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MLM Bot Watch 77: MLMs are scams, you will lose money and paying £97 for an ‘official’ certificate won’t change that

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Spongebobette · 02/06/2023 15:22

we continue to call out the bullshit peddled by MLMs and the scam artists on the fringes who making money from coaching and pretend certificates

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YouOKHun · 18/07/2023 21:06

I see Yawn is love-bombing Specsavers bot again

and In recent days Specsaver is making her presence felt on Nurse’s bizniz page. Perhaps Yawn has put pressure on Specsaver to go for the easy pickings and Nurse is certainly that. I wouldn’t be surprised if Nurse is daft enough to add to her “portfolio career” by getting rinsed again in FLP.

Spongebobette · 18/07/2023 21:07

NormalForNuneaton · 18/07/2023 19:29

I see Yawn is love-bombing Specsavers bot again.

Wonder if it's because Specsavers had gone off the boil a bit as I notice her FL posts were becoming less and less.

I like the way that Yawn inadvertently reveals that Specsavers has been slogging away at this for around 10 years though! Yawn refers to having mentored her for a few years but then goes on to post about her as going from being a stressed mum of a new baby and Specsavers manager to a confident business woman ....the "new baby" is just about to leave primary school.

I notice that Yawn doesn't mention that the "confident business woman" has still got to have a real J.O.B. too though

She wanted a bigger ‘roll’ in the company apparently 🤣

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Howsimplywonderful · 18/07/2023 21:28

If your child hates travelling, he’s clearly screaming for a reason - why would you drive around Europe for the summer. The poor child.

ticktock19 · 18/07/2023 23:37

Quote of the year from Castle about whoever has cloned her account - pot black anyone 😏

MLM Bot Watch 77: MLMs are scams, you will lose money and paying £97 for an ‘official’ certificate won’t change that
NormalForNuneaton · 19/07/2023 08:05

ticktock19 · 18/07/2023 23:37

Quote of the year from Castle about whoever has cloned her account - pot black anyone 😏

If she had 2 brain cells to rub together I'd think she was trolling us with that comment 😂

Howsimplywonderful · 19/07/2023 10:04

If Bruv was so amazing at his job, would he really be living in a mobile home with his mum and dad while rapidly approaching 40

It doesn’t really scream success does it. I’m guessing by the time Castle takes her cut of whatever monies are coming in from scamversity there’s not a lot left for him.

Spongebobette · 19/07/2023 10:17

Nurse is so bloody gullible

she’s paid a lot of money to a coaching training person and as part of it had to present her ‘business plan’ to someone (and had to ‘use her imagination’ 🙄)

and guess what! The person said she’s got an amazing business and is going to smash all her goals

a proper business adviser would dig in to all the detail, challenge her, make her think

but no, what she got is what she paid for. Confirmation of her dream and lots of affirmation

despite her business being launched at the beginning of July, she’s now saying she’s booking ‘Discovery calls’ in August with a view to booking in sessions in September

and today she’s packing and shopping and going on holiday on Friday

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Howsimplywonderful · 19/07/2023 10:23

It’s like castles coaching - start an Amazon business, ‘automate your processes’,utilise chat GPT and pay me lots of money

PieonaBarm · 19/07/2023 11:07

Howsimplywonderful · 19/07/2023 10:04

If Bruv was so amazing at his job, would he really be living in a mobile home with his mum and dad while rapidly approaching 40

It doesn’t really scream success does it. I’m guessing by the time Castle takes her cut of whatever monies are coming in from scamversity there’s not a lot left for him.

He did a bit of branding with someone like Burger and Lobster, it was on his stories probably about 6-8 weeks ago with a bar person making cocktails and he was filming it giving it "successful marketing specialist" large, as I remember thinking ooh there's one of them in Manchester!

Ooowhatshappeningnow · 19/07/2023 16:25

I don’t ever look at Castles pages anyone either, she is just sooo boring. Its like Groundhog Day, Yawns not much better either it’s all getting very dull.

YouOKHun · 19/07/2023 16:41

Yawn has exciting news. She is part of a “small elite task force” which sounds like she is going into a war zone or working on a cure for a disease, but no, the “elite task force” is working on how FLP can best exploit Christmas during a cost of living crisis. She starts the post with

“The “C” Word”

at last, I thought, finally she’s being honest about herself but no, it’s just the same old shit whilst wearing novelty antlers.

Spongebobette · 19/07/2023 17:16

Lol!

good luck persuading people to part with their money for aloe gloop this Christmas, Yawn! I think you’ll find people are going to be very careful where they spend their money

I am surprised she’s not ‘jetting off’ somewhere now it’s the school hols, taking the family off somewhere like the Maldives or the Seychelles. Not the Caribbean in July/ August, perhaps leave that destination for Feb/ March?
When you are a debt free 6 figure earner, who only works a few hours a week, why not have lots of lovely holidays?

