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MLM Bot Watch 61: enquire within upon everything pyramid-shaped

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GoldenKelpie · 13/06/2020 12:33

New Fred! Welcome all!

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Ladiva1971 · 24/06/2020 12:06

In one pic posted with him sitting on the back of a truck he actually looks like he is crying. Sad

SSDGM · 24/06/2020 12:35

Looks like Broke’s Ex is letting him in the house with the kids again. They’ll be back together by the end of the summer, I’m sure.

Spongebobette · 24/06/2020 16:54

I’ve mentioned many times in here how much I disapprove of publishing photos of children on completely open social media accounts.

Children have a right to anonymity and privacy. The parents who share photos in the way Castle and Uber do are making a huge mistake. In the future their children may ask them why they thought they had the right to do that. The lucky ones are those who have been allowed to grow up without their images being shared with the world.

Children are becoming more aware of their online identity and are more often savvy than their parents

JasperRising · 24/06/2020 17:07

Wasn't there a celebrity whose daughter laid into them for continuing to share photos of them despite being asked not to?

I think children complaining about sharenting is going to get more common. Image has always been such an important part of identity (clothes, hair, shoes etc) and social media is now part of image and identity (for better or for worse) - nobody wants someone else controlling their image... Fair enough if you have employed a stylist or PR specialist to manage your image but that is not what is happening between kids/parents. Parents are determining their kids image and using them as part of their own image/identity. I'm sure it is going to be causing issues in the future for family dynamics.

Bluewavescrashing · 24/06/2020 17:20

FFS. A friend whom I have a lot of respect for, who is openly very scathing about mlms and often posts anti mlm stuff on her social media, has just announced she's joined body shop at home. Why?!

Spongebobette · 24/06/2020 17:32

That’s the one that seems to remain under the radar as people like the products and it was established pre MLM

Sforsh49 · 24/06/2020 21:35

So today's activity in Bot Land

Broke who was staying sober to get from the ground floor to the penthouse is currently drunk in his exes greenhouse....... (slight play on words there but it made me smile 😂) anyone want some magic pills for £10 today??

Uber is hot and sitting in her air conditioned kitchen, is anyone else hot?

Yawn is hot and using her fan on her zoom meetings from her shed, just in case you wondered what the whirring is. Anyone want to join her empire?

Castle has let someone else's kid in the hot tub with hers, not sure social distancing allows for sharing bath water with ransoms you don't live with, even with the new relaxed rules but the lockdown rules didn't apply to them anyway so......

Nurse, well what is there to say? Kid has been in his paddling pool in his swimming trunks in the yard all day, and she's reused one of Yawns ad things on her story. It's all go.

Hunbot · 24/06/2020 21:43

You missed that bbl is closing down her shop to focus on selling her magic pills

Sforsh49 · 24/06/2020 21:46

I've also just seen that Bruv on his stories has screenshot one of his Indian downlines stories and added it to his own, where he is described as "millionaire mentor from uk" 😂😂😂😂😂

CompleteBarstool · 24/06/2020 22:22

@Hunbot

You missed that bbl is closing down her shop to focus on selling her magic pills
Eh?!

She redecorated/revamped it during lockdown Confused

AlexCabot · 24/06/2020 22:25

If you believe Tattle (pinch of salt springs to mind!) BBL's been using the shop as a brothel/drug money laundering facility.

She's also been constantly breaking lockdown rules and doing eyebrows there so that may be part of it.

Getthekettleon2020 · 24/06/2020 22:39

Re money laundering.Cash 💴 is now being treated with suspicion.
Why do they still refer to the bots as an ex (last real job) which is usually years ago. Specsaver bot last worked 5 years ago and JL bot left when?
In the current climate there will be no interest in employing people with such huge gaps.

YouokHun · 24/06/2020 22:40

FFS. A friend whom I have a lot of respect for, who is openly very scathing about mlms and often posts anti mlm stuff on her social media, has just announced she's joined body shop at home. Why?!

Because she hasn’t really understood what MLM is? I find this with people who build a scale of MLM evil with Body Shop and Neals Yard at one end and Herbalife at the other; failing to understand that aside from a different lingo they are much the same (Especially in terms of outcomes for sign ups). I felt this was very much the type of thinking the DG of the DSA UK was employing or trying to appeal to in her Woman’ Hour appearance and other places I’ve read her misunderstandings. I’ve noticed that where she is quoted she’s keen to stick to examples of British organisations that have a high street presence or are relatively small. It fits in with the “direct selling” narrative of nice ladies sharing recognisable (and therefore “legit“) product and making a nice bit of extra money and making friends, rather than MLM (a phrase she wants banned as”misrepresenting” direct selling) exploiting the social network women have. She never ever talks about some of the more prominent DSA members like FLP, Modere etc.

