Hey angels happy Tuesday. I have been filming all day and I am so excited to bring so much to you this feb. so stay tuned. Were diving into the pearl MLM. Just a heads up this was prefilmed so I'm holding the mic during this one lol. *I'M AWARE THERE ARE AUDIO ISSUES LOL. I tried my best to work with what I had at the time (I was waiting for a mic boom to ship for me) since this is my job. the rest of my videos here on out have wayyyyy better audio* But every video after this won't have that at all!!! *I additionally made a second video diving into this MLM so if you are interested click here ua-cam.com/video/waXTEMzGres/v-deo.html*
LMFAO!!! You're killing me here everytime you say "shucking clams" so incredulously I'm lol cuz I'm thinking the same thing. No wonder she's too tired to go live she's having to shuck fing clams til she gets someone to buy $1k worth of em omg worst mlm I've heard of.
Lol, that this woman has the nerve to wear a cross ring and earrings.... Then tells people to buy followers.... Ma'am, YOU need Jesus, because the things you're saying isn't very holy 🚫😇🙏😳
Oh no. No, no, no. My mother is susceptible to MLMs. And she loves to shuck and collect pearls at theme parks. This is the ultimate scam that could destroy her. I hope she never sees this.
If you go to any beach town you can get the kits where it comes with one in a can you pry open and the necklace cages (I'm sure you know this) probably can also order online and theyre onky like $12, stock her up on those to keep her busy lmao
Here in Hawaii we don't "shuck" the oyster we harvest pearls from. We farm them underwater, and the pearls are very gently removed from the oyster and a small ball of calcium is inserted back in that will become a pearl in a year or two
i didn’t know this, thanks for sharing! native Hawaiians (and all indigenous people really) know how to treat the Earth properly, the world should have learned from them :(
Ew, the oysters are real?! 🤢 What a wasted opportunity to design a cute one in thick paper. I feel like someone in this mlm is a fishmonger, that found a way to get rid of some inventory.
Thank god something came out about this! These pearl companies sell fake colored pearls (they are probably real pearls colored). NEWS FLASH green is not a color that occurs in calcium. The terrifying thing about this is that they open these pearls, take out the pearls, and put in colored pearls back into these live oysters. Then ship them out alive usually vacuumed sealed so they suffocate. I find this unsettling and strange. Pearls should be the same color as the inside of the oyster's shell it is shucked from. I have tried to talk about this oyster lives and immediately got banned from their lives because they obviously don't want people knowing what the meat packing is they are paying for.
Yeah I don’t know much about pearls but even I could tell most of these colors looked very obviously fake. What I don’t get is why is it allowed for this “business” to be blatantly scamming and falsely advertising to people?? Like how are they allowed to do this??
I was watching a tiktok live of a lady shucking oysters and she openly said that the oysters were injected with dye when they are young and they absorb the colour into their pearl as they grow? And are obviously not meant for human consumption to begin with. Is there a possibility that that’s true?
@@blue1584 theres probably a fine text in the agreement that says "you agree that you know the pearls arent actually real real" yada yada And obvi nobody reads that too carefully, especially if the deal is signed online. Then people just click "i agree" and go
@@EEsUA-camChanel I am, matter of fact, I live on one of the biggest fishing ports in New England and the world at one time.... And I'd still laugh my 🍑 off 🤣🤣🤣🙄
Yeah.. my local well run grocery store with a seafood counter has oysters often and with just as good of a chance of finding one. What a load of hooey.
It’s not even an “at least”. I’d work in a restaurant over an MLM any day. I’d get a regular wage, likely free food, and there would be 0 pressure to be working when I’m enjoying my free time.
@@alexv3372they are pretty darn good to me, not everyones taste, a little rubbery. It tastes like a sea food. Its not really comparable. My mother is also allergic to sea food, you can just do a full cleaning before coming back home. Ex: go to a restaurant with a friend with your money and get the sea food, or have it at the table with your friend's family, then in their house, go shower thouroughly, clean your teeth very well, you face, hand, wash your clothes, chamge in new ones that fidmt see the light while the allergen was out and run back home avoiding the room it was in Ots a zero risk scenario, of course a little mistake here and there usually isnt the end of the world
Also, as a side note, this woman lives comfortable outside of her little mlm. Her husband is a preacher. These mlms will scam struggling women with empty promises and ultimately cost them money they can't afford to lose
As an actual jeweler/silversmith, these MLM jewelry businesses make me irate. I can't tell you how many times people have expected me to make them custom jewelry pieces with real gemstones and silver for $5! 🤬
Wow... as a beaded gemstone bracelet maker (like jades, moonstone, etc.), a string of beads is like $7-$13. Then you have labor. And those are just for circular ones! I can't imagine the price of a precious cut stone! And that's also without labor!
Thats insane, I would never expect a custom piece to be any less than double the price of a mass produced piece, I have to imagine that it takes a crazy level of skill if not hours or days to create
@@madisnyder3976 selling handmade jewelry myself, I wonder how people aren't selling their products for more on places like Etsy. It takes a good chunk of money to buy the supplies and then on top of that you have to make some money on the sale.
Not ONCE in the video,do I see a genuine smile,from her. And she looks so unhappy,she puts on a fake happy voice when she acknowledged the chat,and that's it. If this 'pearl business' is so wonderful,she sure af doesn't look happy to be doing this.
In tourist places in the mediterrenian, especally Greece, you can find oysters with actual pearls in them for like 10€, the pearls arent perfectly round, obviously not fit for jewlery, most are just a cool little trinket, but it just shows how much they are trying to hype this up
And oyster shucking for pearls actually makes sense as a souvenir! The little pearl is nice for a memory, versus these fake pearls that are just memories of Midwestern basements lol
Where I'm from a local jewelry brand makes jewelries made of real jaggy imperfect natural pearls every bow and then but they always sold out the moment they launch bc one, each piece is unique and they don't mass produce them as they're only website exclusive and are sourced locally directly from ppl
As someone who has an ACTUAL small business that I started from the ground up, MLM Huns says they are “starting their own business” just drives me insane!!!
I am not a business owner of any kind, I could not do what y'all do but it burns my ass as well. If you don't get to decide anything about a business IT! IS! NOT! YOUR! BUSINESS! What real business owners do is damn near super human in my eyes and takes so much grit. I also wish they would kick the MLMs out of pop up and farmers markets. I went to a Christmas bazaar once and it was all MLM except one sweet woman selling her hand made fruit/maple syrups. I bought 3 (beautifully packaged) glass bottles of her fruit maple syrup (blueberry, strawberry, and pecan) and a home made pecan pie. Best syrup and pie I ever ate.
I just think it's weird. The oysters are dead and didn't produce the pearls - nor are they capable of doing so - the companies have shoved pearls that have been artificially coloured into dead oysters, and then sealed the oysters again using harsh chemicals. It's just weird.
I think it's weird people don't know this. They're so easily duped because it's jewelry...minimal googling can really educate people on semi precious and precious jewelry 😂
It's like a weird cosplayed parody of actual labor. It's romanticizing difficult working-class jobs as being super funnn and easy and you'll make so much money!!! Girlboss!!
I used to live in the Midwest. There was a lady who lived a block behind me. She was an EMT and had 3 kids. She spent every second she could watching pearl videos. She got her kids into it, she got neighbors into it, hell she almost got me into it. Then everything collapsed when it came to light that she hadn't made a car payment or rent payment in almost 6 months so she could keep buying these stupid pearls.
@@dinosaur___7209 They really do. MLMs make my blood boil because the only people I've ever known who've gotten into them have been the people who were really desperate. They prey on the desperate, take every cent, and leave them even more destitute and desperate.
As an EMT myself I can see how she fell for this. We don't make money and can become desperate, especially when you have a family to take care of. Almost fell for a few myself
So when she said you can’t sell any other jewelry that isn’t your business. If it your business you decide what you sell and even carry a variety of brands. This is red flag city.
What kills me is these people are overpaying for inferior products they can’t use when they could go to their local bead/gem store and buy nicer, natural, and prepped pearls to be used in jewelry at a much lower price per unit.
Exactly, I don't work with pearls but I can go and buy a string of pearls for around 10 dollars or so. Then I can make some nice beaded jewelry with them.
They target a specific demographic of women. This may be the only current feasible option for these women to have any sort of life outside of their families. They probably don’t see it as embarrassing bc the only other option was no job at all. And not only do they have a self-fulfilling job, they own their own business!!! I grew up in a rural area with a lot of SAHMs and it was like playing whack-a-mile avoiding all of them and their parties 😭
Frankly they aren't conning anyone anymore than most bankers or people in finance. The only problem people have a problem is that they're SAHMs. And the same people who typically complain and call them nitwits and consider say if they got a REAL JOB they wouldn't do things like this probably also consider themselves "feminists" but only view women as acceptable if they work outside of the home and don't wear modest clothes. ---and this is coming from someone who is anti MLM.
