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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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JasperRising · 25/10/2018 18:47

@DoraExplorer99 not just a business card, a whole flier including all social media accounts and request for feedback on her product... Have to back a few days on feed to see it

Whiterangey · 25/10/2018 20:23

So Bbl bot, whoever she is, said she had sepsis but obviously didn't?

That is absolutely disgusting, with the recent press that sepsis has had and the amount of people who have died from it, how could she?

I don't know who she is and I was really concerned about her, as you do when you hear sepsis because it's bloody deadly.

Whiterangey · 25/10/2018 20:31

That is disgusting behaviour by Uber, they definitely would have preferred the cash. I'm not a scientist so this is only a guess, but I think that the cure for breast cancer is not going to end up being forever deodorant.

I'm sure she told everyone there that forever deodorant decreases your risk of breast cancer as she has been spreading that all over her page.

Twentytwentyhindsight · 25/10/2018 20:41

No sure how her giveaway deodorant was funded, but I'd be surprised if it didn't contribute to her CCs.

She was previously saying that all profits from sales of the deodorant to her customers would go to the charity. Does this mean she also contributed the cash, or was this used to purchase more deodorant to then give away?

Also, maybe I'm confused, but it appears that her donation of deodorant to the charity is actually a gift to those attending the event, rather than to the intended beneficiaries of the charity (admittedly some would be in both groups)?

Whiterangey · 25/10/2018 21:28

There were 40 women there who have had or who are suffering from breast cancer. 540 deodorants were donated.

Teddy1970 · 25/10/2018 21:42

This goes to show how thick and uneducated Uber and Yawn are, they fail to grasp that their deodorant would do sod all to prevent cancer if you're a carrier of the BRCA gene, and yet here they are guilt tripping these poor women into thinking that they used the wrong deodorant which caused their cancer, all for their fucking CCs and recruitment, it's disgraceful behaviour, why is no one calling them out on this?

Spongebobette · 25/10/2018 21:57

Sneaky way to build up your CCs, basically, promote your business and appear altruistic

Cynical in the extreme

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Electrascoffee · 25/10/2018 22:44

I think the key sickening point is they wouldn't be doing this if it didn't build up their CCs.

Bovneydazzlers · 25/10/2018 22:47

I hate this management tactic. Easy way for FL to boost November sales, I be trying 90% of participants will be bots themselves, pressurised into spending £££ on a fad diet the month before Xmas.

Anti MLM/ Network marketing thread NUMBER 43!!
JasperRising · 25/10/2018 22:49

Have they really managed to typo 'pack' in their official promotional materials...

Twentytwentyhindsight · 25/10/2018 23:27

It's that time of year where your social media fills with claims that poppies are being banned to avoid offending "mooslamics" and FLP bots who have calculated the CCs still required by rears end to achieve a bonus discovered their philanthropic inner selves and offer us the opportunity to be charitable by buying their products.

There is something almost reassuringly inevitable and fixed about it. The equivalent in my youth was flocks of birds beginning their migration south.

JaniceBattersby · 25/10/2018 23:30

You know you’ve hit a bot low when you start milking your mother in law’s death on FB for likes. Christ.

DoraExplorer99 · 25/10/2018 23:54

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Twentytwentyhindsight · 26/10/2018 00:06

@DoraExplorer99 - I have absolutely no doubt that the charity would prefer a cash donation to 540 attendees at a gala receive a stick (or whatever format) of deodorant.

My question was about Uber heavily plugging the deodorant to her customers prior to the giveaway, stating that all profits from those sales would go to the charity.

Were those profits given as cash (with Uber's CCs being boosted in passing), or were the said profits used to buy the giveaway deodorant (giving her CCs a double boost?), in which case it would be doubly deceitful.

DoraExplorer99 · 26/10/2018 00:28

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Twentytwentyhindsight · 26/10/2018 08:02

@DoraExplorer99 - I am referring not to the deodorants given away at the event, but to those Uber was heavily promoting to her customers beforehand, saying that any profits would be donated to the charity.

What I am wondering is whether any such profits made were donated to the charity as cash (separately from her gift of deodorants), or whether the profits were used to purchase the deodorants which she then gave to the charity. If the latter is the case, she has stretched the truth about "donating the profits" and made CCs on the deodorants sold as well as those she donated, while portraying herself as doubly virtuous.

If someone told me the profit from my purchase was going to charity, I would expect the cash to go to the charity, not towards buying something else that is then given to people attending a gala organised by the charity.

RelativePitch · 26/10/2018 08:54

Yawn BFF has put up a list of all that FLP has given her over the last 8 years. One of the bullet points is 'living in the most amazing houses'...the devil is always in the detail. Not buying or owning, but living in. The reality is the only property she owns with her husband is a 3 bed new build which they bought 14 years ago well before FLP. It's perfectly fine. But a far cry from all the statement properties they have rented over the years to create the illusion. Her why was always school fees, not enough cash to buy a statement home and do school fees.

DoraExplorer99 · 26/10/2018 09:36

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BangingOn · 26/10/2018 10:13

I see Uber’s profile has been duplicated again, a disgruntled ex-downline?

user1484830599 · 26/10/2018 10:32

That is a really unflattering photo of yawn on the duplicated profile!

Spongebobette · 26/10/2018 14:07

Uber is very good at making sure she gets her due

when she purchased all of those deodorants she won't have put through the order all in her own name. She will have looked at all her downlines to see who needed a few more CCs to qualify for that month (going down several levels if necessary to make sure everyone gets a boost, but mostly herself) and then paid for the orders the minions put through.
This makes her look super generous to her downlines in question as she's helping them get their CCs and paying herself, but they are not aware of the big picture which is that she 'invests' 3k but in return qualifies for a Chairman's bonus which is tens of thousands.

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cozietoesie · 26/10/2018 15:05

Goodness. When you set it out, Sponge..........

Norma27 · 26/10/2018 16:03

Always love how pleased herbashite bots are to receive a pin badge. What an amazing company to treat them to such an amazing gift!

user1484830599 · 26/10/2018 16:21

A badge? That's what they get? Grin maybe when you are five or something Grin