While reading “LuLaRoe was more than a scam, a Washington State lawsuit claims”, I found that the company LuLaRoe was pyramid scheme. This company would strick customers into buying many clothing pieces in bulk which they could sell separately. The leftovers were supposed to get refunded, yet they didn’t leaving many in financial problems. There were many other suspicious acts by the company. 

This article was intriguing to me because I knew people who sold LuLaRoe. My mom had many friends who decided to partake in this practice that my mom would buy from. I owned so many of these clothes. My mom’s friend would buy these clothes in big shipments and then set up a whole room in their house where they could act like it was their store. I think this is part of the fascination with the company. Before reading this article, I had no idea they had unethical business practices. 

This reminds me of the other article we read about scooters. This was also a pyramid scheme who faced the same unethical practices leading many to financial issues. In both of these articles, nobody believed it to be a scam at first. This scam seemed to be at a smaller scale though than the scooter one. 

This article makes me realize how many companies are pyramid schemes that I might never know about. There are so many ways that people can be tricked into losing money. It’s hard to know what might be the real deal. 

Jones, Charisse. “Lularoe Was Little More than a Scam, a Washington State Lawsuit Claims.” USA Today, Gannett Satellite Information Network, 29 Jan. 2019, www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/01/28/lularoe-pyramid-scheme-duped-consumers-washington-suit-says/2700412002/.