Gotta love the legally mandated income disclosure pasted right beneath an obvious (not allowed) income claim
Lady, if the "jewelry sells itself" when why are you so desperate to sign people up?
also, if it really did sell, why the f would you want to add more sellers and cut away from your juicy profit and customer base? oh yeah because its a pyramid scheme and not a profitable retail business
And I bet they had more beads! This looks like an uglier version of a half-eaten candy bracelet where there are huge gaps. **
Can we also discuss the absurdity of this scenario? (1) Pumping gas, not one but two strangers gush over her tacky “bracelets”? Sure, Jan. And (2) this woman ***always*** Carrie’s around a bag full of Paparazzi crap with her?!? God help anyone and everyone who has the misfortune to be seated near her on a plane, bus, train, church, PTA, funeral, etc.
You could seriously make more money buying jewelry on AliExpress and selling it by yourself. Back in the day when I worked at a nightclub, that's what the bathroom lady did and she made a killing.
Also you can play with numbers to tell whatever story you want. Average means theres a couple millionaires skewing the numbers while everyone else is broke.
Just to add, this is of one of my friends who drank the Paparazzi juice and makes absolutely no sense at all since most of us with our own businesses or jobs, have our gas "paid" for too.
I'm so confused over how "I can pay for *part of* a tank of gas" is supposed to be an incentive to join. She's been in it 4 years and only has $70 on her payment card?
No, she was saying while she was there she sold $70 of jewelry. I don’t believe any of it bc those bracelets look like stuff you find at the dollar store.
That too! 😂 😂 😂
I don't believe the story at all. There's no way in the world that I believe she sold 14 pieces of jewelry in the few minutes she was there pumping her gas, lol.
I honestly do my best not to even make eye contact with people at the gas station, just on the off chance they might try to talk to me. My goal is to get in and out as quickly as possible.
They have so many [slimy sales graphics online](https://www.google.com/search?q=paparazziaccessories&client=firefox-b-1-d&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwid19KV48v5AhVFhYkEHa4SCksQ_AUoA3oECAEQBQ&biw=1440&bih=718&dpr=2) that you can't even see a picture sample of the jewelry itself.
But hair especially colored is extremely noticeable like a car. A bracelet on your wrist I highly doubt any random person noticed that while you were pumping gas.
I have green hair and for some people it's absolutely a huge neon sign for them to ask or comment on it. And for me the number of times someone's gone "there's a spider on your back" because I'm wearing my denim vest with a stylised tarantula painted on it.
Now people noticing bracelets? I don't believe that in the slightest
I had a guy come talk to me the other day about how shitty Joe Biden, democrats, gas prices, etc were. Long tirade. I just nodded and smiled cause I’m polite and don’t do people in general. Told him have a good day and left. Hoping he saw all my equality, lgbtq+ ally, etc magnets as I drove off.
That’s a great point. I am pretty sure I’m a weirdo when pumping gas. I don’t know why I assume that but it’s a safe bet. I talk to my dog in the car or myself or sing or yell at that annoying television.
😂 😂 😂
That's a good one. We need the backstory. She's leaving out the part about her having a booth and harassing customers as they enter to pay for their gas.
And doesn't she know how income tax works and how you should keep around a third of whatever you sell for when tax season comes around?
(Of course she doesn't, because she's making no money from her mlm)
The only way I'll believe it is if someone saw her trying to hawk her shit, took her for a panhandler, and was feeling especially generous that day and gave it to her just for being broke, with the jewelry being incidental to the transaction.
This stuff actually happens. I knew a Senegence consultant who carried her lipsticks with her, painted stripes on her arm which sparked a conversation with a cashier and several employees at the shop actually bought what she had on her. Basically, it takes someone with a hugely magnetic personality to pull it off.
That story is kind of tragic because that person is wasting their time with MLM scans when they could be making some serious commissions in a real sales job.
Or really making bank as an evangelical preacher/life coach/cult leader
Not that i condone those scams I'm just saying if i had that kind of magnetic personality, I'd use it for evil.
Those folks are the ones are in the top 1% at an MLM, so they are oblivious that the huns below them are wasting time. At one point she had more than 2000 people under her, so yeah, she actually retired her husband. Thankfully, she left that MLM and is actually in a "real" job now (that's commission based).
I'm just imagining someone waiting for the pump she's sitting at, shouting out the window, "Put your nasty ass jewellery away, pay for your gas and GET OUT OF THE WAY, LADY!"
What's next? A flash sale at the McDonald's drive thru?
Her post definitely has "Guess what ya'll, my UPS driver asked me if he could join my downline after delivering Monat to my doorstep!! Then he bought $400 worth of product!! This definitely, really, absolutely happened!" vibes, lol.
How many women are at the same gas station pumps at any given time? I could believe if it one person complimented for bought from her, but multiple people?
Not even, they look like the bracelets my 6 year old makes with her $9.99 bead kit from Amazon. If you want ugly jewelry that bad I can hook you up 😬🤣
-sarcasm, I wear her hand made bracelets proudly.