The pearls are real, but very little else about the pearl party trend is. Cultured freshwater pearls are one of my favorite gems to work with, so I've learned to recognize them. Even the higher grades are surprisingly affordable if you know where to look. However, they're produced by large freshwater mussels, not those small "oysters" (which look more like misshapen clams or scallops than oysters, but I could be wrong) that they're packaged in. Also, the only colors they come in naturally are muted pinks and purples. Everything else is bleached or dyed. If done well, the bleaching and dying process results in the wide variety of colors available in Japanese and South Sea pearls for a tiny fraction of the price. If done poorly, the dying process results in pearl parties.
Isabella, I like when you call someone goofy… I used to buy these pearls not from this company. To be honest I was in a bad head space and I felt like I was part of a family. I’m still friends with some of the other women who would go and watch and buy some pearls to feel included. I do wear the jewelry still and I gave a bunch away as gifts. As a consumer it’s not just the gambling it’s about feeling loved. Then I got therapy.
Lol, I wasn't expecting that last line.... But good for you! I'm curious, how is the quality of the pearl? Because I see these same looking pearls, man made synthetic, on Ali Express for pennies 😳
I honestly wanted to do this mlm. Because my town goes crazy for pearls. The one I wanted to do actually had live ones so they're moving and they provide you feed and large pretty tank. With decorations. The lady doing it almost got me sold on signing up. But I couldn't kill live creatures. Even though the pearls were genuine... As the one I bought was past the real pearl test
I will say something positive: I appreciate that they're trying to do some sort of control when it comes to tying consultant growth to items actually sold. I'm sure a consultant can make some dummy accounts and buy their entire inventory using a fake name and negate the controls, but with the "required to sell all products before reordering" and "required to have x active team members before enrolling more" it seems like they're trying to prevent exponential ballooning. Still think it's an unsustainable and weird product but those two things stuck out to me
I noticed that too, but I also noticed that she was using a lot of language to create a sense of scarcity around the jobs. For example, she pointed out that the CEO might stop hiring in the near future. This sort of language encourages people to jump on board as fast as they can just in case there's a hiring freeze.
Good points if it’s true and not just what this hun is saying. (Didn’t finish the video yet) They could also be trying to avoid people demanding returns for huge piles of stinky oysters stacked up in their house. But I honestly don’t know much about oysters.
When she said “when I was with my other pearl company..” I didn’t believe there were more than one. There’s a few and there’s multiple pinterest boards about live party ideas and techniques. Video idea: mlm pinterest boards.
I was like: She didn't get a bath bomb company to work, she didn't get another pearl company to work so...instead of realizing MLMs don't work, she's starting *another* jewellery MLM...🙄
@@Lizzypoohxo girl I found them googling live pearl party and there’s boards on boards about them which leads to recruiting strategies and how to build a team and ways to do lives correctly. It’s wild
I just love, how she's first bragging about every team member having her number, when ten seconds later she's like "Text me, don't call me! " Sure. Because texts can be ignored. A desperate person on the phone? Not so much. So slimy....
The weird part is before the Pearl mlms started I remember seeing this kind of thing at county fairs. For 10-15 bucks they would shuck an oyster for you that they would put into a pendant right there. Me and a friend got one and the pendants were really cute.
Same! My friends and I always would do it at the fair for like $10. It was exciting because it was a kind of fair game with a prize a 12 year old girl would be really excited about. I don’t think doing it as an adult sitting at home would have the same excitement.
I remember Disney's water park had one of these as well, though a bit more expensive of course. I got one and got it mounted right there as well, think my mom paid like $125 but mostly for the pendant I chose.
@@raizensamson6723 I think ours was like $25/ea + separate cost for the cages to put them in. I got one, then came back later with my family and all the girls got one. I still have it and it brings back fond memories of the event. They didn't mount them for us though, just had cages; might be the difference in price.
Right! Like, alls you have to do is shuck 3 oysters, stand in your living room under a bright light and sing 3 songs before you can enter the back office. And THEN… blah blah blah. Lol
5:29 I remember one time when I had a mlm attempting to recruit me they were very specific about the type of language they used. “Say bucks instead of dollars because people will balk at 99 bucks vs 99 dollars” I forget the “science” behind it but watching this woman just made me think about it
I was sick in bed a few years ago and one these live oyster shucking parties was suggested to me. One of those things that starts rolling without clicking. I watched for a good 45 minutes wondering if I was experiencing a fever dream. I was so confused about who would do this or buy this way. This video is the first time I’ve encountered this since then. I guess it wasn’t a fever dream after all. 😅
The same thing happened to me except I had to Google it because I was so confused about it. I actually didn’t find much info about it at the time so I’m glad more info has been discovered
They are so obviously not real pearls! I’ve done real pearl shucking, we chose one clam (they were huge and sooo hard to open, and the pearls aren’t perfect shapes, sometimes aren’t smooth, all similar colours in my one (pink and cream) and you have file and polish them to remove the membrane and you can see other pearls growing on the surface of the clam. These people make it look so easy and they look so perfect. Major red flag!
Also fun fact, pearls can be made so easily now that these prices are OUTRAGEOUSLY bad for the actual pearl. Most of these pearls are made in bulk and would give you about… two cents at a jewellers
My friend started doing this and tried to guilt trip me to support her and got very aggressive and said people not buying affected her mental health and we were not real friends and she got her stuff from Ireland. It was all TAT absolute TAT and I paid like £20 for a metal chain because I felt guilty. I had to block her on everything as she got really weird.
I think it's not about the selling. I think it's like a cult--the wanting to belong to a group. If it was really about selling a product, they could get on eBay, Amazon, or Etsy and have far less hassle
Yeah...mlms are basically cults. They tell people that if their loved ones are not supportive then they are holding them back from progress. They encourage people to be as aggressive as possible to convince people to join/buy. It becomes a them vs. us thing. Im sorry you had to cut your friend off.
The part where you don't own the oysters is reminding me of luluroe. my aunt was a seller of luluroe and when she quit they charged her for every item that wasn't sent back, even tho she was told she owned them
this definitely wasn’t one of the cathartic, rip-and-tear vids on MLMs. instead it was something even more needed: a nuanced, surgical, by-the-numbers look at the money and time and effort you have to pour into these scams in order to (POSSIBLY) get any returns. very good video.
A lot of MLMs use small business rhetoric to hide the fact that you’re actually working for a huge company. As someone who does actually run my own small business (I sell my own art and original merch designs on etsy), it’s true that you have to put up a lot of time and effort up front. There are startup fees to everything, like you can’t sell a product if you have no product. It doesn’t make small businesses a scam… but it does make MLMs a scam. Most of the time, an average small business’s startup fees go to a variety of places, and the benefits are your own forever. But in MLMs, you’re ordering stuff mostly from one place, and your sales are going back to the parent company. There is also heavy pressure to grow faster and faster, and recruit people. True small businesses don’t need to do any of that. A true small business can grow at your own pace, can take as much or as little time as you want. Of course, less effort usually means less returns, but you aren’t going to be constantly emotionally manipulated by your up line.
I actually bought one of those pearl. Necklaces as a gift for someone and I deeply regret it 😂 the person I bought it from was an ex Mary Kay consultant and has since left that and is now with monat 🤣
this is a complex one for me, my late stepmom whom i loved dearly LOVED watching these pearl parties with me (i think the one we bought from were local consultants of vantel pearls). The pearls to her were gifts to me as she loves the ocean and it was more of a fine jewelry gift to last a lifetime than an impulse buy or consumerism. With her life cut too short I feel different about that experience because I want her to experience as much joy in her life as she could. I didn’t even know it was an MLM. I remember it inspired her to buy oysters for us to open on her destination wedding vacation and it is a great memory for me. It’s funny and eye opening to experience an mlm in a good way and opens me up to a new perspective of the reasoning behind the people who fall for these companies and I would love to analyze it more
It reminded me of a cheap version of this thing I remember in Disney World when I went maybe when I was 8?? It was Pick a Pearl in Epcot Japan and you got to pick the oyster but they were all natural. When they opened it, they would show the size it was with this like hole ruler thing? I saw someone happen to get two in one oyster too! But it was a trip memory! I got mine placed in a little cage in a necklace and my mom ended up getting a black one and we have matching necklaces. But as a business? It sounds frivolous….. no memories associated
I realised this is something I do sm 😂🥲 in a less sharp way I think becausse she has an accnt with strong vowels? But either way I do it because of adhd and asd brain, this vid just reminded me I need to unlearn that habit. I found myself getting so thrown off by her ums when trying to pay attention😂
I have never thought about buying them but I will say those lives on tiktok really do pull you in, so I could see how someone that is scrolling, bored and maybe even lonely and they interact with them could get sucked into buying and coming back for more just to feel included or feel like they are not a lone and a part of something
The pearl thing is the weirdest one. I think CC watched a live of someone opening the oysters. Ppl buy a group of oysters (sight unseen of course) and then they could choose to swap pearls for future openings...or something. It was confusing. Plus there are findings (settings for the pearls to make it finished piece of jewelry) that you have to buy separately unless you buy a ridiculous amount of pearls and then you get a discount. I don't understand why ppl don't just buy pearls from a bead company or something instead of this nonsense.
