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

would be happy to pass on details of how they could book stalls at events (paying for the privilege like everyone else, naturally), or buy adverts. Radio silence. Gotta be in it to win it...

But their product is actually desperate mums who want to avoid going back to work, so a stall at a professional event is a meagre hunting ground for them.

Recruitment - where you sell £200 worth of shite to one mark who then recruits her own marks - gets you up to the next level in the fantasy video game land of MLM far faster than selling £200 worth of shite to your friends who don't join your 'sales' team. It's not a sales business in that the product is secondary by some margin to the recruitment, hence the lack of interest in your offer.

Forever Living is fun and to me it doesn't feel like work. The products are amazing (I won't use anything else now)

You can't use anything else now, because your garage is full of 100 boxes of it.

And they can never bloody spell. Erroneous 'f's in the middle of words....

Had to read that 3 times to get what you meant then, lol.

Based solely on this thread I have accepted a 'friends' invite to like her FL Fb page. I actually feel quite sorry for her as she only has 12 likes.
I can hardly wait to see what she has to say.

Tirfar welcome, feel free to keep us updated

Ooh, dangerous territory, liking an MLM bot's page. I commend you for daring!

At least one wrinkle? That sounds alarming. What does it do when your skin is wrinkle-free? Keep on shrinking until you end up with your nose on the back of your head? (Logically obviously your skin would have split open hideously before this point but logic doesn't seem to feature massively in this claim anyway)

It's all in such bad taste bo.

Your friend may not feel bad because she's a hardnosed bastard or she has been brainwashed to think this is completely fine.

From my FL bot's page added this morning, what a crock...

She's not selling the dream with that illustration, but it's certainly more realistic, except that an iceberg is 90% under water, not like the picture.

The Bots like to create the impression that it's easy money, can work around your childcare commitments, then post stuff like this. If you're confused it's not because you're missing something. Confusion on this and other aspects, such as the remuneration, helps break down your faculties so you end up thinking the system is sophisticated and legitimate.

Twats.

Oh dear. It seems that nobody wanted to pay for a ticket to be sold to. What a waste of the school's time and photocopier though

I've seen one where a bot has signed up a student. The bot is saying how she will avoid student debt and how proud she is of her etc etc. Disgusting. The irony is the student has had to part with money to sign up?!? Who will she sell to?! Her student friends?! Its such a horrid selfish scam?!????

Using a charity to flog their scheme? Sickening.

Laying next to my beautiful baby boy reflecting over the last week. I've strengthened existing friendships, made amazing new ones & felt every emotion - from motivated for the future to guilt at leaving my baby at home. It's not easy to be apart from him but I have to do whatever it takes to make sure he's not affected by my decision to become a single mum. I know that he needs ME more than money but the option was to work harder to sustain what we have or downgrade our lives to match my old salary. I chose the first one which has meant time apart this year & with that brings guilt like you wouldn't believe. I have to tell myself every day I'm away that I'm extremely lucky to be at home with more than most mums, instead of working 9-5 then having 2 hours with him in the evenings I do the opposite.This trip has given me new passion for what I do and I found inspiration in others that I can have it all with by my side, I'm nowhere near the perfect mum but he's always at the forefront of every decision I make.Thank you Mexico & everyone who made it what it was, it was unbelievably incredible but now I'm ready for marathon cuddles with my main man for the next few days

It's sickening that they target working feeling guilty Mothers.

Plus, the 'uplifting and inspirational' FB posts are really getting on my tits now. I wish they'd change the script slightly, no one talks like this in real life. Do they?

Apparently men can do it too. Who knew?!

?#?men? ?#?kicking? ?#?ass? ?#?payrise? ?#?recognition? ?#?huge? ?#?promotions? ?#?proudmentor? ?#?proudfriend? ?#?workfromhome? ?#?extra? ?#?income? ?#?helpingothers?

Mine has posted a snap of the pinnacle of success, with a caption 'taken delivery of this beauty'

ITS THE WHITE RANGE ROVER!!!

Why is it all about getting an amazing car? Holidays?! Its all fake it before you make it! Any person whom is interested in making money will save save save and never flash and show off.... MONEY TALKS WEALTH WHISPERS! I'm currently running a small business and this kind of behavior makes my skin crawl.

I think the top ones have 'money' anyway, via their husbands usually. The rest are just faking the lifestyle. The one I know (low down the chain), implied that she bought her new car from FL money, when I know for a fact that it is leased and she has had lease cars for years (nothing against lease cars btw).

Yes but my point is....they act like a car is the be all and end all, My bot is now running out of show-offy products to buy (on credit)...now it's puppies! But this Bot uses anything to flog this cult. Two charity events in the last few days (inc the Macmillan coffee morning) how do I know? pictorial evidence on FB. You can see that eagle rearing its ugly head in the background, with the naff lotions laid out on the pea green polyester tablecloth.

As before, people who are legitimately self employed don't do this. The people I know who run their own dance studios, copywriting businesses, bee farms and personal training companies don't bang on and on about how many cars they own or how many holidays they take or how much they love being their own boss or how they're working from a beach in the Bahamas. That's pure sales culture horseshit. More often they are based in very humble offices at home or elsewhere and they are working damn, damn hard. They are all successful and they deserve to be, with their talent and work ethic, but tell them it's all easy money that they make lounging around on their sofas while playing with their kids and they would laugh you out of the room.

Oh, and they sure as absolute fuck do not start pissing over mothers who are employed as staff in standard workplaces. The idea would horrify them. A lot of them are mothers themselves and they have a huge interest in supporting and encouraging women who need to juggle work and family. In fact some of them organise events and initiatives to this very end.