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MLm-bot watch - now including Timeless Vie!!

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CheekySmile · 29/09/2015 12:37

Continuing the discussion of the MLMs Forever Living, Herbal Life, Juice Plus, Younique etc, plus our very own MN-MLM Timeless Vie!

www.facebook.com/timelessvie
twitter.com/timelessvie

Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/legal_money_matters/2437667-MLM-bot-watch-FL-Juice-Plus-Younique-etc

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PopcornFrenzy · 12/10/2015 09:56

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bettyberry · 12/10/2015 10:25

The flashing the cash would send any normal employee running for the jobs page! If your boss started flashing the cash like that you know they are either having an affair or the company is in trouble.

A decent boss and business owner reigns in spending and reinvests it. I don't go to disneyland when I get a 'bonus' (by bonus I mean 2 freelance jobs in a week) I save half, pay the bills with 2/3rds of the second half and whats left buys things on the replace list and occasionally a meal out. usually a subway sandwich and a cup of coffee because I live in the real world Grin

AJFsmummy · 12/10/2015 10:33

Completely agree with you bettyberry! When my client pays their invoice its straight back into the business!! Not spent on a trip to Disneyland!

GriefLeavesItsMark · 12/10/2015 10:57

A few pages back someone said a friend phoned the selling agents who said it could be empty by Christmas, therefore it couldn't be a assured tenancy, someone else said it sounded like a contractual business tenancy.

DreamingOfTheBeach · 12/10/2015 12:56

Unbelievable I've just been sent this message from some one I've never met

I hope you're well - we're fellow members of a mums group and I've 2 boys who have just returned to school after the summer holidays (eek!). I hope you don't mind me dropping you a message but I work under the umbrella of a global company in the health and wellbeing industry and I coach and mentor other mums to build an income, from home, around their littlens and/or other commitments and I wondered if that might be of interest to you at all? Let me know as I've a short video I could send you which explains the opportunity if you like? Xx

Any good replies?!

Annie65 · 12/10/2015 13:06

Yeah dreaming, "shove your products where the sun dont shine....sideways". See if they get the message then.Grin

DreamingOfTheBeach · 12/10/2015 13:12

Nice and direct Annie!

GriefLeavesItsMark · 12/10/2015 13:16

Yes, but add an eek!

DreamingOfTheBeach · 12/10/2015 13:20

Do you think she would still take that as a 'not right now' and not a direct no?

Tokelau · 12/10/2015 13:20

Dreamingofthebeach Could you say something along the lines of, "Thanks for thinking of me, but I already have a successful career/job/study plan (whatever is relevant) and am not desperate enough to resort to joining an MLM to try to make money."

I think it's quite insulting that these people assume everyone hates their job and is looking for a way out.

tribpot · 12/10/2015 13:20

Just returned to school? It was weeks (w-eek-s) ago.

I think I would reply:

I've no interest in this kind of opportunity and I don't want to be solicited through a social group on Facebook. Please respect this and do not contact me again.

And then when she inevitably sees that as a challenge, block her.

Tokelau · 12/10/2015 13:22

Oh and perhaps tell her, "I know you are told that when people say 'no', that they actually mean 'not right now'. This is not a 'not right now' this is a 'permanent no'."

LittleMissStubborn · 12/10/2015 13:25

I had one like that. I think I told her that she had no idea what my personal circumstances were and that I wasn't interested.

She spammed lots of a group members.

DreamingOfTheBeach · 12/10/2015 13:38

Thankyou I have replied the following

Victoria,
I am already a business owner, I've no interest in this kind of opportunity and I don't want to be solicited through a social group on Facebook. Please respect this and do not contact me again.

AJFsmummy · 12/10/2015 14:12

Just report her x

lazycoo · 12/10/2015 14:15

Well done dreaming. What is with this bloody "eek!"? Drives me nuts. Eek! It's all so exciting! I'm about to fleece you!

DreamingOfTheBeach · 12/10/2015 14:33

lazy based on that, they should be saying baaa not eeekk. (Fleece you, see what I did there)

After searching her business on fb it is of course FL

Maybe I could also point her in the direction of timeless vie! Baaa

lazycoo · 12/10/2015 15:32

Hahaha! You're aloe-ver these puns!

mobiusgeek · 12/10/2015 16:59

lazy my bot has suddenly piped up with that dumb status about sharing on others walls with their 'kind permission'. Again,This is my close mate and she's sure to have noticed my distinct (intentional) lack of 'likes' by now. This status alone is going to make myongoing thoughts very obvious. I'm very much stuck between a rock and a hard place Sad but I refuse to say yes, even though hoardes of mutual friends I know have agreed to it willingly (because they're blissfully unaware of the sinister that is mlm AND she's the loveliest girl ever with lots of genuine friends/family)

Even if it makes me look bad I don't care; I'm not aknowledging it or encouraging it purely because I actually do have her best interests at heart and have tried no more than 3 times to have a civil conversation about why mlm is a bad idea (even with the risk of being labelled negative). I have nothing to gain personally from warning her about it, it's just the hardest thing to helplessly watch her being conned! I justwant to be able to ignore all this and hope it goes away, but with the amount I know about the true deception, added with it being flaunted by half of Facebook every day (and it makes face to face conversations very difficult when trying to avoid the subject!) makes it very difficult! Sad

I also now think all the people that have 'liked'it are the same people I credited with a bit of sense (lawyers/teachers/mortgage advisors etc) but have ultimately just stuck their hand up to acknowledge their lack of awareness and gullible personalities. In other words, bait. I despair.

LadyShirazz · 12/10/2015 17:39

Quick!! Come!! MN is being invaded by them!!

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/freelancers/2407848-Work-from-home

Twunk · 12/10/2015 18:09

Raise the barricades!

AJFsmummy · 12/10/2015 18:30

Haha I had to comment on there! Xxxx

LittleMissStubborn · 12/10/2015 18:34

It's so scripted it is untrue. Even their 'dreams' are the same.

It makes me smile though that they think £1200 a month is 'sack the boss' money.

AJFsmummy · 12/10/2015 18:36

They have pounced on her they they are lions and she is a zebra. Its distressing to watch.

stopfaffing · 12/10/2015 18:38

Well, I've put in my tuppennyworth Grin.