@@maryeckel9682 the formaldehyde is what worries me the most. I can’t believe some of these ladies aren’t wearing gloves ugh formaldehyde is so icky to me. I was a TA for an animal dissection class and I immediately regretted it after two weeks. That smell gets stuck in your nose, plus it’s just straight up not good for you
I have a ring that my grandma got from a home pearl party when she was in her 30s. My grandma was born in 1922 so that had to be one of the first home party pearl companies i guess. Idk if it was an mlm or just direct sales (as many of them were back in the day, there truly was no recruitment incentive) but the ring is pretty...tarnished...but pretty 😅
Just letting you know that tarnishing CAN be corrected! I would suggest going to a metalsmith or jeweller for assistance with it :) you could also get it re-plated if it really bothers you. But I think it shows the journey the item has been through, especially if it’s over 50 years old!
Real pearls do not come out perfectly round like the ones these huns are pulling out. These have definitely been buffed to a round shape, and then dyed, and put back in the oysters. It’s cheaper to just buy a pearl from a supplier instead of paying these inflated “party” prices.
You can get lovely imitation (or genuine) pearls from Fire Mountain Gems, without involving an MLM (or stuffing them into a dead oyster for effect). They have volume discounts, have sales all the time, and you can even get yourself a random assortment for that surprise factor.
@@TheJennnq It’s greed and desperation, sadly. Some folk toss away their life-savings just to get started in the mlm business, not realising what a scam it is :(
My niece did this signing in under her. She sucks you in and then doesn't answer your questions. She just basically leaves you hanging. She gets people hooked by chit chatting and they come back every night she is on. They become addicted.
This makes me think of those booths at fairs (also kits found in gift shops) where you can pick a clam, they open it for you right there. Then have a bunch of necklaces for that come with the price for the pearl to put in. My sister collects these.
Do these people realize that clams are living creatures? Do they think clams are geodes? It's weird how they're recording themselves smiling while opening up a dead animal that was k*lled for aesthetic reasons.
There was a known scammer local to me and she did this for a while. She also did Younique. She would pull multiple pearls out of a shell and say they only got one when you could clearly see it. She would then sell the extras to people that wanted a specific color and a lot of times she didn't even ship them. She also never paid for her supplies. She would get her followers/"friends" to pay for them instead. It was wild! I still pop in every now and then to see what she's doing.
This is so weird because I remember a couple years ago getting into watching this couple that had an Etsy store that sold pearls and they would have videos of shucking and packing orders. Never knew there was this side to the pearl business, it was just satisfying ti watch lol.
As a former business owner (sold it at a great price and retired at 51), i would think about the people who would buy this stuff? Average women with little to no knowledge of gemstones or jewelry. Considering who this is targeted toward, and the fact that the average person can barely pay their bills lately, who would waste their money on it? Opening a discretionary spending business isn't a good idea in the middle of a recession
The funniest part of this whole thing is, according to this woman, there are about 1100 "consultants" and 60% of them are considered active but to be considered active you must have sold $250+ last month because less than that makes you inactive and you can't be inactive for more than two months before you aren't a "consultant" anymore. So literally in her own words: 40% of people who haven't dropped out of the "company" yet (~440 people) will do so within a month...
I watch anti mlm on my phone, and my boyfriend and i use his account to watch UA-cam on the TV, where we don't watch any anti mlm content. But that's exactly where I saw this video suggested! Love to see this video performing so well for you 💕
Imagine the salmonella spreading from hand to hand! Is it even legal to sell oysters across state borders without any license? This is the most weird business model ever. Disgusting.
When I was a kid in the 90’s they used to have these oysters you could buy with pearls in them at the mall. They were in those little kiosks when you walked around the mall. They had different colors you could get and they meant things. I always wanted one as a kid, but they were big in the 90’s it’s a core memory for me.
My first boyfriend's mom bought those for all her sons' girlfriends and wives for Christmas one year. We all opened them at the same time and they came with matching necklaces. They were natural farmed pearls, so they were all different shapes. I still have mine. 😂 Ours came in little cans still in the oysters, so we had to shuck them ourselves.
They still have one I just bought one for my 8 year old sister over the summer lol with the cage necklaces. I got her a butterfly necklace and I got a Llama one. I had a fancy kit as a kid from my grandparents so I wanted to give her rhat memory. I got mine in ocean city maryland but they're in every beach town still
Actually the you don’t own the pearls is kind of genius! If someone has a lot of pearls and quits, they have to send them back. I can imagine that you have a short return window so a lot get stuck paying for them
My family member gifted me bomb rings for Christmas. Wouldnt be a big deal if I was into them but I have zero interest and only have a set pair of pieces of jewelry I have invested in and I wear daily/weekly. But this reminds me of my family member because they totally get sucked into this pearl shucking and bomb ring thing. Honestly so sad because they prey on women who fall into this addiction. Like you said, it's gambling.
No more MLM’s for me - EVER!!!! I got sucked into multiple MLM’s and they are just awful!!! I ended up spending more money to keep my “status” than I was making by selling any of the products. Run!!!!!!!!!!!!
I wish you would set your mic down.. it’s all I can hear and I would love to watch your video but I don’t think I can handle the noise from you holding the mic… sorry..
I was surprised she was actually talking about the product. But I’m sure it’s because there is so much more to it than just “order shampoo online”. If they didn’t tell people the ins and outs they would likely be super confused.
*new sub here! i’ll have to say, usually these consultants are so over the top and try and sell you the world…i although id never do it, i appreciated her delivery of the process…first time i think i’ve heard one say it’s a lot of work…but still, it’s an mlm…thx for the video!
I truly do not understand the appeal of this. The colors of the beads are so fake, and look like the glass pearls from Michaels . I used to make jewelry and could buy 15-24 inch strands of real cultured pearls for $5-$20 each depending on size.
I went to a couple in-person pearl parties a few years ago. I don't remember what MLM. I'm surprised they're still a thing with the animal cruelty aspect. You seemed confused about why the Hun was the middle-man in getting the pearl to the customer. The customer picks an oyster then the Hun shucks it & reveals the pearl. The customer then picks a piece of jewelry from MLM catalog. The Hun mails the pearl to the MLM jeweler to be set and then the jewelry is mailed to the customer. It takes several weeks from party to receiving your order
Omg these pearl things have been around for decades! My grandmother got me one (not from an MLM) when I was 10 (like 24 years ago lol) and it was a legit pearl which came with a chain and little pendant cage for the pearl to be a necklace. You could also get these places like FAO Schwartz and science museum gift shops 😂
@@erinfindsen4953 Yes! I have done it twice, once was a white pearl and the other peach. Shucking the oysters definitely wasn't overly fun though. But at least they came more as a kit where you got the pearl and the jewelry. Not spending money on just the pearl and then purchasing the jewelry as well. I definitely don't think I would want to be going live to shuck a bunch of oysters just to possibly make a few bucks 😂
@@sinicalbeautyqueen2975 plus in most of those theyre not cramming fake colored pearls in there, theyre just farm raised oysters basically guaranteed to have some sort of pearl in there so its essentially real plus the thrill of 'what will i get?'. This is oysters with predyed pearls stuffed in there which is soooo weird
@@kaylad2058 completely agree that it is super weird. Who thinks they naturally come bright green or something? If someone wants to do this at least get one that will be authentic.
I used to watch these all the time. I think I watched some lady from Vantel(?) and she ended up quitting and getting sued and now she’s in a spy gear mlm lol idk it was like 4 years ago maybe
@@IsabellaLanter I doubt it’s a thing anymore since who in the world would want that but I kid you not I went on to her page one day and she was trying to sell some night vision goggles.
@@TaylorX3 I wish I remember what it was. I’ve been looking for it ever since I saw her live but I can’t find anything about it. If I ever do I’ll circle back lol
ok i feel like i can actually weigh in here since ive spent HOURSSSSS watching these pearl shucking ladies... no clue why, it was just amusing to me. never bought any though. but they were honestly getting orders left and right. they were having fun and doing games and the customers seemed to be going crazy for it. there were constantly people placing 100$+ orders and everyone would be oooing and ahhhing when they were opened. One instance i distinctly recall is a lady went live and said she was doing a marathon live stream. She had 350 oysters and would stay live until they all sold.... they sold within 20 minutes. its ridiculous to people like us who dont get the craze, but theres definitely a market. I definitely agree its like gambling and that seems to be what gets people excited, not knowing what color, or size they are going to get.
