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MLM Bot Watch 40 - Forever Living is 40! Yet still 99% of people in all MLM's lose money

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Whiterangey · 29/05/2018 12:27

Not making money with Forever Living?

Not making money with any MLM?

How to make money with Forever Living?
How to make money with MLM?

Maybe this report done for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) by Jon M. Taylor, MBA, Ph.D., of the Consumer Awareness Institute may have the reason why.

www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/public_comments/trade-regulation-rule-disclosure-requirements-and-prohibitions-concerning-business-opportunities-ftc.r511993-00008%C2%A0/00008-57281.pdf

When someone urges you to join an MLM in their downline with tales of the riches you can earn, all they are trying to do is use you to earn themselves more money. They know the stats, they know you won't make money and you will lose money, and friends.

They will lovebomb you, be your best friend, be all over you and then drop you like a stone.

Look at the person who is your uplines facebook. See how the people who were tagged in her statuses a year ago the same way you are tagged now are doing. Are they still with the company? Many won't be. Those who are will still not be doing well, exactly the same as a year ago, or two years ago.

If you are in Forever living, check facebook for the global rally cheques of your upline, notice how they have been going down year on year? The market reached saturation point in 2015, it's downhill since then and things will get worse, not better.

Most MLM's in the UK are at the same point, we are not a huge country and MLM's have reached saturation point.

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Willowsauntie · 02/06/2018 10:28

Hello, longtime lurker here.

Sacked-by-Arrriiiix is joining TS Life to live the minty, chocolatey dream.
She has been tagged in a video of a lowdown bot announcing their mlm return under the wings of the messiah. Did you know it only costs five choc chips to join?

As for Sacked-by-Arrriiix, could her superfoods be less than super, or is this another of her multiple income streams!!?

Tw1nsetAndPearls · 02/06/2018 10:42

@Willowsauntie sacked-by-arriiiix hasn't posted on her timeline about joining messiah has she?

She did post about superfoods though.

Her waist trainers seem to be going well, why join somebody else's downline?

ArbunneHun · 02/06/2018 11:45

So we have:

Messiah (terminated by Vida for alleged bullying & rule violations)
Sacked-By-Ariiiiix (terminated by Ariiiix for alleged bullying & rule violations)
Salon (under investigation by Trading Standards and has previously promoted known ponzis & pyramids)

Whoa! That TS Life senior leadership team is shaping up nicely.

Where do I sign, hun???

Tw1nsetAndPearls · 02/06/2018 12:12

I didn't realise that salon was heading to TS

Tw1nsetAndPearls · 02/06/2018 12:15

I also didn't realise that sacked from Arriixx was accused of bullying - she has a scary vibe about her thougg

ArbunneHun · 02/06/2018 13:12

Them’s the rumours, @Tw1nset.

And we’ll have to wait to find out whether they actually join or not, but Valentus is dead, so Salon won’t stick around, and Sacked-by has a huge house to pay the rent on and I don’t think she’s making enough from waist-trainers and a small MLM with only one product.

But it ain’t over until they post their “Eek I’m nervous! I just made a huuuuge decision and I’m leaving my company/joining a new company” lives. Then the excuses and recriminations will start - “my downline weren’t earning” “the product was reformulated/non-compliant” etc etc

Plus ça change.

Tw1nsetAndPearls · 02/06/2018 13:26

@ArbunneHun sacked has done a few FB lives on TS superfoods, even getting her kids to make testimonials and so it looks like it is just a matter of time.

BSintolerant · 02/06/2018 13:51

Makes you wonder if Castle's sister's doll business has been tainted with her association with Forever Living. How many people think, "She's a bot - I'm not buying anything off her in case she starts pushing FL"?

Has anyone here who has run a real business alongside an MLM scheme experienced this?

OhMyGodTheyKilledKenny · 02/06/2018 13:57

Isn't it funny how when bots do fairs/fayres they can never manage to muster up a photo of real customers/real people looking interested at their stall.

It's always just a photo of the stall with tumbleweed blowing past or a fellow bot pretending to be a customer, posing by the stall.

NatashaShingles · 02/06/2018 14:43

The dolls are stocked in Harrods, I don’t think being in MLM has damaged her reputation as her doll business was going long before she joined FL

9dartfinish · 02/06/2018 15:48

Had a nosey through Companies House there, a combination of enlightening and frustrating. Found one hunbot who's biznizz was dissolved a few months ago but still continues to shill on FB, another who holds a high pin title but appears to have been losing money every year until last year and even then the dividend paid was nothing to write home about. A lot of them however have pretty limited info to digest as they are abbreviated accounts. Anyone would think they had something to hide. Grin

Willowsauntie · 02/06/2018 16:05

@Tw1nset

Sacked is named in the video of a low ranking bot as being the person who has brought her into TS. The video was posted three days ago, which may tie in nicely with the silence that has fallen on Sacked's page.

