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MLM Bot Watch 47

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BSintolerant · 20/03/2019 21:29

The thread where network marketing / multilevel marketing goes local - not global.

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leasedaudi · 17/04/2019 21:02

@Whiterangey if I understand correctly, if Yawn can't pay back her company then she will need to pay 32.5% of the loan in tax to HMRC. I think..

www.gov.uk/directors-loans/you-owe-your-company-money

leasedaudi · 17/04/2019 21:04

What's the bet Yawn won't even make it to Stockholm this year? She hasn't mentioned it since October..

WoodenToyKitchen · 17/04/2019 21:25

Bot law of reaction dictates showing her tickets and hotel booking

Twentytwentyhindsight · 17/04/2019 21:27

Yawn's qualified for Stockholm, she recently posted about buying clothes to represent the UK at the Global Rally, so I guess she's going.

She must be a glutton for punishment- I'd have thought having your nose rubbed in other people's cheques (albeit getting rarer and smaller) in Dallas was bad enough. I can just imagine her having a 'It should have been me!' moment and leaping up on stage to wrestle one of the successful bots for their cheque...

Unless the clothes purchases were a decoy, and she's planning to bow out with a last minute excuse.

Spongebobette · 17/04/2019 21:28

Omg that video is awful

Her friends are still her friends, they interact with her personal posts, but because they are avoiding liking her business posts, and avoid discussing her ‘business’ with her, she no longer considers them friends???
And she believes that she’s made lifelong friends in FL?

Totally brainwashed

WoodenToyKitchen · 17/04/2019 21:32

But if you don't go, it's worse. In the humiliation stakes,I mean

Spongebobette · 17/04/2019 21:37

Not if you come up with a really good reason, like my son is doing his exams and I’m being the best mum ever and choosing to stay at home to support him...

I think she’ll go and take lots of carefully set up photos for her social media.

Twentytwentyhindsight · 17/04/2019 21:40

And if anyone feel sorry for some of the higher up bots whose biznisses are going down the pan, watch the video of that nurse, multiply it by thousands of victims (direct & indirect) whose lives have been knowingly blighted, and you might understand why the amount of sympathy from me is zero. The harder they fall, the more of a lesson for others.

SnoogyWoo · 17/04/2019 22:09

The nurse video is just totally tragic, angers me on every level. No one can have a shred of sympathy for the top bots after watching that. The damage it is going to do to that woman on a social, mental and financial level will be awful. If like she say she has a never give up attitude it will be a while before it all dawns on her.

Perthsmurf · 17/04/2019 22:12

Nurse bot’s video made me go cold. Every cliche going (I won’t fail because I am not a failure, real friends should unquestioningly support me, real friends would listen to my recruitment pitch, real friends would like my biznis posts etc), but it was the bitter undertone that got me. She seems to genuinely believe that her friends, including close friends, are the problem- not her- but it’s okay because she has new FL friends now.

It’s the perfect, sad video of how MLMs hook people in. It’s exactly as you have all described in previous threads, it is exactly why these threads are needed.

She will be mortified when she sees the light. I hope she doesn’t leave it too much longer.

Whiterangey · 17/04/2019 22:37

I'm eager to see the top bots lose everything, then they will know how what they have done to hundreds of others feels like.

OhMyGodTheyKilledKenny · 17/04/2019 22:42

Oh God watching that video was awful.

I hope she sees the light. I'm hopeful as I seem to remember Mrs Stickman doing a post about how disappointed she was that friends weren't supporting her business etc and she had a wake up call at some point so maybe the nurse will too.

Twentytwentyhindsight · 17/04/2019 22:48

@SnoogyWoo - I honestly fear for Nurse Bot. As you say, if she has a 'never give up attitude', she will invest more of herself into the FLP cult.

She already has an income, so the lack of income from FLP will not for e her to quit- indeed, she will probably be told that she isn't subsidising her biznis from her nursing wages, but investing in herself. The 'sunk costs fallacy' (look it up) will also help lock her in.

@Perthsmurf - this is the first stage of the brainwashing. Once she has been stripped of her real support network of friends, she will be even more vulnerable to what the uplines tell her. Before long, the fact that she is not successful (because she won't be) will no longer be ascribable to the 'negative influences', as she will have cut them out of her life, but will be her own fault for 'not wanting it enough', 'harbouring negative thoughts' etc., all of which will require mindset training and further dependency on the vultures who pray on the victims of MLM.

Twentytwentyhindsight · 17/04/2019 22:50

*force, not 'for e'; prey, not pray.

Norma27 · 17/04/2019 22:56

If yawn and other forever shite shills are reading this after seeing that video - I hope you get a good nights sleep tonight. These are the people you are hooking in and conning out of their money and self respect.
I can’t wait to see it all crumble.