Are we just going to ignore the fact people are treating LIVE ANIMALS like mystery boxes?! This kinda feels like next level cruelty If it was basically any other animal I bet it would be mentioned more
Yeah and not only that, pearl farms don’t kill the oysters or clam that grow their pearls. They’re very well cared for…aside from being pried open once a year or so and implanted with a new “irritant” nucleus. 😅
I found this video so interesting! Months ago, I think in like July, my entire for you page on TikTok was lives of people shucking oysters and I had no idea what it was all about
I will admit that I do buy the kits where you open the pearls yourself as a stocking stuffer for my daughter and I. That is just personally a fun thing we do together on Christmas, but otherwise I don’t buy for someone else to shuck for me or anything. I have also bought kits from when we go on vacation kinda like a souvenir like when we went to Disney world, and just things like that. We rarely rarely go on vacation though. I used to buy like crazy from people that did shuck on live and then I one day was just like eh, I think I’ll just watch or something and stopped buying and I had so much jewelry from buying previously I hadn’t even worn once and had for 6+ months and just decided to give them as Christmas gifts because I wasn’t going to wear them or I would have already. I had pieces I forgot I had bought and was like oh wow I forgot about this piece, but family and friends loved them and I was getting rid of them and didn’t have to buy gifts for awhile so it just kinda worked out in the end. I still have a few pieces I didn’t get rid of because I had worn them and I’m obviously not just gonna toss them out if they are still in good condition and imo still pretty, but I quit buying a longgg time ago. I have so much more money now. It’s crazy looking at how much I had spent and how much I saved now since I stopped.
I got a kit like this once. They were called "Precious Pearl" and they were an As Seen On TV thing. It came with like a little canned oyster for you to shuck. Super gross, honestly, and really weird.
my mom bought me, my sister, and herself a necklace each from one of these scams. i have never worn it (it's just not my vibe) and it's hung on my wall ever since i found out a few years ago that it's an mlm. i feel guilty throwing it away bc it was a gift and i still live with my mom but i definitely don't think itll be coming with me for future moves. "oh no! it must've got lost in the move!" eyeroll.
I played the pearl games a few years ago. I thought it was fun to see which pearls you got, it wasn’t that I was gambling on getting a certain color or an expensive one. I mean I knew it was a MLM and I knew they were the same “pearls” you get in cans in souvenir shops but the games were fun. I actually still wear one of them, just a simple wire wrapped ring with a peridot-ish pearl. It’s one of my favorite rings. 🤷♀️
Hey Isabella, I love your content. In this vid, we can hear a lot of your microphone stand moving around while you hold it. Unsure if you noticed it. Keep up the good work ♥
i wonder how much of it is an actual mental tax on her, especially since a lot of these MLMs turn into huge stressors and insecurity over the net loss of money in the person’s wallet because of “lack of growth and commissions.” especially with how much networking and other tasks she has to do for this job. it’s easy to laugh at her, but i imagine it drains a lot of energy out of her even if it’s something as silly as cheap pearls.
Hey angels happy Tuesday. I have been filming all day and I am so excited to bring so much to you this feb. so stay tuned. Were diving into the pearl MLM. Just a heads up this was prefilmed so I'm holding the mic during this one lol. *I'M AWARE THERE ARE AUDIO ISSUES LOL. I tried my best to work with what I had at the time (I was waiting for a mic boom to ship for me) since this is my job. the rest of my videos here on out have wayyyyy better audio* But every video after this won't have that at all!!!
*I additionally made a second video diving into this MLM so if you are interested click here ua-cam.com/video/waXTEMzGres/v-deo.html*
39:27 Hahaha bellaaaaaa did you say "REPEATION?" 😂 I love you, that made me giggle! I'll have to add that to my mental list of Isabella-isms, lol! 😁
LMFAO!!! You're killing me here everytime you say "shucking clams" so incredulously I'm lol cuz I'm thinking the same thing. No wonder she's too tired to go live she's having to shuck fing clams til she gets someone to buy $1k worth of em omg worst mlm I've heard of.
Lol, that this woman has the nerve to wear a cross ring and earrings.... Then tells people to buy followers.... Ma'am, YOU need Jesus, because the things you're saying isn't very holy 🚫😇🙏😳
I got an ad on this video that’s an mlm for helping people in mlm’s recruit people ironic
@@helenacrafter7001 yes cos youtube thinks that is what your interested in.
OMG I see them all the time, I always comment "CLAM SCAM" and report them and they get so mad
CLAM SLAM OMG I AM CACKLING
😂😂😂👏👏👏
Hahahaha 😂😂😂
Omg, youre amazing😂😂😂😂
Hahaha yes I do similar shit and it’s like pooof* banned 🤣🤣
Oh no. No, no, no. My mother is susceptible to MLMs. And she loves to shuck and collect pearls at theme parks. This is the ultimate scam that could destroy her. I hope she never sees this.
There is very likely a difference between what she purchased at legitimate theme parks and what is sold through these parties.
@@jenniferfriesen7691 yeah what they’re trying to say is that since their mother loves to collect pearls, she’s more vulnerable to this mlm
Protect your mother at all costs
Just make sure you check on her and keep her busy with other things
If you go to any beach town you can get the kits where it comes with one in a can you pry open and the necklace cages (I'm sure you know this) probably can also order online and theyre onky like $12, stock her up on those to keep her busy lmao
Here in Hawaii we don't "shuck" the oyster we harvest pearls from. We farm them underwater, and the pearls are very gently removed from the oyster and a small ball of calcium is inserted back in that will become a pearl in a year or two
i didn’t know this, thanks for sharing! native Hawaiians (and all indigenous people really) know how to treat the Earth properly, the world should have learned from them :(
@@kelsey5093 Everybody is indigenous to somewhere.
@@belajadevotchka2 People not descended from the French or British how about that
@@apollomommy7364 THANK YOU. The cruelty concerns here are vomit inducing.
@@kingofallhallowseve Chuck Spain and the Netherlands in there, but YES.
not only does it probably STINK, its also kinda cruel cause its just a bunch of dead oysters that get fake pearls stuffed in them 🥴
I always think of the preserved little animals like fish and frogs that we had to dissect in biology. Hey….I think we did a clam one time.
Well...at least theyre already dead? Better than them being alive at least...
In another video I seem to remember that they have to preserve the oysters/clams and that can actually be dangerous for the consultants
Ew, the oysters are real?!
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What a wasted opportunity to design a cute one in thick paper. I feel like someone in this mlm is a fishmonger, that found a way to get rid of some inventory.
@@moustik31 very real! Sometimes they'll be like "ooh this one is a stinker!" 🤢
Thank god something came out about this! These pearl companies sell fake colored pearls (they are probably real pearls colored). NEWS FLASH green is not a color that occurs in calcium. The terrifying thing about this is that they open these pearls, take out the pearls, and put in colored pearls back into these live oysters. Then ship them out alive usually vacuumed sealed so they suffocate. I find this unsettling and strange. Pearls should be the same color as the inside of the oyster's shell it is shucked from. I have tried to talk about this oyster lives and immediately got banned from their lives because they obviously don't want people knowing what the meat packing is they are paying for.
Real pearls are slightly lumpy. The oysters are dead prior to being stuffed with the fake pearl.
Yeah I don’t know much about pearls but even I could tell most of these colors looked very obviously fake. What I don’t get is why is it allowed for this “business” to be blatantly scamming and falsely advertising to people?? Like how are they allowed to do this??
I was watching a tiktok live of a lady shucking oysters and she openly said that the oysters were injected with dye when they are young and they absorb the colour into their pearl as they grow? And are obviously not meant for human consumption to begin with. Is there a possibility that that’s true?
@@blue1584 theres probably a fine text in the agreement that says "you agree that you know the pearls arent actually real real" yada yada
And obvi nobody reads that too carefully, especially if the deal is signed online. Then people just click "i agree" and go
Tahitian pearls are black and rainbow colors
I think if any friend/family called me up asking me to support them shucking pearls I'd fall off my chair laughing.
I’d assume they’re gonna be a fisherman or something tbh.
So you’re not a New Englander
Got it
@@EEsUA-camChanel I am, matter of fact, I live on one of the biggest fishing ports in New England and the world at one time.... And I'd still laugh my 🍑 off 🤣🤣🤣🙄
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Yeah.. my local well run grocery store with a seafood counter has oysters often and with just as good of a chance of finding one. What a load of hooey.
“My last pearl company…” tells me everything I need to know.
As someone who used to work at a seafood restaurant you’d definitely earn way more shucking oysters there than doing this MLM crap 😂
At least you aren’t putting fake pearls in dead oysters. 😂
It’s not even an “at least”. I’d work in a restaurant over an MLM any day. I’d get a regular wage, likely free food, and there would be 0 pressure to be working when I’m enjoying my free time.
