MLM Bot Watch 21 - chat about Utah based tragicomic cultastic racketeering scamalangadingdongs like Forever Living, Ariix, Herbalife, Younique, Juiceplus etc etc etc

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Welcome all to the new thread

BS I was just walking the baby round the garden centre trying to convince it to sleep. Idly looking at rose names as I did. Peace, patience, etc. Then out of nowhere, sexy rexy! I snorted and immediately took a photo for you lot. No one saw me so thankfully no need to explain my weirdness!

Haven't been part of MLM for a while. I did order products, some were excellent and I was tempted to start selling etc but I am happier away from it and I can enjoy my food again. They were too fanatical for my liking and played on your worse fears

They're anticipating some.......interesting........'injunctive relief' terms likely coming the way of one of the prominent MLMs, I would guess. That would put the spotlight firmly on all MLMs and not just the one in question.

I've just been trying to get a link to the Penn and Teller video that explains about MLMs. I can see all the other episodes but not that one (called Penn and Teller Bullshit- Easy Money). I got close a few times but then a message came up from my broadband provider saying they are prevented from showing it due to a High Court order.

What's that about? How come it's just that one and not the others? It makes me think it hasn't come from Penn and Teller if we can still see all their other films. Very suspicious.

Really? I'll see if I can see it - I'm not in the uk

Can't find it either! Interesting 🤔

Is this it?

Ok... Sorry thats just a clip...

I know this is not penn and teller, and I cannot be sure if it has been posted before, I am part way through this video and so far its fascinating... Well worth a watch!

prettyuseful The giant cheque makers will survive. They could advertise their services to ex-bots who want to showcase their wampum refunds. That would be such a provocative thing to do!

bonjour 😂 Next time I'm in a garden centre I'll see if they sell potatoes of the 'hater' variety.

hahaha I've just noticed that one of our well known bots has spelled her DH's name with a double i on a fb post !!

Now is that deliberate or a typo?

Has she got something on her miind I wonder?

Freudiian Sliip?

Really good video MrsHumble, I watched the whole thing

Very convincing but I know that if I strapped my bot to a chair and made her watch it she's say 'oh yes there are terrible MLMs out there but mine is different, the products are amazing and they aren't sold in shops and the company really looks after us'

(Which is what I believe someone on here on a thread ages ago called 'botted to the fucking eyeballs')

Or...

Sadly sponge I suspect you may be right! I do hope some people watch it though, even though it is half an hour long, its eye opening! And its particularly good for anyone who is having doubts, or friends/family who want to help their bot relative/friend to see what they are getting into, although as you say, some who are too "botted" will of course dismiss it, however its still worth a try, because it may just be enough to bring a few back to reality!

Cozie, message from Eyes for you-

In the UK, the legal situation could not be more straightforward.

The only effective legislation which should be rigorously applied to 'MLM' racketeering in Britain, is the fraud Act 2006. This makes it a criminal offence to withhold key-information in order to take someone's money. No 'MLM' front company has ever declared the true overall results of its so called 'income opportunity,' because, if it did, no one (in his/her right mind) would want to sign up. All UK registered 'MLM' front-companies have been driving a coach and horses through the Fraud Act which no one has even tried to enforce. This shameful situation has been an open invitation for 'MLM' racketeers to come to the UK and that's exactly what they have done

In the UK, the Trading Schemes Act of 1996, makes it a criminal offence to run a trading scheme which requires a joining fee to be paid. The Trading Schemes Regulations forbid the sponsors of any trading scheme from taking more than £200 from any contractee during the first 7 days of their participation, but only in the form of the purchase of goods and services. Almost all UK registered MLM front-companies have been blatantly taking illegal sign up fees, because again no one has been enforcing the law. Various UK registered 'MLM' front companies have pretended that the £200 cap applies to sign-up fees, but this is a complete fabrication.

Nice to see higher level bots enjoying luxury spa days on the back of the fruitless efforts of those at the bottom of the 3dimensional triangle...

I'll bet the minions downlines are currently running around like headless chickens, trying to sell more wampum to meet the new cc requirements and keep new recruits interested whilst bots chillax in the spa...

Prosecco anyone?

My Ariix bots have been unbearable sine the big weekend event. It's been a constant parade of inspirational memes with quotes from people like Steve Jobs that I'm pretty sure he never said, eeeeking, and some videos where they talk about how terrible it is for the poor people who have jobs, a load of guff about helping people and of course, The Opportunity. Both of them made a big thing about filming the video at the top of the stairs, I think that must be some hidden message implying they're at the 'top' of something.

Kam it's really sad, looks like they flew over the top US operators and worked up the audience into a frenzy, poor gullible people who believe that can make a fortune. Heartbreaking.

Is there a vid link to that event kam?

Ariix still seem to be doing this weird secret thing where none of their bots ever mention the name of the company or the products, but if you search for#TheOpportunityCompany on Facebook lots of bots statues will come up.

Yeah, its all a bit enigmatic isnt it? Totally deliberate of course, it builds the idea in bots minds that they are V.I.P's that have stumbled across something uber special...

Yawn...

The scam which dare not speak its name.

BS