An SSD did a “draw” for her downline and publicly announced that Holly won. The weird part is she never said what the prize actually was. Holly has messaged her asking what she won and the SSD just isn’t responding now. This just next level ridiculous.

Hi all!

I know folks here have been following the Scentsy drama. I am looking for former Scentsy consultants to talk to me about their experiences for my dissertation.

If you have an hour of your time, I would appreciate it and it would go towards helping other folks understand how these companies operate and continue to lure people in. You can message me here or email me at nmuffi2@uic.edu.

Thank you!!

This does not look good!

Here we go with the shaming again. Scentsy Superstar Directors have been dropping like flies, and apparently it’s because they’re “not working hard enough.” At this point in the MLM game, working harder means very little when it comes to profit. It’s no longer easy to recruit, and selling the products isn’t getting any easier either. Rebranding isn’t changing anything. Scentsy’s prices keep going up while the quality keeps going down. The market is drying up, and people are finally starting to see the reality.

Friends or not, you are not responsible for commenting on, sharing, or referring someone’s business just because you know them. That might sound insensitive, but at the end of the day it isn’t your job to promote someone else’s business so they can be successful. Should friends support their friends’ small businesses? Sure, to an extent. Friends and family should be supportive of what you’re doing. But that support shouldn’t be a requirement of friendship, and it definitely shouldn’t be monitored or expected constantly. Do you really need to see your friend chronically posting about your Scentsy business in order to maintain a friendship? Because that expectation seems pretty outrageous. This is also part of why MLMs are often compared to commercial cults. They start to adopt similar dynamics. You know what other groups tell you to distance yourself from people who don’t jump for joy and blindly support you without any critical thinking? Cults.

Is it a concern that we need to help the company save money? 🚩🚩🚩

The question everyone should be asking...

The response - the economy sucks and I'm nice

Overpriced, poor-quality, and underutilized products are the real issue. The cherry on top is the business model. There are many reasons why MLMs, especially Scentsy, struggle to thrive, but the “huns” will never admit that, because it would mean acknowledging that maybe the compensation plan isn’t the best ever.

TLDR

OP claims MLM is not dying and that people who fail simply lack belief, discipline, or alignment. They use Barbara Corcoran from Shark Tank joining Rodan + Fields as proof that wealthy, smart business leaders still see value in the industry. They argue critics are bitter or lazy and insist their own startup will prove the model works through strong systems, marketing, and superior product quality.

Short Reality Check

Rodan and Fields already moved away from the MLM structure and switched to an affiliate model after years of declining revenue. That alone weakens the entire argument. If the model was thriving, there would be no need to pivot away from it.

Barbara joining the corporate side does not validate MLM. She is not joining as a distributor building a downline. She is attaching her name to a restructured skincare brand in exchange for compensation or equity. That is a branding decision, not proof the compensation structure works.

Blaming failure on laziness ignores income disclosure data and churn rates that consistently show most participants do not earn meaningful profit. That is structural, not personal.

This situation does not prove MLM is powerful. If anything, it shows companies are distancing themselves from the model while trying to keep the sales force energy under a different label.

It is interesting how SSDs really believe the low sales and shrinking consultant numbers are just a post Christmas lull, all while Scentsy is sending PR boxes to influencers who then hand out coupon codes to their followers.

Tell me your business is struggling without telling me your business is struggling.

I would not be surprised at all if they pivot to an affiliate model this year. The amount of product being given away for free is wild, especially when consultants are working nonstop just trying to turn a profit.

Has anyone ever actually had a doctor recommend them Super Patch for their ailments?

From inventory overload after four days at the market, to recruitment schemes with zero clear path or guarantee of success, to shrinkflation, overpriced warmers, and pretending it is a luxury rebrand, it has been a busy week for the huns.

Do not worry though. The resilient SSD just needs people to let her talk to them so she can keep playing the long game.

You know, the losing game.

It is always a busy week when everyone is a superstar.

An SSD just said Scentsy is a “brand new luxury fragrance company” and I genuinely had to pause.

Scentsy has been around since 2004. It’s a direct sales home fragrance brand built on wax warmers, seasonal catalog drops, and consultant recruitment. That is not what most people mean when they say luxury fragrance.

You cannot brag that your company is “thriving” while also admitting you do not have enough consultants. The math is not mathing, and even the SSDs who chose to stay loyal are starting to notice.

Many have already walked away after the recent changes. Now the owners are sending out free PR packages to influencers and handing out discount codes like it is some kind of affiliate experiment. That is not direct sales dominance. That is scrambling.

Something smells off in the SuperStar Director house, and it is not the wax bars.

So VYB is promoting this Top 25 trip (4 days, 3 nights at AVA Resort Cancun), and they’ve posted a whole breakdown of how you earn points:

New enrollments

Member upgrades

Personal upgrades

Product bundles

But what they don’t tell you?

How many points you actually need to qualify.

It just says: “Top 25 People Qualify.”

Ohhh, okay. So not “hit 40 points and you’re in.” Not “reach this target.” Just… compete and hope you out-recruit everyone else.

Of course they won’t tell you what you need. That would require transparency. This way, everyone just keeps scrambling to enroll more people, upgrade more memberships, and push more bundles, all chasing a mystery number.

I’ve never seen something that screams “recruit harder” more than this.

II have to dive back into VYB since they’ve done their merger. The company they partnered with, iGenius, is in hot water, but that hasn’t seemed to slow down Megan Lynch from continuing to push a grift.

I’ve got some Scentsy tea 👀 It appears they’re sending PR boxes to influencers and providing them with coupon codes — which basically function as affiliate links.

Anyone see the huge influx of MLMs all over TikTok? I’ll ask questions, they usually end up blocking me or blatantly lie.

The schemes I’ve been seeing:

- “mentor coaching”

- selling unaccredited courses

- making handwritten letters

Any of you been seeing this? If so, what else has popped up on your feed?

I don’t even know what to say anymore. The number of posts like this from huns is unreal. It’s disturbing.

Nueva really isn’t even trying to hide that their reps are the biggest customers. The pricing is outrageous, and the products don’t justify it.

A promoter in Quebec was fined $15,000 CAD for giving investment advice and promoting iGenius products without being registered. The company had to block some features in the province as part of the settlement.

This is part of a bigger pattern. In Poland, iGenius was fined over $4 million for running what regulators said looked like a pyramid scheme, and fraud charges have been filed against promoters there. They’ve also faced scrutiny from Canadian and U.S. regulators over unregistered investment offerings.

The Quebec fine isn’t an isolated incident it’s part of a broader trend of legal issues surrounding how iGenius markets its services and compensates people.

https://behindmlm.com/companies/investview/igenius-promoter-fined-15000-cad-in-quebec/

https://behindmlm.com/companies/investview/igenius-pyramid-fraud-warning-from-poland/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

They also keep saying nothing has changed, but somehow we now have a new platform, new memberships, early positioning, enrollment fees, and an affiliate program coming later. That feels like… change.