Meri Brown and her Wet Bar of Tears

[Kohola3]

6 minutes ago, MrSmith said:

There is no color to be found anywhere in her house. The walls are white. The decor tends to be black (lettering). The flooring brown or some kind of tan neutral.

No point in making it anything other than "sale ready" for when they foreclose. The Realtor will appreciate that.

[AdorkableWitch]

It's okay. It's not amazing and it's not hideous. In fact, I think it's kind of bland.  I wouldn't look twice if she passed me on the street. 

[DakotaJustice]

2 hours ago, MrSmith said:

My wife and I have commented on this a number of times. There is no color to be found anywhere in her house. The walls are white. The decor tends to be black (lettering). The flooring brown or some kind of tan neutral. She hasn't even invested in decent, attractive window treatments. She just has those shitty Venetian blinds. Putting up nice curtains and valances is about the easiest thing you can do. Even if you're afraid to put non-white color on your walls, putting up some nice curtains and valances can bring that much-needed visual relief/variety.

Did you ever watch the episode where they were picking the floors etc for their houses? They just selected from the builder's basics. The cheap carpet, the blinds, the builder's white paint. Shit, even the washers and dryers were put on the mortgage when they probably could have gotten a much better price on higher end appliances buying them separately at Costco, Best Buy or a local appliance store. 

[MrSmith]

1 minute ago, DakotaJustice said:

Did you ever watch the episode where they were picking the floors etc for their houses? They just selected from the builder's basics. The cheap carpet, the blinds, the builder's white paint. Shit, even the washers and dryers were put on the mortgage when they probably could have gotten a much better price on higher end appliances buying them separately at Costco, Best Buy or a local appliance store. 

I did see that episode, and had forgotten about it. Thank you for reminding me.

[Natalie68]

On 9/5/2017 at 7:43 AM, xwordfanatik said:

I don't like the combo.  Too tight around the middle.  Shoes, yuk.  

Hashtag "Living My Why"  -  WHY?  

I know I see these outfits and ask why?  Maybe that is what it really means.  HA!

[xwordfanatik]

1 minute ago, Natalie68 said:

I know I see these outfits and ask why?  Maybe that is what it really means.  HA!

That could very well be!  Why am I hawking this god-awful stuff?  Meri, please ask yourself that question!

[TurtlePower]

3 hours ago, DakotaJustice said:

Did you ever watch the episode where they were picking the floors etc for their houses? They just selected from the builder's basics. The cheap carpet, the blinds, the builder's white paint. Shit, even the washers and dryers were put on the mortgage when they probably could have gotten a much better price on higher end appliances buying them separately at Costco, Best Buy or a local appliance store. 

Typical of most homes being built in town. They're already paying a lot for these homes, what's 10k more for some warmer tones and decent floors/carpet? They're all the same: 2 story, generic pooped out clone homes  

 So glad I moved out of the city, could not believe how many new developments were popping up.

Edited September 6, 2017 by TurtlePower
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[MargeGunderson]

Yes, Meri, you can go wrong with strips and floral. Very wrong. 

[LilWharveyGal]

I must have gotten up on the warm and fuzzy side of the bed today, because my initial response to that picture is that that shade of pink really flatters Meri and brightens up her face.  And yes, those boots are bad, but maybe the fact that she's wearing them means that she finally relegated the toeless lace-up suede wedge monstrosities to the garbage can!      

[Galloway Cave]

On 9/5/2017 at 1:17 PM, Celia Rubenstein said:

As bad as the outfit is (check out the condition of those shoes), what struck me about that picture is the utter lifelessness of her decor.  That is her house, right?

See, what bugs the shit out of me is seeing that damn light cord draped across the wall. I'm the kind of person who hides cords. I certainly wouldn't post an IG pic of my too-tight rainbow swirl outfit with a cord so prominently on display. :)

[Jellybeans]

If only the shirt was wallpaper and the skirt were dishes...

[TurtlePower]

19 hours ago, LilWharveyGal said:

I must have gotten up on the warm and fuzzy side of the bed today, because my initial response to that picture is that that shade of pink really flatters Meri and brightens up her face.  And yes, those boots are bad, but maybe the fact that she's wearing them means that she finally relegated the toeless lace-up suede wedge monstrosities to the garbage can!      

