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BOTWATCH 78 - the latest thread in a VERY long series about the deceptions practised by MLMs. Unbelievably people are still being hooked in by these schemes where 97% of those who join LOSE MONEY

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Spongebobette · 04/08/2023 17:33

BOTWATCH 78 - the latest in a long series of threads where we keep an eagle eye on the lies and deceptions practised by MLMs. Unbelievably people are still being hooked in by these schemes where 97% of those who join LOSE MONEY and the top bots are struggling to pretend they are taking it in

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BSintolerant · 28/08/2023 07:59

I came here to say exactly that Sponge! 🤣

Spongebobette · 28/08/2023 08:06

Ah I see Nurse has a review (from a friend)
I bet she didn’t pay for any sessions

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Spongebobette · 28/08/2023 08:07

BSintolerant · 28/08/2023 07:59

I came here to say exactly that Sponge! 🤣

Great minds!

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meatbaseddessert · 28/08/2023 08:20

Spongebobette · 28/08/2023 08:06

Ah I see Nurse has a review (from a friend)
I bet she didn’t pay for any sessions

I bet she didn't even have any sessions. If someone had booked in for sessions from her we would have heard about it. A million times over. She can eke out a long boring story about anything and boast about her successes several times over. Seriously we will know when she gets her first booking. We know her exact movements daily so 'omg guys I've literally... literally just got my first booking!' Is bound to happen

Spongebobette · 28/08/2023 08:22

With ‘and….yeah’ at the end of every utterance

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Sugarplum48 · 28/08/2023 09:13

Blimey user had a jaunt to join yawn with her very very overly enthusiastic gaggle of fake mates

Sugarplum48 · 28/08/2023 09:14

Uber not user but if the cap fits eh!!

Angrymum22 · 28/08/2023 11:31

So I counted 12 bots at the festival. I wonder how they shared out the commission from the “massive sales”.

meatbaseddessert · 28/08/2023 12:22

Angrymum22 · 28/08/2023 11:31

So I counted 12 bots at the festival. I wonder how they shared out the commission from the “massive sales”.

New country manager. Yawn. Uber. Ex BFF. New Rictus Roomie. All in attendance. Million shots of them grinning near tent.

Not a single shot of the hordes queuing up for the tents wares.

Any pics I've seen of the Big Middle Class Fest are of people eating burgers and drinking cider.

Wonder how those who actually make crafts felt about these lot being in 'crafty corner'. Unless it's a corner for Del Trotter types and I've misunderstood.

Spongebobette · 28/08/2023 13:50

Now nurse has a review… from her hairdresser …

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SnoogyWoo · 28/08/2023 14:02

Love Nurses questions, all made up by her 😂

I was wondering that about the FL festival, how do any of them make money lol

Spongebobette · 28/08/2023 14:18

They don’t

they work for free for the company. Idiots

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terrywynne · 28/08/2023 14:38

Spongebobette · 28/08/2023 14:18

They don’t

they work for free for the company. Idiots

And the matching outfits make them look like what they are - sales reps. Even with the lanyard badges saying Forever Business Owner

YouOKHun · 28/08/2023 15:21

That festival; I wonder if the bots have been given guidance on what photos they can post, even dressed up as “privacy” for the general public? All I can see is general festival shots borrowing other exhibitors’ crowds, group photos of the cult members in their yellow uniforms or close ups of alleged interactions with the public. No one has stood back and taken a picture of all the people on the FL stand have they?

Looking at the map they were definitely on the edge of things and not on a footfall heavy pitch. Sure, if you’re handing out free mini cups of your gloop people are going to take them but that’s just politeness, vague curiosity or to get the bots off their back, no way does it go further. If it does go further it only gets as far as someone asking the price of the gloop. No one is going to want to buy it and I doubt it was the sort of crowd that will be interested in signing up.

