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Botwatch 85 the continuing saga of MLM. When 99.6% of people joining MLM are destined to lose money is that an opportunity or a scam?

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YouOKHun · 08/10/2024 19:32

Here is a new thread!

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DeliaDeetz · 18/11/2024 20:48

It's so obvious Yawn has went moaning to her minions unlucky girls about trollz and haterz on amazon with fake reviews! She certainly took her time though!

I agree about specsavers review though, it looks more fake than any of them!

I see her book is now 43rd in the category she was previously boasting about being 1st in!

Spongebobette · 18/11/2024 20:49

YouOKHun · 18/11/2024 19:01

Castle is asking 'do you want to make £1400 in a few hours like my student [same name as Castle] did?'.

I wonder if this student who goes by the same name as Castle is the same student who had her website and branding done by Bruv, complete with a photo of Castle? When Bruv was asked why he didn't promote this person's new business and provide a link he quickly deleted the comments.

Castle has helpfully provided a chart showing the student's earnings peaking so it must be true. As Castle is offering such transparency I thought if I'm going to comment I should provide evidence of my earnings today in a graph to prove it's true. So here it is.

I’m really impressed by your professional looking graph and I think you should start an academy or a university as we all have so much to learn from you

Angrymum22 · 18/11/2024 21:19

You can report reviews if you think they are fake or paid for. Just saying😁

YouOKHun · 18/11/2024 21:40

@Spongebobette thanks Hun. I think I will start a university as I have nine O Levels. I shall ask my pensioner mother for the cash up front as it's essential that any university chancellor has a new Rangey (I think this could be a bit of a stumbling block as she isn't very compliant). I shall also be writing the textbooks for all the courses.

I'm planning to offer a language course and will develop the entire curriculum from the first two pages of "Biff & Chip vont en France" and "Spanish for the Easily Distracted". This valuable course will have the phonetic descriptions for asking forrin people key questions such as:

'why has the plane left without my little friend you bunch of cnuts?'
'can you tell me how to get back into the UK without my creditors knowing about it?'
'now there is an extradition treaty between UAE and the Republic of Ireland do you have any ideas where I could hide?'
'Could you direct me to some developing countries I have yet to exploit with my charridy endeavours?
'Would you like to come to England and stay in my inconvenient and overpriced Albatross-by-the-Sea holiday home (an expensive car parking space within 5 miles may be available on a November Tuesday afternoon)?'.

I will also offer something like what LSE does but it will be a short course because sums are quite boring and things involving sums like tax or profit and loss (whatever that is) are for haterz.

I will offer a graphic design course which will only involve the pastel pink and gold crayons from the students' new pack of colouring-in crayons. I may bring in a visiting lecturer for this who can provide stock photos of Castle laughing with salad or gripping a mug the size of a 45 gallon drum. If the visiting lecturer can remember how to spell Canva the students can enter the advanced course. This will be the same as the basic course except that students will wear pidgeon wings.

Finally, I intend to offer my flagship course; PPE. This course will be a prestigious and no doubt highly competitive course. Phucking Phabulous Entrepreneurs will basically be about celebrating being successes at everything. Bringing abundance and fairy dust and positivity to each student and while they're distracted going through their wallets.

Obviously I am mindful of student wellbeing so I will also publish a journal in which they can write down how grateful they are and how they never ever ever have bad thoughts about anything and if they do they deserve everything coming to them etc etc.

All this for £7.77 reduced from £100,000 because Black Friday.

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Norma27 · 18/11/2024 21:45

YouOKHun · 18/11/2024 20:33

@Norma27 is the vulnerable positive reviewer the one with the first name the same as a du Maurier novel (in diminutive form) and with a second name the same as the word for a residential road? If so, she is also promoting another "Amazon Bestseller" in which she has collaborated and is one of the entrepreneurs featured. She describes herself as a published author, a term which is doing a lot of heavy lifting tbh.

I am getting a real sense of déjà vu as Yawn's coach also has a book on Amazon, as does Yawn of course. Amazon has a lot to answer for, (aside from what it already has a lot to answer for), in enabling all this vanity publishing. Wasn't it Christopher Hitchens who said, 'everyone has a book inside them, which is exactly where it should, I think, in most cases remain'.