I thought the color suited her as well. Even her eyebrows look okay. 

[Rainflower]

1. I love her home minus the brown carpet and that visible cord (throws off the picture). I know not everyone is into the "magazine" look for homes.

2. The outfit is a miss. Pattern mixing isn't my thing. The colors look good on Meri but I think the pencil skirt and the shirt are a bit too tight on her and her shoes ruins the whole outfit.

3. Someone went on Meri's LLR page, claimed $700 worth of clothes than left her group without paying for the order. IMO, that was just evil. Love her or not, Meri has bills to pay just like everyone else. Talk about her but don't go screwing up her sales. 

4. Maddie has joined LLR https://www.facebook.com/groups/1995081820748540/

[TurtlePower]

4 hours ago, Rainflower said:

1. I love her home minus the brown carpet and that visible cord (throws off the picture). I know not everyone is into the "magazine" look for homes.

2. The outfit is a miss. Pattern mixing isn't my thing. The colors look good on Meri but I think the pencil skirt and the shirt are a bit too tight on her and her shoes ruins the whole outfit.

3. Someone went on Meri's LLR page, claimed $700 worth of clothes than left her group without paying for the order. IMO, that was just evil. Love her or not, Meri has bills to pay just like everyone else. Talk about her but don't go screwing up her sales. 

4. Maddie has joined LLR https://www.facebook.com/groups/1995081820748540/

Sheisty! That's just mean. What a fucking asshole. 

[MrSmith]

4 hours ago, Rainflower said:

3. Someone went on Meri's LLR page, claimed $700 worth of clothes than left her group without paying for the order. IMO, that was just evil. Love her or not, Meri has bills to pay just like everyone else. Talk about her but don't go screwing up her sales. 

I promise this was not me! :D

I'm just not that interested and, even if I was, I still have better things to do. Plus, that's just mean and she's never done anything to me.

[TurtlePower]

6 minutes ago, MrSmith said:

I promise this was not me! :D

I'm just not that interested and, even if I was, I still have better things to do. Plus, that's just mean and she's never done anything to me.

Yeah, whoever did that seriously crossed the line. It's one thing to think someone's kind of a putz and joke about them; it's quite another to pull something like that. 

[Jellybeans]

That's hateful.  

I have a hard enough time snarking!

[Kohola3]

Well, color me uninformed in the World of LLR but what does "claimed $700 worth of clothes than left her group without paying for the order" even mean"?  Is claiming the same as ordering them?  Would Meri have been stupid enough to send her clothing without payment?  What does "leaving the group" mean?  That she unfriended her on Facebook? So what?

[riverblue22]

5 hours ago, TurtlePower said:

Yeah, whoever did that seriously crossed the line. It's one thing to think someone's kind of a putz and joke about them; it's quite another to pull something like that. 

Maybe it was J.O.

[xwordfanatik]

1 hour ago, Kohola3 said:

Well, color me uninformed in the World of LLR but what does "claimed $700 worth of clothes than left her group without paying for the order" even mean"?  Is claiming the same as ordering them?  Would Meri have been stupid enough to send her clothing without payment?  What does "leaving the group" mean?  That she unfriended her on Facebook? So what?

I don't get it either.  ???

[Jellybeans]

11 minutes ago, xwordfanatik said:

I don't get it either.  ???

I don't get it either, but I am joining in lol.

[AZChristian]

I suspect that perhaps the person "claimed" $700 worth of stuff during an online sale.  Meri put those items aside (so she couldn't sell them to someone else), and then the perpetrator just walked away.  No money was exchanged, but Meri now has $700 worth of crap back in her inventory that she thought she had unloaded.

For the record . . . it wasn't me either.  I'm not in the group, nor have I ever wanted to be.

[Kohola3]

44 minutes ago, AZChristian said:

No money was exchanged, but Meri now has $700 worth of crap back in her inventory that she thought she had unloaded.

Well, it's $700 worth of crap so put it back in her next sale.  What's the big deal? There's apparently an LLR sucker born every minute, some groupie will buy it.  She didn't actually lose anything. An awful lot of pearl-clutching over nothing, apparently.

[TurtlePower]

13 hours ago, Kohola3 said:

Well, it's $700 worth of crap so put it back in her next sale.  What's the big deal? There's apparently an LLR sucker born every minute, some groupie will buy it.  She didn't actually lose anything. An awful lot of pearl-clutching over nothing, apparently.

