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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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CompleteBarstool · 27/07/2020 13:22

One of the things that keeps coming up in relation to bots is their distorted sense of entitlement.

It made me wonder if becoming a bot makes them like that or whether MLMs attract that sort of person?

The post that made me wonder was one by Roomie who seems to have very little to do with FL anymore but still has this warped sense of entitlement ..... all through lockdown and when the restrictions were relaxed she was berating visitors and tourists to her seaside town at every opportunity (you know how she likes a rant!) She went on about them invading the town, putting locals at risk etc. ....yet next week she's off on holiday to France!!!

fromdownwest · 27/07/2020 14:19

I think to rise to the 'top' of an MLM, you have to be a certain type of person. I know of some of the South Wales FL bots, and they are not liked by large groups of people. Entitled is the word I would, they do like to look down.

CompleteBarstool · 27/07/2020 14:36

Yes, Castle and her siblings (so many examples in their behaviour!) and Welsh Rarebot (didn't she have some run-in with a local tradesman or two) are up there amongst the most entitled!

YouokHun · 27/07/2020 15:02

She went on about them invading the town, putting locals at risk etc. ....yet next week she's off on holiday to France

I think they spend so long creating a fiction of their lives that nothing is authentic, including their opinions (they say whatever they need to say to get attention and keep downlines’ attention). The thing about telling porkies all the time is that it’s bloody hard to get your story right or consistent. Coupled with a lack of critical thinking or rational self assessment (which we know are usually missing from MLM sign ups (or manipulated at the point of entry into MLM), and certainly missing from the long termers. I think a lot of bots are so focussed on their audience of toadies, lapping up their every word, that they start to believe their own hype and special value. Perhaps they have a whole hinterland of thoughtful, principled and well-led life that we never see but I find it hard to believe having watched them over time. The other element of their real lives we don’t see, as @fromdownwest mentions, is how they are perceived in their community. The Yawns of this world in my neck of the woods have terrible reputations having made a real nuisance of themselves at the school gates etc and also having damaged people along the way.

YouokHun · 27/07/2020 15:02

Sorry, must try using paragraphs^^ Blush

Norma27 · 27/07/2020 15:03

Nurse had incredible results from the c9 in April apparently. So incredible at resetting her that she needs to do it again in August and the fit15.

I can confirm Uber has always been very entitled. At least for the past 25/30 years.

dickiedavisthunderthighs · 27/07/2020 15:08

Sleaze's descent into complete and utter madness is gaining pace. Somehow there is a direct link between masks, paedophilia in Hollywood, the 2012 Olympic Games opening ceremony and having an Omega 3 deficiency.

Twentytwentyhindsight · 27/07/2020 15:37

In terms of being either delusional or clearly a liar (or both) Broke's post is a good example ("I've been offline for over a week now" in the same frame as his previous post from two days ago).

They just can't help themselves...

fitgirl26 · 27/07/2020 16:16

@dickiedavisthunderthighs

Sleaze's descent into complete and utter madness is gaining pace. Somehow there is a direct link between masks, paedophilia in Hollywood, the 2012 Olympic Games opening ceremony and having an Omega 3 deficiency.
Yup - just been to have a look at the stuff he's spouting. He seems to be working himself up into a frenzy. Wig posted that 2012 Olympic opening ceremony video a while ago and it's so tenuous it's laughable.
Twentytwentyhindsight · 27/07/2020 16:30

I'll have to get onto my burner account phone to check out Sleaze's latest ravings, since both he and Messiah blocked me last time I laid into their ludicrous bollocks.
I expect it's more copied & pasted apocalyptic nonsense in the same vein, with Wig's daughter bleating her support and adding an extra dose of anti-vax idiocy.