This learned tome seems to have been coordinated by yet another coach in the Ubersville area. Consequently I have just gone down a rabbit hole of pastel coloured coaching offerings with bolt on MLM such as Tropic and reminded myself why I almost always run a mile from most "women's networking" groups (sorry to say). It's a twilight world playing a very similar trick as MLM with lots of the same income claims, prizes for joining and closed group mind control.

Yes that’s the one!

AbbeyGrange · 18/11/2024 22:17

Yawn's most certainly asked her bots to give positive reviews, there's now a flurry of them, that's going against Amazon rules isn't it?

definitelynotabot · 18/11/2024 23:26

17.99 cripes was it always that much?
Those reviews. So bloody fake.

BSintolerant · 19/11/2024 00:09

One of those reviewers is barely literate, if her spelling, typos and five-star review are anything to go by. That said, maybe she’s given Yawn’s epic work of literature 5 stars because Guru Author Yawn’s words of wisdom (such as they are) are nothing compared to the emptiness and simplicity of all those blank pages. It’s the lucky bot’s answer to the Emperor’s New Clothes.

Another reviewer uses the word “literally”. Beam me up, Nurse! 😉

Speaking of being beamed up, has Yawn coerced her minions to review her other literary efforts as well? Her collection of erotic fiction (at least, I hope it’s fiction … ) involving aliens and humans behaving badly is both disturbing and bewildering. Presumably there’s a market for alien smut amd, if so, I can’t begin to imagine what colour the sky must be on Planet Perve. 🛸

BethanyBarleywater · 19/11/2024 07:46

Can someone please give me a clue for SpecSaver Bot?

Spongebobette · 19/11/2024 08:34

Oh dear yes ‘literally’ is the giveaway that’s it’s Nurse. Poor Nurse who wanted to become a coach in LoA and manifestation but has ended up back with Yawn and paying her a monthly fee and buying her journal (what has she done with all the ones she’d already bought, including from Castle?)

AbbeyGrange · 19/11/2024 08:43

All these saddos desperately trying to find favour with Yawn, it's utterly pathetic, they remind me of the bully's sidekicks in school, blindly following their idol and following her instructions but the frightening thing is these are supposedly grown women. It hasn't dawned on them that she will never be their friend, she's using them for her own ends but they're too stupid to see it

Spongebobette · 19/11/2024 09:16

I’m afraid Nurse is very vulnerable to what Yawn is offering - to be part of an in group full of positivity about anyone’s dreams and plans. She can feel she’s popular.

sadly the only reason the group exists is to create an income for Yawn (and for her to have a group of adoring minions)

YouOKHun · 19/11/2024 10:32

I haven't looked at Nurse's SM for a few months but I see Mini Nurse has been knocking back the Aloe to "boost his immunity" so I am guessing Nurse is still working through the Aloe in her spare room or Yawn has persuaded her to buy from her cost price private group.

Though Nurse said she was putting her coaching bizniz on hold I had missed the part where she said this was partly because she had been persuaded to do the next level training as a coach and then possibly an NLP course. What a shame she doesn't stick to the excellent FREE training available to her in the NHS. The free training would be in evidence-based approaches not woo.

She has also tried to kick off a Facebook group sharing MH tips but that doesn't seem to have gone anywhere. It's such a shame. Her check-ins twice a day on her Insta stories indicate that she is rather lonely but I am really hoping she didn't pay for the next level coaching training and that the new job will take her in a better direction. She is so vulnerable to a bit of attention from the likes of Yawn or whoever runs the coaching academy. She's an absolute sitting duck isn't she @Spongebobette?

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YouOKHun · 19/11/2024 10:36

@BethanyBarleywater first name the same as the actress with the last name of Mealing, second name the same as Welsh Labour Party politician Aneurin.

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Spongebobette · 19/11/2024 10:49

YouOKHun · 19/11/2024 10:32

I haven't looked at Nurse's SM for a few months but I see Mini Nurse has been knocking back the Aloe to "boost his immunity" so I am guessing Nurse is still working through the Aloe in her spare room or Yawn has persuaded her to buy from her cost price private group.