Its a shady thing to do to someone. Disliking someone and resorting to Mean Girls tactics are two different worlds. 

[Kohola3]

You don't think this sort of thing doesn't happen daily in any retail store? People buy crap and bring it back for a refund daily.  Nobody gets all worked up when it happens at Walmart. It's just another ploy for sympathy from the worlds biggest whiner, probably hoping some of her ass-kissing hangers-on will feel bad and buy it.  That's retail, baby.  Live with it.

[Snarklepuss]

27 minutes ago, Kohola3 said:

You don't think this sort of thing doesn't happen daily in any retail store? People buy crap and bring it back for a refund daily.  Nobody gets all worked up when it happens at Walmart. It's just another ploy for sympathy from the worlds biggest whiner, probably hoping some of her ass-kissing hangers-on will feel bad and buy it.  That's retail, baby.  Live with it.

Yeah, it happens on eBay all the time.  People bid up an item or click "buy it now" and then never pay, but at least there they have accounts with credit card information on file and can suffer consequences if they do that.  If she were smart, she'd make buyers enter their verified credit card information FIRST before being able to "reserve" anything.  But of course, we all know how not smart any of these people are.....

[TurtlePower]

1 hour ago, Kohola3 said:

You don't think this sort of thing doesn't happen daily in any retail store? People buy crap and bring it back for a refund daily.  Nobody gets all worked up when it happens at Walmart. It's just another ploy for sympathy from the worlds biggest whiner, probably hoping some of her ass-kissing hangers-on will feel bad and buy it.  That's retail, baby.  Live with it.

That's entirely different. In a retail store, they've already purchased it and it's their burden to return it.

Setting aside $700 worth of yet-unpurchaed product for someone and then that someone goes ghost--that action took those products out of availability for others to purchase. Sure she will eventually sell those things, but someone seemed to have purposely disrupted her operation. 

Thats just mean and cannot be justified (unless a shopaholic discovered they didn't have $700 in their account). 

[AZChristian]

It's like going to an auction.  If someone has a successful bid on something, then whoever else was bidding loses out.  If the winner then doesn't pay for the stuff, (1) other bidders can't buy it, and (2) the auctioneer (and the original owner) are still stuck with it, although everyone thought it had been sold.  I don't see this as similar to retail sales at all.

Or like putting down a deposit on a new apartment.  As soon as the deposit is down, the apartment is no longer available to others.  Many years of watching People's Court and Judge Judy have taught us that the deposit is not refundable.  In Meri's case, the only difference is that the deposit was not actually paid, but it was promised.  The product was no longer available to others.

Edited September 9, 2017 by AZChristian

[DakotaJustice]

I concur with this being much ado over nothing. If LLR had an sales model in which the buyer paid immediately - you know, like how eBay takes you to "Buy it now" or pretty much any other merchant - the customer sees it, chooses, pays, done.

Where LLR has a laborious awkward system:

1) buyer says sold when they see an item that they like. 

2) at some point after the sale, Meri invoices the buyer.

3) the buyer pays the invoice (or passes). 

 

Instead of:

1) buyer chooses, hits Buy, and the sale is processed. 

 

The pass happens frequently in ALL LLR groups other than Meri's and oftentimes it's viewers getting caught up without realizing how much they're spending. Quite a few of Meris buyers are SAHMs whose husbands bring in the sole income and they see something that they "must have", say Sold, and later hubby puts the kibosh on the purchase. 

Or they came to their senses because $700 is a lot of money. 

I don't think it was done out of malice. I'm guessing the buyer got caught up in the frenzy. 

If you follow meri's group you'll know that after sales she makes a big post reminding/nagging people to pay up and calling them out by name. I've also seen her show items that had been claimed previously that were obviously not finally purchased. 

It happens ALL THE TIME.

Meri lost nothing.

Edited September 10, 2017 by DakotaJustice

[Kohola3]

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The pass happens frequently in ALL LLR groups other than Meri's and oftentimes it's viewers getting caught up without realizing how much they're spending. 

Precisely, DakotaJustice.  It's a cockamamie business model and anyone who decides to do business that way deserves whatever happens.

 

27 minutes ago, DakotaJustice said:

It happens ALL THE TIME.