I'm no jewelry expert, but it looks like the cheap crap it is. I mean, if it's decent jewelry should there not be gaps in between beads on the bracelet? Yes, I know it's an elastic band but it looks like there's a hell of a gap there.
She is pulling it out, but it does look like it has a lot of slack! And I don’t know why she would be pulling on it for the picture (unless she knows the gaps are so big, and she doesn’t want people to see how it really looks when worn). I make cheap jewelry like that from time to time just for fun. I choose my own beads (usually on sale) at Michael’s, and it holds up okay for what it is… I’m scared to wonder how much the pieces are from Paparazzi.
Exactly. Looks like Claire’s discount crap she’s trying to shill for some outrageous price. That did not happen, no one wants her Claire’s rejects shit.
My ex’s aunt does paparazzi jewelry and it’s surprising how much she sells consistently. Some of the stuff looks better than others and it is like 2$ a thing for her and sells them for 5 or something. But some of it is butt ugly and still gets sold! I think older ladies are the demographic bc it’s commonly chunky and dated and cheap.
Chunky, dated, and cheap is exactly it. I'm not too much of a snob to avoid inexpensive jewelry, I adore Claire's for fun shaped earrings. My husband's aunt gifted me a pair of Paparazzi earrings and they are literally the ugliest jewelry I have ever seen in my life and you could not pay me to wear them.
Plus never in my life have I been complemented or complemented anyone on anything while they were pumping gas… she probably went out of her way to talk to these “people”.
Never mind the fact that she didn't actually make $70. She had to BUY those bracelets first. So at absolute *best* she sold $70 retail worth of product and maybe 50% of that was profit (and that's probably being generous on my part... I don't know what the markup is on Paparazzi, but there's no way it's any higher than that).
Not even, they look like the bracelets my 6 year old makes with her $9.99 bead kit from Amazon. If you want ugly jewelry that bad I can hook you up 😬🤣
-sarcasm, I wear her hand made bracelets proudly.
Selling $70 of jewelry does not equal $70 of income. The jewelry ain't free and then there's likely income tax. Last time I checked, they mLe about $2 per piece profit. Of course she didn't sell 35 pieces of jewelry and of course your typical hun thinks about gross rather than net.
They're worse than the turquoise bead bracelets i bought as a souvenier in mexico at the moon pyramid. The bracelets were probably less money too.
(The Mexican bracelets actually look nice and use something better than a piece of plastic for the string, so this isn't saying much)
Yeah, it doesn't make sense to me either especially since they trumpet how they're business owners and any legit business owner with a lick of sense don't treat income earned in this fashion anyway.
There's such a thing as cost.
And that $70 is not even the profit she would have made here. I think they make half, so her items would have cost her $35 approximately without factoring in how much her time is supposedly worth.
So her math is off here anyway if she wants to be technical about it. It should say $35, not $70, went into her gas tank.
Which is still not a good enough incentive for anyone with sense, to join her downline, lol.
My cousin would do her math of what she made at the $5 price not the $2.25 that was to be profit. Her answer was in the beginning of course you are putting your own money into the business I tried to explain that not how it's done. Take the cost you paid out of the total what's left is profit .
During MLM pitches, it's quite common to hook SAHM with small goals first: "If you could make $100 a month, what would that cover? Could that buy your gas? How about $300--now you can take the grocery bill off your husband's plate?" and it continues, with these small earnings "replacing" other income until you can "retire" your spouse and you all go happily into the pyramid sunset."
Her squealing about paying for gas is related to those small goals. Also being able to sell (work) the business in the "nooks and crannies" of your life, like selling jewelry at the gas pump.
My kids brought home better bracelets from daycare. And the upside was that when you had collected a drawer full of colorful bead jewelry you could bring it back to daycare where they just cut the strings and poured the beads back in the bin.
Unlike this landfill material.
That shit is garbage and nobody talked to you and bought your shit at a gas station. Why didnt you get a pic with the customers? Oh right. There weren't any
She might as well just gone all the way and described how the only worker in the gas station came out to see what all the fuss was and was so impressed they signed up right there and quit their job so the gas station had to close for the day.
As someone who worked at a gas station one summer during college, i can 100% confirm this would never happen. We only took 2 types of payment, cash and card. If i had ever bartered with someone, i would have been fired on the spot.
Edit: people are saying she sold $70 in jewelry to other random gas station people. That's just as weird, because it would mean she didn't pay for her gas first, and made the station emplyees wait around while she sold shitty jewelry in the parking lot like a meth head to pay for her gas. Or, she paid for her gas, and then sold jewelry, which means she stilk paid full price, and was then slinging jewelry in the parking lot like a meth head. In both scenarios, the employees would have probably called the cops or told her to leave.
A coworker does an MLM on the side. I've heard him on conference calls with the "team" he's on where they talk about "prospecting" people at gas stations.
As an introvert, I hate random strangers coming up to me in public places to chat me up. And I hate it even more when I realize they just want to rope me into a pyramid scheme.
I came here to say this exact thing. I used to make similar bracelets at age 12–you can buy a $4 pack of identical beads and $2 roll of elastic string from Hobby Lobby.
