@littlemisscynical
If I'm honest, I always knew deep down and would swing from short periods of absolute belief to longer periods of doubt. I even read the aforementioned book quite early in my fbo days but talked myself out of believing it, thinking it was just someone who was bitter.
Other times I have to admit, I realised what the cost of success would be and I didn't care - if people failed that was there problem and I wanted to do whatever it takes to give my family a dream life.
So even from the start, I had my doubts but never admitted it. In total, I was in FLP for around 3 years.
@skunkatanka
I definitely believe all mlms operate the same way. It's the nature of the model. I do believe that FLP was one of the pioneers of how MLM looks these days and that others have copied it's cult like spirit and mixed this with mindset training. Bullying wasn't rife in lower levels, it was much more 'mean girls' two faced.
@BSintolerant
I don't think there was one topping point, more like many smaller incidents that created alarm bells for me, I'm quite analytical and could see people suddenly struggling to increase ccs and gain promotion. My own stats of recruitment were getting worse and I looked back at old magazines and compared how many promotions had happened previously, which we now know was the boom. That was my final straw as I felt I now had proof that it wasn't my fault and that it was happening to everyone.
@rookiemere
I've discussed this earlier, I didn't as I didn't push my friends, I compartmentalised my time with them, we grew apart anyway due to different life stages (babies, jobs etc.) as I grew closer to a new non-FLP friend.
@TheFatberg
Yes the case credits is designed to bamboozle. When I first joined the video said its their internal currency designed to make having teams worldwide easier to track. In fairness, there is a logic to that and I can't think of a better system for it that would allow someone to compare their overall country by country turnover without having to do conversions. I still feel overall that they use that system to keep people confused as they have lots of sophisticated analytical tool you can subscribe to but not one to my knowledge that is close to real accounting.
@fromdownwest
Accounting was never properly touched on, people barely mentioned it! The only time I ever heard advice at training as when castle invited a speaker from FLs preferred accountancy company and they were more about promoting how they could take our receipts and do our taxes rather than cash flow.
I think most lower level bots were sole traders, some became limited companies when their bonuses were exceeding 5k. I was never too aware of higher bot accounts until I left but I had peaked at some yet didn't quite understand and knew that perhaps their income was showing after expenses of which I believed would have been well abused.
@muminmanchester
I answered a similar question earlier. It's really tough, no one thing will convince a person. They need to look at the magazine archives from 2015 and look at all the people who made manager then see what those people are doing today!! They could also ask head office for information about promotion figures for each rank in the UK by year for the past 10 years. The response from flp (a refusal) should tell them that they really are not a stakeholder in this business. Why would head office withhold information from its investors? No other business would - it's a fair piece of information to ask for as someone who is "part of the business" and needing to compare overall UK data to their personal/teams data.