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MLM Bot Watch 48 - Don't miss the BBC Documentary investigating the truth about Multilevel Marketing / Network Marketing!

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BSintolerant · 18/04/2019 09:56

Don't miss the BBC Documentary which is to be broadcast on BBC 3 & BBC iPlayer on the 27th April and BBC 1 on the 8th May!

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Twentytwentyhindsight · 18/04/2019 10:06

Thanks BS. What with the documentary and the fast approaching Stockholm debacle, this thread may well fill up very quickly!

foreverastri2 · 18/04/2019 10:17

Thanks for new thread Smile

gotmychocolateimgood · 18/04/2019 10:44

Thanks BSintolerant Brew

spanfan · 18/04/2019 10:48

New thread already? 😁

Thank you BS 😎

BSintolerant · 18/04/2019 11:03

You're welcome. We have a lot to talk about. Grin

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Spongebobette · 18/04/2019 11:18

Hello, thanks for the new thread

Welcome to anyone who comes across this thread looking for information about MLMs. On here we expose the lies that the so called successful network marketers tell in order to get more people to sign up under them.

Your upline is not your friend. They make money out of you.

If you are already in an MLM, keep records of every penny you spend on your business, including products you buy for personal use (because they are definitely costing you more than what you used to use). Include money you e spent on travel, leaflets, Success Days, coffee with a friend to pitch the opportunity.
Be honest. How much ACTUAL profit are you making? Not just the commission you are being paid, you need to subtract your expenditure.

If you are in Forever Living, keep a close eye on those at the top. Have a look at the big cheques they received 3 or 4 years ago and compare to what they get this year in Stockholm. Don’t be fooled by claims that they’ve had a year off, they haven’t, they’ve been recruiting as much as they possibly can. It’s just that people at the bottom drop out quickly, and here isn’t enough money going up the chain any more.

Whiterangey · 18/04/2019 11:30

It's a little over 2 weeks until Stockholm. I wonder who will be there. If Bruv and Sis will pay to go. Interested to see if Castle gets a cheque, there had been no mention from her or her siblings about a cheque. Castle hasn't mentioned the rally but we know she qualified at 5k. The siblings congratulate each other on everything yet nothing about castles cheque.

I really hope she hasn't as the reaction of her downline while waiting on big cheque night will be funny.

Twentytwentyhindsight · 18/04/2019 11:40

Speaking of Global Rally fun & games, Roomiebot has just put up her first FLP post for a while- shilling C9s.

SnoogyWoo · 18/04/2019 11:48

They do this business for 5 minutes and suddenly they are a business owner, coach and leader. Jesus. Makes a mockery of all the effort us real business owners put in!!

Spongebobette · 18/04/2019 11:59

@SnoogyWoo

GLOBAL business coach!

9dartfinish2nd · 18/04/2019 12:02

Anyone lurking who may be new to these threads and may be having doubts, please read this article and you'll see how this backs up what is being discussed here regularly.

botwatch.blog/2018/05/16/what-is-happening-to-forever-living/

BSintolerant · 18/04/2019 12:02

Twenty is Roomiebot's FB post down to the MLM Law of Reaction? Someone mentioned that she'd given up on the previous thread.

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Twentytwentyhindsight · 18/04/2019 12:02

Doesn't it just @SnoogyWoo. My OH described herself as 'owning an international business' coz her Mum abroad bought gloop off her...

There was also some bloke in the US stalking her open profile who would occasionally buy something for engagement. The cheques in US dollars from these transactions were for less than it would cost to cash them here, but she saw it as validating her claim.

Meanwhile, when a friend of ours, the only self-made millionaire we know who runs a number of successful businesses and has an MBA, listened to her description of FLP and commented "so it's pyramid selling?", she told him he didn't understand the first thing about business... Didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

MLMsuperfan · 18/04/2019 12:02

If I started a business I still wouldn't hassle my friends and family to buy from me. If I couldn't make it work without strip mining my social capital, it would never work long term anyway.

Whiterangey · 18/04/2019 12:13

I'm holding on to hope that the C9's Roomie is selling are ones she already has and is not still with forever.

Twentytwentyhindsight · 18/04/2019 12:28

@Whiterangey - Law of Reaction says she will now post that she is putting in an order and wants to know who wants some...

Tupperwarelid · 18/04/2019 12:47

I'm sure when Bruv posted some photos from the weekend he said something about seeing them all in Stockholm. It is his team after all so I'm sure he will be there to support them!

Twentytwentyhindsight · 18/04/2019 12:51

Still wondering about the UK-specific incentive to win flights (but fuck all else) to Stockholm to mask the decline in Global Rally qualifiers - does anyone know if some/any bots got it? Is there a list somewhere?

Paddy1234 · 18/04/2019 13:04

Thanks BS

It's going to be good month counting down to the documentary and Sweden

Shhhhh223 · 18/04/2019 13:09

Thanks for the new thread 👍🏻

dickiedavisthunderthighs · 18/04/2019 13:22

I saw a post on FB the other day where FL were suggesting that those who "couldn't make" the rally in Stockholm arrange home watching parties instead to cheer everyone on. Tragic.

Twentytwentyhindsight · 18/04/2019 13:26

@dickiedavisthunderthighs - maybe we should all do that!

SnoogyWoo · 18/04/2019 13:30

Home watching parties Grin heard it all now.

Paddy1234 · 18/04/2019 14:00

To be fair I do have my very own party watching it giggling away

Norma27 · 18/04/2019 14:03

FL must be torn between wanting to tell bots to watch Sweden, but also not wanting them to as they will see the huge drop in cheques and will likely see UK drop down the world rankings. They plummeted last year and surely will again next year.
I’m stocking up on champagne for my own party!