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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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Electrascoffee · 21/10/2018 23:24

Yes Tumer :(

It's a shame because I wanted to try their fake tan which apparently does not smell of DHA. Goodness knows whether that's even true.

penisbeakers · 21/10/2018 23:33

Found a newly started MLM called Clean Living

https://www.instagram.com/p/BoLxwSXg4y1

www.cleanlivingint.com/

Electrascoffee · 21/10/2018 23:39

Surely people like Yawn will just hop onto another MLM if FL collapses.

I imagine it would be difficult to work in the real world after that.

JaniceBattersby · 22/10/2018 00:05

I agree about Castle. Something seems up with her. I hope she’s ok.

I fear for these bots. I have a (limited) degree of sympathy for them. However manipulative they have been, they are also victims of FL to a point None of them seem hugely intelligent when it comes down to it. They’re certainly not hardened business people. Watching them become increasingly desperate is sad really.

I hope they come out of the other side of this able to see the damage they have inflicted on people, and with a clearer picture of the way in which a pyramid scheme must always collapse in the end.

cozietoesie · 22/10/2018 01:31

They are also victims.......I agree.

Electrascoffee · 22/10/2018 05:06

It's true that the top bots are also victims in their own way but at least they themselves were earning enough money in the beginning to have put it all into their mortgages or saved etc - it remains to be seen if they did. It's terrible to see people being recruited newly now when the whole thing will go down the pan shortly. Especially when they look like they've struggled to even get the £200 together.

SSDGM · 22/10/2018 06:52

Oh! I just realised the reason I could never find Castle... she blocked me! I’ve never interacted with her in my life except declining a LinkedIn invitation last year. 🤷🏻‍♀️

SSDGM · 22/10/2018 06:58

Ugh. Don’t know why I bothered looking. Does she have a son by any chance? 🙄

GoldenKelpie · 22/10/2018 07:56

MLM companies carve their way through peoples' lives and their wake is littered with its devastated victims; it cares not that these victims may be former 'successful' bots who made significant amounts of money for them and lied and exploited their downlines mercilessly in order to do that.

The bottom line is, 100% recruitment is the key to any success in MLM. Without it, merely selling the product doesn't work. Those recruited have to continually buy the product in order to 'qualify' for commissions/promotions they are the customer. It is so slick!

It is inevitable that we see a former 'queen bee' struggling. We knew this would happen as we have seen it happen so many times to others; no other business model is so destructive or evil imo. No wonder people are so vocal and angry about this cursed business model.

I found a good from a couple who are talking about their experience with a particular long-standing US-based MLM. Their experience mirrors countless others, it doesn't matter which MLM company it is, they all follow the same or very similar formula. These long-standing companies trumpet loudly about how many decades they've been in business, like this legitimises them! It doesn't. It just means that governments have never successfully clipped their wings to protect the public.

Anyone reading these posts must BEWARE of any MLM company, the business model ensures failure/debt to 99% but spectacular success to the originator. No wonder they proliferate, new ones popping up all the time.

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Spongebobette · 22/10/2018 09:18

Castle's house is up for rent and also on the market for sale. Odd.

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Electrascoffee · 22/10/2018 09:39

So why are these people blocking people they've had no interactions with?

OhMyGodTheyKilledKenny · 22/10/2018 09:47

When bots are on holiday why do they always post about working whilst they're there.

It's not something to be proud of you know, not even bring able to take a holiday without working Confused

Im presuming they think it's a selling point to be able to work from anywhere but actually it's a major red flag as to what the reality of MLM is all about.

ArbunneHun · 22/10/2018 09:55

I’m on holiday this week. I’m having a lie in then taking the dog for a long walk in the sunshine. I get to do this AND get paid! If you’d like to genuinely have time off without having to get up and do #mindset training at 5am, drive to some godforsaken coffee shop in a market town off the M6 somewhere, spend 5 hours rehashing the same training, worry about where the next commission cheque is coming from, pressurise your downline into buying things they can’t afford, then PM ME HUNS!

#AskMeHow #HolidaysMeanHolidays #JOB #benefits #holidaypay #sickpay #salary #pension

Twentytwentyhindsight · 22/10/2018 10:37

@Electrascoffee - The bots will claim it's about avoiding 'negativity' and haters. The reality is that they don't like to have their smoke & mirrors tactics exposed in places such as this thread.

Yawn is a particularly assiduous blocker, many on here have found themselves blocked by her, despite never having had any interaction. The most plausible explanation is that she trawls anti-MLM pages and blocks anyone posting on them.

I seem to have been included in the latest cull (or my botted ex-OH has exposed me as a 'hater'), but I still have my trusty bot watching alt account, so I'm not missing anything.

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Spongebobette · 22/10/2018 10:39

I think it’s preemptive blocking @Electrascoffee. Yawn does it too. They trawl through anti MLM pages etc and if you have liked a post they block you
It’s a fine balance between maintaining an open, public social media presence and keeping ‘negheads’ away

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Spongebobette · 22/10/2018 10:40

Snap @twentytwentyhindsight!

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Spongebobette · 22/10/2018 10:43

I ‘ve watched a bit of that video @Goldenkelpie

It’s very sad.

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Electrascoffee · 22/10/2018 10:47

Yes I think that's likely. Yawn blocked me right after I unfriended Roomie on FB which was only because I couldn't cope with any more notifications I was constantly getting from her and didn't know how to turn off.

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Spongebobette · 22/10/2018 11:04

I expect they cover this in their ‘social media training’ , how to have an amazing, positive, attract-your-life social media presence 🤣

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Electrascoffee · 22/10/2018 11:58

Oh yes I expect it's to make sure the universe gives them what they are asking for 🤣

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Spongebobette · 22/10/2018 12:07

I would like the universe to make all the MLMs stop exploiting people and just GO AWAY

Shall I make a goal board about this?

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user1484830599 · 22/10/2018 12:09

Gosh they must spend their entire lives on social media!

cozietoesie · 22/10/2018 12:12

Sponge



cozietoesie · 22/10/2018 12:14

Sorry. Forgot these.



cozietoesie · 22/10/2018 12:14

Obviously not. 

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