Do oysters taste that good ?
I’m nervous about seafood because my mom has allergies to certain seafood and don’t want to hurt her :(
@@alexv3372they are pretty darn good to me, not everyones taste, a little rubbery. It tastes like a sea food. Its not really comparable.
My mother is also allergic to sea food, you can just do a full cleaning before coming back home.
Ex: go to a restaurant with a friend with your money and get the sea food, or have it at the table with your friend's family, then in their house, go shower thouroughly, clean your teeth very well, you face, hand, wash your clothes, chamge in new ones that fidmt see the light while the allergen was out and run back home avoiding the room it was in
Ots a zero risk scenario, of course a little mistake here and there usually isnt the end of the world
@alexv3372 I lover seafood but I hate oysters. Clams and mussels are better
Also, as a side note, this woman lives comfortable outside of her little mlm. Her husband is a preacher. These mlms will scam struggling women with empty promises and ultimately cost them money they can't afford to lose
Oh! Explains the earrings 😂
As an actual jeweler/silversmith, these MLM jewelry businesses make me irate. I can't tell you how many times people have expected me to make them custom jewelry pieces with real gemstones and silver for $5! 🤬
right
Wow... as a beaded gemstone bracelet maker (like jades, moonstone, etc.), a string of beads is like $7-$13. Then you have labor. And those are just for circular ones! I can't imagine the price of a precious cut stone! And that's also without labor!
Thats insane, I would never expect a custom piece to be any less than double the price of a mass produced piece, I have to imagine that it takes a crazy level of skill if not hours or days to create
@@madisnyder3976 selling handmade jewelry myself, I wonder how people aren't selling their products for more on places like Etsy. It takes a good chunk of money to buy the supplies and then on top of that you have to make some money on the sale.
the woman explaining this ridiculous pearl scheme has such "was popular in middle school" vibes hahaha
Yeah she reminds me of the girls that bullied me in middle school lmao
She has the vibe of a rude high-school office worker who peaked in high-school
@@MadeOfConfusion yes
She has that kind of hardened stare fr
Not ONCE in the video,do I see a genuine smile,from her. And she looks so unhappy,she puts on a fake happy voice when she acknowledged the chat,and that's it. If this 'pearl business' is so wonderful,she sure af doesn't look happy to be doing this.
In tourist places in the mediterrenian, especally Greece, you can find oysters with actual pearls in them for like 10€, the pearls arent perfectly round, obviously not fit for jewlery, most are just a cool little trinket, but it just shows how much they are trying to hype this up
And oyster shucking for pearls actually makes sense as a souvenir! The little pearl is nice for a memory, versus these fake pearls that are just memories of Midwestern basements lol
Tbh I’d be more excited about a natural pearl than I’d ever be about a fake one.
I had a few from that as a child, including a black one that was my treasure- imagine them letting a real one like that slip through, lol.
Where I'm from a local jewelry brand makes jewelries made of real jaggy imperfect natural pearls every bow and then but they always sold out the moment they launch bc one, each piece is unique and they don't mass produce them as they're only website exclusive and are sourced locally directly from ppl
I wouldn't care if they werent perfect, you could still make beautiful jewelry with it
As someone who has an ACTUAL small business that I started from the ground up, MLM Huns says they are “starting their own business” just drives me insane!!!
Same!!!
Same. And especially at pop up markets where they are trying to recruit people😒 taking a perfectly good spot away from a real small business ..
I wish flea markets and farmers markets would not allow MLMs to come sell there.
@@andreahultman8272 many in my area is starting to not allow them!
I am not a business owner of any kind, I could not do what y'all do but it burns my ass as well. If you don't get to decide anything about a business IT! IS! NOT! YOUR! BUSINESS! What real business owners do is damn near super human in my eyes and takes so much grit.
I also wish they would kick the MLMs out of pop up and farmers markets. I went to a Christmas bazaar once and it was all MLM except one sweet woman selling her hand made fruit/maple syrups. I bought 3 (beautifully packaged) glass bottles of her fruit maple syrup (blueberry, strawberry, and pecan) and a home made pecan pie. Best syrup and pie I ever ate.
I just think it's weird. The oysters are dead and didn't produce the pearls - nor are they capable of doing so - the companies have shoved pearls that have been artificially coloured into dead oysters, and then sealed the oysters again using harsh chemicals. It's just weird.
Sickkkkkk wow
I think it's weird people don't know this. They're so easily duped because it's jewelry...minimal googling can really educate people on semi precious and precious jewelry 😂
It's like a weird cosplayed parody of actual labor. It's romanticizing difficult working-class jobs as being super funnn and easy and you'll make so much money!!! Girlboss!!
It's scary how popular it is. These are the same people who are voting.
@@Youre-Welcome it's not weird people don't know that. Some of us know that from different sources and for different reasons.
the casual attitude about buying followers made my jaw drop OMG
I know I choked on my water 😭😂
And she's a preachers wife??!
Lol just got to that part and I was like what the actual....😮
So people really hear "you buy a kit, keep one oyster, and _you have to sell the rest"_ and sirens don't start going off??
And YOU HAVE TO BUY FOLLOWERS TO SELL TO??? 😭
The fact she's pitching this likes it's totally normal.
I used to live in the Midwest. There was a lady who lived a block behind me. She was an EMT and had 3 kids. She spent every second she could watching pearl videos. She got her kids into it, she got neighbors into it, hell she almost got me into it. Then everything collapsed when it came to light that she hadn't made a car payment or rent payment in almost 6 months so she could keep buying these stupid pearls.
That’s honestly so sad. These things take advantage of vulnerable people :(
@@dinosaur___7209 They really do. MLMs make my blood boil because the only people I've ever known who've gotten into them have been the people who were really desperate. They prey on the desperate, take every cent, and leave them even more destitute and desperate.
As an EMT myself I can see how she fell for this. We don't make money and can become desperate, especially when you have a family to take care of. Almost fell for a few myself
@@Roll4Chaos yeah i second this, when i worked as an EMT i made less money than i did as a fast food manager.
@@Roll4Chaos I think OP is saying she would watch the lives and basically gamble, not that she was part of the MLM herself.
So when she said you can’t sell any other jewelry that isn’t your business. If it your business you decide what you sell and even carry a variety of brands. This is red flag city.
This
What kills me is these people are overpaying for inferior products they can’t use when they could go to their local bead/gem store and buy nicer, natural, and prepped pearls to be used in jewelry at a much lower price per unit.
Exactly, I don't work with pearls but I can go and buy a string of pearls for around 10 dollars or so. Then I can make some nice beaded jewelry with them.
@boyinblue.
Really? Only $10 for a string of REAL pearls??! Where I live, they can cost THOUSANDS!!!
@@musical_costumer7976 freshwater pearls tend to be more affordable, especially in basic colours like creams and off whites.
@@musical_costumer7976 cultured freshwater pearls are generally pretty inexpensive.
How are they not embarrassed calling this their job?
I want to know how they managed to get conned into thinking they are a business owner?
They target a specific demographic of women. This may be the only current feasible option for these women to have any sort of life outside of their families. They probably don’t see it as embarrassing bc the only other option was no job at all. And not only do they have a self-fulfilling job, they own their own business!!! I grew up in a rural area with a lot of SAHMs and it was like playing whack-a-mile avoiding all of them and their parties 😭
Hun culture
LOL LOL "IM a BoSS baBE" 🤣
Frankly they aren't conning anyone anymore than most bankers or people in finance. The only problem people have a problem is that they're SAHMs. And the same people who typically complain and call them nitwits and consider say if they got a REAL JOB they wouldn't do things like this probably also consider themselves "feminists" but only view women as acceptable if they work outside of the home and don't wear modest clothes. ---and this is coming from someone who is anti MLM.
The pearls are real, but very little else about the pearl party trend is.
Cultured freshwater pearls are one of my favorite gems to work with, so I've learned to recognize them. Even the higher grades are surprisingly affordable if you know where to look.
However, they're produced by large freshwater mussels, not those small "oysters" (which look more like misshapen clams or scallops than oysters, but I could be wrong) that they're packaged in. Also, the only colors they come in naturally are muted pinks and purples. Everything else is bleached or dyed. If done well, the bleaching and dying process results in the wide variety of colors available in Japanese and South Sea pearls for a tiny fraction of the price. If done poorly, the dying process results in pearl parties.
The way my jaw flew open at her just straight up telling ppl to buy followers
Isabella, I like when you call someone goofy… I used to buy these pearls not from this company. To be honest I was in a bad head space and I felt like I was part of a family. I’m still friends with some of the other women who would go and watch and buy some pearls to feel included. I do wear the jewelry still and I gave a bunch away as gifts. As a consumer it’s not just the gambling it’s about feeling loved. Then I got therapy.
No amount of therapearls will ever fill the void
Lol, I wasn't expecting that last line.... But good for you!