Twentytwentyhindsight · 27/07/2020 16:36

I vaguely remember that with Sleaze it was an old episode of The Simpsons and a bottle of Dettol surface cleanser that first opened his eyes to the fact that COVID-19 was an Establishment hoax...

fitgirl26 · 27/07/2020 17:35

@Twentytwentyhindsight

I'll have to get onto my burner account phone to check out Sleaze's latest ravings, since both he and Messiah blocked me last time I laid into their ludicrous bollocks. I expect it's more copied & pasted apocalyptic nonsense in the same vein, with Wig's daughter bleating her support and adding an extra dose of anti-vax idiocy.
That was a fun day! Yes you've summed it up pretty well. The whole mask thing seems to have worked them up into a right conspiracy tizzy.
Hunbot · 27/07/2020 20:11

So lularoe are selling sloganed t-shirts with matching face masks. One slogan shirt reads 'just breathe' - seems a bit inappropriate to me

Bluewavescrashing · 27/07/2020 20:19

I just wish someone would teach Sleaze to spell paedophilia correctly. For the love of God!

Bluewavescrashing · 27/07/2020 20:42

And BBL! 👆

Norma27 · 28/07/2020 08:27

I love how everything is a DISCRACE for sleaze.
Think he needs to spend some of his millions on a dictionary.

acatcalledjohn · 28/07/2020 08:47

Broke's new venture (Obsydien?) is launching in 3 days.

Meanwhile someone asked for their money back and he said "not really", followed by loads of excuses (couldn't deliver, products already sent, not got internet banking atm, return the goods and I'll refund in cash).

But hey he's had some hardly any time away from FB and it's done him good. He's loving his life at the moment until the next inevitable self made crisis.

acatcalledjohn · 28/07/2020 09:23

From the Obsydien compensation plan document. Interesting that they interchange customers and distributors in terminology. So essentially the distributors are their best customers.

The lifeblood of any business is the acquisition of customers. The Customer Bonus rewards Distributors for enrolling Personally Sponsored Qualified Customers each month.
For this bonus – a Personally Sponsored Qualified Customer is one that has placed a 100bv or more order in that month. Includes new customers, previous customers and autoship customers.
In any month... Distributors can earn £75.00 for enrolling 5-7 Qualified customers with 100 bv or more. Distributors can earn £100.00 for enrolling 8 or more qualified customers with 100 bv or more and an additional £100 for every additional 8 Qualified customers

Again, recruitment. Constant recruitment.

I've only gone through 3 pages so far as I am working, but if anyone fancies some light coffee break reading: https://obsydien.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/obsydien-compensation-plan-2020-21-1.pdf

Broke gonna be broke Grin

acatcalledjohn · 28/07/2020 11:25

Utility Warehouse thread over in AIBU

BSintolerant · 28/07/2020 11:46

So Broke’s signed up to yet another so-called health and wellness MLM. I despair. It’s amazing how many MLMs attract recruits who don’t appear to be mentally and / or physically well. I wonder how many people leave MLMs in a worse state (mentally and physically) than they were in when they signed up?

I know someone who has had terrible health issues in the past who has been roped into selling expensive fly spray (FM World). She gets very little engagement with her FM posts other than from her upline and other bots. Her legitimate business as a personal trainer gets a lot more engagement. I hope her PT clients don’t run a mile from her classes when they discover she’s botting for FM.

Spongebobette · 28/07/2020 13:13

Well, that’s the thing, isn’t it.
I’d run a mile if my hairdresser or beautician or dentist or garage mechanic started flogging MLM shite. Their hard won reputation would be ruined by the association. I’m sure I’m not the only one who feels that way.

fitgirl26 · 28/07/2020 17:15

A LOT of fitness instructors and, worse, fitness presenters with a large following are also Bots - Arbonne seems to be the popular one at the moment along with Isagenix. Their Bot posts always get much less engagement.

Norma27 · 28/07/2020 17:58

That just made me think- has yawn ever used her gym room yet? She can't have done as she would have plastered pics over FB.
I wonder if she is going back to David Lloyd. Not that I believe she has been paying their prices for a long time.

fitgirl26 · 28/07/2020 19:03

I seem to remember that she was a lover of Les Mills classes so she'll get a shock if and when she goes back to DL as they've dumped most of the licences!

Norma27 · 28/07/2020 19:13

@fitgirl26 I saw that. Just doing body pump for now. Lots of members are mad about it.