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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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Teddy1970 · 02/10/2018 23:55

The thing is we never know with Yawn...I know for a fact she rented her previous house, and she made it out that she owned it..more smoke and mirrors..

Teddy1970 · 03/10/2018 00:01

So Castle has left for the Canaries, but has she stopped doing FL for good? Or do you think she's just biding her time, riding out the storm until it picks up again?

Whiterangey · 03/10/2018 01:01

Yawn definitely owns her house.

I think it was around £525k she paid for it.

It's not currently listed for sale or rent.

Obviously we have no idea how big the mortgage is, or if she has remortgaged it, i'm going to guess she has.

She actually appears to be currently living very frugally, apart from the gym membership, she never appears to spend much money on big ticket or very expensive items. If she did, she would show them off.

BSintolerant · 03/10/2018 06:37

There's no way of knowing whether Yawn owns the property she's living in without checking the Land Registry. The LR also lists any mortgages which could make interesting reading.

OhMyGodTheyKilledKenny · 03/10/2018 08:55

The house was definitely on the market and sold at the time she claimed they bought it (I live quite locally so know where it is and saw it advertised at the time)

DoraExplorer99 · 03/10/2018 09:12

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Paddy1234 · 03/10/2018 10:45
  1. BP announces that company magazine is now available to buy - is there anything they won't charge for? Anyone have any idea how much it is?
  1. Over the last few months - all the top bots just seem so unenergised over it now - not so many posts and just going through the motions - probably because BP has put pressure on them that they are the figureheads. It's only the low bots like Yawn and Roomie who are going along zealously as normal.
  1. I see the pamper packs are back with vengeance to support the charity ffs
9dartfinish2nd · 03/10/2018 10:58

Interesting the amount of bots who take "breaks" from MLM's. I often wonder if it's the first sign of the penny dropping but they don't want to be completely shunned like previous drop outs. An upline is less likely to turn their back on someone taking a break than someone who quits altogether. Losing the new circle of "besties" is a big deal to some people who get into MLM's 'such as SAHM'S who long for some adult interaction away from the family.

Paddy1234 · 03/10/2018 11:37

Any break is crucifying for an up line as, as soon as they have a break they start to see the light and don't want to return. After last years mass exodus it was amusing seeing the up line tagging then into 'amazing' new products and the holiday memories that they enjoyed. However no swaying the ones on a 'break' and they stayed out

Paddy1234 · 03/10/2018 11:41

Wouldn't be surprised if Mrs Stickman drops out soon as Yawn has stopped engaging with her now she was a new one to concentrate on. She was all over her in the beginning

user1484830599 · 03/10/2018 11:50

I really, really hope Mrs Stickman does see the light and drop out.

fromdownwest · 03/10/2018 11:57

Hey,

I've managed to suss out most names, bar Yawn!

Any hints on how I can find out who it is?

Thansk

Bovneydazzlers · 03/10/2018 12:41

More charity ‘positive packs’
No mention that these are forever products in these packs.
No mention that she will be getting CCs for these.

Awful behaviour. But obviously got to do what you have to do to get that incentive.

OhMyGodTheyKilledKenny · 03/10/2018 13:18

It's only the low bots like Yawn and Roomie who are going along zealously as normal ....even Roomie has been a bit quiet on and off.

It started around the time she was talking about selling the caravan (that they'd had for all of 2 minutes). She was either only posting to "friends only" or stopped altogether, either of those is a total No No for MLMs surely.

More recently she's had a day or two where she hasn't posted and then when she has it's not FL stuff, it's all about her book. There's all the image make-over stuff too and a general air of mystery (unusual for someone who usually broadcasts every minute of her day.

She now calls herself an author and motivational speaker as well as still being an "entrepeneur". I sense a move away from FL in the future maybe?

dickiedavisthunderthighs · 03/10/2018 13:19

The justgiving page that Yawn set up so that the bots could donate their "profit" to MacMillan has got a grand £70 on it. Out of a £1000 target. I honestly hope they all go to hell.

Yawn's admitted to Uber's sister that it's the Chairman's Bonus she's miscalculated.

user1484830599 · 03/10/2018 14:23

An author who still can't spell entrepreneur!

CatherineCookson · 03/10/2018 17:30

Is all not well in the world of Wig N Sleaze? She's posted a quote about not being "a back-up plan" and changed her FB profile pics... now old Sleaze has done the same.

Is this the end to MLM's most powerful power couple? Has all that money gone to their heads? Can the MLM world survive without their ghastly couple images and their TMANOE hashtag.

SSDGM · 03/10/2018 18:22

Ooh, looks like MLM’s Powercouple have consciously uncoupled.

SSDGM · 03/10/2018 18:24

Yawn is giving out products to “aid recovery” to people in a hospice?

Mielabel · 03/10/2018 18:47

Yawn is really pushing her latest idea, more than I've seen her push anything. She's earning no profit from it, she just needs the CCs to get that Chairmans Bonus. She has admitted in one of her videos she has personally bought loads of the packs herself already and wants 100 more to do the same.

She just really need this Chairmans Bonus to keep her house. If she doesn't get this everything will come crashing down.

I want to tell her you shouldn't have to do this kind of thing in a business to earn money. She shouldn't be buying loads of her own product and trying to sell loads more at wholesale price just to qualify for something to keep her head above water. The regular sales profits themselves, of actual products people genuinely want, should be the backbone of a business.

I get the impression she still really does believe in the MLM model and that it will work. I think she comes across really well- in another life she would have had a great job working with products or sales in a legislate company and earning a great secure income, but ten years of what could have been experience in that have been thrown down the drain in an MLM. We all know from the figures FLP is already in the stage of collapse. How is she going to recover from watching her lifestyle, which was promised to survive forever on residual income, fall to pieces?

I feel sorry for her. Genuinely. I think she one of the biggest victims of FLP.

ArbunneHun · 03/10/2018 18:49

Not Wig ‘n’ Sleaze...! Noooooooooo...

Romance built on a shared love of scams should last forever...

Teddy1970 · 03/10/2018 20:33

But isn't Chairmans bonus ages away yet? I always thought it was held round about April time, if it is then that's an awful lot of mortgage payments and outgoings to pay until then...blimey.

Whiterangey · 03/10/2018 20:38

I'm devastated, absolutely devastated. I can't imagine a world where Wig 'n' Sleaze aren't partners.

I is terribly sad.

Ponzi's everywhere are crying.

Will they have to go to court to decide who gets the most amazing network on earth?

What the fuck does that actually mean? Why choose that name in the first place?

Whiterangey · 03/10/2018 20:42

Who is going to get the house?

Oh, nevermind..

SSDGM · 03/10/2018 20:45

How will the split the imaginary Bitcoin they have invested?