attach to a straw that were meant to “rejuvenate” your drinking water. A close family friend fell for it and convinced my VERY poor family to somehow scrounge up the then 70,000 Naira, if I remember correctly. We were barely able to meet our day to day needs back then and though not a huge sum, that money would have done so much for us. Looking back they were desperate for a miracle. Thankfully I can take care of them now 😌 I remember the glossy books filled with beautiful Caucasian models drinking, showering and even sleeping with the products 😂 I remember wondering how a piece of glass could change the structure of water, even as a little teen that read science books for fun. It claimed to even aid healing cancer along with some dieting (the dieting part I’m not sure I remember correctly). I did live in Nigeria and attached some validity to the detailed but somehow vague “reviews” and testimonials because I thought western governments had much better regulations to prevent people from straight up lying about “health” products. I don’t remember how it ended but we made no money for sure, not for lack of trying

I'm 75. I became aware of MLM's when I was 21. They're illegel here in in Canada but scammers always find a loop-hole. As long as there's human greed, MLM's will persist.

I love you. You’re a legend. Thank you for ONCE to the RU-vid algorithm for blessing my feed with your face. PS- girl. Get that ad coin. A 47 minute long video with only one ad?! I would have happily sat through all the mid rolls for you and all this work you did spreading the good word! And the MUSIC VIDEO. I repeat. You’re a legend.

I have noticed with a lot of ‘ MLM speakers’ they talk a lot, but really they don’t talk about anything-no useful information-just hot air, what a waste of time

MLM stands for Moms Losing Money.....

I was recently approach by an Arbonne representative. It felt very cultish, each representative I spoke to had the same ”positive” personality. Very uncomfortable, so glad I did my research before signing up. Quarantine boredom has truly hit, don’t fall for it!

What bugs me most about MLMs is a lot of the Huns I've met are genuinely sweet and kind people and they're just getting robbed blind and told it's their fault

I love the editing with the lady saying plus over amd over 🤣🤣😭😭

I followed Avery when she FIRST started arbonne. She was a one direction fan account and that’s how she got her initial following. It’s so strange to see it now.

A friend once invited me to a “make up party”, where it turned out I was the only guest there, aside from the person she was under, who was trying to sell the consultant role to me. I told her I wasn’t interested. She kept trying, and I kept saying no. Even the white Mercedes didn’t do it for me. I purchased a large package of skin care, then later realised it was too much, so I cancelled it. Bought a little something to appease my friend a couple of times, then let my membership lapse. They’re over priced, below average products.

Here from a shout-out from Cruel World Happy Mind, and I have been binging your videos for the past week, and I just wish you had MORE CONTENT. all your stuff is so great, and your songs are incredible. So exciting to see your growth as a creator and in audience!! you're fucking AWESOME, please keep feeding us content 👏

The fact that they made everyone at the party wear white creeps me out, honestly. Why can't they just let people wear whatever color they want?

I tried the Forever Living shake diet thing about 3 years ago. I got the vanilla flavour and my friend got the chocolate flavour. I only lasted 4 or 5 days, I was miserable, shaky and very irritable. My back broke out in a red rash and pimples. When I asked the girl that sold me them about the rash, she said that was the product 'removing the toxins from my body'. I don't think I even lost much weight on it, maybe just a few pounds, never again! I'm now eating a healthy, balanced diet and exercising every day and I've went down 2 dress sizes! I was a size 18, I'm now a size 14. Good nutrition and exercise is the only way to lose weight in a healthy way, there are no short cuts that will lead to healthy weigh loss and maintaining the weight loss x

I’m not even kidding, a girl from my hometown is in the intro LMAOOOO

I briefly got into Arbonne. My dad sold Amway in the 90s and thank God for that because he saved me from getting caught up in Arbonne by telling me how awful amway was. When I was doing Arbonne the gal that recruited me would literally text me 24/7 to be selling and recruiting, and she got mad at me for getting SURGERY because I was so exhausted from meds and wasn’t selling. I just cut her off and essentially quit the business, stopped buying their stuff, stopped talking about it, and I feel like I’ve been freed from a prison 😳

You are my favorite ever RU-vid commentary person - so funny, so articulate, and such a good researcher. Every time I watch your videos I'm having such a good time learning that I almost forget I'm about to get slayed at the end by another killer music video! Brilliant. I would buy regurgitated cat food or used medical supplies from you if you did videos explaining them - thank God you choose to use your gifts for Good instead of evil!