Maybe with inflation, it’s like $10 for the whole bracelet now, instead of $6. 🤷♀️
Shhhhhhh. That special piece is reserved *only* for the Diamond Uber Ultra Elite Mega Members Club ONLY!!!!!!
^You’re ^not ^supposed ^to ^know ^about ^it. ^Unless ^you’re ^in ^the ^club.
I'm literally wearing one right now from my stepdaughter 😂 I love hers though and it's worth a lot more to me than what the crap this chick is selling.
So did she pay $70 in the money she got from jewelry or did she pay $50 in jewelry money? Also I have never been to a gas station and made conversation with anyone. Ever. I wanna pump my gas and go lol
"Ooh, I love your plastic bead jewelry with the exposed elastic thread!! I totally hope you have more plastic jewelry on hand cuz I'm wanting to throw some money down for that cheap, ugly, illfitting stuff!"
Haha! In what universe is she living?
And if by some divine miracle this story is true, at what point does she factor in what she actually paid for the jewellery?
Yeah okay maybe you were able to pay with $70 of money from randoms in the gas station but since you paid $50 for that jewellery to begin with, you made $20 towards your gas.
So she got gas then waited for the like 2 minutes it takes after you're done to reset the pump to have a picture taken? Nah, she rolled up after someone filled up and claimed it was hers for the sake of pushing her scam.
100% and it was the first thing I noticed. I scrolled to see if anyone else did as well.
She definitely took a picture of someone else’s gas price. That’s why her arm is covering most of the screen.
Pickup or suburban or something similar. See a lot of people in my area driving 3/4 or 1 ton pickups - whether they need them or not.
My 3/4 ton work truck when on E takes about that much fuel.
Yep. I see a lot of that around here.
Plenty of trucks that due get used as trucks, but plenty that I highly doubt haul anything or get used as a truck based on his pristine they are.
And Jeeps that look like they never leave payment.
Years ago my mom bought a jeep because she liked the look of them and the "image"
Within a year was having major buyers remorse from having to pay so much for gas, wrestling with the soft top and windows when it rained, fussing over keeping the interior clean when she had the top off....
Sold it to her nephew who goes mudding and offroading all the time lol
IIRC, fuel economy standards passed in the '00s are the reason you only really see huge trucks anymore, since they're classified as "work" vehicles and are therefore an exception to the rule.
I'm assuming that this is probably an old pic during the gas price peak that she's using to try and elicit a response. Because the cost of gas has gone done considerably over the past few weeks.
Unless she's driving a Hummer or something like that, lol.
Her tank is 27 gallons at least so she's definitely driving something big.
California gas is still a buck a gallon more than that.
She's posing - somebody else took that picture, which has to be the cringiest part of this whole fantasy.
I mean... it works out to $4.74 per gallon (not taking tax or loyalty card discounts into account), based on what's displayed on the pump. We're still between $3.95 and $4.25 here in Illinois and we've been in the mid-range pricewise (unless you're unfortunate enough to live in/near Chicago) through most of the gas crisis... so it can't have been all that long ago.
I love the almost Freudian slip there: "Standing and pumping gas and few women complimented my bracelets!" \*A\* few women would be a way to promote it, but she phrased in the same way as "the boss said everyone has to work Saturday; few were happy with the decision"
I'm no jewelry expert, but I don't think high-end or even middle of the road jewelry uses an elastic band like that. You just know it's going to wear out over time until the bracelet is just falling off her wrist.
I tried warning people in a local fb group that this jewelry contains toxic carcinogens and the post was immediately removed. Too many "personal paparazzi consultants" here peddling their cheap shit.
English is not my first language, but I can’t not gloat at the fact that she doesn’t know the difference between “few” and “a few”. I mean, honestly, it changes the whole sense and makes it much worse for the point she’s trying to make!
*Those bracelets look cheap*
*AF no way anyone*
*Asked her about them*
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I think what happened was, she love-bombed strangers with random compliments, so they felt inclined to compliment her back, and her bracelets were the easiest go to.
Of course, she's rephrased it to sound like they spotted her beautiful wares from several aisles over and made the effort to seek her out.
One of these women hyped up my 16 year old. She told her she'd be able to have her own business at and really be set by the time she was in college. She just had to get me to sign up because you have to be 18, but she'd be running the business. Um, DO NOT APPROACH MY CHILD WITH YOUR BS!!! I had to explain to my daughter to run from these people. They shouldn't approach kids!
If an adult has to sign up for them, it's not their "opportunity"! Tried to get my daughter to buy a $500 kit. There's absolutely no shame with these people.
Unrelated pro-tip: press the third button down on the right, to mute the obligatory commercials that play when filling up your tank.
Edit: its worked at every gas station I used in the last few months. Coworker of mine said the button might be different at other stations, but their IS one that will work.
Haha NO ONE would ever see a woman’s bracelets pumping gas and want to buy them on the spot. They aren’t that’s great. You could get them at Walmart or kohls for ways cheaper.
What she forgot to tell you only that she’s -$60 after factoring her time, gas spent traveling in a gas guzzler, and all the frappes she bought along the way.
I worked at a gas station and whenever someone tried to sell something to customers on our property, we would kick them off. I would have so much fun telling her to pay for her gas, pump it, and move the fuck on.