I'm curious, how is the quality of the pearl? Because I see these same looking pearls, man made synthetic, on Ali Express for pennies 😳
@@Em22-wtf honestly the pearls aren’t bad but the quality of some of the jewelry settings is rubbish.
You just described how they target people. Glad you're doing better.
I honestly wanted to do this mlm. Because my town goes crazy for pearls. The one I wanted to do actually had live ones so they're moving and they provide you feed and large pretty tank. With decorations. The lady doing it almost got me sold on signing up. But I couldn't kill live creatures. Even though the pearls were genuine... As the one I bought was past the real pearl test
I will say something positive: I appreciate that they're trying to do some sort of control when it comes to tying consultant growth to items actually sold. I'm sure a consultant can make some dummy accounts and buy their entire inventory using a fake name and negate the controls, but with the "required to sell all products before reordering" and "required to have x active team members before enrolling more" it seems like they're trying to prevent exponential ballooning.
Still think it's an unsustainable and weird product but those two things stuck out to me
oh, absolutely I totally agree with you!!
@@IsabellaLanter also just got to the lilah cameo 😍
I noticed that too, but I also noticed that she was using a lot of language to create a sense of scarcity around the jobs. For example, she pointed out that the CEO might stop hiring in the near future. This sort of language encourages people to jump on board as fast as they can just in case there's a hiring freeze.
Good points if it’s true and not just what this hun is saying. (Didn’t finish the video yet) They could also be trying to avoid people demanding returns for huge piles of stinky oysters stacked up in their house. But I honestly don’t know much about oysters.
Oh, she said you’re only paying shipping. So they don’t own them. That definitely makes more sense why they don’t let them bulk order.
"You own your own business! ... but if you step out of line: YOU'RE FIRED!"
When she said “when I was with my other pearl company..” I didn’t believe there were more than one. There’s a few and there’s multiple pinterest boards about live party ideas and techniques. Video idea: mlm pinterest boards.
I was like: She didn't get a bath bomb company to work, she didn't get another pearl company to work so...instead of realizing MLMs don't work, she's starting *another* jewellery MLM...🙄
@@YellowFreesias cuz being a mlm couldn’t poooosssssibly be the issue 😂
i cant believe she joined more than one mlm
MLM on Pinterest too?? They're taking over the world and not in a good way
@@Lizzypoohxo girl I found them googling live pearl party and there’s boards on boards about them which leads to recruiting strategies and how to build a team and ways to do lives correctly. It’s wild
I just love, how she's first bragging about every team member having her number, when ten seconds later she's like "Text me, don't call me! "
Sure. Because texts can be ignored. A desperate person on the phone? Not so much.
So slimy....
Lol
Idk I have phone anxiety so I tell everyone to text me rather than call me unless it’s an emergency
The weird part is before the Pearl mlms started I remember seeing this kind of thing at county fairs. For 10-15 bucks they would shuck an oyster for you that they would put into a pendant right there. Me and a friend got one and the pendants were really cute.
We have a boardwalk here that STILL does it!!
Same! My friends and I always would do it at the fair for like $10. It was exciting because it was a kind of fair game with a prize a 12 year old girl would be really excited about. I don’t think doing it as an adult sitting at home would have the same excitement.
Disney World Epcot had/has one of these in the Japan area; we had a blast getting them. But it felt more like a 'once in a lifetime' souvenir.
I remember Disney's water park had one of these as well, though a bit more expensive of course. I got one and got it mounted right there as well, think my mom paid like $125 but mostly for the pendant I chose.
@@raizensamson6723 I think ours was like $25/ea + separate cost for the cages to put them in. I got one, then came back later with my family and all the girls got one. I still have it and it brings back fond memories of the event. They didn't mount them for us though, just had cages; might be the difference in price.
The "UM" gets more pronounced and piercing as she goes on. You can almost hear the struggle and desperation as she continues.
That's her tongue protesting about the spouting bullshit.
It’s so grating
My brain explodes every time I hear a hun explain how credits, back office, hostess rewards, etc. work. 🤯
I immediately zone out lol
Right! Like, alls you have to do is shuck 3 oysters, stand in your living room under a bright light and sing 3 songs before you can enter the back office. And THEN… blah blah blah. Lol
I know so much un necessary nonsense. My head would explode. My laptop would be in my yard.
It drives me up the wall when these mlm people say you’re “starting your own business.” You’re an employee at best and a victim at worst.
5:29 I remember one time when I had a mlm attempting to recruit me they were very specific about the type of language they used. “Say bucks instead of dollars because people will balk at 99 bucks vs 99 dollars” I forget the “science” behind it but watching this woman just made me think about it
My step mom was part of the fizzy bath bomb jewlery type mlm. She got mad when I kept poking holes in the logic behind it.
Omg yesss I made a video about this one also! Definitely a sketchy one
I was a teen while that was going on. I thought it was so cool, I didn’t have the money to buy them though, thank God.
I remember seeing videos of ones you could find money in, now that's switched over to candles. I'm also happy I didn't have the money for those lol.
The very fact that customers can't enjoy the bath bombs themselves would turn me away even if the MLM element was not a deterrent.
i love pearl mlms! they are not talked about as much as the lifestyle ones, but they are such a bizzare concept that i just cant stay away 😅
Yes! I’ve seen so many just insane bonkers things come out of these bizarre pearl mlms that I haven’t seen anywhere else
I have to know - have you bought anything?!
@@PerriDatingCoach i havent! im in europe so no pearls for me :/
The weirdest part is the oysters they usually open aren't even the ones the make pearls and the pearls are just.. forced into dead ones...
I know Pop-a-pearl is an actual small business. Her husband sets all of the jewelry and such if you are interested but don’t want to support an MLM!
I was sick in bed a few years ago and one these live oyster shucking parties was suggested to me. One of those things that starts rolling without clicking. I watched for a good 45 minutes wondering if I was experiencing a fever dream. I was so confused about who would do this or buy this way. This video is the first time I’ve encountered this since then. I guess it wasn’t a fever dream after all. 😅
The same thing happened to me except I had to Google it because I was so confused about it. I actually didn’t find much info about it at the time so I’m glad more info has been discovered
That's how I started watching them back in 2015 before it hit Farcebook and was still a YT phenomenon 😅
They are so obviously not real pearls! I’ve done real pearl shucking, we chose one clam (they were huge and sooo hard to open, and the pearls aren’t perfect shapes, sometimes aren’t smooth, all similar colours in my one (pink and cream) and you have file and polish them to remove the membrane and you can see other pearls growing on the surface of the clam. These people make it look so easy and they look so perfect. Major red flag!
They're real, they're just farm cultured pearls
Also fun fact, pearls can be made so easily now that these prices are OUTRAGEOUSLY bad for the actual pearl. Most of these pearls are made in bulk and would give you about… two cents at a jewellers
My friend started doing this and tried to guilt trip me to support her and got very aggressive and said people not buying affected her mental health and we were not real friends and she got her stuff from Ireland. It was all TAT absolute TAT and I paid like £20 for a metal chain because I felt guilty. I had to block her on everything as she got really weird.
I think it's not about the selling. I think it's like a cult--the wanting to belong to a group. If it was really about selling a product, they could get on eBay, Amazon, or Etsy and have far less hassle
Yeah...mlms are basically cults. They tell people that if their loved ones are not supportive then they are holding them back from progress. They encourage people to be as aggressive as possible to convince people to join/buy. It becomes a them vs. us thing. Im sorry you had to cut your friend off.
@@jennyjumpjumpYup, MLMs are just corporate cults.
The part where you don't own the oysters is reminding me of luluroe. my aunt was a seller of luluroe and when she quit they charged her for every item that wasn't sent back, even tho she was told she owned them
if she didnt sign a contract saying the company had the right to do that, she could sue VERY easily
sending someone a product that you want them to sell for you and making THEM pay for the shipping is insane.
this definitely wasn’t one of the cathartic, rip-and-tear vids on MLMs. instead it was something even more needed: a nuanced, surgical, by-the-numbers look at the money and time and effort you have to pour into these scams in order to (POSSIBLY) get any returns. very good video.
A lot of MLMs use small business rhetoric to hide the fact that you’re actually working for a huge company. As someone who does actually run my own small business (I sell my own art and original merch designs on etsy), it’s true that you have to put up a lot of time and effort up front. There are startup fees to everything, like you can’t sell a product if you have no product. It doesn’t make small businesses a scam… but it does make MLMs a scam. Most of the time, an average small business’s startup fees go to a variety of places, and the benefits are your own forever. But in MLMs, you’re ordering stuff mostly from one place, and your sales are going back to the parent company. There is also heavy pressure to grow faster and faster, and recruit people. True small businesses don’t need to do any of that. A true small business can grow at your own pace, can take as much or as little time as you want. Of course, less effort usually means less returns, but you aren’t going to be constantly emotionally manipulated by your up line.
