MLM Bot Watch 36 - Those who think it's ok to tell white lies soon become colourblind

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36 Lies to reel you in...

1. They will tell you that you will have time freedom in this business. Two weeks later they will tell you the business won't work unless you do.

When it's a business event they will not accept excuses for you missing it and will set an example by missing their child's first birthday or telling you a story of how they once shit themselves in white trousers on the front row at success day because they were poorly but didn't want to miss it.... You will know quickly that the unspoken rules is 'no excuses on success day's.

Please add your own below!

It'll fold /be taken over quickly. With the best will in the world, who would you envision selling the stuff to?

They could come to some arrangement with FL to put glitter in the aloe juice, at least it’d look pretty....

That would make it...

PRETTY SHITTY

Nice timing, starting a glitter MLM just as glitter is coming under criticism for being a plastic pollutant.

Finally they'll be shitting the gold bars they have been promised!

£12 for a pot of glitter? Who are the numpties that part with this sort of cash for plastic tat you can buy for 50p on eBay?

@DoraExplorer99 and @acatcalledjohn, thanks for asking, sorry I've been offline for a bit.
I do believe my OH is making a go of her freelancing job, if only because me telling her she has to leave has forced her to focus on real income.
However, the FL draw is still strong, as witnessed by her leaving the house to make/take phone calls (she was never a natural liar and couldn't bear my quizzical raised eyebrow when the programmed deception was required - "There's only one space left", "I'm going to be too busy", "I'm fully booked up after that"...)
I do hope for her that she breaks away from it, at least now she's genuinely too busy to spend countless hours completing the entirely pointless lists whichever 'mindset mentor' had her doing.
Too late for our relationship, too late for what we may have wanted for the kids growing up, but hopefully not too late for her to lead some sort of normal, independent life.

Sorry, Twenty, but you sound as if you still care about her very much.

Best of luck to all

@DoraExplorer99 - don't mean to pry, but having a questioning/reasoning voice around did not help my OH - if anything, it seemed to reinforce the 'doubters/haters' narrative.
What was it that helped you emerge from the hole?

What the hell is Broke flagging now? Citrimax whaaaaa...?

Does it never end with him?

Lol: ‘flagging’ = FLOGGING

Thanks @Dora. Going on one of the trips is/was the uppermost item on my partner's dream board; to her it is the ultimate signifier of 'success'. Interesting that for you it was the final nail!
Also, regarding the influence of threads such as this one, I have been following hem for a long time, originally in order to inform myself and hopefully find a way of convincing my OH she was being manipulated. However, she is so indoctrinated that any suggestion she read anything (e.g. the botwatch pieces on leaving MLM or helping a friend who's been sucked in) would lead to, at best, the shutters coming down (at worst, a full blown row and rant that I hated the idea of her being successful and was lining up with the jealous enemies).
I suppose the fact that you came to them by yourself means there were already some doubts?

Messiah’s language gets more cult-like in every post. He’s starting to scare me. Refreshing glass of MLM Kool-aid anyone?

Quite, Arbunne, and it will only get more apocalyptic as the 'big launch' gets closer. Remind me not to attend one of his success events at a compound in a remote part of Guyana...

The comments are equally disturbing, his minions describing themselves as 'believers' and addressing him as "Great Man"...
You'd think it was the second coming, not the launch of some crappy MLM.

He’s going to change the world, and only the true believers will have the chance to be part of his elite launch group. The ones who turned their backs on him will have to grovel and crawl...

Nothing disturbing about that

The second coming? Let's hope he doesn't bottle that up and sell it as a health supplement.

Dora did you view going on the trip as a make it or break it exercise? Was there one thing which was said or done that made you think - right, that's it: I'm done!?

Arbunne

I can hear the weeping, wailing, and gnashing of fluoride-deprived teeth already!

Truly awful: well-known JP pusher’s toddler is hospitalised with measles. So many MLM adherents are anti-vaxxers too, either because of a misguided belief that their ‘health’ products mean that their kids will never get sick, or because they have been fed a ‘big pharma’ conspiracy theory - or both.

Children are suffering - not just your children - and no, your aloe/fruit & veg capsules/over-priced useless supplements will not protect your children from dangerous, contagious illness. Vaccination will.

Looking at a recent post by ex-Uber Now No.2 bot (Top 20 businesses type post) why do so many FL bots appear to be in business with their husbands or partners yet the reality is the husbands/partners have real life J.O.B.s?
What do they gain by naming them as a partner? Is it for some sort of tax or finance reason?

For example ex-Ubers sister who is listed with her husband as FBOs but he has a real job with a financial consultancy.

@OhMyGodTheyKilledKenny - because they need to project the idea that all of the shiny things they parade on FB are the result of the biznis, not something as mundane as their DH actually having a J.O.B.
The selling point of being able to "retire their husbands" is somewhat spoilt when you check the latters ' FB accounts and discover they are beavering away in the real world in order to fuel the huns' attraction marketing...