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MLM Bot Watch 42

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Spongebobette · 18/08/2018 12:09

This is the 42nd thread in a long series about the dangers of network marketing/ MLMs such as Forever Living, Ariix, NuSkin, Arbonne, Younique, TS Life, and MANY MANY more!
Posts here will give examples of the lies told by 'top bots' who portray luxury lifestyles in order to lure in new victims and of the other techniques and brainwashing used by MLMs
Over 90% of people who join an MLM end up LOSING money. Always bear that in mind when considering paying money to join!

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Digggers · 18/09/2018 15:25

Does anyone know much about doTerra?

Norma27 · 18/09/2018 16:51

I think she just wanted to take a pic of her legs. No idea why tho.

DoraExplorer99 · 18/09/2018 18:29

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BangingOn · 18/09/2018 18:53

I wish Yawn hadn’t blocked me. I’m too lazy to set up another profile for MLM stalking though.

Isn’t today TS payday? If so, it’s all gone a bit quiet on that front from Messiah.

Norma27 · 18/09/2018 19:02

I wonder if yawn bought a present and card for Roomie’s birthday today?!!

Norma27 · 18/09/2018 19:31

Mrs stickman goes back to work in January.
But I thought forever shite meant she was now shitting money!

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Spongebobette · 18/09/2018 20:41

Hmm funny that, @Norma27

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Whiterangey · 18/09/2018 23:14

Castle is going tomorrow.

There doesn't appear to be a huge fanfare around it by all of her friends. It's almost as if she is running away.

She is going to be losing lots of money unless her house gets rented out soon.

Teddy1970 · 18/09/2018 23:50

Castle was daft buying that house, there's probably a sizeable mortgage on it which still has to be paid, she would have been better off buying a smaller house with little or no mortgage so that when the bubble eventually burst, (which it has) she'd always have somewhere to live, it would be a future long term investment too...but then smaller houses didn't fit in with the image did they?

Toobusytowee · 18/09/2018 23:52

Diggers, have a look at my directory of MLM information at botwatch.blog , DoTerra have a mention. There are some links there to learn more.

Teddy1970 · 19/09/2018 00:05

She might be waiting a while for her house to be let out, don't get me wrong it's beautiful, but very rural...

Jonsey32 · 19/09/2018 08:03

I saw a video somewhere once where she said she bought the house with a 50% deposit. I don’t know how much she bought it for though but I would imagine that the mortgage is still quite sizeable.

OhMyGodTheyKilledKenny · 19/09/2018 08:50

Looking back at Castle's facebook it was less than 4 weeks ago that they announced this move and they leave today.

I don't think they'd planned it for long before announcing it either because at the beginning of the summer she was asking about holiday destinations where they could go for a months break and that's how they ended up in Lanzarote and then announced they were moving there [hmm

For such a big decision you'd normally take a little longer to make plans surely? Why the rush? (and I don't buy the "starting school" excuse)

OhMyGodTheyKilledKenny · 19/09/2018 08:58

Here's one event local to Yawn that she, Mrs Stickman or any of their teams won't be welcome at.

Good to see Craft Fairs taking a stand against FL!

MLM Bot Watch 42
9dartfinish2nd · 19/09/2018 09:47

I try not to focus on the individual bots on here too much but in this case i'm curious.
Someone here claimed a few days ago that Castle is no longer on Forever's top 10 list in Wales and now suddenly she uproots at very short notice.
I know from a couple of the MLM's I watch closely that this year several high profile bots have relocated to mainland Europe due to the arse falling out of the industry in the UK,
I'm not wanting to get ahead of myself here but I think it's a distinct possibility the MLM industry is in far greater trouble than anyone realises. It will only take one major MLM to collapse and we could be looking at a house of cards here.

Whiterangey · 19/09/2018 11:24

Forever Living UK will be publishing their accounts at the end of this month, which I think could give a very good indication of how the rest of the MLM's in the uk are going.

diamondeaglerangerovercastle · 19/09/2018 11:28

Long time reader, old poster, new login here.

Why did castle post amended accounts on 30/8?

Also, a little birdy told me that their current "castle" is for sale as well as rent. Not yet listed on rightmove as for sale though.

I can't wait to see the FL overall accounts..

fromdownwest · 19/09/2018 11:37

It is all very knee jerk and strange, to uproot a whole family in 4 weeks is odd.

Is it to live a cheaper life, no big mortgage, no big car lease, no need to spend thousands to portray the dream life, when you can post a picture on the beach for free and get the same output?

Very odd.

BSintolerant · 19/09/2018 11:58

Kenny is the "no aloe vera" a warning to bots that Forever Living isn't welcome or could it be that there's already one FL stall there and the organiser is sick of batting away multiple enquiries from desperate bots?

Whiterangey · 19/09/2018 12:10

That's interesting that it may be for sale. She bought her current castle for £700k a couple of years ago. If she paid half cash that is a mortgage of £350k if there hasn't been a remortgage.

I think it's possible bots have been living off their bonuses, given Castle only got $120k I think it was last year, her financial situation could be really shite.

DoraExplorer99 · 19/09/2018 13:34

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9dartfinish2nd · 19/09/2018 13:43

Thanks for the clarification DoraExplorer99.

What doesn't sit right with me is that the top leaders constantly have to recruit and attend meetings and rallys all over the UK to keep the downlines ticking over and to ensure people keep joining up at the bottom of that "3 pointed square"
A top bot will see anything from 50 to 80% of thier new recruits fall away within a year. So how can she continue to develop a business from such a location?

Norma27 · 19/09/2018 15:51

Poor yawn. Some ‘twat’ has tried to bring her down.
That’s because you are a bullshitting con artist love. I really can’t wait to see Forever shite collapse. By the way, contrary to your weird thought processes, we are not jealous. We just hate to see you conning other poor sods out of their money.

Paddy1234 · 19/09/2018 16:18

They are all jumping ship at the moment - just read in the comments of a once dyed in the wool Welsh male bot who has just jumped ship to obligatory 'coaching' admit he was embarrassed about time hop photos and that the leaders are still doing it to this day.

Paddy1234 · 19/09/2018 16:24

This years FL accounts will be dire but nothing like the next year is going to be. So 2015 was 106m, 2016 was 80m - I am going to have a punt at 2017 being 42m - I am not concerned about profit as we all know the robbing bastards have a stupid profit level built in. Anyone else up for closest estimate?