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MLM Bot watch 57- where the bizniss 'owners' are their own best customers.

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Bluewavescrashing · 06/02/2020 04:42

Time for a new Fred, huns. We watch bots (people who have signed up to multi level marketing schemes which are thinly veiled pyramid schemes). We expose their lies, in the hope that fewer vulnerable people will be sucked in to buying a fake business. This is not trolling. It's calling them out on their fakery. Welcome, huns.

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JaniceBattersby · 27/02/2020 23:47

Wowsers. It’s a bit odd her going on and on about the policy change that decimated her business and then repeatedly thanking the people who ‘terminated’ her. Plus all that stuff about her getting kicked out of groups. So much for the sisterhood eh?

Reformed1Bot · 28/02/2020 00:02

I think she is referring to the change in Case Credits for the business in a box, it went from 2cc per sign up down to just over 1cc, 1.085cc. This made it much harder to hit the 4cc needed each month.

Twentytwentyhindsight · 28/02/2020 00:03

So basically, prior to 2016, Homeschool had a mahoosive team of 90 managers, but it was 'decimated' by the new rule forbidding doing any other MLMs.

Basically, none of those 'successful' FLP bots could make ends meet without being in multiple MLMs simultaneously- says it all really...

BSintolerant · 28/02/2020 00:05

I suppose that bots who’ve been disbotted still feel loyal to the cult leaders, but that’s all part of the brainwashing service.

Such misplace gratitude reminds me of the arse-licking candidates in The Apprentice when they’re fired:

“Thank you for the amaaaaayyyyyzzzzzzing opportunity Sir Alan.”

“That’s okay, I’ll help you set up a product based pyramid scheme. Tropic? Nah, sounds like a chocolate bar. How about “Brassic” ‘cos it’s how the bots at the arse end of the pyramid will end up just to make us richer.”Wink

BSintolerant · 28/02/2020 00:07

I seem to have misplaced the letter “d”. I’m such a ickhead.

Reformed1Bot · 28/02/2020 00:17

I'll hazard a guess that her 'gratitude' is down to the fact that it's 27th February and she will be due a payment for February's turnover on 15th March, she can't jeopardise herself further if she wants them to pay.

Bluewavescrashing · 28/02/2020 02:26

Just found Home school, finally. Ironic that her top says 'delete the drama'. Looks like she's been deleted first! She likes a selfie a la Yawn doesn't she!

I wonder what impact her termination will have - she may eventually come out with more details about the reality of the biz.

If she signs up under PhD that will just be funny.

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Bluewavescrashing · 28/02/2020 02:27

What does her DH do? He seems to be in a lot of her videos.

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Norma27 · 28/02/2020 06:55

Her DH manipulates women into paying him to coach them. He is a complete narcissist charlatan. I find him deeply worrying to be honest.

AlexCabot · 28/02/2020 07:20

I got really confused by Homeschools Facebook. The photos and videos look like two different women!

I also feel terrible for the poor brainwashed victim who thought she was going to Australia. Homeschool never had any intention of seeing it through did she?

hunzuncovered · 28/02/2020 07:48

Interesting info on the new b-epic mlm hitting the UK LED BY rasher bot

m.facebook.com/groups/1847755422133684?view=permalink&id=2588335238075695

Bluewavescrashing · 28/02/2020 07:50

Homeschool reminds me of Yawn 😳 I think it's the close up selfies but also something in her mannerisms. Not loving the 'dynamic duo' videos tbh.

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Bluewavescrashing · 28/02/2020 07:59

Mr Homeschool is baffling. He claims on his website to have helped many professionals including 'Counselors, Psychotherapists, Psychologists' among others to discover that they have low self esteem. Surely people in those jobs are the ones actually qualified to do that?? If 8 wanted help with LSE I woukd be far more likely to book in with a qualified professional.

His website looks a bit like a children's party entertainer advert, but peppered with swears and airing his family's dirty laundry.

So the pair of them are doing mlm and his business but presumably earning virtually nothing and homeschooling their children. What an odd setup.

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Twentytwentyhindsight · 28/02/2020 08:05

They became vocal devotees of homeschooling when the FLP boom days started fading and the private school she bragged about being able to send her kids to became unaffordable.

Twentytwentyhindsight · 28/02/2020 08:06

Mr homeschool gives me the creeps.

Whiterangey · 28/02/2020 08:55

@Norma27 summed Mr Homeschool up perfectly.

He is scary with what he does to women.

Whiterangey · 28/02/2020 08:56

Autocorrect is brilliant. Just sent a message to my daughter saying I'd get her a bag of peanut MLM's.

The red one is the top bot.

thetemptationofchocolate · 28/02/2020 09:38

Buy a business in a box, you can be your own boss.

Until you are terminated.
Seriously how do bots marry this up in their schtick? It's your own business, but you have no control over policies/compensation plan and you can be sacked.
Wake up bots, it isn't your business. You are not business owners. What utter shite.

fromdownwest · 28/02/2020 09:46

Surely now they will know they are reps, nothing more nothing less.

I have mentioned it many times, but if FL can terminate your contract then you must fall under IR35.

That one ruling alone would destroy MLM in a second

Norma27 · 28/02/2020 10:01

It would be amazing if the reps did fall under IR35.
The tax implications for forever shite would be huge.

Norma27 · 28/02/2020 10:08

To explain IR35, it is to prevent companies pretending employees are self employed/contractors in order to avoid payment of taxes. IR35 is currently huge as it is changing to be the employers responsibility to make sure workers are termed correctly rather than the employee/contractor which it currently is. This changes in the next few weeks.

Spongebobette · 28/02/2020 10:18

urgh urgh urgh
Mr Homeschool with the stupid salute thing, the wacky beard and dungarees, the faux super positivity, the blatant preying on vulnerable women, the exploitation of his young family for social media content....
yuk yuk yuk

fromdownwest · 28/02/2020 10:19

Thanks @norma27, it would send them running in a second, imagine the trail of destruction it would leave behind.

Twentytwentyhindsight · 28/02/2020 10:21

If FLP has (or had) a blanket ban on their bots being involved in other MLMs, that would probably be found to be an 'illegal restraint of trade' and void.

Any bots who have fallen foul of this would have a very strong case in a court of law.

Twentytwentyhindsight · 28/02/2020 10:26

This restrictive covenant also further gives the lie to the idea that FLP bots are self-employed sole traders, and strengthens the case that they fall under IR 35.