by ukrainian forces last month. now on bbc news the dark side of direct sales. the world of door to door sales and selling on the street has been rebooted for the social media age. young people are being promised big money, glam work trips abroad and the chance to work with some of the biggest brands in the uk. but the reality can be very different. i m lora jones and, for the past year, i ve been investigating the dark side of the direct sales industry. are young people chasing a dream they can never achieve? just, like, chews you up and spits you out. i probably blew about £2,000 in, like, road trips and stuff. wow! and i don t think i made that in the whole three months i was there. can t afford shampoo. you were trying so hard to project a kind of wolf of wall street image. i don t want to sound dramatic but it was like selling your soul. and could direct sales companies be breaking the law? i m speechless. if they were here right now, . i would ask them what on earth
nasa postpones the launch of the artemis space rocket on its mission to the moon, due to last minute technical issues. the next opportunity for the launch is on friday. liz truss pulls out of a planned bbc interview tomorrow. it comes as the foreign secretary s team hit back at criticism of her economic plans from the institute for fiscal studies. pakistan makes a global appealfor help after a flooding catastrophe that s killed more than a thousand people and affected 33 million. the ukrainian military has begun its long awaited offensive on the southern front. it claims to have broken through the first line of russian defence around the main city of kherson. now on bbc news, our reporter lora jones investigates if workers are being exploited and if hustle culture has gone too far in the dark side of direct sales. the world of door to door sales and selling on the street has been rebooted for the social media age. young people are being promised big money, glam work trips
serbia and kosovo has reached an agreement to allow free movement between the countries. kosovo has an ethnic albanian majority and has declared independence from serbia. now on bbc news, the dark side of direct sales. the world of door to door sales and selling on the street has been rebooted for the social media age. young people are being promised big money, glam work trips abroad and the chance to work with some of the biggest brands in the uk. but the reality can be very different. i m lora jones and, for the past year, i ve been investigating the dark side of the direct sales industry. are young people chasing a dream they can never achieve? just, like, chews you up and spits you out. i probably blew about £2,000 in, like, road trips and stuff. wow! and i don t think i made that in the whole three months i was there. can t afford shampoo. you were trying so hard to project a kind of wolf of wall street image. i don t want to sound dramatic but it was like selling your
is back returning to the streets of west london for the first time since 2019. i m back at three, but right now on bbc news. the dark side of direct sales reporter lora jones asks if workers are being exploited, and if #hustleculture has gone too far. the world of door to door sales and selling on the street has been rebooted for the social media age. young people are being promised big money, glam work trips abroad and the chance to work with some of the biggest brands in the uk. but the reality can be very different. i m lora jones and, for the past year, i ve been investigating the dark side of the direct sales industry. are young people chasing a dream they can never achieve? just, like, chews you up and spits you out. i probably blew about £2,000 in, like, road trips and stuff. wow! and i don t think i made that in the whole three months i was there. can t afford shampoo. you were trying so hard to project a kind of wolf of wall street image. i don t want to sound d
in, like, road trips and stuff. wow! and i don t think i made that in the whole three months i was there. can t afford shampoo. you were trying so hard to project a kind of wolf of wall street image. i don t want to sound dramatic but it was like selling your soul. and could direct sales companies be breaking the law? i m speechless. if they were here right now, . i would ask them what on earth they think they re up to. so, at this point in the day, i m going to explain what you can expect to be doing in the business, essentially. you re learning the very basic skills. # and a girl like me. ..sales, you get marketing. # ..making money like me. ..time management, teamwork. # high roll like me, making money like me, # taking over like me. # taking over like me! on average, you re looking at £350 to £400 a week as your starting pay. once you ve done a certain amount of sales, you re doing things like recruitment, training, running road trips, basically building your own little