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

[CheekySmile]

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

Sminkypink ..she would delete it b4 even looking at it !! It's infuriating!!! 😁🔫

Just tell her you'll be there for her if/when she ever gets out. I've given up arguing with them, they are brainwashed and we are negative/haters/dresm stealers. If we can reach people before they get approached and educate them, then I think we have more of a chance.
Fortunately most of my friends are hugely cynical, but not all. Some have fallen for it so I am just waiting.

My friend has given Shingles a godlike status ....Shingles this Shingles that , it's pathetic

I agree with stopfaffing a place for both approaches. For this topic humor without facts isn't going to get us anywhere.

I have a Younique-bot on FB who doesn't seem to have worked out that her carefully crafted "inspirational" recruitment posts look rather silly when they pop up on the news feed straight after the (near identical) post she has just liked from an up line-bot. She never was very bright!

I have emailed the feature editor for Cosmopolitan magazine to see if they might be interested in a story on MLMs. I have linked to this thread and mentioned the Facebook group.

Ooh, I've had a reply from Cosmopolitan magazine! They said they might be interested because it is an issue that affects young women like their readership. We will need people who have been involved in MLMs to be case studies to make the issue real and interesting.

Any ex MLM victims here who would be willing to take part? I am considering writing an article myself and submitting it for publication. I'm not a journalist but I reckon I could give it a good go. Or maybe someone else here has experience of writing for magazines that wants to take this on?

Good work toobusy

Brilliant! TooBusy.

Eye might know of some exflps who might be interested.

The magazine are having a meeting on Friday to discuss my proposal. I'll let you know what they suggest. Either way, I'm going to get started on writing something with a view to getting it out there to warn as any people as possible. Please can any ex MLM people inbox me if you are willing to share your stories with me?

#barnrental?

Can't read the name, Willdo.

toobusy TV could do a serious post to see if there are any exMLM willing to speak? Would it be ok to hold off until after Friday when we will know whether there might be some real interest from the magazine though? Hope some ex MLM will come forward for you meantime.

Willdo** wonder if it's the house with the GM oilseed rape that flowers all year round?

That's a good idea Lazycoo. We'd need to know what sort of angle they want the story to be from before we can ask people to speak out. Or if there's going to be any story at all.

Actually, although I still need to read eye's posts in full (I was at work earlier), I actually think we need that sort of level of detail. It has been less light hearted recently, but the further we delve the more horrible the reality of what we are making light of.

I still laugh at many a meme, but at this point I worry for my bot. I know she has savings which will be for a house, but the longer she stays with FL, the more she's going to eat in to those savings.

And there is fuck all I can say as anything negative will get shut down.

It simply has become less funny, and I think this is why we have TV. It's our way of taking the piss out of what is now a rather serious subject.

having a look at the FL products (post came up suggesting lots of products to use on all animals and them being animal free/vegan)

Its taken me and Vegan friend the last 15 minutes, looking, asking google for the damn answer to whether they are vegan or vegetarian. It took a PDF download with a .ru site to list which were vegan and which were veterinarian

It seems FL stick the leaping bunny logo on some of their products but not all adding to the confusion about them being cruelty to free or not too.

Now I would assume if a company has one leaping bunny product they all would be (because thats how other companies work when they get the stamp of approval ime)

The site itself is so SO vague they have a 'V' logo implying its vegan then another product with a 'V' and a little bee which I can only assume is vegetarian. There is NO explanation on the sites for finding out what these little logos mean.

Then they have products labelled as having no animal by-products but containing bee pollen, propolis or royal jelly and quite a few products containing lanolin.

Now, I'm no expert (not vegan so don't know all that I am looking for) but certainly choose cruelty free for all of my products and if I didn't know FL is shit any better I'd see one leaping bunny logo and assume they all contained cruelty free stuff or pick up a product with the 'V' in it and assume it was vegan...

and this is coming from it from another perspective around the lack of info, lies and misrepresentation of the product benefits/uses/ingredients.

Also the complete lack of nutritional info for a food product was alarming for vegan friend when she saw the post that it could be given to all animals. she wanted to know sugar content of products and it just wasn't easily available.