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MLM bot watch - Continued discussion of the network marketing companies Forever Living, Herbal Life, Juice Plus etc as a pyramid scheme or scam

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CheekySmile · 22/12/2015 19:58

Still continuing the discussion of the various network marketing schemes or multi-level marketing schemes (MLMs) that people we know are involved in.

If you have an MLM bot of your own then join us and share their claims and content.

Or if you are researching a company before signing up to be a network marketer please take a look at the previous threads here and here and also this thread which delves deeper into the workings of MLMs.

And don't forget our very own MN MLM Timeless Vie!
www.facebook.com/timelessvie
www.twitter.com/timelessvie
www.timelessvie.wordpress.com

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wizzywig · 30/12/2015 13:59

I tell you what gets on my wick, the ones that i know manage to take a yearly trip with three kids to florida every year. During term time. My husband is lucky enough to earn a decent wage, we cant afford it. Is it really all fake?

BlueBlueBelles · 30/12/2015 14:02

Just heading in here (im one of your timeless vie likes from the beginning after a friend of mine spammed my page and I came here in angst) as I wondered if someone could explain younique to me?

How does younique work? A friend is heavy selling, and showed a picture of a younique branded MasterCard as her "payment" so im really confused!

bunchedpantiesagain · 30/12/2015 14:10

Enjoying the posts on skibots page about her use of the stock photo. Nice work ladies Grin

foragogo · 30/12/2015 14:21

I dont know the ins and outs of all cases obviously but I know someone who does the holiday to Florida every year with the kids thing and attributes it to FL all over facebook - when in actual fact her DH told my DP that he pays for it out of his annual bonus every year. Its all BS as far as I can see with a few people at the top raking it in - like all pyramid schemes.

sminkypink · 30/12/2015 14:27

Must. Stop. Trolling.
I wonder When she'll see our comments? I wonder if they are all hiding in the attic and not looking at their phones until the 'holiday' is over?

Ilovefluffysheep · 30/12/2015 14:33

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wizzywig · 30/12/2015 14:49

Its a lot to fake.

sminkypink · 30/12/2015 14:53

But it's so easy to fake it - I remember being a skint 21 year old on minimum wage and being dressed head to toe in designer garb and going to private drinking clubs. We worked in designer stores and gave each other hefty discounts, we swapped things, we were often given the faulty items by our bosses (like the time I was given a bin bag of jean paul gaultier clothing to take home). We wore the press samples to nightclubs. We were on a minimum wage and didn't eat, I used to go to Freds drinking club but spend just £5 budget for the night and either get a lift in some dickheads sports car or come home on the nightbus. We looked fabulous, but we were living on 20p noodles and renting. With Instagram filters and Facebook its now even easier. If you are recruiting via Facebook, outside of your family and friends, who is going to know that you aren't telling the truth? I even wonder if this explains barnbot and castlebot moving to the countryside? if you don't know your neighbours they won't know you're faking things.
No doubt some of the famous ones are 'earning' pretty good money. But that's a tiny handful, like 1 in a 1000, but they still lie and hype things up. The last thread we had, I remember someone was claiming Jayne Leach earned £50m a year. Her company reports shows assets of about £400k (from memory).

penny1ane · 30/12/2015 14:57

I think some people have been a bit quick of the mark here.

The photo doesn't prove whether she is on a skiing holiday or not.

It may be slightly embarrassing for those that have posted on her fb page if her next pics of her there on holiday.

rayofhope · 30/12/2015 14:57

You know how lots of younique reps do the sharpie video - they draw all over their face supposedly with sharpie pen then show how their make up covers it up?

Well someone who isn't a rep has called them on it and done her own video to show it doesn't work. It's very funny but I'm unsure if I can post the link here as she draws a penis on her face. Anyone know if I can post or not?

BlueBlueBelles · 30/12/2015 15:04

Ray, people say cunt here on mumsnet - a penis picture is fine (and I want to see!)

stopfaffing · 30/12/2015 15:10

That's funny, penny1ane, if I go on holiday I like to take actual pictures of where I am rather than doing a Google Search for a generic photo and posting that Hmm. Surely that's what everyone who is actually there does?

LittleMissStubborn · 30/12/2015 15:10

She may well be on holiday, but she is still misleading people with that photo. The photo is a stock photo for starters.

Secondly there is no snow in the alps at the moment, if she really was there she would be posting about that, not posting pics of very snowy scenes lifted from google images.

If I go on holiday, I post a picture I have taken, not one I found in google images. Why would you do that?

rayofhope · 30/12/2015 15:12

Ah cool, a friend on fb thought it was hilarious too

www.facebook.com/gracie.dudley.9/videos/138756786497285/

bunchedpantiesagain · 30/12/2015 15:16

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stopfaffing · 30/12/2015 15:17

I mean, what's to stop me posting a pic of a gorgeous beach in Barbados with a pair if feet in the sand and telling everyine how lucky I am that I can afford this amazing holiday due to my amazing "business consultancy " Wink, when actually I am travelling up the M6 wondering if the M74 we will still be closed by the time I get there.

FelicityFixIt · 30/12/2015 15:21

The sharpie pen video has just turned up in Ms Gloss & The Goss over on FB ( a real group by the way!! ) and it's causing some hilarity

darceybussell · 30/12/2015 15:25

Haha you are all so naughty!!!!

FelicityFixIt · 30/12/2015 15:31

Couldn't help myself ...

rayofhope · 30/12/2015 15:36

felicityfixit lol it will be doing the rounds now, I'm sure!!

I daren't post it or comment on fb as I have a lot of friends who do younique.

bettyberry · 30/12/2015 16:12

penny1ane

I have a business. I need more people to invest in my business so I can make more money. I post a stock photo of someone else's handbag and tell all my potential investors I've bought it with my business earnings to show them I am doing well and it really is a business worth investing in. Implying that if they invest in my business thier return would be enough so they too can get the handbag.

I don't own the handbag just implying that I am and I'm offering up the handbag I don't own to other people in the hope they believe it enough to give me their money in return... for something I don't own.

Would you consider that ethical? would you see that as lying?

darceybussell · 30/12/2015 16:51

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sminkypink · 30/12/2015 16:51

it would be deception, I do sometimes get potential clients being a bit economical with the truth in the hope that I'll take them on, but fake it til you make it doesn't work in my trade. That's why the factories ask for a 20,00 euro deposit now. We're not interested in people who want to play at it and pretend. We can't pay our bills from that.

sminkypink · 30/12/2015 17:22

this way by far the worst faking it, if you ask me. www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-32420070

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