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MLM Bot Watch 73 A thread about desperate bots desperately botting

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MarchXX · 18/09/2022 06:57

Saw previous thread was full, so started this one Grin! Thread 73, who would have thought Shock. So much has changed over the years of these MLM threads but it is interesting that some stalwarts are still going, many thousands of victims in their wakes.

The MLM industry is counting the cost of a more awakened population who can now see through this scam industry, although there are still the serial bots who believe they fail because they 'didn't try hard enough' rather than understanding that the business model set them up to fail, and join countless MLMs in a desperate attempt to find success Sad.

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Ohnonevermind · 27/09/2022 06:08

i thought castles dad was retired. There is therefore a limit to the funding. The company is paying him a wage, but there’s about 10 years left based on the yearly cash withdrawals

The house sale proceeds should have been invested in a retirement fund to give them a decent retirement income, but I wonder if Castle has taken it with the promise to return it and more but it’s not coming.

the dad could go back to work and earn a living. but she needs him as free childcare/dogsbody.

I don’t know if castle’s home is mortgage free at this stage.

fromdownwest · 27/09/2022 13:13

How is the content for Scamversity coming along?

I assume it is delivered in a timely manner, and original in content.

Norma27 · 27/09/2022 13:35

Loving yawn trying to get people desperate to join her club by creating suspense regarding prices to buy her shite, or to see her photoshopped pics.

PieonaBarm · 27/09/2022 13:43

Norma27 · 27/09/2022 13:35

Loving yawn trying to get people desperate to join her club by creating suspense regarding prices to buy her shite, or to see her photoshopped pics.

I'm in Yawns select group. She's offering huge discounts on the range, as in nearly half price on a DX4, and similar on C9, FIT15 and shakes. She can't be making anything on it at all.

Norma27 · 27/09/2022 14:03

@PieonaBarm i bet head office wouldn’t like that. I thought they weren’t meant to discount too much.

PieonaBarm · 27/09/2022 14:13

@Norma27 she's actually calling it her "nearly half price sale"

fromdownwest · 27/09/2022 14:29

Norma27 · 27/09/2022 14:03

@PieonaBarm i bet head office wouldn’t like that. I thought they weren’t meant to discount too much.

I think they have gone past caring, from what I can see FL UK is quite far down the list in global concerns. No cash being pumped into them for glam events, just a sandwich in a mouldy tent.

Their budget to entertain previously was significant, now it is comical

Twentytwentyhindsight · 27/09/2022 14:57

PieonaBarm · 27/09/2022 14:13

@Norma27 she's actually calling it her "nearly half price sale"

Actually, head office don't give a toss. They got their full price for it. Once it's in the bot's hands, it doesn't matter what happens- wether it's used, sold, or poured down the drain- they've made their money.

Norma27 · 27/09/2022 15:20

Very true once they receive their full price they don’t care if the bot then loses money on it.

Twentytwentyhindsight · 27/09/2022 15:55

That's because the real customers are the bots.

Spongebobette · 27/09/2022 16:41

i think they used to care because it might put off new bots when they saw their uplines flogging off stock at low prices
but as you say, things are different now

Twentytwentyhindsight · 27/09/2022 17:36

Senior bots have Ben at it for yonks.
I remember asking my botted ex why people would buy the gloop off her when they could get it on selling sites for less than she was paying.

This was back around 2014.

She answered that she could 'give a personalised service and teach them about how best to use the products', which they wouldn't get from eBay...

I then asked her, if it's all about the products, why didn't SHE buy the stuff online to sell on at retail price as she'd make more of a profit.

She didn't like that much and her garbled explanation about CCs, uplines and downlines made it all the more clear that it was a pyramid scheme in which SHE was the customer, along with all her deluded fellow bots (I had already worked it out, but was hoping that by getting her to spell it out herself the penny would drop. Sadly, it didn't, in fact it further cemented the conviction planted by her upline in 'trainings' that I was part of the negative influences that didn't want her to succeed).

Twentytwentyhindsight · 27/09/2022 17:37

Been, not Ben!

Spongebobette · 27/09/2022 17:47

Logic jumps out the window doesn’t it

Twentytwentyhindsight · 27/09/2022 17:47

Yup

Spongebobette · 27/09/2022 17:49

It imagine how successful she’d have been by now if ONLY she’d had your full and unquestioning support. You’d be carrying a designer manbag, drinking Prosecco every day and living in a dream house, not to mention driving a white Rangey

Twentytwentyhindsight · 27/09/2022 17:50

I mean as an 'independent business owner' who keeps on going on about being such, you'd think you'd jump at the chance to procure your stock at massively lower prices...

Spongebobette · 27/09/2022 17:50

But not it

Twentytwentyhindsight · 27/09/2022 17:51

Spongebobette · 27/09/2022 17:49

It imagine how successful she’d have been by now if ONLY she’d had your full and unquestioning support. You’d be carrying a designer manbag, drinking Prosecco every day and living in a dream house, not to mention driving a white Rangey

I am grateful for small mercies...

Angrymum22 · 27/09/2022 19:33

Castles flit is all part of the Scamversity scam plan. She had never been very good at keeping her mouth shut or guarding her privacy. Most of us have had no problem in locating her house so her students will be able to as well. When they pull the plug both C&F will be out of the country and not contactable.
I suspect Fierce has already ditched castle and castle doesn’t want to be “at home “ when everyone finds out.
The subscriptions have been paid by credit card and will be difficult to cancel.
C & F will have no physical presence in the UK so will probably get away will several months subscriptions.

WisteriaLodge · 27/09/2022 19:58

Are Castle and Fierce actually offering anything at all? Or has it all gone pear shaped already?

Norma27 · 27/09/2022 20:22

It really does look like one week of scamversity then a runner doesn’t it. I really didn’t expect it to be that quick. I will be so interested to see castles family reaction. Will they stand by her or not?

Norma27 · 27/09/2022 20:28

We tried our best to warn people though. I pointed out the terms along with others from here, and showed the potential victims that fierce and castle are serial scammers. Can’t believe they may get away with scamming so many people again.
Im bloody furious and devastated.

Norma27 · 27/09/2022 20:31

And castle bro insta account is now private.

Twentytwentyhindsight · 27/09/2022 20:43

Bruv took his Insta off the radar a few days ago, around the time he headed off to Castle's lair.
I can't see them pulling the plug and being able to then enforce their 'Ts&Cs'.
If anyone was deluded enough to pay for more than one month in advance, they almost deserve it, but will find it hard to claim anything back quickly.
If paid by credit card, I'd expect them to turn to their card company for refund of 'not as described/faulty/etc... goods or services. C&F might have the likes of Visa or Mastercard on their backs for the moneyGrin

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