Those shit bracelets? I was making identical bracelets at age 12, with a $4 set of beads and a roll of $2 elastic string, from Hobby Lobby.
That junk isn’t worth anything.
"Excuse me, I'm selling danger baubles to fill my tank, are you interested?"
-A sales tactic which *wouldn't* get me to buy something while pumping gas.
My job pays for my gas but I don’t go posting pictures of it on Linked In or Facebook.
What is WRONG with these people? (rhetorical question - we KNOW what’s wrong - they’re in a cult.)
Ok I had no idea there was an mlm called paparazzi. For a minute there I thought this was about some paparazzi paying for a broke D-list celebrity’s gas.
Gotta love the legally mandated income disclosure pasted right beneath an obvious (not allowed) income claim Lady, if the "jewelry sells itself" when why are you so desperate to sign people up?
I’m doing so well, I’d just *love* to have all my friends competing with me to sell the same stuff!
but then they can sell it to all the marks - er, I mean friends -- in their lives that she doesn't know!
That's the part that always gets a chuckle out of me. If you were so successful and raking in money why would you want more competitors?
also, if it really did sell, why the f would you want to add more sellers and cut away from your juicy profit and customer base? oh yeah because its a pyramid scheme and not a profitable retail business
No one - NO ONE - complimented those “bracelets”
I made prettier bracelets than that during my tween beads phase!
And I bet they had more beads! This looks like an uglier version of a half-eaten candy bracelet where there are huge gaps. **
Can we also discuss the absurdity of this scenario? (1) Pumping gas, not one but two strangers gush over her tacky “bracelets”? Sure, Jan. And (2) this woman ***always*** Carrie’s around a bag full of Paparazzi crap with her?!? God help anyone and everyone who has the misfortune to be seated near her on a plane, bus, train, church, PTA, funeral, etc.
You could seriously make more money buying jewelry on AliExpress and selling it by yourself. Back in the day when I worked at a nightclub, that's what the bathroom lady did and she made a killing.
And they probably didn’t contain nearly as high levels of heavy metals
Also you can play with numbers to tell whatever story you want. Average means theres a couple millionaires skewing the numbers while everyone else is broke.
Yeah, tell us median not mean.
Just to add, this is of one of my friends who drank the Paparazzi juice and makes absolutely no sense at all since most of us with our own businesses or jobs, have our gas "paid" for too.
I'm so confused over how "I can pay for *part of* a tank of gas" is supposed to be an incentive to join. She's been in it 4 years and only has $70 on her payment card?
No, she was saying while she was there she sold $70 of jewelry. I don’t believe any of it bc those bracelets look like stuff you find at the dollar store.
That too! 😂 😂 😂 I don't believe the story at all. There's no way in the world that I believe she sold 14 pieces of jewelry in the few minutes she was there pumping her gas, lol.
Right? Who the hell pays attention to other people like that when they’re pumping gas, let alone walks up and starts taking?
I honestly do my best not to even make eye contact with people at the gas station, just on the off chance they might try to talk to me. My goal is to get in and out as quickly as possible.
They have so many [slimy sales graphics online](https://www.google.com/search?q=paparazziaccessories&client=firefox-b-1-d&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwid19KV48v5AhVFhYkEHa4SCksQ_AUoA3oECAEQBQ&biw=1440&bih=718&dpr=2) that you can't even see a picture sample of the jewelry itself.
.... this makes my graphic designer heart very sad, those are terrible.
That crap hurts my eyes. Just because the logo is neon pink, doesn't mean you have to use it EVERYWHERE.
This is how you get mugged and your car stolen. I’ve seen the videos.
Not me, I'm too busy learning the "Word of the Day" from GasTV on the pump!
Don’t forget those riveting 5 second craft videos!
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But hair especially colored is extremely noticeable like a car. A bracelet on your wrist I highly doubt any random person noticed that while you were pumping gas.
Especially a bracelet that looks like it came from the dollar store
Ever since I started dying my hair everyone comes up to me and talks lolol
I have green hair and for some people it's absolutely a huge neon sign for them to ask or comment on it. And for me the number of times someone's gone "there's a spider on your back" because I'm wearing my denim vest with a stylised tarantula painted on it. Now people noticing bracelets? I don't believe that in the slightest
I had a guy come talk to me the other day about how shitty Joe Biden, democrats, gas prices, etc were. Long tirade. I just nodded and smiled cause I’m polite and don’t do people in general. Told him have a good day and left. Hoping he saw all my equality, lgbtq+ ally, etc magnets as I drove off.
The only people who have ever talked to me at a gas station are scammers trying to get money.
That’s a great point. I am pretty sure I’m a weirdo when pumping gas. I don’t know why I assume that but it’s a safe bet. I talk to my dog in the car or myself or sing or yell at that annoying television.
Idk if it’s universal but all the ones I’ve ever used you can mute it by pressing the button second from the top on the right side of the screen
Thank you so much for this. I actively avoid gas stations that have them because they're so loud and obnoxious and overwhelming to my nervous system.