Mountainsoutofmolehills · 02/06/2018 16:14

bettingonzeromovie.com/ brilliant movie about Herbal life....

Do Terra Oils and Nu Skin. I am not sure about the quality of Nu Skin products, so so I believe. Do Terra isn't what it says it is..... It's hard. the woman that tried to get me into Nu Skin, now she's onto De Terra.

My brother loves MLM, done 50%, so I have always been a skeptic. Want aloe vera, go buys some from the garden centre, want Juice plus.. just eat some fruit, no need fro processed balls. Walk herbal life. put some herbs in your smoothie....... want some make up - go to boots. Want to make money off your friends? Hmmmmmmmm. That is seriously weird.

Whiterangey · 02/06/2018 17:16

I think castle's sister's doll business has suffered because of her being in FL, but only because she has spent too much time working her FL bizniz instead of her proper one. Her business has only been continuing the past two years, at least, because her creditors have agreed to keep supporting her.

She's had to borrow money and raise a mortgage before then just to keep the business afloat. I can't see the business will last much longer, it's in serious trouble yet she spends most of her time on FL.

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Tw1nsetAndPearls · 02/06/2018 17:50

@Willowsauntie well spotted she hasn't posted for over a week now.

Why the silence? She isn't part of another MLM is she?

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ReformedBot · 02/06/2018 18:56

PhD Bots #WCW post annoyed me. Acting as thought she had the struggle most women in MLM have.

She never.

She got in at the right time as her monthly earnings posted in 2015 show. She joined in 2014, March I presume as her first bonus would have been the following month so these £10,000 figures were at the height of the boom in Summer 2015 and they dropped shortly after as she stopped using the #sixfigurewoman hashtag.

MLM Bot Watch 40 - Forever Living is 40!  Yet still 99% of people in all MLM's lose money
MLM Bot Watch 40 - Forever Living is 40!  Yet still 99% of people in all MLM's lose money
Whiterangey · 02/06/2018 19:38

I earned £1.7million last week, and £1.1million the week before, it's numbers on a screen it's meaningless, although I wouldn't be shocked if they were correct.

Why is she posting her earnings from 3 years ago and not now? We know why and i'm guessing her downline or potential downline wouldn't think to ask.

She only has one set of accounts on companies house, she didn't register as a limited company until the end of 2015.

For the period 18th December 2015 to 31 December 2016, which would include her cheque from 2016 of $25k, she made a profit of £81k. She actually has the profit stated on her accounts which is rare.

That is a good wage, but not a 6 figure income, i'm smart like that and counted the numbers.

I imagine it's gone down since then.

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ArbunneHun · 02/06/2018 20:44

Uh oh... Wig’s on the move. She’s packing up & emptying her house.

What gives, I wonder? Surely can’t be having trouble paying the rent, not with all those #crypto ‘investments’...?

SSDGM · 02/06/2018 20:48

Sleaze’s son has been poorly for a while, his FB has been quiet for a good few weeks. It could be they are moving closer to where he’s from.

sshuga · 02/06/2018 22:26

My ex has gone strangely silent on FB as well. Not that he was promoting his bizniz on FB much anyway, just a lot of vague prosperity gospel, law of attraction, chase your dream stuff but even that has stopped. Wonder if there’s some a movement in the industry away from FB? I know he was talking about using LinkedIn to build his biznis just before he decided I was too negative and unsupportive for him. Anyone have any thoughts or insight?

sshuga · 02/06/2018 22:27

I should have said the “industry”

NatashaShingles · 02/06/2018 23:14

I’m not sure if anyone has noticed. I haven’t seen anything on here but it seems Yawn didn’t get a big cheque. Actually it looks like she didn’t get a little one either. Subsequently that amounts to no cheque!

Can’t believe you guys missed that!

cozietoesie · 03/06/2018 01:11
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BSintolerant · 03/06/2018 01:39

Wot know check? Excuse my Botshite. Wink

Where's the law of attraction when you need it - is it having a year off to titivate its tent? Did Yawn's dog eat her vision board? Have Dr Brain O'Wash's mindset materials been infiltrated by the MLM Resistance? Is the Milka Cow lilac because it eats purple heather?

I need to know. Don't you?