A LEGENDDDD

This girl in my dance class that I thought was super cool and wanted to be friends with only invited me and a couple other dancers over so we would try a bunch of Arbonne products and then buy them after. I just blinked at her and said I really don’t have any money for this stuff. My friends all bought something and I felt so guilty and said maybe when I can afford it. It didn’t really click with me that it was an MLM, she weakly tried to recruit us, but was pushing the products more. This was back in the day when I didn’t know what MLMs were, like 6 years ago. I could never have been recruited to an MLM, I was too broke and hate annoying people

The idea that the devos family made their money in mlm schemes surprises me in no way

I joined Arbonne back in 2005/2006 and lost about $5,000 trying to build a business... this video is spot on and well done.

You’re the John Oliver of RU-vid and I’m here for it. 😘

Everyone needs to watch til the end! How come this brilliant human isn’t at 100k+??

1. Promises of reaching a better life (and/or a "higher level"). 2. Blaming the followers for the failure of the system in their lives. 3. Encouraging them to cut out family and friends who attempt to get them out. 4. Using others within the system who have bought into the promises to convince them to remain. 5. Holding the threat of losing the only connections that remain in their lives (those in that system) should they leave. 6. Motivational speaker/figurehead who's a paragon of the success of the system. Yeah, it's a cult.

I received a fb message from a distant cousin I haven't spoken to/seen in years. It seemed odd because we were never really close.. Then what seems like my cousin genuinely trying to catch up with me, slowly turns into her trying to get me to buy her Arbonne products. 😑 I was instantly so mad and hurt because I thought my distant relative wanted to get to know me. Instead it was a sales pitch. 😤

I had a girl come into the coffee shop I worked in and she would always compliment my hair and then one day she asked me if I would be willing to let her take pictures of my hair for some kind of beauty team she was involved with and I told her she could. I am the type of person who really struggles with the phrase, “no”. She ended up coming into my place of work with her team manager and proceeded to construct a job pitch for Arbonne! I had no idea this was about to happen. During my lunch break, in my place of employment! My boss was so pissed, not at me, but at them. I should have known when she previously invited me to a get together of “young, new women in the community” at a local restaurant. I didn’t go, but I should have seen it coming that this was a MLM thing. I told her that this was out of line and that to set up a “job interview” under false pretenses without my knowledge was shady. I was proud of how much I spoke up for myself and told her off. But then... She apologized and offered to make up for it by putting together a little party with some of my girlfriends where we could try out arbonne products!!!!!!.........WTF?!?! These people see every single interaction and relationship as a potential recruit or sale. It cheapens every friendship and encounter. It makes my skin crawl to imagine what these people are like at family reunions or holiday gatherings. It’s shameful. I would feel so ashamed having to do this. No amount of money is worth your dignity and the dignity of your friends, family and acquaintances. People aren’t people anymore, they are just dollar signs waiting to be filtered into your creepy “girl boss” cult and ripped off. I understand why stay at home moms are targets of this and why they feel drawn to this kind of thing. I get it. It’s a community of other women offering a way to help provide for your family while also being able to stay home and raise your children. It ticks a lot of boxes for things that stay at home moms feel are missing in their lives. But, in the end, it always ends up taking far more than you get out of it. It’s like the mafia, you are just a pawn to recruit new soldiers that take on all the work and risk while people at the top sit back and rake in the dough. This shouldn’t even be allowed.

Can't stand Arbonne, or any MLM for that matter.

I’ve watched my fair share or anti-MLM videos (small obsession with it 😂) but this was the most well done one I’ve seen so far. 🙌🏼

I once pity bought some Arbonne products from this girl. Next thing I know, she’s telling me that SHE is going to pay the fee to sign me up to be a consultant, so I could order myself the products at the discount. It just had to be a secret. Proof that they are solely pushed to recruit and it is absolutely not important to actually sell products.

