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MLM Bot Watch 51: the Cult of multilevel marketing

998 replies

BSintolerant · 22/05/2019 18:17

Lies, creative accounting and the Law of Reaction. Network marketers, we’re onto you - and so is the BBC:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p076n2hg

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JaniceBattersby · 02/06/2019 23:29

Are there any former FLPers around who can explain WTF you have to do to make Eagle manager? #TIAhun

Twentytwentyhindsight · 03/06/2019 07:13

Apart from selling your soul, the requirements for Eagle Manager:

MLM Bot Watch 51: the Cult of multilevel marketing
MLM Bot Watch 51: the Cult of multilevel marketing
CanoeDoYouThinkYouAre · 03/06/2019 12:14

I'm rewatching Kath and Kim (puppy asleep on me, can't possibly move!) and it's the episode when Kath sells the pyramid scheme underwear.

"You know pyramid selling. The trickledown effect and roping in all your friends and brainwashing and such"😀

MrsDilligaf · 03/06/2019 12:15

Good god. You're right about selling your soul!

So basically the Centurion Whizz Bang Pigeons have to have 45 eagle managers, 90+ supervisors and eleventy billion bots in their bizniz?

...Listen up THIS MLM MALARKEY IS RUBBISH, IT'S DAFT! GET A PROPER JOB!

BSintolerant · 03/06/2019 12:55

Yes, get a proper job or start a real business.

GrinCenturion Whizz Bang Pigeons! Grin

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Jigsawpuzzle · 03/06/2019 13:42

PHD-Boyfriend paraded and how is she going to pack so much in whilst running her bizniz(answers on a postcard)
Yawn-caricature (nuff said)

GrimDamnFanjo · 03/06/2019 14:46

@Twentytwentyhindsight I thought I was smart but I can barely make head or tail of those requirements!

MLMsuperfan · 03/06/2019 18:21

How can you believe you own your own business when you have to jump through hoops set like that by other people, just to get paid?

Twentytwentyhindsight · 03/06/2019 18:53

M'y OH used to tell people she 'was partnered with FLP', like it was some sort of pairing of equals...

BangingOn · 03/06/2019 18:54

Homeschool is going all out with the recruitment posts at the moment, she’s sounding desperate.

Bovneydazzlers · 03/06/2019 19:57

So for Yawn to qualify (per the t&c's), she's got to have at least one eagle manager. Who is that?!

topcat2014 · 03/06/2019 20:03

What are all these names like "yawn" are they real people . What am I missing

CodenameVillanelle · 03/06/2019 20:41

They are real people, some high up bots that we follow for the shenanigans. We can't name them on here though or the thread gets pulled

Shhhhh223 · 03/06/2019 20:49

Receipt bot is a Manager, isn’t she in Yawns downline?

Twentytwentyhindsight · 03/06/2019 20:53

@Bovneydazzlers - I think that is for 'Senior Eagle Manager'. The bog standard Eagle manager doesn't need a downline Eagle Manager (although, as others have pointed out, the requirements are as clear as muck...).

It seems doubtful that Yawn actually achieved even that. My guess is that a couple of higher ups have turned down the trip and she is getting a hand-me-down.

BSintolerant · 03/06/2019 21:02

Sloppy seconds. Poor Yawn.

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thetemptationofchocolate · 03/06/2019 21:21

I am glad I'm not the only one who couldn't follow the Eagle stuff. It read to me like a whole lot of hard slog that's never-ending, what a depressing idea.
I think I'd rather be a budgerigar.

Bovneydazzlers · 03/06/2019 21:47

Twenty, I read the t&cs differently - I thought it said if you were a senior manager (or is Yawn a sapphire?) then you had higher entry requirements for eagle than if you were a manager (as also need an eagle in your down line).

No wonder many don't qualify given the criteria. After all the excitement and the crying down the phone 'we're going to Thailand eeek!' last month.

Sforsh49 · 03/06/2019 21:52

Any hints for Homeschool? Got most of the others!

Twentytwentyhindsight · 03/06/2019 22:00

You may be right @Bovneydazzlers, the whole thing seems designed to be confusing.

BangingOn · 03/06/2019 22:30

Homeschool is great at Helping You Find Your Greatness. She’s also good at wheeling out cheques from years ago and glossing over the fact that she doesn’t earn the big bucks anymore.

Sforsh49 · 03/06/2019 22:39

Got her, thanks 😊

SSDGM · 03/06/2019 23:01

Broke hasn’t had to start his CBD oil team again. I wonder who he has annoyed this time?
Now his new team are pushing that crap to people with Dementia and Epilepsy.

He’s also admitted he’s been taking tramadol and diazepam. While all the time smashing pharmageddon 🙄

He’s actually DISGUSTING.

BangingOn · 03/06/2019 23:04

Enjoy! She and her husband post some, erm, interesting Lives.

SSDGM · 03/06/2019 23:21

*has had