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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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ALoadOfHooey · 13/05/2018 22:25

What on earth is that supposed to mean?

I assume they're backtracking. Was there any reason given?

Whiterangey · 13/05/2018 22:51

@ArbunneHun Those articles are great and turned out to be so true.

The only thing that hasn't totally is the top bots bit. Bloodsucker has been looked after, but even Uber seems to be on her own. Castle has been left to flounder with a cheque this year that no top bot with any degree of self respect would have even gotten out of bed for a couple of years ago.

You totally nailed it though, it's all happened.

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ReformedBot · 13/05/2018 22:55

Yesterday's event was not marketed as o e of the success days at any point. It was an extra training event ran by Head Office rather than bot teams.

MLM Bot Watch 39 - After taking a year off we are back with no cheque, no hope, but new products!
Toobusytowee · 13/05/2018 23:02

Ex John Lewis Bot is appearing in my article. She's an interesting one.

JaniceBattersby · 13/05/2018 23:19

PhD bot is the one that pisses me off the most. How DARE she quote Chimamanda Ngozi Adechie’s TED talk and share feminist memes?

The others, you could say they’re not academically gifted. You could pass of their ‘business’ success as a mix of street-smart and good use of social media. You could say they known not what they do.

But PhD must know EXACTLY what she’s doing. She must be aware that her attempts to manipulat vulnerable women into joining her downline are about as far from feminism as you can get. It’s all calculated.

SSDGM · 13/05/2018 23:22

Bradfordbot is offering up to 10lbs weight loss in 5 days. Surely she’s due a visit by trading standards?

Also the coffee shop that sells instant coffee idea seems to have drifted by the wayside.

cozietoesie · 13/05/2018 23:29

I just don't know - but I've come across some very bright and 'academically gifted' people who had HUGE personal foibles. I maintain that anybody can be inculcated if they're caught at the right time and in the right way. (When they're vulnerable for some reason.)

The difficulty with bright people is that they sound impressive and their spiel is often larded with phrases that they think will chime with their audience.

Whiterangey · 14/05/2018 00:05

I agree @cozietoesie i'm not a bot because I love to research things. I can happily sit for hours researching anything and I love learning.

My plan was to find a work from home opportunity because I was getting bored at home. I'd heard people say bad things about them but I couldn't work out how they could be bad. The numbers add up, you sell product at £100 and depending on the MLM you get to keep up to £50 of that. It's simple, and there is no way you can lose any money.

If i'd been approached by a friend or a new potential friend at the school gates, I would be on the other side of this discussion. I would likely not have a bot name as i'd be so low down and losing money, friends, and feeling like i'm shit.

Ex bots on here are intelligent women, they were victims, and it could have been any of us. It was nearly me. I went looking for one to join.

It's why all of the anti-mlm work that goes on is so important, it does save people. I was saved by Pink Truth, just reading the forum there. So many women who got burnt by Mary Kay and who have given an honest account of what it was like and how much money they lost, and everything.

All MLM's are basically the same so if you just read a blog that is centred mostly on one MLM, like Elle Beau and her Poonique work, it works for all MLM's.

Anti-mlm blogs do work and it's better that people will hopefully see them before they go looking or are approached. I was so very lucky that I like researching. The anti-mlm movement was in it's infancy in the UK, it's even better now with stuff being shared on facebook and appearing easily on google.

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Whiterangey · 14/05/2018 00:09

Is it just me or has Yawn's BFF only got one post viewable on facebook now, one about church bells?

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JaniceBattersby · 14/05/2018 00:09

Yes Cozie, and they gratuitously use their Dr title to make themselves sound legitimate.

Also, does anyone know why Yawn wasn’t at the recognition day at the palladium to be presented with her cheque? The cheque she received in Dallas? The massive cheque? Chequey chequey cheque cheque?

Tw1nsetAndPearls · 14/05/2018 01:34

@Whiterangey the only post this year on yawn'a best friend's account is about bells - yawn tells her to go to sleep

Whiterangey · 14/05/2018 02:30

Which means that sometime in the last 24 hours she has either set everything to friends only or deleted it.

Which is a bit weird given that all of her posts were attraction marketing.

I wonder if she has fallen out with Yawn. They would never say anything publicly, but there are a huge amount of bots already in that area so I imagine a huge amount of poaching might be going on. If Yawn has swiped a potential bot from under BFF's nose, that won't go to well.

Not to mention Uber is all about BFF and is ignoring Yawn as she didn't get a cheque.

I wouldn't be surprised if that has happened.

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NatashaShingles · 14/05/2018 03:36

@whiterangey I have a work from home option for you if you still want one! Promise no coffee or aloe. Only downside is you'd have to work and not recruit any friends LOL 😂

ArbunneHun · 14/05/2018 06:21

I think there’s been a lot of shutting down of privacy on FB. I can’t see a few profiles now, not even using my stalking account. I suspect there’s been some advice issued by Corporate - we have, after all, been forensically analysing bot posts to show this shit-show of a company up for what it is.

entrepeneur · 14/05/2018 06:25

@ArbunneHun The level of forensic analysis on here is very detailed. We're an MLM Detective Squad!

moose23ishungry · 14/05/2018 06:34

Could the privacy changes be due to the GDPR questions we had to answer recently?

Paddy1234 · 14/05/2018 06:54

If we could get them all to change to private settings then that would be a job well done.

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Norma27 · 14/05/2018 08:01

Eeeeekkk it’s photo shoot day!! Only wish there were still enough places for me to sign up. Oh, my mistake, all places bar 2 still available.

Twentytwentyhindsight · 14/05/2018 08:15

The photo shoot will be a great opportunity for Yawn to pose with the cheque she got in Dallas!

Dogjustguffed · 14/05/2018 08:29

I love this thread, the combination of knowledge, support and humour is perfect. So glad I found it!

@Norma27 your post has just reminded me that my FL bot has stopped trying to sell me things and I haven’t seen her eeeek in any posts for weeks now.

She has diversified into other MLMs by the looks of it, but they are crypto related. She doesn’t hassle me on this. I have already been really clear that I only take financial advice from, err, a Financial Adviser and not some bloke on Facebook I have never met, who appears to be perpetually broke (surely not a great sign for an investment partner?), who keeps typing “advise” when they mean “advice”, and who keeps posting #bossbabe photos. “It’s not regulated” my bot told me proudly about crypto. “That’s actually the biggest problem I have with it” I replied to her baffled face.

Paddy1234 · 14/05/2018 08:30

Actually have some respect for Yawns bff - she always seems the most private of the bots tbh

Whiterangey · 14/05/2018 10:44

@NatashaShingles, while I would still love to work from home, my current personal circumstances don't allow it, thank you for the offer though.

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Norma27 · 14/05/2018 11:05

Wonder if photo shoot is over now? Prob had time to do their grocery shop somewhere too. Can’t take long to do 2 people.
Would love to see what they look like. Will be like being covered in mlm vomit from head to toe.

entrepeneur · 14/05/2018 11:44

There's a piccie from today's MLMPhotoExtravganza on YawnNoCheque's instagram. I spy two people hovering in the background