botwatch 81. 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?

[ItWasnaMeGuv]

Thread 81! The scam that keeps on giving! MLM, network marking, social selling or whatever else you want to call it. It rinses you of your money, time and friends for the dream of wealth, which never happens. Why? The business model ensures that only those at the very top of the 'pyramid' stand a chance of wealth, all the rest of us just "pay to play". The dream is a nightmare. Tell your stores here.

Place marking!

What are the current mlms? I've not seen yoooneek or that aloe crap for a while but I have seen actilabs

I was curious why the Yawns were named as a double act, yet Yawn was a solitary member. Not like they have little children to watch ?

There’s a ‘lose weight with this drink’ that I’ve seen where as far as I can tell, the drink is just massively overpriced highly caffeinated black coffee.

I have no idea what it’s actually called - the name never seems to get posted (I assume to prevent googling which could result in accurate information coming to the attention of prospective recruits).

Thanks for the new Fred!

@pastypirate the aloe is still going, there's knock off perfume, someone on my sm is now also looking like they're getting involved in some weight loss supplements from America, so that might be a new one creeping in. Others still in the market too but BSAH has gone.

Thanks for thread 81!

I am interested in true crime and I read a comment from someone, recently which highlighted how often MLM seems to be somewhere in the background of murder cases.

It was suggested that where MLMs are, especially the people who are most 'into' it, there are a lot of cluster B types. This goes together with the 'law of attraction' magical thinking of narcissism.

Everyone I have ever known (and I've known quite a few) who got involved in an MLM was not a nice person and was always out for themselves.

What about NuSkin - i have 2 friends who are boss babes and constantly bang on about the life they lead - both been doing it years, both still work full time 🙈🙈

Hi all, been on these threads since around 2015 but don't always comment. Inteletravel seems to be one of the big ones currently. A number of minor 'celebs' are involved in it and also my current favourite bot. I'm going to call her Banker Bot, because her husband is an investment banker and she was already a travel influencer before the MLM. Has managed to use her husband's money to portray a lifestyle that she now pretends is from inteletravel.

I'm sure it has already been mentioned, but I'm really not sure how this one is still running. The travel bit is a completely separate entity and the main company appears to be a pure illegal pyramid/recruitment scheme.

Thanks for the new thread!

Checking in. Thanks @ItWasnaMeGuv for the new thread.

Hello and thanks for the new thread...@YouOKHun pleb on the ebb and your ABBA titles are superb

Thank you for the new thread.

81!! How many more of these botwatch threads do you think there will be before mlms truly bite the dust here in the UK?

Definitely on the decline, but sadly still wriggling!

Cheers me love .New fred

@ticktock19 you shouldn’t encourage me! I have enjoyed the secret hobby (not secret enough I hear you say) of producing Bot play lists since I got the bit between my teeth for Messiah’s Top Ten Criminal Christmas Play List, when he was first on the run.

There isn’t a song title that can’t be made to fit, so much so that I have had to check that a few famous songs were actually not inspired by bots. As it turns out Ossy Osborne’s Diary of a Madman wasn’t about Castle’s planners and B J Thomas’s famous seventies classic Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head has nothing to do with houses in desperate need of a rethatch - who knew?!

lol...@YouOKHun they're absolutely brilliant...hours of amusement awaits

Agree re Castle. She used to be good for a laugh, but she is becoming more irrelevant by the day.

She has a small circle of fans, but other than that operates in a complete vaccum.

What does the CB L1 mean on these flp certificates they have?

Chairman's Bonus Level 1 - so if my memory serves me right then that is what their annual 'cheque' is based on as a percentage of the company's overall profits (??). Thats my very basic knowledge from what I've read here but I'm sure more knowledgeable folks will correct me if I'm completely wrong

And level 1 is the bottom rank

Tropic is still going I think and there still seems to be some Herbal Life Bots near me offering nutrition and health assessments and guidance. I don't see Juice Plus anymore though and they used to have a big following round here.

Exactly that. It's what used to be known as the 'sad yoga mat' that was the unfurling of big bits of paper with very small amounts. Based on the UK's current success I'd say they'll get a few thousand at best. Dollars converted to GBP and then taxed so really quite minimal.

So the 2.5k shown on yawns cert would be her annual bonus l take it?

Yawn is posting on insta claiming that she's slept on the recruitment side of the business for a few years and got complacent and is now refocusing on recruitment (paraphrasing) as if we haven't been watching her desperately try to recruit solidly for the past several years! Such a liar