Though Nurse said she was putting her coaching bizniz on hold I had missed the part where she said this was partly because she had been persuaded to do the next level training as a coach and then possibly an NLP course. What a shame she doesn't stick to the excellent FREE training available to her in the NHS. The free training would be in evidence-based approaches not woo.

She has also tried to kick off a Facebook group sharing MH tips but that doesn't seem to have gone anywhere. It's such a shame. Her check-ins twice a day on her Insta stories indicate that she is rather lonely but I am really hoping she didn't pay for the next level coaching training and that the new job will take her in a better direction. She is so vulnerable to a bit of attention from the likes of Yawn or whoever runs the coaching academy. She's an absolute sitting duck isn't she @Spongebobette?

Yes - I remember Nurse describing Yawn as her friend and ‘aunty Yawn’ to her son
she’s extremely susceptible to someone like Yawn’s wiles

BethanyBarleywater · 19/11/2024 15:13

YouOKHun · 19/11/2024 10:36

@BethanyBarleywater first name the same as the actress with the last name of Mealing, second name the same as Welsh Labour Party politician Aneurin.

Thank you!

Spongebobette · 19/11/2024 17:18

Spongebobette · 19/11/2024 10:49

Yes - I remember Nurse describing Yawn as her friend and ‘aunty Yawn’ to her son
she’s extremely susceptible to someone like Yawn’s wiles

I don’t think she’s started any new courses and her long awaited book hasn’t been mentioned for a while …the weekly food shop and reporting on how she slept every day is taking up all her spare time

It’s sad to see her being seduced into Yawn’s scam

Sugarplum48 · 19/11/2024 17:26

So finally a admission on tiktok that no one is interested in the daily affirmations being regurgitated hence pulling it from our screens. Charging people is not going to fix that. Nurse nurse nurse. Dear do stop and speccy, for the love of God try crawling up a different arse. You're embarrassing yourself

AbbeyGrange · 19/11/2024 17:40

Sugarplum48 · 19/11/2024 17:26

So finally a admission on tiktok that no one is interested in the daily affirmations being regurgitated hence pulling it from our screens. Charging people is not going to fix that. Nurse nurse nurse. Dear do stop and speccy, for the love of God try crawling up a different arse. You're embarrassing yourself

Are you talking about Yawn pulling it from Tiktok?

YouOKHun · 19/11/2024 17:45

There has also been pulling of negative reviews from Amazon. There are definitely one or two that have been deleted. You'd have thought Amazon would smell a rat when all the positive reviews appear on the same day. It's obvious what the instruction was during the group meeting yesterday!

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Spongebobette · 19/11/2024 18:19

Oh yes and I think those negative reviewers have unintentionally solidified support in her culty minions

AbbeyGrange · 19/11/2024 18:21

Yawn can delete all she wants but no one's buying it.

BSintolerant · 19/11/2024 19:44

I can still see the negative reviews of Yawn’s Magnum Opus Journal on Amazon.

Bad Thatch made me titter! 🙈

YouOKHun · 19/11/2024 19:50

@BSintolerant they are still there but I think one or two have gone (can't remember exactly). Yes the step ladder and the bot pot manifestation made me laugh.

I think we can be fairly sure that the positive reviewers represent all her sales bar one or two who haven't gone onto Amazon as instructed. Add to that the continued lack of interest in the Unlucky Club page it looks a pretty grim outlook for Yawn.

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YouOKHun · 19/11/2024 21:30

Here is a random bit of high street/MLM fusion: I knew the L'occitaine were doing something with the MLM biz model but I didn't realise they had bought LimeLife by Alcone. There are one or two LimeLife bots where I live. The top bot around here has already worked "with" Juice Plus, Avon, Younique, Maëlle, Body Shop at Home, Sengence/Lipsence and LimeLife and has now added Beyond Beauty the MLM run by that fake dermatologist. You'd have thought she would have recognised the problem by now.

behindmlm.com/companies/limelife-sold-off-to-loccitane-ceo-resigns/

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