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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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DoTheMLMHustle · 23/05/2016 15:06

Unfortunately for Natasha, that blog has been shared far and wide now.

I commend her bravery in goading a Daily Mail journalist who has clearly refrained from wiping the floor with her - the gloves will be off for the next article

ontheballaboutbots · 23/05/2016 15:18

they still have her original interview - we know how these journos work - cut, paste, edit, splice - wow - could be her downfall - the memo did say strictly NO mention of the DM article anywhere, but when I see posts from said bot I do believe she thinks she is "the one" that can get away with whatever she wants/says - coz she can always talk herself out of trouble - I don't think HO will accept her hands in the air, owning what she did and saying "Yep, I've been a twat" this time .... I hope they give her a bloody good telling off ....

ontheballaboutbots · 23/05/2016 15:24

wow another new fred needed soon - still going strong.

Delurker2016 · 23/05/2016 15:35

Just searched the hashtag on Facebook.
Forever bots should seriously use what is written in the blog.....common sense. If it picked up on bullying, it might be an idea to NOT call her close minded and say she didn't work hard.
Apparently it was BS written, of course was, because it didn't agree with you sheeple. Wait until some of them get the chop and are blasted all over social media, watch those 'balls' shrink then.
The stupidity astounds me, bravo bots, predictability prevails!

shirleyknotanotherbot · 23/05/2016 15:37

I have just read Natasha's blog and it has left me feeling a bit sick and very, very sad :( Natasha, I thought you were better than that - somewhat misguided perhaps, but not the vile person you have portrayed in that blog. So aggressive, judgemental and showing not an ounce of compassion. I never want to read anything like that again.

However, I have a question: You state,

"This point also brings the subject of “medical licences, clinical trials etc” but for obvious reasons I am assuming I don’t need to go down that road and will on this occasion give everyone the benefit of the doubt as to why quite frankly, I can’t be arsed."

I guess I'm being a bit thick here (I also possess a face like a smacked arse and am quite fond of some Tory MPs) but would you mind enlightening me? What are these obvious reasons please? Seems a rather cavalier attitude to "not be arsed" about medical licences and clinical trials. Or have I missed something?

Were you drunk when you wrote it?

(I guess this will be deleted?)

DoTheMLMHustle · 23/05/2016 15:53

That blog might just become the basis of the next Daily Mail article - those serious issues being arrogantly swept aside won't look quite so humourous when expertly spun I fear

ontheballaboutbots · 23/05/2016 16:03

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

kamchatka23 · 23/05/2016 16:12

I've thought from the start that Barnbot coming on these threads was a bit misguided and likely to backfire, and now the blog. Hubris is a terrible thing though.

cozietoesie · 23/05/2016 16:26

Greek classical sculptors would, apparently, leave a tiny bit unfinished at the back of their pieces because to attempt to make something perfect could be seen as hubris in the eyes of the Gods.

Just adding that one in. Smile

MrshumbleJeans · 23/05/2016 16:32

Haha! Spot on cozie

kamchatka23 · 23/05/2016 16:59

I read that as a 'tiny bot unfinished' when I first looked at it!

ForeverYazoonique · 23/05/2016 17:36

Just doing the new thread...back with a link soon.

ForeverYazoonique · 23/05/2016 17:51

Voila

New thread here, bitches

(I've been watching Pretty Little Liars)

smiinky · 23/05/2016 18:56

I don't understand why on earth a stranger, not involved in FLP, would want to report someone to FLP compliance for writing a blog like this.
I think the way that FLP shuts down dialogue stinks, they've removed the reviews and the visitor posts section from Facebook, meaning balanced information about their company is now even more difficult to find.
If she wants to ignore her dear leaders stupid rule and the blog doesn't break any laws (which it doesn't), then why not? The guidance that was leaked onto Timeless Vies page from Forever UK, seemed to me to be more about the mlms pretence that negativity does not exist. Sweep it under the carpet and say nothing. FLP behave like a North Korean Dictator, trying to manipulate and control the thoughts of their F.B.O.s whilst at the same time doing absolutely jack shit about the bullying that goes on within their organisation. And she's self employed remember so I think she's entitled to say what she damn well likes in her blog, whether we agree with it or not.

Fake11 · 23/05/2016 21:50

Somebody who writes a blog about themselves tells me a few things - they like the sound of their own voice , they like to big theirselves up obviously wanting some sort of attention , and I wonder why out of how many hundreds / thousands of people that are doing this that they chose this one person to write an article for a national paper , yet again it all boils down to loving the sound of ones voice , and I have noticed that no response about pretending to have empathy for people who find theirselves homeless for whatever reason , to the point of making some big ego status about taking blankets etc to the homeless yet found it ok to point score on someone for being guess what ..... Yep being made homeless , also I see yet again in that article putting people down to make herself seem a better person , it's all about putting people down who won't follow a dictatorship

ForeverYazoonique · 24/05/2016 06:46

We're onto a new Fred - link above! Might be an idea to repost on that one Smile

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