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MLM Botwatch 56 - New Year, New Thread

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Jasmin82 · 31/12/2019 23:50

Bot-watching into 2020. Hoping it's a good year for all (and the end of MLMs - Hey, a girl can dream!)

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girlicorne · 16/01/2020 21:52

omg how on earth is she going to repay that? Even just the tax on it is going to be ££££ (I believe the loan can be written off but the individual is still liable for tax?)

9dartfinish2nd · 16/01/2020 22:02

@CodenameVillanelle

I don't know who sacked bot is but the i am certainly aware of the upline you refer to.

She was with Nu Skin several years ago and was one of the so called high flyers who qualified for a success trip to South Africa back in 2017. Like most of the other UK Nu Skin reps who also went on that trip things have went spectacularly pear shaped for their "biznizzes" since and she was no exception, She then had a brief stint at Valentus I believe before joining FM.

nakedavengeragain · 17/01/2020 06:44

Nurse frothing about 'delivery day'. She's got 5 cartons of Aloe, 4 lip balms and some multi vitamins that are for 'customers'

We know three of the cartons are for her Mum. Can't imagine the huge income one can gain from that lot. £20 maybe?

AntiBotics · 17/01/2020 08:44

Nurse really is her own best customer Wink

fromdownwest · 17/01/2020 08:56

That will bring most people in a solid business down having that to repay, yet alone a male believe job.

Do they all use the same accountants, do the accountants advise them that it is a bad decision do you think?

Whiterangey · 17/01/2020 09:00

I am not good with accounts, I don't understand any of it, other than what has been posted here previously. I believe she probably only pays the tax on it each year, not sure how it works.

When she can no longer afford to do that is when she her company will go into insolvency and she will have to sell the house. I imagine she doesn't have a lot of equity in it though.

9dartfinish2nd · 17/01/2020 09:50

The bots with Directors loans are in complete denial in the belief that the good times are just around the corner again, If any of them had a fraction of business acumen then they would have realised that the peak for FLP occured several years ago and now the country is now beyond saturated.
Awareness of the scammy and predatory nature of MLM's has also never been higher amongst the general public and this is another obstacle as to why the boom years will never return.

fitgirl26 · 17/01/2020 10:27

I believe that Sacked's upline was previously known as "Soft Focus" Bot on here on account of no-one knowing what she actually looks like in real life 😂

Twentytwentyhindsight · 17/01/2020 11:02

Can't see Soft Focus Bot's profile on FB (blocked?), but found her on Insta.

Whiterangey · 17/01/2020 11:56

Oh yes, I remember soft focus bot. Still true.

Spongebobette · 17/01/2020 12:03

I don’t
Clue please!

Twentytwentyhindsight · 17/01/2020 12:28

@Spongebobette - yesterday, Sacked posted a screenshot of a post by Soft Focus (about one of her minions achieving car plan).

acatcalledjohn · 17/01/2020 13:07

How many months until that bot will be forking out her own car payments? 1?

9dartfinish2nd · 17/01/2020 13:42

Can I have a clue for Sacked bot?

leasedaudi · 17/01/2020 13:43

Don't they pay their own car payments anyway? It just comes out of their gross pay rather than net if they earn enough?

Bluewavescrashing · 17/01/2020 13:51

Law of reaction--Bruv had friends in his flat.

Bluewavescrashing · 17/01/2020 13:51

He cooked them soup in the pan on the hob

Twentytwentyhindsight · 17/01/2020 14:02

@9dartfinish2nd - Vehicle in a posh type (6,7)

JackDelaney · 17/01/2020 14:30

Soft Focus also recently posted some emails from HQ showing off her bonuses. And then straight after the first one there was another email from HQ showing off her hubby's bonus as well.

First thing I wondered is, if she's such a high flier and these emails are commonplace to advise on bonuses, why hasn't she posted any before? I mean, she's the sort of person who would have posted extracts from emails as soon as she received them.

Also, why were there grammatical errors on them...albeit only small ones. But noticeable enough to look suspicious.

The skeptic in me is thinking she perhaps thought of a good way to boost her status and so she wrote the emails herself.

Also it was really weird how her husband reacted to his bonus by saying "Is that for me?"

Like, if you're serious about your business, serious enough to be hitting ranks and earning bonuses, then you would know when you're gonna receive a bonus and it wouldn't be a surprise.

Saying "is that for me?" did not sound like an authentic response from someone who is actively working a business. It felt like it was trying to make it sound genuine but backfired.

Or perhaps she's using his involvement with the business to build her downline in a better way. I've heard about people signing up family members and using their account for certain reasons.

In any case. Something is really not genuine about her and I suspect that she is massively exaggerating her success. After all, she has always been broadcasting herself as successful. Nu Skin and Valentus. She was successful in all of them just before she quit so she's lied before and she's probably lying now.

Spongebobette · 17/01/2020 15:18

Really really suspicious when you see bots like Softfocus and Sacked posting non stop à out their downline being promoted/ ranking up, whatever they call it. It sounds like Valentus when Salon was posting about all her teamies getting promoted every day but it turned out they were having to plough money in to get ‘promoted’

Spongebobette · 17/01/2020 15:30

Golden Orchid, Pearl Orchid

Oof

Whiterangey · 17/01/2020 15:32

They sound like fabric softeners.

9dartfinish2nd · 17/01/2020 15:44

@Spongebobette

I'm led to believe that the early promotions at FM World aren't that difficult to obtain and it's the perfect breeding ground for publicly love bombing your downline.

BSintolerant · 17/01/2020 17:21

The word orchid derives from an Ancient Greek word for testicle, which is apt given that these promotions are a load of bollocks.

Spongebobette · 17/01/2020 17:52

🤣🤣🤪