Meri lost nothing.

Yep.

[DakotaJustice]

On 9/9/2017 at 6:25 AM, Snarklepuss said:

Yeah, it happens on eBay all the time.  People bid up an item or click "buy it now" and then never pay, but at least there they have accounts with credit card information on file and can suffer consequences if they do that.  If she were smart, she'd make buyers enter their verified credit card information FIRST before being able to "reserve" anything.  But of course, we all know how not smart any of these people are.....

That's not LLRs business model. And this is, I suspect, intentional. 

[DakotaJustice]

this is an hour long (sorry) but I think this is the typical experience for LLR consultants. This gal also talks about her less than profitable Disney experience - including items that were "claimed" but never sold "and now I'm stuck with this shit!"

@MrSmith you might find this interesting! 

[Celia Rubenstein]

It depends on the person's reason ... some people go a little crazy and overspend and have to back out. Dealing with that is just part of selling. But if they did it intentionally just to screw with Meri, that's just shitty. Not so shitty I will lose any sleep over it, tho, because it didn't really cost Meri a lot of money. But it's still shitty and crossing a line to really mess with someone's business that way. Even if it's a stupid business.

Given that it was such a large amount of money, I think it was probably intentional and not just a careless buyer who went a little too far and regretted it.

[DakotaJustice]

14 hours ago, Celia Rubenstein said:

It depends on the person's reason ... some people go a little crazy and overspend and have to back out. Dealing with that is just part of selling. But if they did it intentionally just to screw with Meri, that's just shitty. Not so shitty I will lose any sleep over it, tho, because it didn't really cost Meri a lot of money. But it's still shitty and crossing a line to really mess with someone's business that way. Even if it's a stupid business.

Given that it was such a large amount of money, I think it was probably intentional and not just a careless buyer who went a little too far and regretted it.

The thing is that a transaction never occurred. 

This is the equivalent of me going to a store or on Amazon, finding items I want and putting in my cart but changing my mind and putting them back before final checkout. I have seen this happen in LLR groups before.  

[Snarklepuss]

2 hours ago, DakotaJustice said:

The thing is that a transaction never occurred. 

This is the equivalent of me going to a store or on Amazon, finding items I want and putting in my cart but changing my mind and putting them back before final checkout. I have seen this happen in LLR groups before.  

When you put something in your cart on Amazon the item is not reserved for you, and if it was the last one in stock you could lose it if you don't pay before someone else snatches it up.  Also, the seller doesn't know about it when someone puts something in their shopping cart.  What I read above about Meri's case seems to indicate that the items were reserved for the buyer once they put in an intention to buy them and the seller (in this case Meri) was notified of it.  That's actually similar to eBay because when you click "buy it now" or successfully win an auction the item is reserved for you for a short time pending payment and the seller is notified about it.  But if you don't pay within a specified time the items go back up for sale.  That's what I'm thinking happened to Meri and why she was crabbing about it.  There was a short time when the items were reserved and not for sale pending a payment that never happened.  But it was probably a short time and not long enough for her to crab that much about it.

[DakotaJustice]

But it's common in LLR groups, always has been. 

Usually the consultant doesn't raise a big hairy stink about it - 12 hours to pay the invoice, if not paid, the person is removed from the group and the items placed back in inventory. 

This is typical Meri drama that we saw with the catfish debacle. She gets all these people following her and makes a scene knowing that it will cause all this turmoil. 

Because of the selling model though, the Meri drama is ratcheted up. It becomes a feeding frenzy when she holds up an item and to be the first person to comment Invoice Me before someone else does, without considering the cost. Artificially stimulated demand. 

At the end of the day it's not the substandard overpriced clothing, but the thrill of the hunt, that drives this business. 

https://qz.com/1039331/mlms-like-avon-and-lularoe-are-sending-people-into-debt-and-psychological-crisis/

Edited September 11, 2017 by DakotaJustice

[Kohola3]

36 minutes ago, DakotaJustice said:

Because of the selling model though, the Meri drama is ratcheted up.

I wouldn't be surprised if she was the one who started the posting here just to garner sympathy.  Sorry, no sale. (See what I did there?)