Norma27 · 17/04/2019 23:08

Love it even a bot is saying how great their gloop is. Then a friend comments they love the strawberry one. Do you mean the berry nectar? No, the strawberry one I buy from Lidl!!
This is another one if yawn’s victims who has been conned into hours of free signing to lure in more deaf victims.

Paddy1234 · 18/04/2019 00:16

That video is so sad

ItsAGo · 18/04/2019 00:21

Long time lurker. I have my first bot on Facebook! Well I wanted to ask you if it was an MLM, it sounds like one. She’s started a travel business and within a week posted about people joining her team. Then a post about a call tonight to learn more. Then a post that she’s sorry if she’s not relied to you, she’s too busy sorting peoples holidays out. It’s an MLM right?

Hunbot · 18/04/2019 00:26

Poor mare only wanted to earn enough to take her kid to a theme park. That little kid is a victim too as mum is spending money on aloe gloop rather her kid(s) if her family and friends can't or won't support her then she has no chance. I wonder if she will stumble here one day. If she does I would like her to know that she didn't fail, she was working against possible odds and was taken advantage of by a well manicured shark. Don't try another mlm as they are all the same

Hunbot · 18/04/2019 00:28

Yes itsago that will be a mlm. I also doubt very much that her inbox is on fire or that she has sold a single holiday. Classic fake it till you make it lines

Twentytwentyhindsight · 18/04/2019 00:33

@Hunbot - if that's your idea of a good manicure, I don't think I could stomach a bad one!

Teddy1970 · 18/04/2019 00:33

Nurse Bot made uncomfortable viewing and I get she's a victim, but how long will it be before she pulls stunts like Yawn to get more recruits? Did people pity Yawn when she started out? Who knows, but It's an endless nasty cycle and I for one can't wait for MLMs to finally bite the dust...

Whiterangey · 18/04/2019 01:01

She won't end up like Yawn as she has morals. There is also not enough prospective victims left to build a money making downline.

She will keep plodding on at the level she is now until she sees the light, hopefully stronger rather than later. She also won't keep those who she recruits for long as she won't have what it takes to get people to keep spending money they don't have.

I find it frustrating, I desperately want to send her a message with all the information and links as to why she is losing money and will continue to do so and that Yawn is brainwashing her just for money.

Our evidence is good, it's watertight, statistics, links, personal stories, I can send her all that. I'd be sending her that for her benefit and that of her child, I'd be coming from a place of kindness I would have nothing to gain.

She wouldn't even click on one link and would then put up a post about haters and calling me the most terrible things and truly believing I'm a nasty horrible person who doesn't want to see her succeed. Yawn would then encourage her with a post about bullies and how nurse is awesome for overcoming it.

I know that threads like this prevent people from joining MLM's. I am a member of a forum where when the subject of MLM's came up I was straight in there with the facts and links. A month later someone was approached by a bot and because of what I'd written and the facts they had seen they said no.

It's just so frustrating knowing we can do nothing to help those who are botted.

Even when Nurse finally sees the light and leaves we know the emotional and financial impact will still affect her. She will cringe when she remembers that video and what she did to drive her friends away.

It bloody sucks

Teddy1970 · 18/04/2019 01:36

You're right whiterangey....anyone else notice Castle has gone very quiet?

Twentytwentyhindsight · 18/04/2019 01:41

Imagine the frustration when the botted one is your partner & the mother of your children, who has put membership of the cult above their genuine welfare & future for almost a decade, white.

@Teddy1970 - I see the point you're making about victims becoming perpetrators. My OH aspired (aspires?) to be like the image that the top bots project, I saw the changes, the taught distortions of the truth becoming a new internalised reality, as the cult mentality took over. She is a victim. She never made any money and now lives apart from her children as a result of her behaviour and actions as a brainwashed downline.

However, there are victims and perpetrators. It is not a sea of grey- bots who are (rapidly becoming 'were') successful are so because they were cynical enough to grasp and manipulate the scam that lies at the heart of MLM for their own benefit at the expense of others.

The senior bots we expose on this thread are not on the victim spectrum. They know what they are doing. They know how many people they have bigged up, praised and lovebombed have fallen by the wayside without so much of a passing mention when they stopped making money from them.

Hell, we know a number of them even follow this thread while telling their downlines to look the other way in case they have the scales removed from their eyes.

The harder the fall for those bastards, the quicker the demise of MLMs. My order for popcorn (salt & sugar) has gone in for the twin billing of the BBC exposé and the FLP live showing of the Stockholm Syndrome. I hope both prove to be the feel good productions they are billed to be.