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MLM Bot Watch 22 - Powered by Yazoo: Tragicomic cultic wampum flogging scamalangadingdongs like Forever Living, Ariix, Herbalife, Younique, Juiceplus, LifeTreeWorld

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LeafTreeRaker · 12/05/2016 21:26

Still going strong here at bot watch HQ on MN!

Previous thread here

Botwatch on Wordpress and on Facebook

Timeless Vie on Wordpress and on Facebook

Eyespeying's Blog aka #manhun, even if he's been banned by MNHQ

Hommetepreneur on Facebook

We have our own regularly returning bots.

Glossary:

Bots: our affectionate name for victims of the MLM racket

MLM: Multi-level Marketing schemes - essentially pyramid schemes that are just legal because you sell a product. Reliant upon constant recruitment despite there not being enough people in the world to go beyond about 12 levels if everyone recruited 6.

Downline/Upline: the people you recruited and those who recruited you (going up and down the pyramid inverted funnel)

Timeless Vie: Parody of MLM schemes (though you might spot one in particular) that also carries out fearless investigative work

Hommetrepreneur: also excellent parody site focussing on the menz

BotWatch: Rather more serious, keeps an eye on what the Bots are claiming next, particularly in reference to health and income claims. Also fearless.

Inverted Funnel: Timeless Vie is NOT a pyramid - it's an inverted Funnel, OK?

Eyes: Our former member Eyespying who knows LOTS about MLM schemes. He's still our very own #manhun.

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stopfaffing · 22/05/2016 20:34

Natasha, you stated that you had posted that you had told everyone you were renting the barn and challenged us to prove otherwise.

Natasha, you wrote a piece on your fb page on 23rd December 2015 at 2:28pm which implied that you'd turned down the opportunity to buy your council house with a £75,000 discount to move into your dream home thanks to FL. That you'd spent 18 months working every day, sacrificing time with your kids in order to "give your children a beautiful home".

True you didn't say in words that you had "bought" the barn, but you certainly implied it, judging from the comments below the post. People believed you had bought it, didn't they? Is that what you mean by "faking it till you make it?" We know, don't we, that you are not the only FL bot who implied she'd bought a beautiful majestic building and had many, many comments following her original post from people who thought she had. I remember too her brother stating on one of his youtube videos that she had "bought a castle" with the money she'd made from FL. A lie, though, wasn't it? Is that what you mean by "faking it till you make it"?

On the back of all that fakery many people were recruited into a 'business' that promised much but failed them again and again and again. Yet, they were the ones told they had failed! So angry about it, Natasha.

Do you deny posting that message. It is a long one, and very passionate.

Botfan63 · 22/05/2016 20:36

No I'm quite sound of mind thank you very much for asking though!

Still waiting for all these complaints and outing on here .......oh dear what a fail you strangely believe you know who users are on this thread. Can I remind you unless you work for mumsnet or mumsnet are in complete breach of the data protection act 1998 then you right now are assuming you know me when in actual fact you know zilch!

BSintolerant · 22/05/2016 20:38

Why is the Milka cow lilac?

!!!!!!!!!!!Grin

DoTheMLMHustle · 22/05/2016 20:38

it's very telling that you consider people complaining of their treatment in FL as boring shite. That the case studies of their lives and of the actual figures people really earn are just 'boring shite' to you

Unless they're standing next to a newly leased car or rented house, they're boring and not worth your attention

These are people. Who were sold a lifestyle, the lifestyle you and others bleat on about, that is not achievable for 99% of them. Your own managers have said that.

ForeverYazoonique · 22/05/2016 20:39

How on earth can I be in breach of the data protection act?

cozietoesie · 22/05/2016 20:39

Egyptian tomb shaped, was it? Wink

Tragicomical · 22/05/2016 20:40

MrshumbleJeans go put your humble pants back on the denim in those jeans seems to be affecting you're (just for the boring grammar police) ability to read a plug for a charity Natasha supports not a card in any game this is a serious charity

Bot fan, in this case you would actually use "your"

Sighs.

stopfaffing · 22/05/2016 20:40

Oh no, Grand Designs house has been abandoned! Shock DM sad house-face article.

ForeverYazoonique · 22/05/2016 20:40

natashashingles.com/2016/05/22/can-you-really-earn-350000-a-year-selling-aloe-vera-the-bits-the-daily-mail-didnt-print/

Natasha's blog post again. Don't forget to understand the humour!

ForeverYazoonique · 22/05/2016 20:42

Obviously I'm too thick to get it, but apparently there's lots of irony in conning people out of their time and hard earned money.

BSintolerant · 22/05/2016 20:42

It doesn't matter who you are botfan. You're an excellent ambassador for Forever Living.

Rex and the family must love reading these threads. Whose turn is it to send him pdfs this week?😉

cozietoesie · 22/05/2016 20:42

Use that energy, folks. Best not to dissipate it. Smile

chesarasara · 22/05/2016 20:44

Oh Natasha hate to break it you having read what you've recently put in your manager group as you seem to think there is just 1 person out to get you but the number of us screen shotting your posts has now jumped to double figures after this weeks fun. Sadly some of them want to stay with FL and are hoping to switch teams but I'm delighted that some have finally now seen the light totally, thanks for helping them towards that decision Flowers

ForeverYazoonique · 22/05/2016 20:44

Seems FLUK is leaking like a sieve!

Nolongerconfused · 22/05/2016 20:46

I thought Botfan wasn't in an MLM company? Isn't that the line that was originally given? Backpedal backpedal ....

MrshumbleJeans · 22/05/2016 20:48

Ooopsie! Not sure they get it do they? Wish I could see that group Chesarasara! Sounds intriguing!

stopfaffing · 22/05/2016 20:49

Some pics of the house.

Botfan63 · 22/05/2016 20:49

Oh dear god Tragic it really was wasted on you wasn't it oh the irony to thick to see a direct joke aimed at you

You're so disappointingly slow!

ForeverYazoonique · 22/05/2016 20:50

Oh yes NoLonger! Damn forgot that. She's just a bot fan! Thinks Bots are great.

To anyone reading this I appreciate its a little unedifying. Suffice to say we have had more than one run-in with Natasha and her groupie Botfan (though actually it could be the other way round, I just get the feeling Botfan speaks with more "authority" than Natasha).

The good work is still going on behind the scenes, this is more of an amusing distraction.

NatashaBarnBotShingles · 22/05/2016 20:52

Glad I could help 👍🏻

noyouarenotalifestylecoach · 22/05/2016 20:54

Can anyone remember that time Natasha came here to tell us all we were wrong about her friend who was NEVER EVER in FL.

And then the video of her close friends FL training vid went up along with the full back story complete with admission that the business was all about recruiting and not retailing.

Apparently she never knew.
Or maybe she was fibbing.

Either way... LOL

worcestersauce29 · 22/05/2016 20:55

and still bot63 struggles with spelling.

MrshumbleJeans · 22/05/2016 20:56

Bahahahaha! 😂😂😂

Thats all...

BSintolerant · 22/05/2016 20:56

botfan Get on your bike and take your irony with you.

It's too thick, not 'to thick'.

Tragicomical · 22/05/2016 20:57

Bot fan you're the one getting your grammar confused in the first place. Where's the irony in that?

Too thick, by the way.

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