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MLM Bot Watch 53: The saga continues...

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GoldenKelpie · 28/08/2019 08:00

Starting a new thread on all things MLM!

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dickiedavisthunderthighs · 13/09/2019 14:53

In Yawn's world, pointing out her smoke/mirrors and downright lies means you're either trolling or bullying.

I saw a post from one of her minions the other day talking about what an amazing and supportive mentor Yawn is. There were a couple of very misplaced commas, almost as if Yawn had written it herself. Intriguing.

Spongebobette · 13/09/2019 15:35

some bots are very adept at turning anything into a source narcisstic supply.

Spongebobette · 13/09/2019 15:39

turning to another bot...Nurse did a live about 10 months ago about mindset and attracting positivity, not being put off by people not being interested in joining her or cancelling appointments blah blah blah..... telling people not to put off joining the business because just imagine what they could achieve in 3 or 6 months if they started today.
Now we are 10 months down the road, does it not occur to her that her dreams are no closer, she hasn't made any money or built a team despite all the Dave O'Conman self improvement mindset tapes she's listened to?????

Twentytwentyhindsight · 13/09/2019 16:14

That's the truly toxic bit of the brainwashing 'mindset' bollocks peddled by the likes of O'Conman.

Nurse has accepted all the bullshit she's been fed by the likes of Yawn as gospel truth. If she is somehow aware of the dichotomy between the 'guarantees' and her reality, it must be her that's the problem, not the fact she's been told a pack of lies.

Once botted to that extent, the answer is to double down on the 'working on yourself' bullshit.

It is a vicious circle, because none of it will change the fact that FL is going down the pan, no one wants her overpriced gloop, and she is a screaming advert of why not to join her 'biznis'.

The only ones that will continue benefiting are her upline and the parasitic con artists 'mindset coaches' who will feed of her failure.

It's a really nasty trick, because the blame for her failure is being laid at her door, and she buys into this, while also believing that she must be positive all the time to succeed. A great recipe for a downward spiral in her mental health as the contradictions become ever greater.

Spongebobette · 13/09/2019 16:49

Of course- it didn't occur to me that she will have paid for the mindset stuff ...more money that she can't really spare, sunk into this scheme.

It just a matter of time before she won't be able to afford to belong to the Yawn club and she'll slink away, defeated and blaming herself for not being positive enough to attract a big team and create residual income. I really don't know how she is currently affording to stay 'active'

Twentytwentyhindsight · 13/09/2019 17:18

It's a dreadful thing to say, but the best thing that can happen to her is to run out of cash and be incapable of sinking any more into it.

She will probably feel like a failure, but at least she will have broken out of the spiral and be able to assess her situation in the cold light of day.

My OH had extensive credit lines, me to keep our heads (just) above water, and finally an inheritance from her father, which meant she plugged away throwing money at it for many years more... (including literally thousands on mindset books and CDs - I just found another stash while emptying the attic, including some books she had eight copies of - as well as £80 a month for half an hour's time of some online coach)

It would have been much better for her to be temporarily destitute to the point of having to give up.

Spongebobette · 13/09/2019 18:07

Oh that’s awful. I suppose you’ll never know how much the vultures took from you.

People who think we are mean to the bots need to know how appallingly manipulative they are and how they suck their victims, like your wife, dry... lovebombing them, then pressurising them, then blaming them. Them moving on to fresh victims.

It’s an evil set-up and those (very very few) who do well are doing so by exploiting others, particularly those who are vulnerable.

Spongebobette · 13/09/2019 18:08

Btw is she still involved in Forever Living?

Twentytwentyhindsight · 13/09/2019 18:48

I don't think so, or if so, only on an incidental basis.

Since she moved out, she has had to face the reality that not only was FLP not going to make her a residual income millionaire, but that it would not even pay for a bedsit.

She has trained to coach a leisure activity she really enjoys, and is making a decent living of it from what I can tell.

Just a pity that it took me telling her she had to leave for her to finally realise FLP wasn't going to deliver the goods. The kids have taken it in their stride, they see her a couple of times a week now, rather than every day, but it is now quality time, rather than her being constantly distracted by whatever meaningless tasks her uplines and mindset gurus had filled her days with.