[MrSmith]

@DakotaJustice I only made it through 16 minutes of that video so far, but it definitely is interesting. I saw her first couple of videos where she was discussing considering joining LLR and then her 3 month update. I don't feel bad for her. She put her initial purchase on credit cards, even though her husband had lost his job and hers wasn't going well. I love how she spent so much of the first 15 minutes of this video being on her high horse and being critical of other people in (and departing) LLR.

[Snarklepuss]

1 hour ago, DakotaJustice said:

But it's common in LLR groups, always has been. 

Usually the consultant doesn't raise a big hairy stink about it - 12 hours to pay the invoice, if not paid, the person is removed from the group and the items placed back in inventory. 

This is typical Meri drama that we saw with the catfish debacle. She gets all these people following her and makes a scene knowing that it will cause all this turmoil. 

Because of the selling model though, the Meri drama is ratcheted up. It becomes a feeding frenzy when she holds up an item and to be the first person to comment Invoice Me before someone else does, without considering the cost. Artificially stimulated demand.

It sounds like the family's original MO for the show - Get attention and money by crying victim.  I suppose it's a sales tactic that's worked for them in the past!

[Kohola3]

Yeah, the next installment will be that her LLR sales are tanking because of persecution for being a polygamist.   And that it was a catfish that placed an order and then bailed out.  Cue crying and eye boogers.  Poor me.

[DakotaJustice]

1 hour ago, MrSmith said:

@DakotaJustice I only made it through 16 minutes of that video so far, but it definitely is interesting. I saw her first couple of videos where she was discussing considering joining LLR and then her 3 month update. I don't feel bad for her. She put her initial purchase on credit cards, even though her husband had lost his job and hers wasn't going well. I love how she spent so much of the first 15 minutes of this video being on her high horse and being critical of other people in (and departing) LLR.

It's about 23 minutes in where she starts talking about how "Disney was not the big savior of LLR" And how the deck is stacked against people not on the west coast. 

[xwordfanatik]

42 minutes ago, Kohola3 said:

Yeah, the next installment will be that her LLR sales are tanking because of persecution for being a polygamist.   And that it was a catfish that placed an order and then bailed out.  Cue crying and eye boogers.  Poor me.

Yes, dear Meri & Robyn both with the eye boogers, and then wiping them on their white-stitched tight-assed jeans.  LOL

[SongbirdHollow]

Anyone who purchases $700 of LLR   Is clearly clinically insane and such a purchase should not be binding in a court of law. Judgment to the defendant. ?

[DakotaJustice]

3 hours ago, Kohola3 said:

Yeah, the next installment will be that her LLR sales are tanking because of persecution for being a polygamist.   And that it was a catfish that placed an order and then bailed out.  Cue crying and eye boogers.  Poor me.

If she wasn't a polygamist she wouldn't be famous and on a TV show. 

And if she was selling LLR as a regular person but still an out and out beyotch, she'd probably average 5-20 viewers on her Live feeds. 

[CofCinci]

I wonder how Meri feels about Maddie selling LLR....

[DakotaJustice]

6 hours ago, CofCinci said:

I wonder how Meri feels about Maddie selling LLR....

She's apparently thrilled since she's Maddie's sponsor!

[MrSmith]

20 hours ago, DakotaJustice said:

It's about 23 minutes in where she starts talking about how "Disney was not the big savior of LLR" And how the deck is stacked against people not on the west coast. 

Ohhhh. I'll have to return to it when I have time.

[Scarlett45]

On 9/5/2017 at 7:49 AM, ginger90 said:

hit, or miss?

I like the outfit. Not my style but she looks comfortable, age appropriate, stylish and the clothes fit her. Although why is her skin a color that doesn't occur naturally on humans?!

[TurtlePower]

1 hour ago, Scarlett45 said:

I like the outfit. Not my style but she looks comfortable, age appropriate, stylish and the clothes fit her. Although why is her skin a color that doesn't occur naturally on humans?!

I  think her skin tone looks fine (gone is the Oompa Loompa), though I'd say she needs more low-light dark tones mixed into her hair. Too much blond washes her out. 

[Scarlett45]

30 minutes ago, TurtlePower said:

I  think her skin tone looks fine (gone is the Oompa Loompa), though I'd say she needs more low-light dark tones mixed into her hair. Too much blond washes her out. 

It might be my phone but her face looks a distinct ruddy orange to me. Her legs look nice- maybe too much bronzer or a foundation color that oxidized funny?