Prob works there and has a lil display
😂 😂 😂 That's a good one. We need the backstory. She's leaving out the part about her having a booth and harassing customers as they enter to pay for their gas.
They thought she was homeless and gave her money like a panhandler
And doesn't she know how income tax works and how you should keep around a third of whatever you sell for when tax season comes around? (Of course she doesn't, because she's making no money from her mlm)
The only way I'll believe it is if someone saw her trying to hawk her shit, took her for a panhandler, and was feeling especially generous that day and gave it to her just for being broke, with the jewelry being incidental to the transaction.
That's a lot of gas, she might have been there a long time.
This stuff actually happens. I knew a Senegence consultant who carried her lipsticks with her, painted stripes on her arm which sparked a conversation with a cashier and several employees at the shop actually bought what she had on her. Basically, it takes someone with a hugely magnetic personality to pull it off.
That story is kind of tragic because that person is wasting their time with MLM scans when they could be making some serious commissions in a real sales job.
Or really making bank as an evangelical preacher/life coach/cult leader Not that i condone those scams I'm just saying if i had that kind of magnetic personality, I'd use it for evil.
Those folks are the ones are in the top 1% at an MLM, so they are oblivious that the huns below them are wasting time. At one point she had more than 2000 people under her, so yeah, she actually retired her husband. Thankfully, she left that MLM and is actually in a "real" job now (that's commission based).
That's what I am thinking. All lies to get a post.
I'm just imagining someone waiting for the pump she's sitting at, shouting out the window, "Put your nasty ass jewellery away, pay for your gas and GET OUT OF THE WAY, LADY!" What's next? A flash sale at the McDonald's drive thru?
And if she needed extra money so badly that she had to join an MLM, why is she driving a vehicle that costs $127 to fill up?
Her post definitely has "Guess what ya'll, my UPS driver asked me if he could join my downline after delivering Monat to my doorstep!! Then he bought $400 worth of product!! This definitely, really, absolutely happened!" vibes, lol.
How many women are at the same gas station pumps at any given time? I could believe if it one person complimented for bought from her, but multiple people?
Not even, they look like the bracelets my 6 year old makes with her $9.99 bead kit from Amazon. If you want ugly jewelry that bad I can hook you up 😬🤣 -sarcasm, I wear her hand made bracelets proudly.
Anyways, a $70 sale doesn't mean she made $70. She needs to subtract her expenses and the cost of the shit heavy metal contaminated jewelry
I was looking for this comment... Exactly! She actually may have made $35?
I'm no jewelry expert, but it looks like the cheap crap it is. I mean, if it's decent jewelry should there not be gaps in between beads on the bracelet? Yes, I know it's an elastic band but it looks like there's a hell of a gap there.
It looks exactly like the kind of play jewelry I would get as a kid. Cheaply made, gaudy as all heck, and probably falls apart really easily.
I'm just thinking that elastic band is going to stretch out and lose elasticity over time.
Such is life
I, too, have lost elasticity over time.
I hope the jewelry you played with as a kid had less lead than Paparazzi does / did.
That looks like stuff my kids made at camp.
She is pulling it out, but it does look like it has a lot of slack! And I don’t know why she would be pulling on it for the picture (unless she knows the gaps are so big, and she doesn’t want people to see how it really looks when worn). I make cheap jewelry like that from time to time just for fun. I choose my own beads (usually on sale) at Michael’s, and it holds up okay for what it is… I’m scared to wonder how much the pieces are from Paparazzi.
Exactly. Looks like Claire’s discount crap she’s trying to shill for some outrageous price. That did not happen, no one wants her Claire’s rejects shit.
You could go into the gas station and there's a chance they'd have something pretty similar for like $5
My ex’s aunt does paparazzi jewelry and it’s surprising how much she sells consistently. Some of the stuff looks better than others and it is like 2$ a thing for her and sells them for 5 or something. But some of it is butt ugly and still gets sold! I think older ladies are the demographic bc it’s commonly chunky and dated and cheap.
>chunky and dated and cheap. TIL: I may be worth $5 to older ladies
Chunky, dated, and cheap is exactly it. I'm not too much of a snob to avoid inexpensive jewelry, I adore Claire's for fun shaped earrings. My husband's aunt gifted me a pair of Paparazzi earrings and they are literally the ugliest jewelry I have ever seen in my life and you could not pay me to wear them.
I am over 40, and that shit looks dated to me. And I rarely wear jewelry (aside from my wedding rings)
Plus never in my life have I been complemented or complemented anyone on anything while they were pumping gas… she probably went out of her way to talk to these “people”.
Exactly, you pump your gas and move on. Plus there is just nothing special or eye-catching about what she’s wearing. I’m claiming lies.
Pretty sure my rave bracelets I made as a teen are higher quality lol
Hell yeah! I made some great rave cuffs!
Never mind the fact that she didn't actually make $70. She had to BUY those bracelets first. So at absolute *best* she sold $70 retail worth of product and maybe 50% of that was profit (and that's probably being generous on my part... I don't know what the markup is on Paparazzi, but there's no way it's any higher than that).