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PieonaBarm · 19/07/2023 19:21

I find it amusing that FLP appear to only be thinking about Christmas now. I mean I know it's July but prior to my current job I worked for a huge retailer and I could tell you in July and August, without being told by Head Office, what was gonna be on offer in December as the stock build in store started then!

TribeD · 19/07/2023 19:31

PieonaBarm · 19/07/2023 19:21

I find it amusing that FLP appear to only be thinking about Christmas now. I mean I know it's July but prior to my current job I worked for a huge retailer and I could tell you in July and August, without being told by Head Office, what was gonna be on offer in December as the stock build in store started then!

Exactly! If FLP are only just starting to think about their sales strategy for Christmas 2023 they are buggered.

I'm fairly sure that for most retailers Christmas 2024 is their focus now, especially as stock will already be slowly arriving in store along with the merchandising and marketing materials.

I wonder how much Yawn is being paid for this task force thing 🤔?

PieonaBarm · 19/07/2023 20:01

Err @TribeD you confused me when you used the word "paid". It appears she's taken on extra work with zero extra remuneration. And she thinks it's something to be applauded. More fool her!

spanfan · 19/07/2023 20:09

I'll be amazed if she gets anything but a flp mug or free lip cream.

BSintolerant · 19/07/2023 20:25

Forever Living doesn’t need a sales strategy: MLMs are all about recruitment. Their products are just a way of keeping these schemes this side of legal.

Spongebobette · 19/07/2023 21:18

True - it needs a recruitment strategy and also a strategy for team leaders, whatever they are called, to persuade their downlines to but as much product as possible, put it into Christmas gift sets, fail to sell any and store it in their garages but that doesn’t matter to FL as they’ve made their money

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Sugarplum48 · 19/07/2023 22:53

I'd rather lick rust than buy the shit flp subordinates sell. I'll stick to my j.o.b in finance earning a legit wage with guaranteed income than the farce those goons keep spinning

Sugarplum48 · 19/07/2023 22:56

3 likes in 3 plus hours on yawns insta!!! Hardly lucrative is it!!

YouOKHun · 19/07/2023 23:28

Meanwhile Weird Willy’s credit card funded app has bombed. How’s he going to pay that off now? As a last ditch attempt to rescue it he has extended his gaslighting coaching offer to “kind men”, and not just “anxious working mums”. It’s clear he thinks these two groups are the easiest to manipulate.

His definition of “kind men” - nice men like him who have been victims of former wives, friends, parents, everyone else.

BSintolerant · 19/07/2023 23:58

What is Weird Willy going to coach these “kind men” to do? Sniff basil? Drive a delivery van? Go bankrupt? Style a pair of dungarees? I hope he isn’t scammed by nasty men who identify as kind men, or by women wearing comedy beards, armed with packets of gravel harvested from Yawn’s driveway.

MLMsuperfan · 20/07/2023 00:13

It's very un-MLM of Weird Willy to admit that his app/support group (valued at £997 but available for just £497) "totally flopped". Not enough faking it or making it Billy Boy.

Although the almost zero engagement on his posts pitching it made that pretty obvious.

The pivot's bound to fend off MasterCard though. A synonym for pivot is "swivel" by the way. That word typically comes to mind as I watch his lives.

Kind Men going through custody battles will no doubt flock to the service now the net's been widened. I'm picturing Fathers 4 Justice in their Spidermen outfits frantically "checking in" to the World Weird Willy app; provided their post-divorce budget stretches to the new limited time only price that ends in a seven.

If not the next in line after Anxious Mums and Kind Men will have to be Curious Pensioners or Irritable Teens. You can have that pivot for free, WW.

BSintolerant · 20/07/2023 00:26

🤣🤣@MLMsuperfan

Imagine if Fathers 4 Justice pimped up their Spider-Man gear with dungarees.

Why do so many of these offers we can refuse end with a seven? Most people would rather roll a seven than help Weird Willy pay off his credit card debt.

YouOKHun · 20/07/2023 00:36

@MLMsuperfan 🤣

I think he’s really panicking. You can tell by the rather manic salute at the beginning and the extra layer of joviality. But there is Mastercard shaped terror behind the eyes.

What sort of dick spends a year on the insolvency register, then almost straight away finds a credit card in the drawer he’s supposed to have cut up and sticks a few thousand pounds on it to create an app for a coaching offering that no one has ever been interested in? Creating an app doesn’t turn a shite idea into a good one.

I think he has to go against the MLM grain and own up as his only hope (apart from a load of kind and gullible men) is to go for the sympathy vote. It’s impossible to disguise yet another flop, it’s going so badly for him that even Nurse wouldn’t sign up.

@BSintolerant I have just watched The Life of Brian tonight … “who threw that??!”.

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