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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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ArbunneHun · 12/05/2018 10:54

I went on a training course this week. Two days in a beautiful residential conference centre. A room to myself, transport and all meals/drinks paid for. Training led by 2 world-reknowned professionals.

My employer paid for everything. I didn’t have to give up my weekend. Hell, they even paid my salary for those two days... including my pension, healthcare, other benefits...

But hey - who wouldn’t give that up to PAY to spend a precious Saturday being told by the likes of Yawn, Castle & Uber what they are doing wrong and why they should spend more money/piss off their few remaining friends.

Paddy1234 · 12/05/2018 10:54

Some lowly bot has just done a panoramic of the theatre just before it is due to start - no body is in the circle or grand circle accounting for half the seats. All our in the stalls so a possible 974 seats of which I would say 75% are taken up (I am being generous) looks like any profit from success days is out the window now and even the London Paladium couldn't pull them in

Paddy1234 · 12/05/2018 10:54

#are in the stalls

Norma27 · 12/05/2018 10:59

How many weekends do bots actually get to spend with their family? From what I can see very little.
The pockets of time needed to work your bizniz seem to be getting larger and larger.

Paddy1234 · 12/05/2018 11:11

Wow wow wow the panoramic shot has already been taken down from FB!

ArbunneHun · 12/05/2018 11:14

They’re a bit touchy at the moment, aren’t they?

Trying to hide something, maybe... like the fact that FL is DYING ON ITS ARSE?

Paddy1234 · 12/05/2018 11:25

Damn was looking forward to the Roomie/Yawn reunion. Roomie is still at home and have a feeling Yawn has opted out and is training elsewhere #expense of success days hitting home - has anyone failed to see that both of them have failed to tag each other in any posts. Is Roomie definitely the down line of Yawn?

Paddy1234 · 12/05/2018 11:26

Also can someone clarify - what happens if after you sign up that you find out that your upline is a complete **se - can you change at all or are you saddled with them forever (excuse the pun)

ArbunneHun · 12/05/2018 11:36

Think I know why Yawn’s not going: most of the morning will be spent ‘celebrating’ those who got Chairman’s Bonus cheques...

Oh... #awks

gingergenius · 12/05/2018 11:37

PleAse please please tell me who all these bots are? I love these threads and know several people who've been sucked in but I don't know who yawnbot et al are and it's driving me crazy?!!!

Paddy1234 · 12/05/2018 11:37

Just listening to BS - condescending to and about everyone not in the 'know'. Truly cultish behaviour - it breaks my heart.

Paddy1234 · 12/05/2018 11:38

Anyway happily there are masses of spare seats even in the stalls - the end is nigh

Paddy1234 · 12/05/2018 11:45

So the venue is approx £20k min to hire out. Say 600 tickets sold - 18k
Oh a shortfall for the first time ever

SSDGM · 12/05/2018 11:53

I worked for 13 days straight over the last two weeks. First 3 nights in Spain. Never put a hand in my pocket. In fact I came home with the €20 I drew out of the ATM “just in case”. Then a week in the USA where all I paid was $40 in tips for my VIP guides plus a gift for my niece and nephew.

I get all the weekend and bank holiday days back. Same as Arbunne I got a room to myself, get to claim back any out of pocket expenses like taxis, snack at airport, got my full salary, etc etc.

Twentytwentyhindsight · 12/05/2018 11:58

Didn't they have to cancel one last year due to a complete lack of takers (I'm sure they'd have come up with another excuse)?

Problem for FLP UK is that if they cancel again, the remaining diehard bots and dwindling new recruits might begin to twig that the trajectory is not upwards.

If they go ahead with the event, they can't recoup the costs, and the bots who do come see for themselves how dismal it is.

At least the Chairman's bonus celebration will be short & sweet.

Twentytwentyhindsight · 12/05/2018 12:05

@Whiterangey - It seems you didn't need to worry about the poor bots' circulation due to cramped conditions, they have plenty of space to spread out.

That is unless they are told to squeeze in to 'look a lot' (a lot of 'whats' I'll not say, but it may rhyme).

Nakedavenger74 · 12/05/2018 12:11

Head honcho pic is still up. It's started and there's about 60% of the seats in the stalls taken. The circle and grand circle are totally empty.

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Nakedavenger74 · 12/05/2018 12:26

I looked at the profiles of 10 bots who went to last year's success day at the Odeon (the glamour). Of those, 8 haven't mentioned FL for at least 6 months and certainly aren't there today.

Twentytwentyhindsight · 12/05/2018 12:34

If your calculations are correct @Paddy1234, the bots may have the bragging rights to having been to the first & only 'subsidised' FLP UK bash!

Tupperwarelid · 12/05/2018 12:55

Castlebot isn't there but her no cheque sister is and is supposed to be presenting a training slot this afternoon. Interestingly though, she showed a picture of the outside of the theatre and it says "The Aloe Vera Company" not Forever Living.

Whiterangey · 12/05/2018 13:46

Bit weird if Castle isn't there, head honcho put out a video on the 4th May from Castle who was saying why you need to be there.

At least one person got a free ticket, likely more.

Those at the back of the stalls, if there were enough people there for people to sit at the back of the stalls, can pretend it was full. Because of the overhang from the royal circle you can't tell there is nobody up there. Nearer the front of the stalls it must be pretty eerie in there, looking up to see nobody else in there, except probably some ghosts, who will be weeping.

This is brilliant, and not just for snark value. Those in there will see how empty it is and that could be a deciding factor in them leaving, maybe not straight away, but it's in there.

There is always a slightly embarrassed feeling among the audience when there is a poor turnout for a show. I'm guessing that will happen at a success day as well.

Castle's sister posted that she can't wait to talk to the thousands who will be there today.

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Paddy1234 · 12/05/2018 14:20

Uber's sister looks like she is at the train station already for the journey back

cozietoesie · 12/05/2018 14:53

Twenty

Remember the primary rule. 'The Organisation never loses out when it comes to money'. I don't know how it was funded but I suspect that........arrangements were made. Wink

Whiterangey · 12/05/2018 15:00

It does look like she is leaving, maybe they finished early. They had reserved quite a chunk of time for the cheques, which would only have taken 5 minutes.

All that way for nothing.

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