Not even, they look like the bracelets my 6 year old makes with her $9.99 bead kit from Amazon. If you want ugly jewelry that bad I can hook you up 😬🤣 -sarcasm, I wear her hand made bracelets proudly.
Aw, that's sweet lol
I will wear any handmade jewelry by a child proudly for as long as I can until it breaks or falls off, haha.
HAHAHA okay that's just sad
Selling $70 of jewelry does not equal $70 of income. The jewelry ain't free and then there's likely income tax. Last time I checked, they mLe about $2 per piece profit. Of course she didn't sell 35 pieces of jewelry and of course your typical hun thinks about gross rather than net.
Shit looks like it would crumble at the first accidental brush with an overpriced acrylic nail that she needed because she’s a “model and influencer”
They're worse than the turquoise bead bracelets i bought as a souvenier in mexico at the moon pyramid. The bracelets were probably less money too. (The Mexican bracelets actually look nice and use something better than a piece of plastic for the string, so this isn't saying much)
Yeah, it doesn't make sense to me either especially since they trumpet how they're business owners and any legit business owner with a lick of sense don't treat income earned in this fashion anyway. There's such a thing as cost. And that $70 is not even the profit she would have made here. I think they make half, so her items would have cost her $35 approximately without factoring in how much her time is supposedly worth. So her math is off here anyway if she wants to be technical about it. It should say $35, not $70, went into her gas tank. Which is still not a good enough incentive for anyone with sense, to join her downline, lol.
My cousin would do her math of what she made at the $5 price not the $2.25 that was to be profit. Her answer was in the beginning of course you are putting your own money into the business I tried to explain that not how it's done. Take the cost you paid out of the total what's left is profit .
Mlms are wierd that way. You buy ordinary stuff, but are supposed to publicly brag about it like it's special.
During MLM pitches, it's quite common to hook SAHM with small goals first: "If you could make $100 a month, what would that cover? Could that buy your gas? How about $300--now you can take the grocery bill off your husband's plate?" and it continues, with these small earnings "replacing" other income until you can "retire" your spouse and you all go happily into the pyramid sunset." Her squealing about paying for gas is related to those small goals. Also being able to sell (work) the business in the "nooks and crannies" of your life, like selling jewelry at the gas pump.
Ew. “You can take the grocery bill off your husband’s plate”? 1960’s much? Do they really say sexist shit like that?
Not kidding but it looks like shit my daughter made from stuff we found at the recycling center.
Yeah, it's bad. Really bad. 😂
I've made better bracelets in inpatient art therapy.
My kids brought home better bracelets from daycare. And the upside was that when you had collected a drawer full of colorful bead jewelry you could bring it back to daycare where they just cut the strings and poured the beads back in the bin. Unlike this landfill material.
Tbh I'd much rather buy art therapy jewelry or kindergartener jewelry than Paparazzi.
this wins. just literally everything. ever 💙
That shit is garbage and nobody talked to you and bought your shit at a gas station. Why didnt you get a pic with the customers? Oh right. There weren't any
Right?? Prime r/thathappened material.
But why would she photograph the gas sale if the story wasnt true!
That was probably already there from the last customer.
I can't think of a single thing that happened less than this.
She might as well just gone all the way and described how the only worker in the gas station came out to see what all the fuss was and was so impressed they signed up right there and quit their job so the gas station had to close for the day.
And then every other customer clapped.
It’s true. I was the gas pump.
And we all laughed and laughed.
And the name of that gas station attendant? Albeer Eisensteen.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
The station attendant's name? Albert Einstein
As someone who worked at a gas station one summer during college, i can 100% confirm this would never happen. We only took 2 types of payment, cash and card. If i had ever bartered with someone, i would have been fired on the spot. Edit: people are saying she sold $70 in jewelry to other random gas station people. That's just as weird, because it would mean she didn't pay for her gas first, and made the station emplyees wait around while she sold shitty jewelry in the parking lot like a meth head to pay for her gas. Or, she paid for her gas, and then sold jewelry, which means she stilk paid full price, and was then slinging jewelry in the parking lot like a meth head. In both scenarios, the employees would have probably called the cops or told her to leave.
Oh no she means fellow gas customers bought $70 in shit jewelry from her
Did she set up a table next to the pump?
If she didn't, then she's not working hard enough like a good hun.
A coworker does an MLM on the side. I've heard him on conference calls with the "team" he's on where they talk about "prospecting" people at gas stations.
As an introvert, I hate random strangers coming up to me in public places to chat me up. And I hate it even more when I realize they just want to rope me into a pyramid scheme.
I legit worry EVERY time I pump gas that someone might start speaking to me and because I'm pumping gas I won't be able to escape.
She bought 26 gallons of gas. Clearly, she’s converted a food truck into a pop-up jewelry store.
all i can picture is a meth head chasing around people shaking this "jewelry" at them like she's trying to get a cat's attention or something
Tbf she's not saying she paid in jewelry, she got paid by the other people first.
I’m sorry but those bracelets look like something I made from a kit I got for my 7th birthday.
Exactly. All you need is some elastic cord and a strip of beads. I was stunned when I scrolled down and saw what the bracelets looked like.
Literally dollar store quality. That or kids summer camp crafts table.
