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

[Twentytwentyhindsight]

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

Eternal vitality! Huns, I haven't posted before but I have been following the thread for a long time.
Not sure if discussed before but I would recommend watching 'This Country' series one, episode 4. It's on iPlayer. Comedy series set in the Cotswolds. Kerry Mucklow is unemployed and attends a meeting at the village hall, where she gets chance to join a unique business opportunity, Eternal Vitality (apple and wheatgrass juice). It's an MLM definitely not a pyramid scheme! Hilarious! Any resemblance to other well known MLM schemes must be totally coincidental.

Thanks - will have a look
How do they approach it?

OMG watching now! It's hilarious and a must see

It's hilarious but actually quite sad. Kerry takes out a loan to buy the 'business in a box'. She is unable to sell anything or recruit anyone and ends up having to take out another loan to pay off her original loan.

But they completely nailed it.

I love This Country and that episode nails the MLM piece in a truly tragicomic way.

Hi huns, Just popping on to also mention Schitts Creek, the comedy series on Netflix. Not sure if it has already been mentioned but it also has an episode with an MLM.

One of the characters joins what is blatantly supposed to be Arbonne and hosts a party for the people in the town, only to discover that everyone in the town is already a rep after it swept through a couple of years ago - in fact, some of them are quite high up - they're area managers, but of course none of them ever made any money

Messiah has "Got something cooking that will satisfy the famished!"

The man really is a berk! Any honest news on how his TotalShite scheme is working out for the bots?

Is Messiah feeding the 5,000 with two fishes and five loaves of bread yet again or has he updated his menu?

Will He follow his feast with communion: "This is my milkshake. Drink this as oft as ye wish in remembrance of MLM."

@BSIntolerant The menu has changed to feeding 5000 with two mint choc chip shakes. He's even got a new hashtag ProjectX - I'm sure some other pyramid scheme had that as a hashtag last year. Can't remember which one

Just two shakes? It's a miracle. ProjectX could mean he's going to change those two shakes into wine, then into water, after which he'll walk on it. He's so predictable.

Hang on, does Messiah mean ProjectX or Project➕?

Maybe he's going to save us all.

Messiah Bot's head honcho in Mexico describes himself as 'God's chosen one' on his FB profile.

Thinking about Forever Living

I can see that getting a Chairman’s Bonus cheque once a year would keep you going nicely, if it’s a decent amount. I don’t really see how you can make a full time salary just by retailing, and it’s getting harder to recruit. In my research (snooping) it looks like they are a scraping the barrel a bit now; women on low incomes who won’t be able to ‘invest’ in their business. A few years ago the newbies seemed better heeled

Anyway my point is, can someone like Yawn or BFF make enough money to live off (and do attraction marketing) just on sales and recruiting? Even with a big downline? Yawn’s last CB cheque was 2 years ago....

I personally can’t see how yawn can make enough for her car payments and mortgage payments etc without the chairman’s bonus.
I will not shed a tear for her when it all collapses around her. She doesn’t care at all about the victims she is still trying to lure in. Utterly vile woman as she knows these victims will be losing money they most probably can’t afford.

So Sleaze has tagged himself and Wig at Radisson Blu hotel, Liverpool and added two stock photos from the internet as "proof". I'd lay a pretty safe bet that they're in a grotty B&B round the corner...

Yes there are a couple of recent ones who are clearly not in a position to splash out on overpriced gloop @Norma27 and it’s terribly sad to see them trying to sell lip balms at a discount, believing this is going to lead to financial independence.
I think they are simply overawed and dazzled by Yawn turning up with 3 inches of makeup, a designer handbag and a flash car.

And they trot out the lines about building a business so their family will be financially secure if anything happens to them. One is a lone parent. Yawn is a total leech, preying on women’s aspirations and exploiting their fears

I am absolutely on the bones if my arse at the moment and if I wasn’t more clued up on mlms would be a perfect victim for them to try and recruit. They make me sick.

@fitgirl26 - I expect they've run out of credit on their mobiles and are lurking in the lobby leeching off the wifi while trying to eke out a cup of tea for as long as possible before returning to the caravan.

Eternal vitality!

I was expecting this to be the new cult greeting between bots when they meet, replacing that dull old uninspiring "Hello."

Or they could use it at rallies:

"Eternal vitality, hunbots!"

"Eternal vitality, Majestic Botleader!"

Bit of an income claim from bff. ‘Who would like to make £500 for one hours work per day?’
Get lost with your bullshit income claims.

One hours' work per day over a month?
More like a year, if you're lucky...

Twenty - did she leave any aloo gloop in the house for you!?!?

So sorry to hear your story Twenty but thanks for sharing. I can't believe people are still getting sucked in to MLM schemes. I have a chronic condition and am shocked at bots using weaknesses like these and even cancer to prey on victims.

Is Messiah the CEO of TS Shute - is he getting the biggest piece of the pie then? I guess it's too soon to see his accounts?