MLM Bot Watch 63: shining a light on a devastating, damaging and destructive business model

[GoldenKelpie]

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Also @TikTakTikTak MLMtruth.org and Talented Ladies Club.

Have you seen this? It’s undercover journalism at its finest: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p076n2hg/secrets-of-the-multilevel-millionaires-ellie-undercover

The statistics are eye watering.

Which MLMs are you battling with?

Sorry, I forgot to tag you in the above message @TikTakTikTak - welcome to the thread!

Oh god, a recent acquaintance I've made in the land of Facebook through an exercise group (not the yawn band group) has just posted in our group that she's going to be busy today / weekend as it's...success summit weekend with a pic of the ninja 😩

@ticktock19 how depressing. What will you do;
a) ignore it
b) tentatively say something
c) boldly put her right
d) block her, leave the group and take up another sport (not Yawn’s knicker elastic fitness fad)

@YouokHun going to have to ignore it...it's a very small offshoot group of the main group as we're undertaking a challenge to keep us all focused thru the winter / lockdown. I can't block this person as it would be really obvious and would cause issues in what is otherwise an ace and supportive virtual team. I shall just ignore any potential 'hun' behaviour or report to the admins if it's too much. They really are everywhere ☹️.
On the plus side I've just watched Sleazes comedy live of Coco being nicked by the police yesterday.

For someone whose weekend usually starts on a Thursday (or so she keeps telling us), Yawn's working hard today with lots of business posts.

Wouldn't be anything to do with taking advantage of the second lockdown and people being vulnerable due to being furloughed or generally worried about their incomes would it Yawn you absolute vulture?

Oh, and one of the posts is about one of her team who is aiming for £5k a month. Hahahaha I bet Yawn dreams about £5k a month too.

I guess I won't find out whether dodgy dog food company is an MLM or not. The final day's module, which is meant to be why they are different is an exact copy of the module they sent yesterday about their food!
I still have no idea. 5 days on about how their ambassador programme works, whether you only get paid for referrals or if you have to hassle people to keep buying, or worse, get them to sign up as an ambassador and get others to join under them.
I may just write them off as being a little dodgy until I can get more information from somewhere as really finding nothing to push me one way or the other at the moment.

As if any of yawn’s team make £5k per month.
Vile, bullshitting narcissist.

So today Sleaze has "proved" there's no pandemic by going to a quiet Covid testing centre and ranting about hydroxychloroquine to some members of the army.
Twat.
There's going to be some salty conspiracy theorist tears tonight with the news from the US!

Weird Willy
Who has the most appalling delivery style - never completes a thought, never finished a sentence- invites to join a FREE email list called the A list

You’ll get frequent emails with which you MUST engage (he can see if you’ve not opened the email) and MUST respond

Or he’ll REMOVE YOU and you’ll have to pay to rejoin
NOTHING weird and threatening about that

PS sort out the dandruff, it’s distracting

What’s Sleaze’s plan now his mate Donnie has fucked it up?

Wasn’t sleaze saying back in May that Trump was about to have half of Hollywood arrested for child trafficking and pretending Covid was a thing?

Is Weird Willy still waxing nonsensical about Basil? 🌿

No, tonight WW is talking about the amateur mindset, something he knows all about. Never has one man uttered so many words yet said absolutely nothing. There’s a hint of the green eyed monster when he talks about some billionaire he’s been watching on YouTube or some webinar, then he checks himself as he mustn’t show that kind of weakness. It manic stuff. I don’t know how he’s making money out it, but every video reeks of desperation. He just can’t get back to those brief glory days despite all the positive thinking/mindset.

I wonder how much money Weird Will has actually made out of coaching? Are there any serious consequences of the cognitive dissonance he must be dealing with surrounding the fact that he’s a self-proclaimed expert in teaching people how to make a six figure salary (breaking into seven) yet he’s got a job as a delivery driver and lives in a small flat with a basil plant for company? He must be in a bad way mentally.

So, the company I thought could be MLM is Rocketo. Turns out their ambassador programme is basically a complicated "refer a friend" scheme as you have to take an exam after a week of reading their propaganda that I can't find anything to back up to become an ambassador. You post your link, if someone clicks that link and makes a purchase, you get "commission".
It reads and sounds MLM without being one. Even though I passed their ambassador programme exam (which was pretty easy), I won't be recommending them because, frankly, the product, when I looked into it, really isn't all that and isn't worth what they charge (probably to pay people for referrals). It's also a bit to "woo" for my liking.
It's possibly borderline MLM, as I can see that it really wouldn't take much for them to cross that line.

Well done for having the patience to do all that research!

Yes, well done! @Jasmin82
Some companies which make affiliate links a big part of their marketing and sales strategies have a strong whiff of MLM.

Brokes new MLM is free to join until Dec 2nd. Whose in??

This came up on my fb today as a sponsored message from a well-known MLM guru called EW.

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And, just as you will have to buy inventory monthly which will pay your upline, your downline will buy inventory which will pay you. #MLMbotsAREthecustomers.

There’s a DPD van parked outside Castle’s house on her Instagram stories. Is that Mr Castle’s key worker job?

@Tupperwarelid

There’s a DPD van parked outside Castle’s house on her Instagram stories. Is that Mr Castle’s key worker job?

Haha I was just about to come on here and say the same thing! I think it is

There were arrests at the Manchester anti lockdown protest today. I wonder if our favourite Bitcoin enthusiasts were involved?

If you go on Castle's husbands FB it has him working at DPD UK......