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MLM Bot Watch 39 - After taking a year off we are back with no cheque, no hope, but new products!

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Whiterangey · 09/05/2018 00:13

The first 5 people who comment 'Botshite' win a free pampering session!

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Whiterangey · 12/05/2018 17:21

OMG at the Juice Plus MLM lies page comments.

Someone obviously hasn't seen @ArbunneHun well thought out level names and has gone rogue and decided that Grand Master Supreme should be 'Top Class C**t'.

I can't stop laughing, I snorted, had tears, nearly wet myself, the lot.

I'm still giggling.

My son asked to see what I was laughing at, had to click off, he was being rather insistent, which made me laugh harder.

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Spongebobette · 12/05/2018 17:33

You'd have to have a heart of stone not to feel sorry for Yawnbrow, she's been in FL for years and has soared to dizzy heights but seems to be back spending Saturday afternoons trying to brainwash a small group of women in someone's house. The prospect of building a huge downline from them seems remote.
Oh dear I seem to have a heart of stone.

CodLiverOil556 · 12/05/2018 17:40

Been looking at Ariix for some time as my DH knows one of the top bots in the uk. They seem to be keeping themselves under the radar

Whiterangey · 12/05/2018 18:05

I'm not saying I have a heart of stone when it comes to Yawn, but if someone had a heart made out of scissors, i'd win.

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OhMyGodTheyKilledKenny · 12/05/2018 18:21

Has anyone on these threads ever contacted a bot as if they were interested in signing up just to see what happens?

Imagine contacting someone like Yawn making out that you heard about her and "the opportunity" and seeing how she responds, how desperate she is to sign you up, what you're lied to about told and how she answers difficult questions etc.

It would be an interesting experience to feed back if anyone is brave enough ???

Spongebobette · 12/05/2018 18:22

I would love someone to go undercover but I think I'd be spotted as a cynic immediately if they looked at my profile

ALoadOfHooey · 12/05/2018 18:26

Please can someone PM me, to clarify who these bots are? I'm bloody clueless. This thread is fascinating.

Twentytwentyhindsight · 12/05/2018 18:28

I don't expect desperate bots do much due diligence research Sponge, after all you are the prey and they the predator Wink

cozietoesie · 12/05/2018 18:38

.... but if someone had a heart made out of scissors, I'd win.....

DoraExplorer99 · 12/05/2018 18:48

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OhMyGodTheyKilledKenny · 12/05/2018 19:03

I'd be interested to see at what stage they encourage you to use the "fake it as you make it" approach or how they explain away the bullshit like the comments on each others posts as if you're a content customer or keen to join. Do they just blatantly tell you to lie?

Spongebobette · 12/05/2018 19:23

It must be subtle and insidious so that you are lying (faking) without even realising how you ended up doing it

cozietoesie · 12/05/2018 19:39

I suspect that everything is couched in such a way that the worst excesses become 'your own decision', Kenny. Sad

Teddy1970 · 12/05/2018 20:06

Can someone expain where a downline begins and ends? I kind of get the upline bit, that makes sense but does a downline go on and on? There doesn't seem to be a beginning or end to it! Every bot that coaches another bot to reach manager seems start her own bizniz...I'm confused! Sorry if it's a daft question.

Teddy1970 · 12/05/2018 20:08

Explain! Blumming sausage fingers!

Dogjustguffed · 12/05/2018 20:18

I have been stalking following one of the very bots made to play nicely for the photos at Yawn’s gathering today. She has young children and is getting married, so obviously this has been the ideal way to spend her Saturday.

I have watched this downline bot for a few months now. She seems to have a small number of friends who buy from her. Other attempts to pull in new sales leads are pretty desperate. Her new biznis page has very few followers and her FL posts seem to be ignored- despite some fabulous guilt tripping (along the lines of “thanks to my good friends who have supported my business” etc).

This bot is absolutely nowhere near 2k a month and I suspect will be lucky to make any profit overall EVER.

cozietoesie · 12/05/2018 20:37

Most people don't, I fear, Sad Anyone got the stats to hand?

BangingOn · 12/05/2018 20:45

My Top JP Bot held the first of her confidence training seminars today in a very drab looking hotel meeting room. She’s taken to randomly adding TM after the name of her course, although I’m certain it is nothing of the sort.

Whiterangey · 12/05/2018 20:53

I have the perfect personal circumstances to be a victim of an MLM, absolutely perfect. Parading my story around on your facebook and how you are helping my family would get you the likes from your previous victims that a bot desires.

The only problem with any of us doing something like that is how do we react?

There is also the money aspect of it. Who here could hand over £200 knowing that a top bot, who we all hate, would benefit financially from that? I couldn't, I just couldn't do it.

Then when contacted and in discussions how do we act? Pathetically grateful we've been given this opportunity or excited as it's the best thing to ever happen?

My facebook would be split into 3, those who would actually post and laugh about it thinking I was being sarcastic as they know how I feel about MLM's. They would be sarcastic in return, like 'Oh yes, you are going to make a gazillion pounds and own your own country'. All the reactions to the post would be the laughing one.

Another third of my friends would explain to me that MLM's are a scam and you don't make any money.

The last third would unfriend and block me.

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Whiterangey · 12/05/2018 20:59

A couple of last minute spaces are left for Yawn's headshots on Monday.

By a couple she means 18, by last minute she means they have been there for a month.

Only two have sold, one will be her, so only one has actually been sold to a proper person. That person is likely in her downline and wanted to impress her.

I wonder if it will just get cancelled and some bullshit reason given. Poonique is there to sell makeup and won't get far with two FL people, and another MLM for the jewellry, and another for the clothes.

While sales are always good, like Yawn's 5 sales she made back in March, it's new signups they will be eager to gain.

I guess Yawn could change MLM's given that FL isn't working so well for her.

She should cheque out another MLM.

See what I did there?

I'm so subtle.

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cozietoesie · 12/05/2018 21:00
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Whiterangey · 12/05/2018 21:04

Lanzabot has disappeared from facebook, personal profile, business profile, everything. Her name is stil on plenty of FL posts where she has been tagged but her name isn't clickable it just appears in normal type.

She must have deactivated all of her accounts.

I believe @NatashaShingles mentioned something about her leaving FL, she must have waited until she got her $30k and then disappeared.

Whose downline was she in and how will someone so high up leaving affect them?

Also apologies for the thread hogging. My Saturday nights are obviously thrilling.

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BangingOn · 12/05/2018 21:15

I can still see her, unless she isn’t who I think she is. Could you have been blocked?

SoftlyCatchyMonkey1 · 12/05/2018 21:15

@whiterangey
I can still see Lanzabot on FB....she must have blocked you

Whiterangey · 12/05/2018 21:28

I can see her now, how weird.

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