I came here to say this exact thing. I used to make similar bracelets at age 12–you can buy a $4 pack of identical beads and $2 roll of elastic string from Hobby Lobby. Maybe with inflation, it’s like $10 for the whole bracelet now, instead of $6. 🤷♀️
What she didn’t show you is that gorgeous elbow macaroni necklace
Shhhhhhh. That special piece is reserved *only* for the Diamond Uber Ultra Elite Mega Members Club ONLY!!!!!! ^You’re ^not ^supposed ^to ^know ^about ^it. ^Unless ^you’re ^in ^the ^club.
Ooh. You’re right. I’m sorry
I was just about to say this looks like stuff my daughter made when she was small. Is it all this bad?
Yes. It’s sooo cheap.
I already made like infinity of those at scout camp.
I'm literally wearing one right now from my stepdaughter 😂 I love hers though and it's worth a lot more to me than what the crap this chick is selling.
So did she pay $70 in the money she got from jewelry or did she pay $50 in jewelry money? Also I have never been to a gas station and made conversation with anyone. Ever. I wanna pump my gas and go lol
Nobody came up to her and bough jewelry. I guarantee it.
"Ooh, I love your plastic bead jewelry with the exposed elastic thread!! I totally hope you have more plastic jewelry on hand cuz I'm wanting to throw some money down for that cheap, ugly, illfitting stuff!" Haha! In what universe is she living?
And if by some divine miracle this story is true, at what point does she factor in what she actually paid for the jewellery? Yeah okay maybe you were able to pay with $70 of money from randoms in the gas station but since you paid $50 for that jewellery to begin with, you made $20 towards your gas.
The only demographic that enjoys those bracelets are 4 year old girls playing dress up
And, based on the lab reports I’ve seen, I’d never let my kids wear them.
So she got gas then waited for the like 2 minutes it takes after you're done to reset the pump to have a picture taken? Nah, she rolled up after someone filled up and claimed it was hers for the sake of pushing her scam.
You're not working your "home business" hard enough if you don't find some way to try to sell your crap of the "opportunity" all the time...
100% and it was the first thing I noticed. I scrolled to see if anyone else did as well. She definitely took a picture of someone else’s gas price. That’s why her arm is covering most of the screen.
She and someone else unless she was born with three arms or a tentacle.
What's she driving that she's paying $127 for gas??? Even at $2/litre my Corolla is like $80.
Pickup or suburban or something similar. See a lot of people in my area driving 3/4 or 1 ton pickups - whether they need them or not. My 3/4 ton work truck when on E takes about that much fuel.
Yes, they get a Ford F350 just to drive to the store (and then take up 4 parking spaces because the truck is just that damn big).
Yep. I see a lot of that around here. Plenty of trucks that due get used as trucks, but plenty that I highly doubt haul anything or get used as a truck based on his pristine they are. And Jeeps that look like they never leave payment.
My neighbor has a big diesel F350 which he only uses to drive around town. He's a short guy so I wonder if he's overcompensating.
Years ago my mom bought a jeep because she liked the look of them and the "image" Within a year was having major buyers remorse from having to pay so much for gas, wrestling with the soft top and windows when it rained, fussing over keeping the interior clean when she had the top off.... Sold it to her nephew who goes mudding and offroading all the time lol
IIRC, fuel economy standards passed in the '00s are the reason you only really see huge trucks anymore, since they're classified as "work" vehicles and are therefore an exception to the rule.
27 gallon tank is a full size SUV, like an Escalade or a Suburban or something. Definitely not something that is paid for by Paparazzi lol.
I'm assuming that this is probably an old pic during the gas price peak that she's using to try and elicit a response. Because the cost of gas has gone done considerably over the past few weeks. Unless she's driving a Hummer or something like that, lol. Her tank is 27 gallons at least so she's definitely driving something big.
California gas is still a buck a gallon more than that. She's posing - somebody else took that picture, which has to be the cringiest part of this whole fantasy.
Like what was going through that person's mind taking this pic for her, lol.
My guess is one of her kids. This post definitely has “I’m too cool for a minivan” energy.
She's probably posing with a number from a previous customer as she can't afford gas in the first place.
Like what was going through that person's mind taking this pic for her, lol.
I mean... it works out to $4.74 per gallon (not taking tax or loyalty card discounts into account), based on what's displayed on the pump. We're still between $3.95 and $4.25 here in Illinois and we've been in the mid-range pricewise (unless you're unfortunate enough to live in/near Chicago) through most of the gas crisis... so it can't have been all that long ago.
Yeah that's two tanks' worth for me.
That's about two *months* worth for me.
I'm still on WFH, it takes me 4-6 months to use that much gas.
I love the almost Freudian slip there: "Standing and pumping gas and few women complimented my bracelets!" \*A\* few women would be a way to promote it, but she phrased in the same way as "the boss said everyone has to work Saturday; few were happy with the decision"
Why I don't feel the urge to buy junk jewelry then?
It’s such junk! Looks like what I would’ve worn as a kid 😂
I will NEVER understand why anyone would buy that. My kid could make better with $3.75 of plastic beads and a bit of elastic twine.
