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MLM Bot Watch 66: Missing Messiah and cheap lounge wear

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acatcalledjohn · 17/04/2021 09:42

As you were.

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Spongebobette · 23/06/2021 11:41

Yes Arbonne do see themselves as ‘a cut above’ the rest and seem to attract middle class ladies who can afford to ‘invest’ in their business

A YouTuber, Charlotte Dickenson, did some stuff on Arbonne which was v good

Spongebobette · 23/06/2021 11:45

This one is good too

VolcanicEruption · 23/06/2021 11:52

The Ex detective that lives in Spain that Yawn promotes a lot (photo 27th April) commented on Castles 🏰 latest live saying she is rubbish at tracking !!!

spanfan · 23/06/2021 12:20

Slightly OT but Coco has made the daily mail.

Spongebobette · 23/06/2021 13:47

He needs locking up

spanfan · 23/06/2021 14:07

I think he might be a bit ill. I've just watched a lovr he did this morning and he is seeing conspiracy in everything. And he's getting a bit muddled.

CompleteBarstool · 23/06/2021 21:04

I see Uber's sister has started flogging clothes with her (also a FL bot) BFF. There's a link on her FB to their Instagram video - a 20 min cringey presentation of their wares whilst drinking Prosecco.

Cleary the shrinking cheques are forcing them to look at other streams of income

BSintolerant · 24/06/2021 06:15

Interesting how more than one bot is flogging clothes. Are they being advised to do this by the same coach or is it a legacy of monkey-see-monkey-do brainwashing?

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Spongebobette · 24/06/2021 11:10

Uber and Yawn feature in it

dickiedavisthunderthighs · 24/06/2021 11:34

Ooh that is a belter. Confirms everything that we suspected.

VolcanicEruption · 24/06/2021 12:28

I also think Castle 🏰 is there I seem to remember her getting a cheque and stating she can repay parents.
Reading that article 2 things spring to mind. The Frank Sinatra song and now the end is near and also the cemetery scene in the Good the Bad & the Ugly. Cinema tension at its finest.

BSintolerant · 24/06/2021 12:42

That excellent article has got to be yet another nail in the coffin for Forever Living - it confirms many suspicions we’ve had about the lies bots tell and their corrupt practices. Ethical my arse! I wonder what sort of vacuous nonsense the DSA will conjure up in response?

Spongebobette · 24/06/2021 13:17

Yes Castle borrowed from her dad and repaid him when she got the big bonus cheque

The real winners in this sorry saga are of course the owners of Forever Living, which is one family and they rake in the money while the top FBOs are lying, cheating, gaming the system

YouokHun · 24/06/2021 13:43

@BSintolerant

That excellent article has got to be yet another nail in the coffin for Forever Living - it confirms many suspicions we’ve had about the lies bots tell and their corrupt practices. Ethical my arse! I wonder what sort of vacuous nonsense the DSA will conjure up in response?
The DSA U.K. has a policy of never responding to anything that questions their members’ conduct or unwillingness to take ownership of their bots’ fraudulent activity. Their DG is less willing than she was to engaged with anyone questioning “direct selling” probably because she’s astute enough to know that she knows nowt about MLMs and is better off not having a debate about it with the likes of TLC who can collapse her ideas about “DS”.

Meanwhile here’s a quote from a few weeks ago the DG:

“One of my key areas of work is updating the narrative and modernising perceptions around direct selling. One of the best-known brands in the sector, Avon – established in the United States in 1886 – enabled women to earn independently 34 years before theyhad the right to vote, and today the industry continues to be powered predominantly by women.

I want to move the debate on from some of the outdated, and often inaccurate, narratives about the industry, and focus on the many thousands of female entrepreneurs all over the UK running successful – and all too often overlooked – businesses this way.”

We are being outdated and inaccurate apparently, by discussing what is really going on right now. OK then. Funny how Arbonne, Forever and Valentus are never mentioned isn’t it?

Spongebobette · 24/06/2021 13:47

Pretty much all the owners of MLMs are men

It’s highly patriarchal

Spongebobette · 24/06/2021 13:50

‘Powered by women’ = women are the victims

VolcanicEruption · 24/06/2021 15:29

True to form Castle 🏰 doing a woe is me story to promote her 2022 planners. Good luck with that since 2020 & 2021 were real showstoppers. I note that a lot of huns going down memory lane a lot, shows they have nothing left to bring to the table.

Re Wig& Sleaze I was right just one big pub crawl.

Spongebobette · 24/06/2021 16:59

I think Yawn is becoming so smug with her cut and pasted banal triteness that she will soon be drinking her own bathwater

Teddy1970 · 24/06/2021 17:40

Someone should send that article to Nursey her hero is featured heavily! Not that she'd believe a word of it because the TLC are jealous haterz of the biznez!

Teddy1970 · 24/06/2021 17:43

And yet castle claimed she borrowed money from her parents to move from one part of the country to another, ooh the lies are unravelling now, she bought her way up FL..

definitelynotabot · 24/06/2021 17:49

Wow, that's an eye-opening article. I always wondered how that Uberteam managed to get quite so far and so fast... I guess all is not what it seemed.

I do remember being told a few years ago by a Manager that she had been recruited by Bloodsucker. Or so she thought. It was quite a while before she found out that on paper she had actually been recruited by someone completely different - a very high profile person not in the UK with whom Bloodsucker was very much linked at the time, and who had left another MLM and joined FL....

Spongebobette · 24/06/2021 17:58

Yes, Bloodsucker will have placed that recruit where they would have benefitted her most
Gaming the system and the ones at the bottom have NO idea

9dartfinish2nd · 24/06/2021 19:43

What an incredible insight into the shitty practices of these people.

If MLM was a properly regulated industry there would be prosecutions for this sort of behaviour.