I think the country manager has yet to understand that middle class Cotswold festival goers are not going to be attracted by the whole uniformed rep vibe and they certainly aren’t going to take the flashy, pushy, overly made up Yawn and her weight loss story very seriously. That whole exercise will have been a costly mistake for FL even though they don’t pay bots to be there. I wonder how much their stand was?

NormalForNuneaton · 28/08/2023 17:24

I bet the portaloos near the FL stand were busy with all that aloe jizz being handed out 😆

Angrymum22 · 28/08/2023 19:09

So 2.5 stone in 24days. Up till now her blogs were quite believable but Yawn just can’t help stretching the truth. Most people who will click/ stop at her weight loss blog will be serial dieters who will call bullshit every time. She can’t seem to help self sabotage.

Angrymum22 · 28/08/2023 19:09

Vlog -my phone doesn’t do vlogs

Wintersgirl · 28/08/2023 19:49

So Yawn's tale of "bagging" a stall at the festival turns out to be a corporate event with all other FBOs there, she wasn't personally asked at all!

YouOKHun · 28/08/2023 20:17

Has someone upset Castle? She is banging on (post from 7 hours ago) about successful people turning nasty. Normally this kind of post is because she’s fallen out with someone. Perhaps her break up from Fierce is still ongoing?

Latest post is about being on their way to their new home, presumably now the holiday season is coming to a close the prices are dropping so it will drain a little less from her parents bank account. What happened to Scamversity, had it been quietly dropped altogether?

Spongebobette · 28/08/2023 21:15

Those questions Nurse answered were not the questions I’d wanted answering ….

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CanadianJohn · 29/08/2023 00:12

Entrepreneursity seems to be advertising https://www.entrepreneursity.co.uk/info58193719

I doubt Oxford or Cambridge are quivering in their boots.

Entrepreneursity

Teaching Entrepreneurs how to develop multiple streams of income.

https://www.entrepreneursity.co.uk/info58193719

YouOKHun · 29/08/2023 00:22

My son has just done is A Levels and is just finalising his Personal Statement ahead of a gap year. I’m thinking of telling him to dump UCAS for Scamversity.

50fedup · 29/08/2023 09:35

YouOKHun · 29/08/2023 00:22

My son has just done is A Levels and is just finalising his Personal Statement ahead of a gap year. I’m thinking of telling him to dump UCAS for Scamversity.

😂.
I do wonder what the bot’s DC make of their parents lives? They may see their parents nice houses, foreign holidays, etc. but I suspect they’ve also seen the constant pressure to recruit and sell. The worry over directors loans and the constant gurning on SM. It’s telling that Wierd willys son has done a proper degree and is going to get a proper J.O.B. I wonder have many of the other children will follow in their parents foot steps. Not many, I suspect.

YouOKHun · 29/08/2023 09:55

@50fedup Yawn’s children are examples of young people who have put clear distance between themselves and the botting activity of their parents. In the case of Yawn’s DD there is absolutely no hint of her in the Thatch and I wonder if she has received negative pushback in the past, for example friends’ parents losing money after getting roped into FLP or something like that. It’s like she doesn’t exist at all, she must have put her foot down.

I suspect as those children of bots grow up they realise that the nice cars, houses and holidays are not all they seem. They must also get increasingly angry that their younger selves have been exploited and had their privacy repeatedly breached. Lots of them have had to live with the instability of being plonked in a private school only to be withdrawn on the quiet a couple of terms later or constantly down sizing or being whisked away from friendship groups on a parental whim (Castle), or a certain amount of exclusion because of a parent’s botting activity causing friction at the school gates etc. All manageable when they’re 8 but the backlash when they’re 16 is going to take a few of them by surprise. One child I feel particularly concerned for is Castle’s oldest.

Spongebobette · 29/08/2023 10:01

yes I noticed that Yawn’s daughter disappeared entirely from her mum’s social media after she got to the age where she had some agency

if she hadn’t put her foot down she’d be exploited non stop

totslly agree about the poor Castle kids. Appalling

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