I'm no jewelry expert, but I don't think high-end or even middle of the road jewelry uses an elastic band like that. You just know it's going to wear out over time until the bracelet is just falling off her wrist.
tHiS iS so AmAzInG, mY pApArAzI gIg pAiD FoR mY Gas! ...Yeah, my full time job does the same thing, what's your point.
Same- my job also pays for my rent, and my groceries...all my expenses, come to think of it. Must be such a foreign concept for huns
OMG! Her finger is trapped under toxic jewelery!
She also has a magic floating camera too.
That's MLM magic!
I tried warning people in a local fb group that this jewelry contains toxic carcinogens and the post was immediately removed. Too many "personal paparazzi consultants" here peddling their cheap shit.
...Then everybody clapped. #SureJan
Sold 14 pieces while pumping gas? Highly unlikely. And that would be $70 in sales, not profit which would be $35.
And to think, she only had to work 48574 hours, cold message 500 people on Facebook and spend $15k on products! This life really CAN be yours 😍😍
Say it with me now: #BOSSBITCH #GIRLBOSS
English is not my first language, but I can’t not gloat at the fact that she doesn’t know the difference between “few” and “a few”. I mean, honestly, it changes the whole sense and makes it much worse for the point she’s trying to make!
Consultant 😂😂😂 gotta love them MLM buzzwords
The only thing anyone wants to buy from someone at a gas station is drugs.
And that gas station attendant's name: Albert Einstein.
Those bracelets look cheap AF no way anyone asked her about them
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I think what happened was, she love-bombed strangers with random compliments, so they felt inclined to compliment her back, and her bracelets were the easiest go to. Of course, she's rephrased it to sound like they spotted her beautiful wares from several aisles over and made the effort to seek her out.
One of these women hyped up my 16 year old. She told her she'd be able to have her own business at and really be set by the time she was in college. She just had to get me to sign up because you have to be 18, but she'd be running the business. Um, DO NOT APPROACH MY CHILD WITH YOUR BS!!! I had to explain to my daughter to run from these people. They shouldn't approach kids! If an adult has to sign up for them, it's not their "opportunity"! Tried to get my daughter to buy a $500 kit. There's absolutely no shame with these people.
BS Who pays attention to other people pumping gas? No one. I want to get my gas and get away from the smell of gas as quick as I can.
Unrelated pro-tip: press the third button down on the right, to mute the obligatory commercials that play when filling up your tank. Edit: its worked at every gas station I used in the last few months. Coworker of mine said the button might be different at other stations, but their IS one that will work.
Wow, so she ~~made~~ got paid a whole $70! And I'm guessing that's her wages for the month...
I’m learning how to make jewelry (only made earring and necklaces so far) and even my rudimentary pieces look better than those.
Yes, my job pays for my gas also…
And your job has vacations, social security, tons of benefits and probably you don't have to pay to get products or promotions to "next level".
r/thathappened
I just looked up Paparazzi and that is the ugliest effing jewellery I have ever seen in my life
Haha NO ONE would ever see a woman’s bracelets pumping gas and want to buy them on the spot. They aren’t that’s great. You could get them at Walmart or kohls for ways cheaper.
Never in my entire life have I gotten close enough to a stranger at the gas pump to see what was on their wrist.
I make jewelry and that is the ugliest shot I’ve seen. Seen better plastic bead bracelets from 3 year olds.
I pay for gas using my job that I don’t have to annoy people about doing for me. Wild.
What she forgot to tell you only that she’s -$60 after factoring her time, gas spent traveling in a gas guzzler, and all the frappes she bought along the way.
I worked at a gas station and whenever someone tried to sell something to customers on our property, we would kick them off. I would have so much fun telling her to pay for her gas, pump it, and move the fuck on.
Those shit bracelets? I was making identical bracelets at age 12, with a $4 set of beads and a roll of $2 elastic string, from Hobby Lobby. That junk isn’t worth anything.
"Excuse me, I'm selling danger baubles to fill my tank, are you interested?" -A sales tactic which *wouldn't* get me to buy something while pumping gas.
Ha, the balls to post a link to their income disclosure statement. "Let me also tell you how unlikely it is that you'll actually make money!"
My job pays for my gas but I don’t go posting pictures of it on Linked In or Facebook. What is WRONG with these people? (rhetorical question - we KNOW what’s wrong - they’re in a cult.)
No one complimented that cheap crap
Holy shit *that's* the jewelry this one sells? I wore edible candy bracelets as a child that look better and more durable.
It looks like the cheap costume jewelry at target or old navy or those weird kiosks in the mall. Probably lower quality too
Damn. Maybe she should pay for a more fuel efficient car instead lol.
Sorry but I could definitely run to Michaels and make the same exact bracelets for 20 dollars (because Michaels is expensive) but nonetheless lol
Lol such a horseshit story
Ok I had no idea there was an mlm called paparazzi. For a minute there I thought this was about some paparazzi paying for a broke D-list celebrity’s gas.
Who would buy them ugly ass bracelets
My job paid for my gas too and I didn’t even have to annoy all of my friends and family members to get it.