It’s people like your friend @Bluewavescrashing who are getting swept up in the current situation by this positioning of a known British brand as somehow safer than “MLM” - we know different don’t we? :(

BSintolerant · 24/06/2020 23:53

Speaking of the Direct Scammers Association, have you seen this rogues’ gallery?

dsa.org.uk/board-of-directors-2/

The Vice Chair of the DSA (former bot mentioned above) is also the Cunty Manager of Forever Living Products UK, Ireland and Iceland.

I wonder what the board of the DSA thought about theIf DG trying to persuade the listeners of the Woman’s Hour programme that the DSA wanted to move away from the MLM label in favour of the term “direct selling”? Don’t worry! We can describe MLM as direct sales too - mud sticks.

BSintolerant · 24/06/2020 23:54

thelf? Their! Pig tit fingers ...

Bluewavescrashing · 25/06/2020 04:23

Absolutely @YouokHun.

YouokHun · 25/06/2020 08:50

@BSintolerant that’s a line up of pretty much all the worst offenders isn’t it?

I’m quite interested in the DG - another reason to dismantle the honours system; I can’t for the life of me see an element of public service or major contribution that isn’t entirely commercially self-serving, so why the OBE? I’m hoping if the CoronaVirus crisis has taught us anything, it’s taught us who gives the most valuable contribution to society - we haven’t been relying on Sir Philip of Monaco or the DG of DSA/small business expert have we? Let’s hope (if we must have an honours system at all) it can start to soley recognise people making unselfish contributions for society’s good (not pension strippers, well remunerated civil servants and pyramid promoters). Sorry... off topic!

She’s got a lot of work to do to get to know what agenda her DSA Board really has. It’s depressing that her gong may lend a certain legitimacy to the DSA in the eyes of some. Especially as she is/was an adviser in a Govt department. No one wants the Secretary of State for Trade & Industry selling aloe Vera as their side hustle Grin

Norma27 · 25/06/2020 13:04

And now castle's sis is coming round to recuperate after radiotherapy.
After mixing households again and again.
I really have no words for that absolute twat.

Getthekettleon2020 · 25/06/2020 15:11

Just noticed a bot try to flog FL products on marketplace, I think she is in Yawns team.
1st name 7 letters starts with the letter before Z, second name 5 letters
1st name starts with 4th letter of alphabet .

Getthekettleon2020 · 25/06/2020 15:13

Sorry typo second name starts with 4th letter of alphabet.

Norma27 · 25/06/2020 15:21

I know who you mean. Yep she is in yawn's team.

CompleteBarstool · 25/06/2020 16:25

I see Yawn has used the old fall back post of " What hairstyle should I go for? "

Always a good one to use when you run out of things to post about and need some interaction (rather than just a few Likes) and adoration.

BSintolerant · 25/06/2020 17:28

Yawn should cut her hair off and hide it in a suitcase in her cellar along with trophies from her botnap victims and her collection of invisible cheques. I say cheques because I think she’s stolen Uber’s to keep it company. Wink

Bluewavescrashing · 25/06/2020 17:48

Nurse has posted: 🙄

Love this 👇🏽x Just had to share this 😘

"SO FED UP OF ALL THESE PEOPLE FROM AVON, JUICE PLUS, NUSKIN, SLIMMING COFFEE, YOUNIQUE, FM, FOREVER LIVING, ACTI-LABS, IT WORKS, ETC SHOWING UP ON MY FACEBOOK" 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

Why ?? What is it that they are doing that's effecting your life so much ?? I'll tell you ...

Absolutely nothing.

What these amazing ladies are doing is trying to better their life and their families lives. They took an incredible opportunity and worked their tails off to get to where they are. Yes they post on Facebook, (so do billions of other people on the planet), it's 2020 get with the times !! BUSINESSES ARE CHANGING. Most of them now turn to social media to build their businesses and take them to the next level. ❤️

The next time you see a woman posting her status promoting her products/business instead of rolling your eyes, give her a like, give her a share or even comment on her post and say "good job". 👌
Because at least she is out there trying to improve her life. She might not have the means for childcare, she might be trying to pay medical bills or supplement her family's income💜
It may not be the career path you chose, but she did.
All these women are trying to create a future.

They are not trying to SCAM anyone. They have not been BRAINWASHED. They are not SHOWING OFF. They are not trying to PUSH their stuff on you.

It's network marketing. What the future is turning to!!!

They are networking with people.
They are showing/telling people about their opportunity, that they believe in! Just like when people share their favourite Starbucks drink on facebook or what they are eating for dinner🍕🍲🌮🍟

You don't like it ?? Simple ... keep on scrolling🖤💜🖤 But it might change your life! It changed mine! I use to be one of those sceptics ... now I am a TRUE believer because it has changed my life and me👍 Thank you to those who are supporting me 😘

Spongebobette · 25/06/2020 18:45

I think that bot is the one who paid for herself to go to Stockholm, saying she’d be motivated to earn CB etc etc etc if she went and experienced the rally 🙄

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