I actually bought one of those pearl. Necklaces as a gift for someone and I deeply regret it 😂 the person I bought it from was an ex Mary Kay consultant and has since left that and is now with monat 🤣
From bad make-up to embaldening shampoo lol, she deserved it from hustling that crap to victims
Yeah, they just keep moving on and let others suffer for their scamming.
this is a complex one for me, my late stepmom whom i loved dearly LOVED watching these pearl parties with me (i think the one we bought from were local consultants of vantel pearls). The pearls to her were gifts to me as she loves the ocean and it was more of a fine jewelry gift to last a lifetime than an impulse buy or consumerism. With her life cut too short I feel different about that experience because I want her to experience as much joy in her life as she could. I didn’t even know it was an MLM. I remember it inspired her to buy oysters for us to open on her destination wedding vacation and it is a great memory for me. It’s funny and eye opening to experience an mlm in a good way and opens me up to a new perspective of the reasoning behind the people who fall for these companies and I would love to analyze it more
It reminded me of a cheap version of this thing I remember in Disney World when I went maybe when I was 8?? It was Pick a Pearl in Epcot Japan and you got to pick the oyster but they were all natural. When they opened it, they would show the size it was with this like hole ruler thing? I saw someone happen to get two in one oyster too!
But it was a trip memory! I got mine placed in a little cage in a necklace and my mom ended up getting a black one and we have matching necklaces. But as a business? It sounds frivolous….. no memories associated
They still have that! I was there a couple weeks ago (but didn’t buy a pearl)
That's in Mitsukoshi which is an official branch of a Japanese department store and those are real pearls
If I took a drink every time she says "um" I would be dead. ☠
I found myself starting to count them after a while and stopped at 50. .
I realised this is something I do sm 😂🥲 in a less sharp way I think becausse she has an accnt with strong vowels? But either way I do it because of adhd and asd brain, this vid just reminded me I need to unlearn that habit. I found myself getting so thrown off by her ums when trying to pay attention😂
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Hahaha I lost count 😅
The fact that she is blatantly using “down line” in her spiel is MIND BLOWING!! 🤯
So much better than the people that try to call it anything else. Like at least this lady seems to be being semi -honest 😂
I have never thought about buying them but I will say those lives on tiktok really do pull you in, so I could see how someone that is scrolling, bored and maybe even lonely and they interact with them could get sucked into buying and coming back for more just to feel included or feel like they are not a lone and a part of something
I have seen multiple comments saying that's exactly what happened to them. Becomes like a chat room, but where you are encouraged to purchase...
The pearl thing is the weirdest one. I think CC watched a live of someone opening the oysters. Ppl buy a group of oysters (sight unseen of course) and then they could choose to swap pearls for future openings...or something. It was confusing. Plus there are findings (settings for the pearls to make it finished piece of jewelry) that you have to buy separately unless you buy a ridiculous amount of pearls and then you get a discount. I don't understand why ppl don't just buy pearls from a bead company or something instead of this nonsense.
I just checked Fire Mountain Gems, you can get strands (12-16") of dyed freshwater pearls for anywhere from 12-25 bucks a strand.
@@rebeccaabram2312 Fire Mountain rocks
I just wonder how many ppl have been cut not wearing shucking gloves, messed up by formaldehyde fumes, etc.
it kinda sounds like lootboxes for middle-aged women. it's probably the gambling aspect that makes it attractive to some people
@@maryeckel9682 the formaldehyde is what worries me the most. I can’t believe some of these ladies aren’t wearing gloves ugh formaldehyde is so icky to me. I was a TA for an animal dissection class and I immediately regretted it after two weeks. That smell gets stuck in your nose, plus it’s just straight up not good for you
I lost it when she said, "30, 40, 50, 60 thousand in sales per month." Lol
"Be your own boss!"
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"If the CEO finds out, YOU'RE FIRED!!"
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I have a ring that my grandma got from a home pearl party when she was in her 30s. My grandma was born in 1922 so that had to be one of the first home party pearl companies i guess. Idk if it was an mlm or just direct sales (as many of them were back in the day, there truly was no recruitment incentive) but the ring is pretty...tarnished...but pretty 😅
That’s fascinating! I would treasure that forever if I were you, what a wonderful thing to have ☺️.
Just letting you know that tarnishing CAN be corrected! I would suggest going to a metalsmith or jeweller for assistance with it :) you could also get it re-plated if it really bothers you. But I think it shows the journey the item has been through, especially if it’s over 50 years old!
Real pearls need to be worn. The oil from your skin is good for them & keeps them looking nice. If you dont ever wear them they become dull.
Real pearls do not come out perfectly round like the ones these huns are pulling out. These have definitely been buffed to a round shape, and then dyed, and put back in the oysters. It’s cheaper to just buy a pearl from a supplier instead of paying these inflated “party” prices.
You can get lovely imitation (or genuine) pearls from Fire Mountain Gems, without involving an MLM (or stuffing them into a dead oyster for effect). They have volume discounts, have sales all the time, and you can even get yourself a random assortment for that surprise factor.
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@@birb5306 careful, it's like a crafts candy store!
I couldn’t get over how many times that mlm lady was saying, “um” every 10 seconds 🤦🏽♀️
She seems so unexcited by her exciting opportunity.
She also says “soooo”
I'm absolutely fascinated by this type of MLM. They're so weird I can't look away
I feel exactly the same way. I truly do not understand the appeal. So foreign. I feel like I'm watching aliens.
@@TheJennnq It’s greed and desperation, sadly. Some folk toss away their life-savings just to get started in the mlm business, not realising what a scam it is :(
This is an oyster cult, a Blue Oyster Cult.
This is the best comment
It needs more cowbell!!!
Don't fear the reaper
I’ve got a fever
My niece did this signing in under her. She sucks you in and then doesn't answer your questions. She just basically leaves you hanging. She gets people hooked by chit chatting and they come back every night she is on. They become addicted.
This makes me think of those booths at fairs (also kits found in gift shops) where you can pick a clam, they open it for you right there. Then have a bunch of necklaces for that come with the price for the pearl to put in. My sister collects these.
I have never seen someone so confidently tell people to buy bot followers
Do these people realize that clams are living creatures? Do they think clams are geodes? It's weird how they're recording themselves smiling while opening up a dead animal that was k*lled for aesthetic reasons.
Right?? It's so weird!
There was a known scammer local to me and she did this for a while. She also did Younique. She would pull multiple pearls out of a shell and say they only got one when you could clearly see it. She would then sell the extras to people that wanted a specific color and a lot of times she didn't even ship them. She also never paid for her supplies. She would get her followers/"friends" to pay for them instead. It was wild! I still pop in every now and then to see what she's doing.
This is people paying a person to shuck an oyster for them on the internet? I am absolutely baffled by this.
This is so weird because I remember a couple years ago getting into watching this couple that had an Etsy store that sold pearls and they would have videos of shucking and packing orders. Never knew there was this side to the pearl business, it was just satisfying ti watch lol.
As a former business owner (sold it at a great price and retired at 51), i would think about the people who would buy this stuff? Average women with little to no knowledge of gemstones or jewelry. Considering who this is targeted toward, and the fact that the average person can barely pay their bills lately, who would waste their money on it? Opening a discretionary spending business isn't a good idea in the middle of a recession
The funniest part of this whole thing is, according to this woman, there are about 1100 "consultants" and 60% of them are considered active but to be considered active you must have sold $250+ last month because less than that makes you inactive and you can't be inactive for more than two months before you aren't a "consultant" anymore. So literally in her own words: 40% of people who haven't dropped out of the "company" yet (~440 people) will do so within a month...
I watch anti mlm on my phone, and my boyfriend and i use his account to watch UA-cam on the TV, where we don't watch any anti mlm content. But that's exactly where I saw this video suggested! Love to see this video performing so well for you 💕
Imagine the salmonella spreading from hand to hand! Is it even legal to sell oysters across state borders without any license? This is the most weird business model ever. Disgusting.
When I was a kid in the 90’s they used to have these oysters you could buy with pearls in them at the mall. They were in those little kiosks when you walked around the mall. They had different colors you could get and they meant things. I always wanted one as a kid, but they were big in the 90’s it’s a core memory for me.
My first boyfriend's mom bought those for all her sons' girlfriends and wives for Christmas one year. We all opened them at the same time and they came with matching necklaces. They were natural farmed pearls, so they were all different shapes. I still have mine. 😂
Ours came in little cans still in the oysters, so we had to shuck them ourselves.
They still have one I just bought one for my 8 year old sister over the summer lol with the cage necklaces. I got her a butterfly necklace and I got a Llama one. I had a fancy kit as a kid from my grandparents so I wanted to give her rhat memory. I got mine in ocean city maryland but they're in every beach town still
Actually the you don’t own the pearls is kind of genius! If someone has a lot of pearls and quits, they have to send them back. I can imagine that you have a short return window so a lot get stuck paying for them
Thats how a lot of mlms do it actually! Make it as hard as possible to return the stuff.