I lost friends to MLM's. Just a few years out of high school I got slammed with invites to "Product Party!" or "Sample Show!" I had to block some people because they couldn't/wouldn't respect my repeated requests to please not send those things to me. Tempted to reach out after all these years, but then I see mutuals on our social media and they're just deeper in it.

Omg whoever didn’t stay until the song at the end isn’t living they’re best life right now! That was so awesome

your channel is ridiculously tiny for the quality of videos you produce. This was the most quality anti-mlm video I've seen in ages! Thank you so much for being so thorough, I have a solid group of people in my hometown who peddle Amway and I want to slap them around lmao I subbed and I'm ready for more from you, the videos are genius

Someone is currently trying to recruit me to Arbonne. Thank you so much for this video. Really well edited and researched. You just gained a sub!

Omg, this is soooo like Amway, with the psychological manipulation etc etc. I had the misfortune of being involved with it for about 4 years. I saw early on that it was rubbish but my husband was completely brainwashed. Our marriage broke up because he basically chose Amway over Mr and our baby daughter. Your video is soooo relatable for me.

I was HEAVILY recruited by avery and peyton when I was 19. After 1 month into it, it started to feel really uncomfortable and forceful. I had no idea what an MLM was at the time!!! Now I know why the whole experience really cringey. I just feel incredibly naive and try to forget the whole experience lol

Did y’all notice that in the “convention” there were only white moms?😂

I seriously can't believe you don't have a million subs already. This is so high-quality and your presentation blows away 99 percent of those of other channels covering the same material.

I love that the message with all of the pyramid schemes is "This business is so easy! If you don't succeed it's because you didn't try hard enough."

A friend of mine has been trying to sell me Arbonne for years. She doesn't recruit, but pushes products all the time. When she offered me to buy a $50 foundation, I told her it's too expensive. She went on saying I'm paying for the quality, it's cruelty-free and the rest of the pitch she learned. I then told her my Dior foundation costs the same amount of money, and I cannot imaging Dior being worse than she company I've never heard of. She went silent and didn't say anything. MIC DROP.

How to become even poorer - become an MLM Hunbot,

You can choose not to interact with your family?!? Omg! 😳😳 I knew I didn’t like Rachel Hollis...don’t tell me to wash my face, and don’t tell me to cut my sister out of my life! p.s. I almost choked on the Scientology reference 😂😂

I enjoy videos like this. I was so delusional in my early 20s and wish I could go back and avoid this MLM phase in my life. I hope people see the deception and avoid these companies like the plague. Great job breaking all this down!

I am SO GLAD that you mentioned Avery Honeycutt. Pisses me off beyond belief to see her huge following from her weight loss success being used to manipulate people into being in her down line

A++++++++ Really well done. Should be required watching for high school economics students.

The lady spouting off about an Arbonne avalanche is who someone took me to hear speak a few years ago. She’s a very good public speaker. She has that whole vague self help motivation that hypes you up for a bit but once you come down you realize they didn’t say one valuable or actionable thing. Listening to her swindled me into trying Arbonne a few years ago which was disastrous mistake. I still cringe every time someone mentions Arbonne and desperately try to hide the fact I was ever conned into it. The cult tactics are so real. They completely manipulated me and I always thought of myself as so rational and level headed. It’s all just a facade. You are told to act like you are living this lavish lifestyle when in reality not even Arbonne Avalanche lady is making the kind of money she wants you to think she does. There’s so many just down right scammy things I would have to write a whole dissertation to elaborate. Great video, you did a ton of research here.

I was an Arbonne consultant and you are spot on with your information. I spent a lot of money, only sold to myself, my upline told me the best way to sell would be to send out a lot of samples, so I spent hours stuffing envelopes and driving around town to give people free product. This company preyed on people's fears. Their products are paraben free and parabens cause cancer, so you NEED to buy their products, which are insanely expensive. I knew right away this was a scam. My upline was reorganizing sales so I moved up in rank the first week. Then, she posted all over social media how I was rocking my business. Huh? Such. A. Scam!!!

