MLm-bot watch - now including Timeless Vie!!

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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

I have lurked on these threads for some time, but Darling's post has drawn me out. How do they get away with this?!

Surely that cellular cleansing thing is making a medical claim, are there not rules about making medical claims in adverts? If it is affecting cells it must be a medicine and must have been tested and approved? Would the ASA be interested?

Please contact the ASA - the will respond. However since the FL system uses IBOs (Independent Business Operators) rather than employees, FL-central usually just says the adverts are not authorised by FL and cancel the bot's IBO.

Also, again, many thanks for Timeless VIE! Laughter is often the best cure...

This is a link to Louis Theroux writing in the Guardian about the experience of making a film on Scientology - thought you might be interested. I would love it if he could be persuaded to turn his attention to MLMs, assuming he hasn't done so already (I'm sure we would know?).

www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/14/louis-theroux-my-scientology-movie-i-felt-like-id-been-blooded

What actually is the deal with JP? A thread has come up on one of my fb groups and loads of people were singing its praises and saying how wonderful it is. I want to counter it but not sure what to say.

Love these especially which spelling mistakes in

I have a sinking feeling that momment is not a mistake it's a "mom" ment, you know - a quality mother moment that those of us with "jobs" don't have.

Good grief, I didn't think of that, another made up nonsense word

Wow, dreaming of working late nights and early mornings? Sounds shit to me!

I do think 'momment' is a typo, but I think Timeless Vie should trademark the 'mom-moment' or 'momment' at once!

Done it, and got mithering in there too.

Well according to my JP bot a number of her clients have been able to give up their anti depressants due to the wonders of JP.

Christ, this is all I needed all along?! Off to dispose of my prozac and buy some magic berries!!

I can't have cuddles morning, noon and night goes they are at school and stuff I'd rather not have night cuddles, she hogs the bed

This gave me the rage a few weeks ago. An FL-bot I know was hosting an online sale and posted that If you have any health or medical conditions, please private message me so I can advise you. Really? Because you have sufficient medical training I presume to do that?!? Are they really allowed to get away with that?!?

Ugh, my bot and her downline have all made 'opportunity videos' at head office. Have watched two and they're word-for-word identical. Bots indeed.

KitKat please complain to FL. Not that I think they'll do anything, but if you do it and post it here we can keep tabs on how useless they really are.

Thanks Lazy!!

Love memes...

twitter bot is raving about watching the apprentice and keeping her eyes open for selling tips

bettyberry rofl. It makes perfect sense that a bot would be taking ideas from a scripted, agenda driven, reality inverting entertainment show. I really enjoy the show and it's very well designed for the viewer, but a resource for genuine business ideas it is not :) good spot

Surely that is the last place to look for business tips, unless you want a whole list of 'what don't to do'

Or 'what not to do' even

That's hilarious about the apprentice. I love the show. It seems TV also loves the apprentice...

Sir Alan is involved with Tropic Skincare I think, which uses an MLM marketing model...

One of my flbots has put her new business video on her fb. Its 26 mins long, not once does she mention aloe vera.

Get this little beauty...

not being bitchey but theres a lot of big girls in fl my bot is big too and has done the cleanse9. No difference in the pics.

I couldn't believe it about the apprentice either! hehe. I love the show because its full of mostly self obsessed numpties who think they are great but the edit the show so perfectly to highlight their failings. Its fab!

my twitter bot decided she could 'totally take on Sugar'

instagram bot is showing off pics of her dream house. Its not for sale. She couldn't afford the mortgage and its in a teeny tiny village thus depleting the number of soon-to-be bots she could rope in... she accidently posted the link to another bots online FL selling page on her FB selling page and hasn't notices she wont get any revenue from it not that she does anyway .