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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 · 27/10/2018 21:17

I've only just realised that Castle's sister is the founder of that doll company which is based upon American Girl.

Paddy1234 · 27/10/2018 21:37

Where did you find that they have made 30k?

I read the Welsh husband former FL has now opened registration for January, he needs massive luck as no one is engaging at the moment out of his 3k followers.

Trying to follow the same technique as the young upsurper to o'dodgey.

But the strangest of the strange has to be the home school bots. Would anyone ever pay for entrance to the community with their continual thumbs up.

Electrascoffee · 27/10/2018 21:56

I know the person who got Yawn recruited into FL and she failed at it many many years ago. She used to try to sell their skin products and her skin was dreadful and made me think these products must be bad. Yawn, who has naturally good skin has made a success of it by deluding people to think that Aloe Vera is better than any other product out there 🙄

BangingOn · 27/10/2018 22:06

Homeschool hasn’t posted about the Success Day, I thought she would have put in an appearance.

Paddy1234 · 27/10/2018 22:09

Home school bot is just about to give birth so I think she gets a free pass

OhMyGodTheyKilledKenny · 27/10/2018 22:13

Can someone give me some pointers as to who home school bot is please .

I know we can't name them / PM etc but some clue as to who might regularly tag her etc would be good please

CatherineCookson · 27/10/2018 22:14

@paddy1234 there was a post on book coach FB timeline made by the business coach who coached her (there's a pyramid going on here)

BangingOn · 27/10/2018 22:19

I hadn’t realised she was that close to her due date, that does deserve a pass. Still surprised she hasn’t posted about the success day at all.

Paddy1234 · 27/10/2018 22:31

Castle is reported as qualifying for 5000cc for global rally
Sounds high but in 2016 she qualified at 12500 cc
There were 12 that year who qualified at 5000cc and the cheques ranged from 25k to 135k
Surely it's going to be a massive drop

Paddy1234 · 27/10/2018 22:39

But don't worry Bruv is reporting that she has qualified at an even higher level than last year
#any one fancy a pork pie

I know Yawn annoys everyone - but the marketing spin of this eejit really takes the biscuit. Hopefully soon there won't be any shirt tails left for him to grab onto.

JaniceBattersby · 27/10/2018 22:57

A bot I know has flown in from her new house abroad for the success day. She’s pregnant with baby number four. She then drove there doing a FB live (while driving!) which was a rant all about commitment. I’m guessing some of her (dwindling) team decided not to attend today. Or maybe the rant was about her upline, Home School Bot, who is also pregnant but didn’t attend today.

Paddy1234 · 27/10/2018 23:01

Found the lady who posted congratulations on the 30k month
Mmmmm just read the reviews on Amazon of her book as a best selling Forbes author - the normal 5 star 'life changing' reviews together with the one star recent reviews stating a complete load of drivel from people who were not in on the ruse.

The whole lot of them are complete charlatans with one aim of screwing the last penny from you.

Paddy1234 · 27/10/2018 23:11

I think I have worked out the strategy

  1. Write a crap book and lift from all the other books out there
  2. Offer pre-order for 99p selling to all gullible friends
  3. Jump to no.1 on some diverse list so you can claim to be best selling author
  4. As soon as this happens, which is normally within a day as numbers needed are really low, put the price up to 7.99 enticing in the general public

Just a different arena, same old scam

Go and get a bloody job, you are seriously annoying me now.

Paddy1234 · 27/10/2018 23:16

#sighs#beyond ridiculous

The bot has already changed her text to No.1 best selling author

To think we have Roomie next ffs, I give her a few hours after release date until she updates her profile

Paddy1234 · 27/10/2018 23:46

Sound familiar

Anti MLM/ Network marketing thread NUMBER 43!!
ArbunneHun · 28/10/2018 05:33

When I watched that explanation of how Chairman’s Bonus worked, it set out that the pool for the ‘Qualifying Country’ (UK) is determined by the number of CCs achieved by each CB-qualified FBO.

So if we assume that fewer people qualify with fewer CCs than ever, that’s less money to be shared out...?

user1479228519 · 28/10/2018 06:59

I have just read on a FL fb Page Castles sister will be doing forever full time in January. This is way the dolls are being sold at a discount. Apparently she has handed the business on to someone else?

It’s a shame as it did look like a lot of work has gone into it. However I did go into Harrods last week and expected to see a big display but there were literally 2/3 amongst a whole selection of other doll brands . I was expecting to see a huge display.

There is a lot of buzz about success day on the fl pages... having been a bot myself and now running my own traditional business I literally do not understand how you make money / success in the long term from an mlm. The fl industry is so saturated and the margins on the products are just not there.

I m also not comfortable with this whole breast cancer / deordourant campaign. Very insincere..... urgh the whole industry is vile

Paddy1234 · 28/10/2018 08:01

Roomies new manager did a video of Blood sucker - about a minute in, she turns the Camara back. Loads of empty rows.

The margin on FL product is huge. However they have priced themselves out of a normal retail market and using distributors and families to use the product is the only way forward.

DoraExplorer99 · 28/10/2018 08:51

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Paddy1234 · 28/10/2018 08:51

Roomies new manager posts a picture of her £3.40 salad that she had to buy whilst Uber's sister posts pictures behind the scenes of smoked salmon blinis, champagne and canapés

Why oh why haven't they clicked?????

Paddy1234 · 28/10/2018 08:52

Thanks Dora!

Paddy1234 · 28/10/2018 08:57

By expenses - success days/marketing materials/incentives/travel for the team etc?

ArbunneHun · 28/10/2018 09:27

BBL is still claiming to be seriously ill on FB and has been caught out posting a full-makeup selfie selfie from the pub on Instagram.

Fair to say that neither she nor her acolytes take criticism well...

SSDGM · 28/10/2018 09:39

I went to a fairly high- end aesthetician yesterday to get some work done. Her room was full of FL crap and an advert for C9 on one of the cabinets. I almost ran away when she went to lock the door. Once we were about 30 mins in I just about managed to relax as I realised she wasn’t going to try and recruit me/ sell me stuff. She is very good at her job but I was really put off by just the presence of the stuff.

SSDGM · 28/10/2018 09:48

Oh my word, BBL is hilarious. I can’t stalk her often because her pure narcissism winds me up.
I can see where the “negative” comments have been removed. She’s admitted now she “just went for an orange juice and went home”

Maybe it’s the power of her sawdust capsules that she’s able to trowel on the slap and get to the boozer so soon after being at death’s door.