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Anti MLM/ Network marketing thread NUMBER 43!!

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Spongebobette · 29/09/2018 18:17

This is the 43rd 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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CodLiverOil556 · 29/09/2018 18:37

Wow thread 43! I was around when these first started around 2014 I think? Hopefully our message is getting through...keep up the great work

OhMyGodTheyKilledKenny · 29/09/2018 18:52

Wow did they start that long ago?! Shock

I've been on them since the early days under various names

leasedaudi · 29/09/2018 19:25

My god have we spent four years smirking at these twats? 😆

Jonsey32 · 29/09/2018 19:25

I discovered them in early 2016 when on maternity leave and being harassed by FL bots. Been addicted ever since! We were on about thread 13 15 then I think. I binge read my way through til I was up to date and now check in daily!!!

CodLiverOil556 · 29/09/2018 19:31

Ah maybe it was late 2015 then.

Whiterangey · 29/09/2018 20:19

Fanks for the new fred @Spongebobette

Would of done it myself but too busy eating.

The two pounds i've gained need some friends Smile

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Spongebobette · 29/09/2018 20:45

Sounds like you are doing well @Whiterangey

We are all rooting for you xxx

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Whiterangey · 29/09/2018 20:53

Thank you x

FLP UK's accounts are due tomorrow.

It's like Christmas.

I hope Santa isn't late although going by their history of submitting accounts it looks like he may possibly be delayed.

BangingOn · 29/09/2018 20:55

Bloody well done White, that’s great to hear.

cozietoesie · 29/09/2018 20:59

Thanks, Sponge. Smile

OhMyGodTheyKilledKenny · 29/09/2018 21:02

Well done Whiterangey. Keep up the god work!

OhMyGodTheyKilledKenny · 29/09/2018 21:03

good work, even.

wine fingers Blush

lrh3891 · 29/09/2018 21:03

Interesting timing. I was just wondering earlier this evening about Body Shop at home. An acquaintance of mine on Facebook is a "manager" of this and is constantly posting about her amazing team, amazing products, amazing sales, amazing job, life, etc.

I know literally nothing about MLM, I don't live in the U.K. and I don't think they're such a thing where I am. But- is this it? If so...she seems to be doing so well but is it all an illusion, a scam? I know she set up a group on fb ages ago and invited me to join. I did for a while to be supportive and polite but then it all just got very very annoying. And the products look shit. And the overuse of the word hun was unbearable.

So, MLM?

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Spongebobette · 29/09/2018 21:05

Yes I’m afraid so.

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lrh3891 · 29/09/2018 21:18

Jesus. That's terrible!

On another note, i would be mortified to start harassing my family and friends on Facebook to buy products they could but never would just buy online or in store. I don't really get how it works!

Good, glad I'm not going mad. It all seemed really fucking dodgy and aggressively braggy

Teddy1970 · 29/09/2018 22:18

So Castle has her house listed for sale as well as rent? I know people sometimes do this but this really smacks of desperation, especially as they shot of to Lanzarote so suddenly.

BangingOn · 29/09/2018 23:00

Hang on, Sleaze is only 40?!

Whiterangey · 29/09/2018 23:27

Castle only paid £700k for the house she now has listed for £800k

I imagine she believes that anything she has done to it has raised the price by £100k, to be honest it looks very bland and unwelcoming.

She must be desperate for money. I'm guessing she thought the £2150 per month the house was for rent for would pay the mortgage and give her some extra cash and nobody is biting.

Teddy1970 · 29/09/2018 23:53

Yes, it's very grey inside, it could do with a splash of colour, either way, it must be costing her a fortune what with living out in Lanzarote and having to pay a mortgage, how the hell can you be skint when you've had that amount of money pass through your hands? She must have lived well beyond her means coupled with the fact that she thought the money and big cheques would just keep rolling in perhaps?

BSintolerant · 30/09/2018 09:28

Did we get to the bottom of why Castle moved to Lanzarote?

As for Wig and Sleaze's retirement, pigs do indeed fly. I can see a super soaring flappy one circling my house. Last night I saw a flock of wigs in full flight too. #Ismellbacon #wigsmightfly

Thank you for the new thread Sponge. Long live the MLM Resistance!

ArbunneHun · 30/09/2018 09:50

What have Wig ‘N’ Sleaze retired from exactly? As far as I can ascertain neither has been employed in years. Have they retired from claiming a Job Seeker’s Allowance? Is that technically retiring? They certainly haven’t retired from blathering on about Bitcoin & bots and scamming people.

OhMyGodTheyKilledKenny · 30/09/2018 10:05

Sleaze is 40? Shock

He must have had a tough paper-round.

SSDGM · 30/09/2018 12:51

“Retired” = “utterly unemployable”.

Myusername2015 · 30/09/2018 12:59

Anyone know much about tropic? I’ve been trying to google them and have worked out they are an mlm but can’t find any info about how full on they are. My amazing beautician has just announced she’s signed up and I’ve already had a message asking to book a pamper party! Not sure whether to continue going to her and hope she doesn’t go all recruiting on me or find a new therapist!