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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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Norma27 · 06/07/2019 06:45

Nurse is about to do her 3rd c9 of the year.
I thought it reprogrammed you the first time into changing your lifestyle. Why the hell would anyone need to do it every couple of months.

Whiterangey · 06/07/2019 08:50

What I cannot understand is that Castle, Yawn, and the rest are counting on business improving. I do think they honestly believe things will go back to 2015/16 again.

That is their strategy. At the level Bruv and Sis are at they are unlikely to be making any money. Didn't even qualify this year for the rally. The whole family put all their eggs into the same pyramid shape basket.

I'd feel bad for them if they weren't spending their time rinsing people of their cash.

Though we can never be sure what is going on as bots spin everything to be positive. We do know however that castle's income has been greatly reduced and her sibs are likely not earning anything.

OhMyGodTheyKilledKenny · 06/07/2019 09:12

Though we can never be sure what is going on as bots spin everything to be positive

....and if that becomes impossible and there is nothing to put a positive spin on, or it really becomes blatantly obvious that it's a lie, then maybe that's when they quietly disappear from social media eg. bruv

OhMyGodTheyKilledKenny · 06/07/2019 09:14

...and maybe even Yawn? Could making her private fb account private and rarely posting on the business one be part of her plan to disappear quietly as she realises there's nothing left in FL for her

Jonsey32 · 06/07/2019 09:56

Yawn is now very active on instagram though.

ImpracticalCape · 06/07/2019 10:14

Is nurse supervisor? How did that happen? No success day? Desperate to be supervisor bot made it look incredibly hard and errr she's got a massive order.
Sure we would had the fanfares if she is supervisor?

shamrockandroll · 06/07/2019 11:53

The inevitable thing is that slowly the business will die.
It is a poor business model that was never sustained-hence why true business people gave MLM the swerve!
Previously many relied on the fact that business was cyclic - i.e in Forever things pick up every 7 years -a correction and then the boom years come! This time round was different.
Why? The reason quite simply is Social Media.
Previously it was not around to be used and abused. All companies spammed the hell out of it are aware - issue came because now everyone is aware and avoids like the plague.
The 7 year cycle will not happen and those waiting will lose a lot more money before the penny drops!

OhMyGodTheyKilledKenny · 06/07/2019 11:59

Jonesy32 the only Instagram account I can find for her is private too though.

Difficult to put yourself out there to potential new recruits if it's all private

Spongebobette · 06/07/2019 12:52

I’d not heard of the 7 year cycle.

Presumably if everything cools down for a couple of years there’ll be people who have never heard of FL and therefore a new batch of victims, but as you say there’s now a long trail of testimonies online which are easily found by anyone with half a brain who has a look.

Whiterangey · 06/07/2019 13:19

I agree, definitely no boom cycle. MLM'S reached saturation point on social media. The anti-MLM movement is everywhere online. Nobody wants your essential oils Karen.

They have even given a proper name to someone who shills for an mlm. I feel bad for anyone called Karen.

The education in how bad they are is out there. Documentaries have been made. This is a terminal decline and there is no coming back from it.

Gone are the days when all you needed were no morals and the gift of the gab and there was the possibility of making it. Now there isn't even a chance.

In FL this year there was nobody new who qualified for the global rally. It was all the old faces, though some were missing. You have zero chance of actually making money.

Becoming a manager doesn't mean anything, you are still paying to play. Receipt bot got her name because her card got declined while buying shopping. She is a recent manager.

Had probably spent thousands buying her title.

This is the end. All that is left to do is watch all of the top bots lose everything they gained by financially crippling others. It serves them right.

What are the castle's going to do for income? Yawn? Can't see them going back to a J.O.B.

Spongebobette · 06/07/2019 17:17

Can someone explain what ‘supports cellular function’ means?

acatcalledjohn · 06/07/2019 17:25

Doesn't it improve the mobile phone signal wherever you are? Yawn could do with some of that.

gotmychocolateimgood · 06/07/2019 17:47

It's just vague pretend science. Complete rubbish. Biology graduate here.

Whiterangey · 06/07/2019 18:32

Eat a healthy diet, move about a bit, don't smoke, don't drink too much, and don't do crack.

That's all you need to be as healthy as you can be.

If your body is lacking anything that should be done through the doctors.

New supervisor bot is also apparently a nutritionist. On her nutritionist page she had posted some thing about some woman who got very poorly from a vitamin b12 deficiency. I've been there and done that, including the very poorly bit. It's called pernicious anaemia, my stomach cannot absorb vitamin b12 through food or even supplements. It used to kill people. I just have an injection into the muscle in my upper arm every 12 weeks and I'm good.

There is nothing other than the injection that will get the b12 into me and others like me. To try and sell shite and say otherwise is rubbish.

An extra dose of vitamins for anyone or supplements of any kind will result in very expensive wee.

They try and sell shite by using fancy words but it's all bullshit.

BangingOn · 06/07/2019 20:14

Is Homeschool jumping ship to another MLM? Her post this evening could be read that way.

(Are we still calling her Homeschool? I’ve lost track)

SaucySausageSandwiches · 06/07/2019 21:49

I never worked out who homeschool is. Can anyone help?

BangingOn · 06/07/2019 22:28

Homeschool claims to be an expert in Finding Your Greatness

Sunshineandshowers81 · 06/07/2019 22:55

What are all the new things going on with airix?

SSDGM · 06/07/2019 23:19

Cellis - looks like Derbybot has jumped from
ariiiiiix to start flogging this cellular nutrition crap. Here we go again. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Whiterangey · 07/07/2019 12:38

It was me being touchy about calling her homeschool. I read something that I could connect with on a private group and suggested we change her name. That was a bit twattish of me.

Just watched some of her video about her weight . What a load of rubbish. She cannot keep her story straight. Saying she has changed her mindset for 7 years and then saying that she was emotionally eating because she didn't care about herself or whatever.

She speaks gobbledegook. Mentions an eating disorder. You lose any right to have any shred of sympathy when you shill harmful weight loss shite.

She's been on so many C9's saying they are the secret to long term weightloss and now she is saying it's something else.

I think she will be leaving FLP for another mlm. Remember when she commented on PHD's status asking for more info about PHD's new opportunity?

I can see her shilling oils.

SSDGM · 07/07/2019 13:15

I only found homeschool for the first time last night.

“Join my team! Here’s yet another selfie of me with exactly the same expression as the last 100!”

Also: woman who just had a child in weight loss shock. 🙄

DownThePan · 07/07/2019 14:39

Anyone joining the Oily biz will be wayyyy down the pyramid. Surely there's no money to be made unless you got in early?

SaucySausageSandwiches · 07/07/2019 14:57

Is Homeschool the one who wrote a tell-all book?

BangingOn · 07/07/2019 14:59

Hmm, now she’s back to posting pictures of her FL cheques from years ago.

Annoyingly she posted recently about The Goddess Revolution, which is about developing a healthy relationship with food and everything that’s the opposite of what FL stands for. She can’t see the contradiction between a healthy relationship with food and the shite she peddles.

suedoname · 07/07/2019 17:25

I wonder how much longer she can hold on for. Homeschool was having business issues at the end of 2016. She did a live in a private group that belonged to Uber and o'conman saying that she knows this £299 training will help her.