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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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Bovneydazzlers · 04/03/2020 04:21

Great article from the talented ladies club.

It’s worth noting that all the accounts who have the same directors loan issues use the same small accounting firm.

It suggests that this one accounting firm are advising clients to do this. Take Castle’s accounts; they submitted their accounts for 2018 with no directors loan or ‘provision’ then resubmitted the same year accounts (this is quite rare thing for Company to do) and boom, up popped the loan and provision. No actual cash movement. The reason presumably being they didn’t want the tax bill at that time.

leasedaudi · 04/03/2020 08:00

PHD's limited company has been forced to release its first gazette for compulsory strike-off. Seems mindset and good vibes can't protect you from the long arm of HMRC..

Whiterangey · 04/03/2020 09:00

Great article, shocked about Castle not going to Australia, was there a reason why?

She's wasting money on this tour she is doing. I.m guessing it's the spending money to make money, epically minus the making money part.

Just worked it out, she's either getting a yoga mat cheque,or no cheque and that's why she isn't going. She hasn't been training so can't run off that stage quick enough.

Twentytwentyhindsight · 04/03/2020 10:17

I'm pretty sure you're right @Whiterangey.

Not turning up to receive a sad yoga mat/no cheque will mean not so much comparison will be made to the glory years, and she'll be more able to sweep it under the carpet. I expect more Yawn-style posts of increasingly ancient cheques in future, with the dates artfully cropped out.

I also expect the whole idea of travelling all the way to Australia to spend a couple of days in a grim hall cheering others on while not getting any of the VIP perks and then travelling all the way back (all in cattle class) is not particularly attractive.

The Eagle Managers 3 days in Thailand sandwiched between economy class flights looked grim enough, and she gave that a miss.

Spongebobette · 04/03/2020 10:29

She can’t use the excuse of not wanting to leave her little boy; she’s always leaving him behind to go to events

fromdownwest · 04/03/2020 10:37

Going to be a very poor UK contingent flying out.

I can’t believe that she is not willing to spend a couple of grand to fly to Oz to sit in a hall with cheering culty flag waving brain washed fools for 2 days then fly home?

Cacacoisfarraige · 04/03/2020 10:38

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Whiterangey · 04/03/2020 10:39

I'm actually genuinely disappointed she's not going. I was looking forward to that. I had a stopwatch and a representative from the Guinness world of records on standby for a record attempt of exiting a stage in the fastest possible time. Fr

Spongebobette · 04/03/2020 10:42

Actually yes there will be very few I think. Bloodsucker will go, but Uber and Castle have said they are not

That leaves Yawn... is her bestie going?

Twentytwentyhindsight · 04/03/2020 11:22

Maybe Tax Bill, Rarebot, Token Man & Lanza (although the latter two took to the stage flying the flag of Spain, IIRR)?

Spongebobette · 04/03/2020 11:43

Oh noooooooooooooo

BFF seems to have recruited someone who lives near me. This woman runs a 'wellness hub' which looks legit but she's clearly now going to use it to recruit.

NOWHERE IS SAFE

Tupperwarelid · 04/03/2020 14:19

Weren’t Castle’s BFF and her friend seen on instagram booking their flights to Oz?

JasperRising · 04/03/2020 15:03

UK Forever Living reps have got themselves in a bit of a corner. The uncertainty around Covid-19 would be an entirely understandable reason to be wary of travelling to Australia even in a couple of months - long haul flight with possible stopover in a badly affected region, hundred of people travelling in from all over the world to be crammed together in an airless auditorium (probably). Judging by some of the threads in this site lots of people would not think it was fear mongering not to want to go.

But that would mean admitting that their handwash and vitamins, shakes etc don't actually help against covid -19 (which of course we know they don't but lots of reps are trying to use it as a selling point).

Spongebobette · 04/03/2020 15:10

ah yes! The perfect get-out-of-jail-free card for bots to play!

Whiterangey · 04/03/2020 17:08

I would be wary of travelling anywhere just due to the risk of having problems getting back again. You get stuck in a hotel if someone comes down with it.

This reminds me of the swine flu outbreak, started with reporting everyone who had it and them being isolated, then it just exploded and couldn't be contained.

I'm scared of this outbreak because of the risk to the elderly and other at risk groups and how virulent it is.

By contrast, flu is harder to catch.

By rally time Covid 19 wil be pandemic and they may cancel the rally anyway.

Problem with it is many people won't know they have it so will go around spreading it. I've got two at risk loved ones, my biggest fear is inadvertently passing it on if I get it and don't realise I have it.

JasperRising · 04/03/2020 17:19

Yeah, I am supposed to be travelling abroad in just over a week and to be honest it is the fear of being caught up in an outbreak at hotel and not being able to get home that is making me wonder whether to cancel (and that is not going to the other side of the world).

With MLM reps, I would worry that belief in the power of the handgels etc means they aren't using soap and water properly - I'm sure there must be some research into the dangers of believing you're safe because you're using a product that isn't effective.

I have heard of some companies cancelling events all the way to May already so it would be plausible that global rally has to be cancelled (and as for any companies still sending reps on cruises...!). Except how does the company manage without the latest batch of images of people on stage with big cheques to lure new recruits in?

Sorry became a bit flow of consciousness there...

Spongebobette · 04/03/2020 17:24

Yes, the Global Rally is one of the major marketing events which Forever exploits and all the bossbabes get loads of content for their social media which us then shared by their downlines

Twentytwentyhindsight · 04/03/2020 17:30

Does anyone know what the alcohol content of FLP's much vaunted hand sanitiser is? The website does not say.

Remember NHS advice is that anything under 60% is as much use as a chocolate teapot.

FLP hand sanitiser (alcohol content unknown) costs £3.64 per 59 ml, Lidl hand gel (alcohol content 73.5%) costs 49p for 50ml.

For comparison that's £6.18 per 100ml of potentially useless shite (think fluoride-free toothpaste) from your local hunbot, coupled with a recruitment spiel, versus 98p per 100ml of proven stuff from your local discounter. Mmmmmh, decisions...

MermaidBikini · 04/03/2020 17:36

I'm sure FL bots could happily do a collaboration with Oily Huns under the guise of a double pronged approach. Remember when Young Living (?) claimed they could cure/prevent ebola...

hunzuncovered · 04/03/2020 17:39

Forevers has 62%

Twentytwentyhindsight · 04/03/2020 18:04

Thanks Hunz, at leat It should work as expected. However, that's still less than Lidl and more than 6 times the price!

JasperRising · 04/03/2020 18:08

The price is eyewatering (but good to know it won't be totally ineffective)! I thought the same about the toothpaste 6 quid Shock and to think I baulk at the cost of Colgate and only buy it on offer...

Twentytwentyhindsight · 04/03/2020 18:16

The toothpaste, however, is not just eyewateringly expensive, but is sold on the premise that it contains 0% of the ingredient all dentists recognise as the most important in preventing and reducing tooth decay...

BSintolerant · 04/03/2020 18:21

It’s worth noting that all the accounts who have the same directors loan issues use the same small accounting firm.

Is that firm of accountants recommended to bots by Forever? Wouldn’t it be awful if a firm was preparing accounts in such a way as to encourage bots to rack up lots of debt to the detriment of their limited companies in order to benefit Forever Living. I’m not saying that’s what’s going on here, but am I the only cynical, suspicious person on these threads?

Spongebobette · 04/03/2020 18:21

No
I have thought exactly the same

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