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

[GoldenKelpie]

New Fred! Welcome all!

Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/legal_money_matters/a3906058-mlm-bot-watch-60-it-takes-a-village-to-sink-an-island?msgid=97414452#97414452

@Washyourhands48 we’ve moved on from that and I think whiterangey has left the thread so best not drag it back up again.
FWIW I think it’s strange to expect everyone on a threads about MLMs to agree with you about something so controversial but it’s better if we let it lie.

@Washyourhands48

"No they’re not. Sorry to burst your bubble"

If anyone is jumping into this thread with an agenda at the moment, it is yourself.

@Whiterangey has left this thread on the basis that there is a consensus we will not be expressing our views on the matter here.

Currently , it is you who is high jacking the thread with your opinion on the matter.

@Whiterangey has been on this thread for many years with no agenda but to protect women from MLM scams, which is more than can be said for you.

She also has a trans child, and doesn't need her "bubble bursting" by you- I suggest you remove your post.

@Washyourhands48

Let’s move on
I’m sure there are many other places where that issue can be thrashed out
Here we talk about MLMs.

@Washyourhands48 The subsequent messages have already dealt with this. Don't fan the flames.

To bring it back to the thread...

'Attraction marketing' is an exhausting shitshow to produce every day.

At one point I was sharing personal shit to say I'd come out the other side thanks to MLM and the friendships without a single thought to how it hurt my family and friends. Things that should've been kept private and saying my fellow mlmers were sooooo amazeballs was such a kick in the teeth to my lifelong friends.

In training you were told that even though you had nothing at the moment just dress crap up.

I realised that these uplines never went out or had a social life. They'd alienated themselves and a majority of their friendships were with a bunch of downlines.

Going out for Christmas meals with friends, work and the school mum group one year led to my upline making a snotty remark about how she will be working her business while other people waste time on meals. I suppose she had no one to invite her. Instead it was a zoom get together with drinks on the 23rd!

Anyone else just get a invite to Nurses private group?.

Oooh funky you gonna go? I would but I'm banned

Back to Uber - Looks like Mr Uber has a vestige interest and part control of her business by looking at the accounts

And just as worrying the number of requests I have had to join Body Shop etc in last few weeks.

@GoldenKelpie I accepted the request 😬

The BSAH really has been THE go to MLM this lockdown. I had a few too.

That and the travel ones. Because we aren't on the brink of an economic crisis in which travel will take a hit. Not to mention that people, especially retired people, are saying they don't want to risk travelling just yet.

I do always seem to see that the bots only ever have other bots as friends in their social media stories.

Is it because they have alienated them all, or do they turn to MLM’s as they have no RL friends?

It's easier to convince someone who is already a bot to join you in your MLM. Half the job is done for you.

They already believe it's legit
They've already been convinced it's not a pyramid scheme.

If you've cracked it... you can convince people to move over to you because you're making more money than them.

Looks like the shitshow that is LuLaRoe is moving slowly towards collapsing it’s pyramid. Top bots are leaving in droves, even Deanne’s niece has thrown the towel in to bulk buy shitty quality crap from Wish and start a “boutique” - which reminds me, I should catch up with tattle life - BBL is now just a caricature of a bot and proves Juice Plus gives zero shits who is allowed to sell their horse piss and sawdust.

Anyone got the popcorn out watching the Rachel Hollis saga currently angering both pro and anti-mlm people?

@9dartfinish2nd

Where can I see what's happening with Rachel Hollis? A friend of mine worships her (and no surprise, she's a 'successful' bot in the US). I'd love to know what's happening with her.......

I know a top BSAH bot. Literally top of the pointy thing. Her "team" took £1m in sales in a week recently....

In my local area (Yawn's area and Roomie's area before she moved) it's all Body Shop at Home on local facebook pages over lockdown. Honestly there are loads of them.

I don't think I've seen anything from FL but I'm wondering if this area was saturated and exhausted some years ago.

People on the local pages often jump in to make a comment like "pyramid scheme - avoid" or call out a miracle weightloss product as "complete bollocks" which is great, but not on the Body Shop ones (yet)

@9dartfinish2nd

Anyone got the popcorn out watching the Rachel Hollis saga currently angering both pro and anti-mlm people?

Yes. Completely. Girl needs to go and wash her own face.

Rachel Hollis is one of the worse exponents of toxic positivity within the MLM industry today.

She announced a couple of weeks ago that she and her husband (who quit his high powered Disney job to work full time together as a power couple) are getting a divorce, they are taking major flak from people within the MLM industry for portraying a life of domestic bliss whilst clearly it was falling apart behind closed doors. they even released a podcast on how to keep your relationships strong during lockdown.

Not to mention the numerous allegations of plagiarism that haven been flying around for a while.

@GottaPickaPocketorTwo

There are several Youtube videos on the subject already.

just type in 'Rachel Hollis divorce'

Thanks - will go and investigate.....

What MLM was/is Rachel Hollis?