MLM Bot Watch 20 - chat about Utah based tragicomic cultastic racketeering scamalangadingdongs like Forever Living, Ariix, Herbalife, Younique, Juiceplus etc etc etc

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Bot Watch 19 - chat about Utah based tragicomic cultastic racketeering scamalangadingdongs like Forever Living, Ariix, Herbalife, Younique, Juiceplus etc etc etcThread 19
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I guess it could become the New Thing. Taking soup to the poor in their white cars sort of endeavour.

I have
1 ex FL bot
1 Arbonne
2 Jamberry
At least 2 Younique

That jamberry one I just cannot get my head round! A few years back everyone seemed to be into minx nails, I bought nail foil thingies from Hong Kong off ebay cos I'm tight, then it went naff and I've not seen anyone with them for years. Why would anyone buy into that now?

LMGTFY, my theory is that they think they'll be near the top of the, erm... Organisational structure (that is of a particular pointy shape) if they get in at the start in the UK.

Hello Cosmic :)
I've been invited to a GO online party before. I actually received a VIDEO invite from my bot. It was quite desperate. 5 people attended the online party. Me, out of curiosity, the bot, her mum, sister and her upline. ;/ the bit was sooooo excited and posted lots of slides educating me about the amazing products that seemed to be copied from a central bank of resources if you know what I mean... looked like HQ produced them. Think she sold 2 products that evening. Lots of slides about the opportunity too.

FL party not GO.

It looks like this bot has only just started her amazing biznizz and has started prospecting everyone on her friends list via her totes amaze new biznizz page. There are over 300 people in the group for her page but she seems to only interact with what looks like her up line, loads of sharing her hunspirational memes, and other bots. It's quite sad. Cousin has asked for more info. You can guess the answer.

Has anyone seen a video of the top UK FL bot couple walking onto the stage to collect their bonus cheque while hymns play and people around them scream 'WE LOVE YOU!' and sob?

I'm just trying to imagine my boss receiving his annual bonus in public like that - I really don't think any of us would be interested (unless we were feeling nosy), he would be mortified at being given it in front of everyone, and we certainly would not be screaming and sobbing!

If you want to watch the video you could start by looking for siblings of 'famous' FL top bots.

Place marking, hi everyone :)

Does anyone know if that 'Someone who cares about you is worried' page is still current? And if so, might have a link to it for Cosmic?

If they don't want people to think MLMs are cults, a good way to prevent this would be to not put weird culty videos all over the internet where they worship the company and their upline and sob over bonus cheques - just saying!

It's a two-pronged strategy - in that respect - darcey. You use the big events for the inculcees and the personal sell for the ones not yet in.

Not read all this thread but my resident avid aloe pusher recently held a "mumpreneur webinar" followed by a "youngpreneur webinar" What. The. Actual. Fuck are you doing with your time that you sit and make shit like that up!?!?

Well much of the drafting and preparation work will likely be done elsewhere.

In answer to your question, Cosmic, I think I would definitely say something. There comes a point at which it may be too late - for the time being - but if your cousin is just enquiring about it at the moment, it may not be too late for her.

There was a page written backaways for this sort of situation but I haven't a link to it, if it's still indeed current. If someone doesn't help out with a link to it, why not link her to Timeless Vie as a first step?

You might even get her to come visit us here in the end.

botwatchblog.wordpress.com/2016/03/26/people-who-care-about-you-are-worried/.

That should be the link for sending to people who might be joining an MLM .

Ah thanks, Toobusy. That was the one I was after.

Thanks, toobusy I'll try slipping that in on Facebook. Unfortunately, she just the kind of nice, well meaning person to be sucked in by this crap. Sigh. I'm off to start a one woman crusade against Nuskin all over Facebook.

Good Luck, Cosmic. Come back and let us know how things go.

cosmic, bob over to Bot watch on FB, I think I put a nuskin link on there. You could send that to your cousin?

Good thinking, Toobusy.

I've had two FL friend, who both tried to recruit me. They both stopped posting about FL about two months after starting funnily enough. A random person with no friends in common also added me, trying to sell me FL.

One ex Juice Plus drone, who had now moved onto 'It Works' wraps or whatever it is. Two others have also advertised wraps but stopped posting after a few weeks of failure

There's also been an Usborne Books seller clogging up my newsfeed, and various Utility Warehousers messaging me after making a public complaint about Sky.

Out of interest, were they really friends or people who just happened to know your name etc?

Here's an interesting post from another forum...

Thanks again, toobusy. Was the excellent breakdown of MAC vs MLM on Botwatch too? I can't remember where I read it. That was pretty awesome and really clear on why MLMs are complete blood suckers. I think my Facebook feed is going to be all Timeless Vie and Botwatch today.

On another note: I see a friend has just started Clean 9. I doubt she's a bot in training because all she talks about is how rank it tastes and how expensive it is. Ha! Wonder if the bot that sold her it will us that testimonial!