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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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Spongebobette · 06/08/2023 20:31

Angrymum22 · 06/08/2023 20:19

Yawn has booked a stall at The Big Festival in the Cotswolds. I wonder how that’s going to go.

Oh that’s odd, Specsaver bot has too! Unless she’s copied and pasted Yawn’s post again?

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Angrymum22 · 06/08/2023 20:37

She claims to have been asked. Sorry dear no one is going to search out a tin pot MLM gloop con artist especially for their music festival.
I wonder how much it has cost her.
I have long suspected that she is a full on narcissist but her whole self importance since her weight loss confirms this.

Spongebobette · 06/08/2023 20:38

Of course she wasn’t bloody asked 🙄

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Angrymum22 · 06/08/2023 20:39

Ah I wonder if head office have organised it in an attempt to kick start more business. And they have both been volunteered to run it.

Angrymum22 · 06/08/2023 20:40

Damn, now we are going to see a whole thread on which festival wellies to buy🙄

Spongebobette · 06/08/2023 20:44

Angrymum22 · 06/08/2023 20:39

Ah I wonder if head office have organised it in an attempt to kick start more business. And they have both been volunteered to run it.

Ah yes that’s possible - wizard wheeze by the Greek

a stall staffed by unpaid volunteers

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BSintolerant · 06/08/2023 22:09

Boudicasbeard · 06/08/2023 16:45

Good to find this thread. Had been thinking of going digging for the MLM threads again (I was a long time lurker a few years ago) because my local Bodyshop bot appears to have geared up again and is now claiming to be a qualified massage therapist (because she did some body shop training at one of their paid events) and is taking booking to run people down in her salon (spare room).

Imagine paying for a half hearted massage only to be given the hard sell on a starter kit and endless pestering follow ups. 🤮

Welcome @Boudicasbeard !

As massages go, that would result in a very unhappy ending. It sounds utterly fucking miserable to be fair.

Does she need permission to use her spare room for such purposes? There might be a covenant restricting its use as a disorderly house business premises. I bet she’s not insured either.

YouOKHun · 06/08/2023 22:49

@Boudicasbeard lets hope the Body Shop warned her about public liability insurance, GDPR (as presumably she will be collecting and holding private information), the fact her mortgage provider may have an issue with running a business in her home (or her landlord), her local planning officer may have an issue if she is seeing clients in her own home and there is a licence I’m pretty sure she will need. https://www.gov.uk/find-licences/massage-and-special-treatment-premises-licensing

No doubt the only thing her upline will have said to her is “go for it Hun” in the hope she pulls in some more victims as that’s all BSAH cares about.

Massage and special treatment premises licensing - GOV.UK

Contact your council if you run an establishment for massage or other special treatments and need a premises licence

https://www.gov.uk/find-licences/massage-and-special-treatment-premises-licensing

VitalMineral · 06/08/2023 23:10

And yet another new affiliate one has popped up - “7figuresdoneforyou” and ‘master resell rights,’ it’s like bloody whack-a-mole!

Boudicasbeard · 07/08/2023 05:07

@BSintolerant Those are all good points! I would put them to her but I mainly just roll my eyes at her Facebook posts these days and try to stay well clear in real life. She has somehow managed to become an area leader and has (apparently) quite a big team underneath her made of unsuspecting school gate mums. I do often wonder how she hasn’t been driven out of the village with pitch forks yet!

Interestingly, she had been very quiet about Bodyshop stuff for about six months and then is suddenly having a huge recruitment drive as part of opening her extremely questionable salon.

PieonaBarm · 07/08/2023 05:31

Boudicasbeard · 07/08/2023 05:07

@BSintolerant Those are all good points! I would put them to her but I mainly just roll my eyes at her Facebook posts these days and try to stay well clear in real life. She has somehow managed to become an area leader and has (apparently) quite a big team underneath her made of unsuspecting school gate mums. I do often wonder how she hasn’t been driven out of the village with pitch forks yet!

Interestingly, she had been very quiet about Bodyshop stuff for about six months and then is suddenly having a huge recruitment drive as part of opening her extremely questionable salon.

There's a big BSAH incentive running at the moment for a trip to South Africa,they're all mad for it either trying to qualify or being pressured by an upline so they sell more for the upline to qualify. I live 5 houses away from a very high up BSAH Bot so lucky me gets to see the madness in full flow. Although she appears to have dropped a rank or two (still really high up) since the Covid boom where her posts were more strategic and now she's doing office sales herself again.

