MLM Bot Watch 23 - Powered by Twunk's Yazoo: Tragicomic cultic wampum flogging scamalangadingdongs like Forever Living, Ariix, Herbalife, Younique, Juiceplus, LifeTreeWorld.

[ForeverYazoonique]

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

NEW Link to the Daily Mail article of 20 May 2016 regarding an ex-bot's treatment at the hands of her 'spline' at Forever Living UK

NEW Link to NastashaBarnbotShingles' refutation of the above.

We have our own regularly returning bots to tell us how bullying and hateful we are.

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.

Twunk (AKA ForeverYazoonique) has a bottle of Banana Yazoo in her fridge. She's still too afraid to drink it. Yahoo is important as seems to be the primary retail product for Life Tree World.

Sunshine, rainbows - and glitter.

Real life isn't like that, unfortunately. Let's hope that her world doesn't come crashing down around her too disastrously.

Hunz.

I just put the words "bully" and "upline" into a FB search and unearthed some gems. None more so than this: www.facebook.com/AdvocareTheTruth/posts/845445458861536

It's about an MLM I'd never heard of, but the usual characteristics are there. The comments are particularly interesting.

Enjoy :)

It's very interesting indeed. Botwatch would be interested in reading some of the comments, too.

I've been reading BotWatch on Facebook.

Looks like they are now branching out into China, which will be the end of them trying to say they are cruelty free.....

I've just speed-read read most of this thread

I'm slightly aware of Forever Living and the shite that is MLM's in general.

Can I ask if anyone knows if Young Living is one? It is essential oils that have cured my friend of all sorts of illnesses. Though she's still always ill. She keeps asking me to parties (I'm too busy) and it has the smell of an MLM.

Plus some of the health claims are definitely on dodgy ground. She said one of the magic oils (my term, I forget hers) can actually cure ebola but they're not allowed to advertise that because of a conspiracy.

Oh my.

I believe you receive a million pounds or so for Nobel prizes these days.

Just sayin'

Ha! I suspect she's confused by curing a person who has Ebola and destroying the Ebola virus if it's in a petri dish. Soap would do the latter, I think, as it's quite a fragile virus, so probably various essential oils would too.

The main thing I want to do is work out if Young Living is particularly unsavoury so then I can justifiably warn mutual friends off. Feels mean to do so at the moment, based purely on my spidey senses, as she's really struggling financially, and people are wanting to try to help.

It's not something I would normally do but you might start by having a look at some of the text on the company in Wikipedia? Might be the quickest way to start.

God, how thick am I. First sentence on Wikipedia:

Young Living is a multi-level marketing company

Thanks for reminding me to do the bleeding obvious.

Another tidbit from Wikipedia:
In September 2014, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned Young Living against marketing its products as possible treatments or cures for Ebola.[7][8]
and
On September 22, 2014, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned Young Living that many of their Essential Oil products are promoted for conditions that cause them to be drugs under section 201(g)(1)(B) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the Act) [21 U.S.C. § 321(g)(1)(B)], because they are intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease.[9]

I do know who Roxanna is - and I remember when she was awarded her sad yellow umbrella. I don't think anyone's mentioned that in an absolute age though, have they?

Build on that, now. you could probably do with doing some original research on the organisation rather than reading Wiki. (And if you've been reading the threads, you know which things to focus on. )

Oh - and good to have you posting by the way.

This might also be of use to you.

I hope someone's preparing the Opening Post for the next thread? (With links.)

You know how temperamental my own device is - I'd probably be here until 2020 if I tried to do it myself.

Now I'm even more confused. When you say umbrella do you mean not an umbrella? X

Thanks cosie

Gah! cozie with a z

I'm not with it today.

It's a real umbrella, yellow, with Forever Living printed on it. They get given them at events, some of them even get lovely yellow suitcases!

New thread (24) here.