I want to start a cult where everyone is as acutely intelligent, sassy and sarcastic, ethically reasoning, focused, witty and straightout wise as the creator of this channel. Whew.

My cats ran up to my iPad when your cat let you know he/she was a good hunter. Great video and very well researched. Thank you!

when avery used her dying father to shill arbonne 🤢

“The most lucrative form of advertising is mouth to mouth from people that you know.” I mean… agreed

"Chose not to interact w them, even if they're blood" Typical cult leader pitch

You said, "You are mathematically counting on people below you to fail in order for you to succeed." That perfectly sums it up.

My best friend sells Arbonne, so I've tried everything pretty much for free. (Lmao only because she had to buy the 30 day challenge in order to post her shakes and stuff on insta) and I can honestly say, every single item is so mediocre it hurts, I hate they sell it so expensive because it is not worth it.

No ones ever tried to try Mouth to Mouth Marketing on me :(

Please isolate just the music video. Omg, you are a hilarious genius!

With all these ex mlm videos, I wouldn’t be surprised if they take a page out of Scientology and make new recruits sign a non disclosure. I’m not a legal expert so I don’t know how legal that would be. It doesn’t stop some cults.

Rachel Hollis is a popular get on the MLM conference circuit. I can't stand her and the messages she touts. I've seen so many intelligent people I know get hoodwinked by these MLM promises and it makes me sick.

i’ve been sucked into the anti-mlm wormhole and i’m not mad about it!!

YOU ARE BRILLIANT!!!! I just discovered this video. Firstly, I was so impressed by the amount of honest information, and then the song at the finale just absolutely took it to a whole new level! I loved it!!!! What a bonus and surprise that was. You seriously need to have your own talk show! Greetings from Australia x. x x x x

Honestly I did not expect this video to be so well made... I thought I was just gonna watch another anti MLM rant (I'm a little addicted to that kind of content) but I'm really impressed with everything from the research to the rap part - Wow!

M L M = Most Lose Money !!!

My sister has basically ditched me and my sisters after trying to tell her the truth about it, and has neglected anything important because of Arbonne!! This MLM is a glorified Herbal Life but destroys lives in the same way! That fact that sooo many people are sucked in! Saddest thing ever. RIP to the people you used to be before becoming an “Arbonite” 😭

When u said hashtag bossbabe at 23:11 the subtitles said "hashtag bus babe" which is even funnier bc they don´t have a car anymore

Ladies and gentlemen, this is how you do research and present it.

I had a friend who’s mum sold this brand but I didn’t think anything at the time because I was literally 8. When I was friends with her daughter, my mum had breast cancer and she sold my mum a bunch of their make up just to say that their makeup was used by cancer patients. I’m no longer friends with her daughter and we have no contact with that family.

Kinda ironic that every single anti mlm video I watch there’s always an advertisement about an mlm 😅

Damnnn, you definitely put a lot of work into this, especially with the bonus music video at the end! Killing it. Well done 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Have you got any insights into why companies like these are so heavily weighted towards women being conned more than men into joining? I've had maybe 50 people in my wide circle of associates get into MLM style schemes and every single one was a woman. P.s. thank you for the term 'Hun Megatron'

This video is SO well researched! It's become a comfort watch.

I love this video. Seriously. No beating around the bush or sugar coating anything. Every word you say is just pure straight fire. Just dealing nothing but truth from start to finish. Absolutely brilliant. Not even biased or anything, just unfiltered truth.

My friend joined Arbonne and I bought some product. (The shake, fizz sticks, and digestion plus.) I’m using it right now and it’s not a bad product. However, I really think I can find those same type of products somewhere else. I feel bad buying it knowing the toxicity of the company. I’m going to have to tell her that I’m not buying more and I hope we will be okay.

MAAAAAAAATE YOU NEED MORE SUBSCRIBERS, sorry I mean “sponsors”, BECAUSE UR VIDS ARE SO GOOD AND YOU PUT SO MUCH EFFORT INTO THEM!!!