My family member gifted me bomb rings for Christmas. Wouldnt be a big deal if I was into them but I have zero interest and only have a set pair of pieces of jewelry I have invested in and I wear daily/weekly.
But this reminds me of my family member because they totally get sucked into this pearl shucking and bomb ring thing.
Honestly so sad because they prey on women who fall into this addiction. Like you said, it's gambling.
I have seen the vacuumed bags and read that it smells when they open them up. I could never get over that kind of smell.
No more MLM’s for me - EVER!!!! I got sucked into multiple MLM’s and they are just awful!!! I ended up spending more money to keep my “status” than I was making by selling any of the products.
Run!!!!!!!!!!!!
Her wearing the cross earnings while scamming a bunch of people is so bizarre 😭
I wish you would set your mic down.. it’s all I can hear and I would love to watch your video but I don’t think I can handle the noise from you holding the mic… sorry..
I was surprised she was actually talking about the product. But I’m sure it’s because there is so much more to it than just “order shampoo online”. If they didn’t tell people the ins and outs they would likely be super confused.
*new sub here! i’ll have to say, usually these consultants are so over the top and try and sell you the world…i although id never do it, i appreciated her delivery of the process…first time i think i’ve heard one say it’s a lot of work…but still, it’s an mlm…thx for the video!
She literally said at the beginning “no recruiting needed” and later talked about a downline, GIRL.
Also hi Lilah(sp?) she looks like a sweeetie pie
I truly do not understand the appeal of this. The colors of the beads are so fake, and look like the glass pearls from Michaels . I used to make jewelry and could buy 15-24 inch strands of real cultured pearls for $5-$20 each depending on size.
I went to a couple in-person pearl parties a few years ago. I don't remember what MLM. I'm surprised they're still a thing with the animal cruelty aspect.
You seemed confused about why the Hun was the middle-man in getting the pearl to the customer. The customer picks an oyster then the Hun shucks it & reveals the pearl. The customer then picks a piece of jewelry from MLM catalog. The Hun mails the pearl to the MLM jeweler to be set and then the jewelry is mailed to the customer. It takes several weeks from party to receiving your order
Omg these pearl things have been around for decades! My grandmother got me one (not from an MLM) when I was 10 (like 24 years ago lol) and it was a legit pearl which came with a chain and little pendant cage for the pearl to be a necklace. You could also get these places like FAO Schwartz and science museum gift shops 😂
I got one of those, the only mystery part was what color the pearl would be. It was fun although I didn’t really like shucking the oyster!
@@erinfindsen4953 Yes! I have done it twice, once was a white pearl and the other peach. Shucking the oysters definitely wasn't overly fun though. But at least they came more as a kit where you got the pearl and the jewelry. Not spending money on just the pearl and then purchasing the jewelry as well. I definitely don't think I would want to be going live to shuck a bunch of oysters just to possibly make a few bucks 😂
@@sinicalbeautyqueen2975 plus in most of those theyre not cramming fake colored pearls in there, theyre just farm raised oysters basically guaranteed to have some sort of pearl in there so its essentially real plus the thrill of 'what will i get?'. This is oysters with predyed pearls stuffed in there which is soooo weird
@@kaylad2058 completely agree that it is super weird. Who thinks they naturally come bright green or something? If someone wants to do this at least get one that will be authentic.
Excited for the inevitable astronaut ice cream MLM 🙏
I feel like this preys on hoarders/compulsive buyers/addicts(gambling and shopping)
I used to watch these all the time. I think I watched some lady from Vantel(?) and she ended up quitting and getting sued and now she’s in a spy gear mlm lol idk it was like 4 years ago maybe
Omg a spy gear MLM! No way 😂😂😂😂
@@IsabellaLanter I doubt it’s a thing anymore since who in the world would want that but I kid you not I went on to her page one day and she was trying to sell some night vision goggles.
Now THAT'S an mlm product I've never heard of 😂
I need more information about this spy gear mlm
@@TaylorX3 I wish I remember what it was. I’ve been looking for it ever since I saw her live but I can’t find anything about it. If I ever do I’ll circle back lol
ok i feel like i can actually weigh in here since ive spent HOURSSSSS watching these pearl shucking ladies... no clue why, it was just amusing to me. never bought any though.
but they were honestly getting orders left and right. they were having fun and doing games and the customers seemed to be going crazy for it. there were constantly people placing 100$+ orders and everyone would be oooing and ahhhing when they were opened. One instance i distinctly recall is a lady went live and said she was doing a marathon live stream. She had 350 oysters and would stay live until they all sold.... they sold within 20 minutes. its ridiculous to people like us who dont get the craze, but theres definitely a market.
I definitely agree its like gambling and that seems to be what gets people excited, not knowing what color, or size they are going to get.
Are we just going to ignore the fact people are treating LIVE ANIMALS like mystery boxes?! This kinda feels like next level cruelty
If it was basically any other animal I bet it would be mentioned more
Yeah and not only that, pearl farms don’t kill the oysters or clam that grow their pearls. They’re very well cared for…aside from being pried open once a year or so and implanted with a new “irritant” nucleus. 😅
I found this video so interesting! Months ago, I think in like July, my entire for you page on TikTok was lives of people shucking oysters and I had no idea what it was all about
I will admit that I do buy the kits where you open the pearls yourself as a stocking stuffer for my daughter and I. That is just personally a fun thing we do together on Christmas, but otherwise I don’t buy for someone else to shuck for me or anything. I have also bought kits from when we go on vacation kinda like a souvenir like when we went to Disney world, and just things like that. We rarely rarely go on vacation though. I used to buy like crazy from people that did shuck on live and then I one day was just like eh, I think I’ll just watch or something and stopped buying and I had so much jewelry from buying previously I hadn’t even worn once and had for 6+ months and just decided to give them as Christmas gifts because I wasn’t going to wear them or I would have already. I had pieces I forgot I had bought and was like oh wow I forgot about this piece, but family and friends loved them and I was getting rid of them and didn’t have to buy gifts for awhile so it just kinda worked out in the end. I still have a few pieces I didn’t get rid of because I had worn them and I’m obviously not just gonna toss them out if they are still in good condition and imo still pretty, but I quit buying a longgg time ago. I have so much more money now. It’s crazy looking at how much I had spent and how much I saved now since I stopped.
I got a kit like this once. They were called "Precious Pearl" and they were an As Seen On TV thing. It came with like a little canned oyster for you to shuck. Super gross, honestly, and really weird.
my mom bought me, my sister, and herself a necklace each from one of these scams. i have never worn it (it's just not my vibe) and it's hung on my wall ever since i found out a few years ago that it's an mlm. i feel guilty throwing it away bc it was a gift and i still live with my mom but i definitely don't think itll be coming with me for future moves. "oh no! it must've got lost in the move!" eyeroll.
Part of me wants to see whether or not that 'sterling silver' is actually silver. Dollars to doughnuts its not and it would make my skin break out.
These tiktok videos are intense to watch, like i get sucked in with watching bc the drama just unfolds within them 🤣🤣🤣
I worked at a seafood restaurant and shucking oysters isn't fun. Every time we had an order for them everyone would be pissed.
When I was twelve I had my own shucking knife, and these are *stone dead* , it's disgusting, but it's not *work* -they ain't even holding on!
I played the pearl games a few years ago. I thought it was fun to see which pearls you got, it wasn’t that I was gambling on getting a certain color or an expensive one. I mean I knew it was a MLM and I knew they were the same “pearls” you get in cans in souvenir shops but the games were fun. I actually still wear one of them, just a simple wire wrapped ring with a peridot-ish pearl. It’s one of my favorite rings. 🤷♀️
Honestly same. I have some jewelry from this and it’s good quality and some I wear daily.
Hey Isabella, I love your content. In this vid, we can hear a lot of your microphone stand moving around while you hold it. Unsure if you noticed it. Keep up the good work ♥
They could achieve the same effect without the animal abuse with a pearl "mystery box"
Agreed.
Not me searching pearl party on tiktok right now and finding that lady on live 💀 I'm literally still confused what the pearls are for - jewelry?!
Awwwwwww…..sometimes she doesn’t want to “go live”! But she does….How adorable. 😂
i wonder how much of it is an actual mental tax on her, especially since a lot of these MLMs turn into huge stressors and insecurity over the net loss of money in the person’s wallet because of “lack of growth and commissions.” especially with how much networking and other tasks she has to do for this job. it’s easy to laugh at her, but i imagine it drains a lot of energy out of her even if it’s something as silly as cheap pearls.
8:02 this lady and the “ummm.” It makes it hard to listen.
Someone should do a count of how many times she says 'um'.
Not me, but somebody.
😂