MLM Bot Watch 16 - Chat about the Scamalasmical cultic racket of MLMs Forever Living, Juiceplus , Ariix, Younique, (insert name of Utah MLM here) now including hunpreneurs, cheese, posts from eyes

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Botwatch
botwatchblog.wordpress.com
www.facebook.com/liestopper/?fref=ts

Timeless Vie
timelessvie.wordpress.com
www.facebook.com/timelessvie

Eyes Blog:
mlmtheamericandreammadenightmare.blogspot.nl

Hommetepreneur:
www.facebook.com/hommetrepreneur/

Looks like daily Mail are going to be doing a feature on forever living....

Should be interesting.

Is it the DM? It doesn't say.

Well it might be interesting though I'm not sure what 2 sides to a scam are. "So...do you enjoy bugging friends and family and trying to con them and anyone you come across into joining your pyramid scheme?"

The other side: "Did you enjoy being conned into joining a pyramid scheme?"

Sorry inverted funnel

You're alright yourself Ambler

Delurking for the first time as I have been reading avidly and now want to join the discussion.

I was targeted by a FL rep when my eldest was a baby and had excema. She started off giving me a free half tube to try and then I felt obliged to buy another. I'd never heard of FL before this. Next she gave me the box of products and wanted me to order - I bought 2 of the cheapest products again out of a sense of obligation. She also tried to get me to buy into the business with a PowerPoint presentation but as I am not in the slightest bit interested in sales that just fell on deaf ears. I then started ignoring her texts as she wasn't interested in me and I didn't enjoy her hard sell approach.

Recently another friend who has just had a baby announced that she has "set up her own business" which turns out to be FL. I don't know what to say when she mentions it so just move the topic on.

I am also on Instagram and a lady I follow in the US started It Works back in November and now her feed is full of their products and dubious medical claims. She is now posting about her Diamond bonus - what she is not posting is that she doesn't get a fat cheque for $10,000 she gets a few hundred a month for 2 years provided she maintains that level which seems pretty unsustainable on the face of it.

Whole scheme stinks and I find it shocking that none of the "successful" distributors feel any guilt that the money they are "earning" is basically what people below them in the food chain are paying out of their own shallow pockets.

Welcome, My.

Morality and ethics don't seem to figure very largely in the MLM game, do they?

Just seen this on another forum. A typical example of someone's experience with a MLM company.

If this is your experience, tell us about it.

De- lurking to say I love that latest TV video. The slightly sinister music is genius. Keep fighting the good fight ladies.

And men!!

Welcome all de-lurkers

But cozie there's testing on animals and terrorism! So in comparison it's whiter than white!

Welcome lurkers!

I was too busy to intervene yesterday when the discussion turned to the legal status of 'MLM' Bots.

I wanted to point out that 'MLM/Prosperity Gospel' Bots aren't the only people who are not legally employed, but who can be summarily fired from their de facto jobs, all the same.

www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/15/priest-unfair-dismissal-catholic-church

In fact, the relationship between 'MLM/Prosperity Gospel' Bots, and 'MLM' front companies, is remarkably similar to that between Churches and their Ministers and parishioners. The overwhelming majority of 'MLM' parishioners only attend ritual 'Prosperity Gospel' services and have been obliged to give their time and money to their 'MLM' Church. Only a minority of 'MLM/Prosperity Gospel' Bots have been paid a stipend.

'MLM' Bots have had absolutely no say in how they were legally-defined on their take-it-or-leave-it contracts.

The self-appointed 'MLM' bosses, like Rex Maughan, have been the equivalent of Popes, but they reign over expendable 'MLM/Prosperity Gospel' Cardinals and Bishops.

Welcome, under.

Everything seems to be based on unquestioning belief, Eye. Querying = doubt = negativity.

And for negativity, you're out, sooner or later. (Or sidelined for a while until you 'reconsider'.)

Bee pollen, Twunk. Bee pollen.

Oh yeah. (Must confess the thread moved on and I forgot to read those links)

I don't think the distributors look at the background to that product at all!

(But then I suppose they don't look at the background to their involvement generally, so I shouldn't be surprised really.)

Thanks Cozie. I brought a particularly stinky stilton with me for you all to share.

underrugsswept Thanks - a cheese a day, keeps the shill Bots at bay (and guards our freedom to think).

ambler I believe 'keyboard warriors' needs to have the words 'middle-aged' attached to it, to be a proper insult. Because being middle-aged is such a terrible thing to be ha ha!

I've just looked at that post with someone asking for Forever Living experiences again. What the hell is that person on about wrt Halal? Seems some will find any excuse to be racist.

For the record, I have never heard anyone on these threads express such unpleasant views.

Of course thetemptation I forgot that bit, must be my age ravaged mind :)

Why is CastleBot wearing H&M joggers when she earns several thousands of pounds per week. Answer: because she doesn't earn that in real life.

Ye Twunk very peculiar place to bring all that to the table indeed. I had a quick look at her fb to see if it was a plant to make the anti MLM look bad. She has some pics of bee pollen and aloe vera (Holland and Barret I think) on her front page but nothing to obviously connect her to FL.

A few of the other posters in there are old faces to many of us, the casa lanzarote one seems to pop up regularly in defence of
FL.