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MLM-bot watch - FL, Juice Plus, Younique etc

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lastuseraccount123 · 30/07/2015 18:26

today's update: My FLbot has signed up her sister to join her number one team!!!!!

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Bonnie152 · 14/08/2015 15:40

Love this thread! I have a FLbot on my fbook. Was extremely inactive until her forever 'business' started and now it's hard to scroll through my feed without seeing pics of her '#lovingherbusiness' and being in some pub garden having a 'business meeting' or being still sat at home in PJs at gone 2 in the afternoon.

What I want to know is, does FL actually make as much money as they make it seem like they do? It's like a bloody cult Confused

tribpot · 14/08/2015 15:46

Well naturally they don't employ anyone, Myusername, you are your own boss.

Myusername2015 · 14/08/2015 15:50

True true but I meant more they don't pay me any commission as I don't sell anything!

Beeswax2017 · 14/08/2015 15:59

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HarrietSchulenberg · 14/08/2015 16:17

My FL bot has gone on holiday, seemingly as a thinly veiled excuse to post product placement pics of FL items.
"X can't wait to hit the beach again today" with pic of little X clutching her bucket, spade and some aloe vera tat, then some # rubbish.
Mine also sells FL stuff for dogs.

tribpot · 14/08/2015 16:29

Maybe the holiday is tax deductible if it's basically a photo shoot for advertising?!

lastuseraccount123 · 14/08/2015 16:33

yesssssssss we have a mole! excited

bot update:

Fab planning session with K and S tonight....I love being able to help & coach others on building there business from the comfort of home!!
Are you interested?
Drop me a message and I'll show you how you can help me build a great income for me yourself in time for Christmas!!

and then:

Fresh strawberries, vanilla powder and almond milk shake for breakfast!! Along with my daily shot of aloe & therm tablet....fat burning at it's best!!
Need to lose a few pounds and shape up for Mexico

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tribpot · 14/08/2015 16:37

Well this one can spell 'business' but not 'their' (or use its correctly) but of course the main issue here is the supposed fat-burning power - not only of aloe (that's a given obviously - aloe is the saviour of all mankind) but apparently strawberries too?

There's an awful lot of joint planning to do for these individual businesses, which is weird.

Libitina · 14/08/2015 17:29

I think today is FL "pay day"? I was expecting to see more bragging comments than I have so far.

Libitina · 14/08/2015 17:32

What's this Periscope thing that the FLbots are doing?

Peacheykeen · 14/08/2015 17:44

Marking my place. I've seen the periscope shit too.

fuzzpig · 14/08/2015 17:57

Ooh this makes fun reading! I don't have anyone on my FB doing this hilarious crap.

Although all the hashtags and exclamation marks are making my eyes bleed.

Roseformeplease · 14/08/2015 18:03

This thread made me chuckle. Sadly, no FL on my Facebook but Younique (lashes you could cut glass with) and, new one, Scentsy - expensive candles and oil burners to make your house smell shit.

scribblescrabble · 14/08/2015 18:15

Yes! My bots are rambling about periscopes too, I daren't ask what it is in case they see at as an interest in their products and try to groom me! I've just looked at the 'Clean 9' thing and quite like the look of it I know, I know I'm going to replicate it from Holland and Barrett and will report back ;)

scribblescrabble · 14/08/2015 18:20

GIYF! 'periscope' is an app for your phone, I think it is designed to check friends and family for weakness thus assisting with their indoctrination! Wink

lastuseraccount123 · 14/08/2015 18:45

awesome. live-streaming of an FLBot in action.

I wonder what we'll get to see? Drinking aloe? Slapping it on your gob? Using it to cure cancer?

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Persephone70 · 14/08/2015 19:06

I feel like I am surrounded by pyramid-scheme droids! One close proximity Juice-plus and 2 FL's, few streets away is an nspa and a younique! One if the FLbots is constantly in the pub (to the detriment of her tweenager son I may add) and the JPbot chain-smokes and is morbidly obese!? Ordinarily I wouldn't care to comment on another's appearance, but my FB newsfeed is clogged up with how amazing their lives are and how they are healthier than ever! Oh, and the fact they are 'never going back' to the misery of an 'unclean' life! Are people really this gullible?!

lastuseraccount123 · 14/08/2015 20:16

yes Sad or maybe not always gullible, just in situations that don't offer a way out and FL appears to do that.

BTW, the Pink Truth blog has a couple of great posts up lately. One is about financial abuse (i.e. the way bots suck money out of their downline victims "team members" ) and the latest one is about how MK cosmetics pretends it's all prestigious and shit to explain the crazy prices. But, like FL, it's not.

www.pinktruth.com/2015/08/14/if-you-have-to-pretend-mary-kay-is-prestigious/

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LittleMissStubborn · 14/08/2015 21:31

I think bonus day was last week. One has earnt more this month then she got in an annual bonus in her 'real job' and another has paid for a holiday. I can see why, from the outside looking in, it looks a good proposition. There is a small part of even me that wonders if I am missing a trick.

Apart from the kids surrounded by stuff it has been quite quiet on my fb.

bettyberry · 14/08/2015 22:39

The thing with the fake it till you make it they spout we never know when/if it's true.

I bet she did get a holiday and that bonus paid for a bit of the deposit

TalcumMucker · 14/08/2015 22:39

I have a new FLbot!! Woop woop! Fresh to the party, she's just invited me to her launch evening.

If I wasn't still bf DS in the evening I might actually be tempted to go just to hear the spiel for myself, and to voice my objections. Might see if any of our joint friends are going and forewarn them

ArgentinianMalbec · 14/08/2015 22:44

My JPBot seems to have stfu about JP lately... Hmm. Wonder why.... My very new mug recruit FLBot keeps taking her "basket of goodies" to various people to show off the amazing products, yet never mentioning forever living. She's even trying to scam recruit her own mother Confused luckily she lives on Jersey!

ArgentinianMalbec · 14/08/2015 22:47

Oh, and my Arbonne friend has gone quiet, she was bigging up all the products then admitted on a FB post that she couldn't afford the products when ANOTHER, RANDOM Arbonne seller recommended her something for her DS's sore bottom! Priceless GrinGrin

borisgudanov · 15/08/2015 01:23

I take it all these wonderful holidays are in Egypt?

tribpot · 15/08/2015 09:50

Well of course Mexico and Central America have some wonderful pyramids too (although Wiki has to be all pedantic and say they aren't true pyramids, perhaps they are Multi-Level Monuments - boom boom!)