We have lost close to ten years financially, something we will not recover from, especially as we were 'older' parents when she got sucked in, but I don't really get a sense from her that she has realised what a disaster it was. When we see each other FL does not come up, but my sense is that she thinks it didn't work out for her due to various negative influences, rather than seeing it as the scam it is.

Spongebobette · 13/09/2019 19:18

So sorry @Twentytwentyhindsight.

Spongebobette · 13/09/2019 19:20

To any new readers; this is where the money comes from to pay for the top bots’ Range Rover, the flashy wedding, the barn conversion, the holiday ‘lodge’. All from downlines striving to make it, to copy their uplines, hoping to achieve the same.
It’s a rigged system

leasedaudi · 13/09/2019 19:48

Aaaah Yawn has a thatch Reno insta so she can rival the castle Reno 💕

Twentytwentyhindsight · 13/09/2019 20:13

They are so fucking lacking in imagination...

How could anyone really aspire to that level of hollowness?

AntiBotics · 13/09/2019 20:50

They’re all a bit late to the Instahome party which took off about 2-3 years ago!

Castle is posting the “reno” on both her personal and home accounts despite setting the latter up to avoid spamming everyone with the house. I feel like it’s not going to look much different than before.

willdoitinaminute · 13/09/2019 20:57

So I could join FL, fart around taking lots of selfies promoting my wonderful life, do up a house, lease a fancy car, buy a caravan, spout utter crap about how to become a global success end up bankrupt and then.....?
Or I could work hard in my proper business, sell my proper business for real money ( no credits, points, diamond stars or whatever) and retire at 55. Have enough real money to BUY my dream car, pay someone else to do up my mortgage free house and choose my own luxury holidays. And to cap it all I never have to go to success days and prance about on stage being successful while the rest of the country is enjoying an Indian summer!

Spongebobette · 13/09/2019 21:02

Monkey see monkey do, eh Yawn?

Spongebobette · 13/09/2019 21:11

Castle seems to be actually spending some money, whereas Yawn’s ‘renovations’ have only ever amounted to a coat of paint, ruining an old wooden staircase by glueing wallpaper to it and cramming every nook and cranny (see what I did there) with tatty upcycled ‘bits’ or cheapo purchases from Homesense. Her only interior design idea is ‘let no surface or wall be unadorned’ and there’s no overall theme.

I’m sure she loves it but I don’t think she can pass as an interior designer!

SaucySausageSandwiches · 13/09/2019 21:22

Castle seems to be getting her FIL to do the labour though

spanfan · 13/09/2019 23:51

Success day tomorrow. Always great entertainment. 😎😎

Norma27 · 14/09/2019 05:55

Can’t wait for yawn’s stage ‘debut’.
As someone else said, she needs to use a bit of her huge wealth to purchase a dictionary so that she can use words correctly.

Norma27 · 14/09/2019 07:52

I might start renovating my house today. I will hang a few decorations and glue some crap to the floor and stairs. That should do it I think. Renovations will be complete by tonight hopefully.

SnoogyWoo · 14/09/2019 10:00

Don’t forget to cut the grass as well Norma.

Spongebobette · 14/09/2019 11:38

Of course, I’d forgotten, they’ve had to completely reorganise Success Day. They used to fill the Ricoh Arena with whopping bots and have dozens and dozens of them walking across the stage being ‘recognised’ because they’d achieved the dizzy heights of Assistant Supervisor or something

But since those glory days of 2015/16 (when I first became aware, the numbers have plummeted and it’s been apparent that they can’t even fill a small part of the arena any more (and can’t hide the fact because all the bots are filming everything) so now they are doing ‘pods’ which presumable is a carousel type of system.

Spongebobette · 14/09/2019 11:39

Lol

*WHOOPING bots

(Although some of them are whopping)

Spongebobette · 14/09/2019 11:53

Looking forward to hearing what Nurse thinks of it; I assume she’s going, she promised to go to every single Success Day this year