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MLM Bot watch 62: MLMs taking advantage of CoronaV and other scams

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GoldenKelpie · 29/07/2020 18:36

Here is link to previous thread...

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/legal_money_matters/3937557-MLM-Bot-Watch-61-enquire-within-upon-everything-pyramid-shaped?watched=1&msgid=98721275#98721275

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Twentytwentyhindsight · 15/09/2020 20:04

@spanfan "All just hyperbole over a completely overpriced (probably worth nothing) product reduced a just a little less overpriced product."

There is an actual product?

If relentless verbal diarrhoea counts, then maybe there is- does it come with a free bag of baby wipes?

Botbrigade · 15/09/2020 20:30

Broke getting his pay cheque. I note no amount is shown - ie it’s probably £12.47.

screwthepyramids · 15/09/2020 20:57

This is just disgusting

www.facebook.com/100016520855147/posts/754848431742512/?extid=laquysuGRo6VdLpt&d=n

GoldenKelpie · 15/09/2020 21:41

[quote screwthepyramids]
This is just disgusting

www.facebook.com/100016520855147/posts/754848431742512/?extid=laquysuGRo6VdLpt&d=n[/quote]
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When this happens, it's usually because the owner only shared it with a small group of people, changed who can see it or it's been deleted."

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acatcalledjohn · 15/09/2020 23:46

Sleaze has decided that (presumably) COVID isn't funny anymore. It's deverstating [sic].

If he didn't creep me out so much his uneducated ramblings might at least make me laugh.

screwthepyramids · 16/09/2020 05:32

Apologies, it was a link to Savannah Marie's latest YouTube video

GoldenKelpie · 16/09/2020 07:39

@screwthepyramids

Apologies, it was a link to Savannah Marie's latest YouTube video
Thanks, screw, have found it!
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Norma27 · 16/09/2020 12:50

Yawn doesn't sell her coaching to other companies apparently.
No shit Sherlock. Who would pay to hear the drivel she has to say?

Malin52 · 16/09/2020 13:57

So Nurse has matched her NHS income? Serious question. Putting aside the fact this could be complete bullshit, how has she done this? What's it based on?

SSDGM · 16/09/2020 14:12

I’ll look forward to seeing the photos from Cebeebies land soon, then. 😐😂

GoldenKelpie · 16/09/2020 17:51

You know one of the reasons I have been a supporter of this long standing thread is that I hate the way MLM business model exploits the most vulnerable in our society.

Even worse is that they make inroads into third world countries and exploit people who have no welfare safety net. Here is a comment from a youtube video where the economics of MLM is explored. I will post a link to the video at the end.

"I'm from a 3rd world country which has no laws against pyramid schemes or mlms. I have the sad experience of seeing my friends roped in and robbed of their lifetime savings. 1$ US can feed someone for a day. That gives you an idea when someone blows $300 US on a starting kit. That's a year's worth of groceries... So difficult to show them those videos because they don't speak English. They have to learn the hard way and it breaks my heart... Imagine going up to someone poor, in a difficult country, no jobs opportunities and telling them the crap those mlms sell? They're making a killing in my country..."

Read many more heartbreaking comments in this video link...

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Spongebobette · 16/09/2020 18:18

OMG that gives me THE RAGE and it’s precisely what Bloodsucker has been doing since the UK market slowed down
Absolute bitch

Bluewavescrashing · 16/09/2020 18:21

@GoldenKelpie that's what Bloodsucker does. It's just evil.

Bluewavescrashing · 16/09/2020 18:22

Crossed post x

GoldenKelpie · 16/09/2020 18:45

Just watched Savannah's yt vid Sad Angry.

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Bluewavescrashing · 16/09/2020 20:17

Nurse has decided not to move now. She thinks cosmic ordering is telling her to stay put.

Nothing to do with the more expensive rent in the countryside then...?

BSintolerant · 16/09/2020 21:02

A few years ago Lanzabot did a monkey-see-monkey-do training video which included a photo of a lady somewhere in Africa sitting by the side of the road with a table full of Forever Living products. She used this in an attempt to shame her audience. She said that if someone in the Third World can sell FL there’s no excuse why the rest of us can’t succeed.

Funny thing is that a lot of Lanzabot’s Managers who featured in her training video are no longer doing FL. I wonder why?

Twentytwentyhindsight · 16/09/2020 21:41

Having had many years of living and working with people in the circumstances described, @GoldenKelpie -it is much more than a year's groceries (enormous as that is) put on the line, it could be the year's school fees to raise the family out of their situation or the piggy bank to pay for a medical emergency.
In order to raise that sort of money, someone will have stretched the social and kinship relations that help keep their heads above water to the extreme. If (when) the anticipated riches fail to materialise, the consequences can be much, much worse than the already dire ones we see in more developed countries...

Ajgee · 17/09/2020 09:51

Ep8 of The Missing Cryptoqueen podcast covers this well.

Hunbot · 17/09/2020 18:51

Ok, hands up, who gave sleaze a black eye

Popihola · 17/09/2020 18:56

He has made his whole profile private haha

Popihola · 17/09/2020 18:57

Oh thats an old profile, forgot he blocked me on his most recent one.

fitgirl26 · 17/09/2020 20:27

@Hunbot

Ok, hands up, who gave sleaze a black eye
I strongly suspect it wasn't someone "bullying a homeless woman in a wheelchair". He probably got gobby about masks or social distancing with the wrong person.
fitgirl26 · 17/09/2020 20:32

Apparently Sleaze posted the black eye photo "on purpose to be the algorithms to out what is really going on". Whatever that means 🤷‍♀️

GoldenKelpie · 17/09/2020 20:36

@BSintolerant

A few years ago Lanzabot did a monkey-see-monkey-do training video which included a photo of a lady somewhere in Africa sitting by the side of the road with a table full of Forever Living products. She used this in an attempt to shame her audience. She said that if someone in the Third World can sell FL there’s no excuse why the rest of us can’t succeed.

Funny thing is that a lot of Lanzabot’s Managers who featured in her training video are no longer doing FL. I wonder why?

I well remember that Sad. A shocking example of fl exploitation.
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