Boudicasbeard · 07/08/2023 05:51

That makes sense. It would explain why she is now selling again too and really pushing the starter kits.

What does really annoy me is that she makes out like this is her full time job when really her husband runs a very successful family firm and she does his book keeping so gets paid for that- which is her main income.

And she’s been using this idea to snare people who I know for a fact can barely afford to eat. It is the worst kind of over priviledged bullshit.

definitelynotabot · 07/08/2023 06:05

Spongebobette · 06/08/2023 20:31

Oh that’s odd, Specsaver bot has too! Unless she’s copied and pasted Yawn’s post again?

Is SS bot in Yawn's team? If do then makes sense as often a team will do something like that as a joint effort.

I never heard of an event where HO paid for a stall, but desperate times etc, so maybe!!

meatbaseddessert · 07/08/2023 07:45

How has notnownurse not learned in her many years of nursing that it's 'he's' not 'his'. 'His watching TV now'
Surely she had to refer to patients like this hundreds of times a day and write it down?

Sugarplum48 · 07/08/2023 08:30

I see yawn has snared herself another 18 year old student!!! It's really quite predatory isn't it!!

YouOKHun · 07/08/2023 09:50

@Sugarplum48 yes I saw that. Targeting such young adults is unforgivable. The only hope is that her parents are able to see what’s going on and can step in.

Mind you a lot of parents are not that on the ball. I know of a contemporary of my DD who when she turned 18 expressed an interest in Arbonne but her mother advised her do set up a “proper business” and proceeded to help her rent an expensive high street retail unit and fit it out as a Cambridge 1:1 consultant. I don’t think a soul ever set foot in the shop and it closed after a year. The girl is now 22 and still trying to recover from the debts she incurred and the confidence she lost.

Perhaps Mini Yawn could warn the new young victim?

SnoogyWoo · 07/08/2023 10:11

Stop the press…notnownurse has had a shower this morning!

Spongebobette · 07/08/2023 12:01

Anyone attend her 10am live?

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LibyanFeet · 07/08/2023 13:31

SnoogyWoo · 07/08/2023 10:11

Stop the press…notnownurse has had a shower this morning!

Hold the front page!

Is someone on hand to unblock the drains?

YouOKHun · 07/08/2023 14:07

SnoogyWoo · 07/08/2023 10:11

Stop the press…notnownurse has had a shower this morning!

That’s amazing because so have I!!! Is this some kind of Law of Attraction sign?! I bet she is exhausted, not only having a shower but posting about it too, she’s such a grifter grafter. Still, the sun is out so being an entrepreneur she can take the afternoon off.

Spongebobette · 07/08/2023 16:29

I would like to offer my services to Nurse as proof reader/ grammar checker and provider of advice on presentation and layout

I am passionate about proofreading and have recently started my own business - I’m really busy though as by the time I’ve done my affirmations, read bits of The Secret, manifested success, had my nails done, popped into town for bits and bobs and got my garden chairs out there’s literally not much time to actually work with clients. but I am literally loving every minute and have no regrets about leaving a job with a pension, holiday pay and sick pay!
Oh and I’m also busy doing an online course on proofreading too, but of course I can advertise that I’m a proofreader already.

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Spongebobette · 07/08/2023 16:36

As proof of my amazing skills I have quickly spotted that there is a full stop instead of a comma in that post

So please can I have an impressive certificate making me look professional? I’ll gladly pay £97

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PieonaBarm · 07/08/2023 18:36

Yawns been recognised by the new Country Manager for swizzing the most people. Guess what her present is? Yes, that's correct, a £5 box of Ferrero Rocher. What says successful business more than being rewarded with a £5 box of Furry Rocket from Tezzas 🤣

NormalForNuneaton · 07/08/2023 18:50

PieonaBarm · 07/08/2023 18:36

Yawns been recognised by the new Country Manager for swizzing the most people. Guess what her present is? Yes, that's correct, a £5 box of Ferrero Rocher. What says successful business more than being rewarded with a £5 box of Furry Rocket from Tezzas 🤣

No that's totally fine @PieonaBarm .

She can use them to plug the holes in the thatch.

LeoDiCapricorn · 07/08/2023 20:28

Meanwhile 2Jags is bemoaning that the amazing bizniss - which is perfect for working mums - hosts an event miles away in the middle of school holidays.

It's just what every working mother needs thanks to the wonderful company so thoughtful and generous (not!)