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MLM Bot Watch 46 - Lies, damn lies, and attraction marketing

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Twentytwentyhindsight · 31/01/2019 21:16

The continuing crusade to expose the underhand tactics used to lure (mainly) women into exploitative schemes using the lure of 'financial independence'.

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fitgirl26 · 17/02/2019 20:49

@Hunbot - I'm also down in West Sussex and it does appear to be a bit of a Bot Free Zone although when LTW was at its height there was a high profile Bot in Worthing. My son graduated from Warwick Uni last year and lived in Leamington Spa - he seems to have survived living in Top Bot Central 😂

fitgirl26 · 17/02/2019 20:50

And I'm now curious about Homeschool - she is one of the few Bots I haven't worked out yet!

Hunbot · 17/02/2019 20:52

I am actually in Worthing. Forever isn't big here. We seem to be in Avon county

Hunbot · 17/02/2019 20:54

Homeschool posted a picture of her kids at a certain dinosaur Park which is what made me look at where she is. If you find the top 20 bots she is number 18 I believe

fitgirl26 · 17/02/2019 21:06

Aha! I'm in Horsham so I think she's pretty much midway between us 😂

BangingOn · 17/02/2019 21:46

fit that’s where I am from originally, although I’m up in the viper’s nest now.

UnapologeticallyUnhinged · 17/02/2019 23:01

@BangingOn and @Paddy1234 let's hire the conference room at the Ricoh and have our own Success Day! You're all invited! (For a nominal fee of course. Don't forget to bring a flask and packed lunch as none will be provided.) We can celebrate...

Having reasonable working hours! WHOOP!
Not taking selfies/preparing for selfies 24/7!
YAAAAY!
Not alienating/exploiting our friends and family via social media!
#YOLO
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I will bring the Card Factory foil number balloons.

Twentytwentyhindsight · 17/02/2019 23:26

@UnapologeticallyUnhinged - can you make sure the #1 balloons look a bit less like hen night inflatable phalluses than the ones the huns were clutching at their do?

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BangingOn · 18/02/2019 06:35

Whoop whoop- I’m there!

Norma27 · 18/02/2019 06:44

That is exactly what I thought about those balloons.
On bffs page, yawn seems to think she is proving her critics wrong! Oh how wrong you are dear. You are still a vile creature even though you walked across stage holding a balloon. You still aren’t getting a cheque. And forever lying is still crumbling.

BangingOn · 18/02/2019 10:39

Oh dear, someone has upset Messiah. He really is unbelievably patronising with his references to ‘humble network marketers’ and ‘little people’.

Twentytwentyhindsight · 18/02/2019 11:23

@PerryPerryThePlatypus posted earlier in this thread that on of his apostles had unmasked him as a false prophet and plotting to leave the fold, taking her down line with her.

I expect that is what he is ranting about...

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Twentytwentyhindsight · 18/02/2019 11:23

*one of his apostles

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JasperRising · 18/02/2019 11:48

@MaudebeGonne

My cousin has just started with Usbourne. Is the best thing just to politely ignore her until it fizzles out. Am worried she is going to drag my Uncle into it. He is a pensioner with not much disposable income...

You could try sending your cousin some information about the problems of MLMs but if she's just started she's unlikely to listen (I don't know how hardcore Usborne reps are on blocking out the haters) so maybe ignoring is best. Could you talk to your uncle about your concerns so he is forewarned?

BangingOn · 18/02/2019 13:44

That makes sense. The ironic thing is everything he says is right, but it’s also what he did!

dickiedavisthunderthighs · 18/02/2019 13:45

Broke's Ex has found the perfect opportunity for her, can't believe she didn't do it earlier etc etc...it's Actilabs.

YouokHun · 18/02/2019 14:24

@BangingOn that’s exactly what I was going to say about the Messiah; that post is a tick list of all his previous. Talking of the Messiah’s previous, there seems to be a bit of a rumour around that Vida Divina is going to try it’s luck in the UK again but this time with much vaguer product description and then Valentus style ordering from the US for ‘own consumption only’.

Twentytwentyhindsight · 18/02/2019 16:07

Messiah seems to have forgotten his own precepts: "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone (John 8:7). Or should that be "Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the more out of thy brother's eye" (Matthew 7:5).

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Twentytwentyhindsight · 18/02/2019 16:09

*mote, not more

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dadandmum · 18/02/2019 23:00

Wow how some of the mighty have fallen, number 23 was always at the top 10 for years, same as 22, 28 if I remember used to be doctors.

Yawn looks worse than normal too, its almost going back 10 years since she looked like that.

LanzaBot doesn't look any better either.

Bloodsucking doesn't have her husband with her either, which is unusual.
It really is on its last legs.

cozietoesie · 18/02/2019 23:35

It's fairly obvious that these people are on a hiding to nothing. Is there owt that we can do?

Paddy1234 · 19/02/2019 08:32

It's not a normal company, as with sales dropping so fast - the country manager would have been kicked to the kerb years ago and replaced
God it's so fantastic to see the death rattle of this company

Twentytwentyhindsight · 19/02/2019 09:36

It's not as though BP has any real input into how FLP UK operates, in the same way as a CEO or MD would in a 'normal' company.

In a situation where the market has become saturated and/or sales are falling, the sensible course would be to limit supply and cut back on the number of outlets. In the case of FLP, the 'outlets' are the bots, and the model relies on permanently recruiting more to keep the pyramid fed. The bots end up in competition with each other for a shrinking market and start dropping out at a greater rate than they join. Since the bots are also the main customers, it becomes a vicious circle of decline that the 'business model' cannot, by its very nature, address.

All he can do is tinker at the edges, e.g. cutting back on permanent 'real' staff, who are not that numerous anyway, exhort the remaining bots to work ever harder for diminishing returns, and find more ways of extracting the last few pennies (events, trainings, etc.).

The writing on the wall has been there since day one. The only uncertainty being how long the pyramid would take to reach its highest point before crumbling. It's simple maths, the beast lumbers around blindly, devouring what it can, then collapses as there is nothing left for it to feed on. Mr FLP UK can't do diddly squat about it, and sexy Rexy & co know this. They also know he knows where the skeletons are buried.

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Norma27 · 19/02/2019 09:37

I’m loving it too paddy. Just feel so sorry for those still being conned into losing money joining. Can’t wait to see the cheques in Sweden. Bet all of the top 30 can’t wait too!!

Norma27 · 19/02/2019 09:41

I’m wondering if homeschool has ever heard of maternity pay! She seems to think she is lucky getting ‘paid’ when heavily pregnant and when at home with her newborn!

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