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Botwatch 89!!!!!! MLM is dying but we are still watching and sadly there are still many victims. 99.6% of participants in these “legal” schemes lose money but they are STILL being promised the world by MLM.

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Spongebobette · 10/07/2025 10:38

New thread! Welcome to anyone who wants to be better informed about the dodgy practices of multi level marketing companies

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Lookuptotheskies · 13/07/2025 10:10

Hello bot watchers! I have noticed a previous Scentsy bot on my social media is now "a Farmasi gal". She is recruiting like crazy! Even her spouse has been signed up. 🤦 Recently there have been lots of posts of her on a holiday abroad to visit Farmasi hq. The tone is "look what you can achieve". Only plus is there seems to be no Scentsy posts anymore! Looks like more people are drinking the Farmasi coolaid than the Scentsy coolaid.

It makes me so cross. The lies to themselves and everyone around them are insane.

I do wonder what the thought process is for people that join one mlm, don't get anywhere (despite what they say on sales/recruitment posts) and then decide to hop onboard another one! 🤦

This person's house is filled with Scentsy tat like cuddly toys filled with artificial scents for their kids to cuddle. They must have spent hundreds just on those that could have been spent on something better for their family's benefit. :-/

SnoogyWoo · 13/07/2025 11:52

Nice of Uber to show us her new tattoo on her right labia lip

OhMyGiddyAunt · 13/07/2025 15:17

We've literally seen it all now 🤦🏻‍♀️

YouOKHun · 13/07/2025 16:35

55 Unlucky Club Members. That was yesterday, today there are 52 members.

YouOKHun · 13/07/2025 17:06

Re the Boring Names and their recent silence. I see number 27 High Street in the recently mentioned Cheshire town was being offered for sale freehold with vacant possession last summer and was then withdrawn from sale (with the agent where I saw it listed, it could have been sold elsewhere). Choose Your Expensive Mistake Ltd!

dickiedavisthunderthighs · 14/07/2025 09:21

Has anyone seen the proliferation of these 'Super Patches'? Absolute insanity.

YouOKHun · 14/07/2025 10:51

@dickiedavisthunderthighsthere is a post on the Lies Exposed page from someone who has been stung by hidden fees and difficulty cancelling. The Lies Exposed page responses are very victim blaming, telling the OP that they are on the wrong page as the page is anti MLM, but I think it’s a very useful post.

I’ve been sharing the TiNA article about the company in the hope that when any potential sign up has finished calling me a negative NWM failure they might have a sneaky read and swerve the patches.

MrsDilligaf · 14/07/2025 18:28

Imagine my surprise when DH declares that he's booked us a holiday cottage in Appledore this summer.

Thankfully it isn't Uber's cottage...

WorthySloth · 14/07/2025 19:08

@MrsDilligaf I hope you have a fantastic time 😁 I live very near appledore and it is gorgeous. You will spot Ubers place easily 🤣🤣

YouOKHun · 14/07/2025 19:11

I see Mrs Castle Senior has been working like a dog to cook and serve and clean up after the women playing shop on Castle’s retreat. I wonder what happens on a Castle retreat? She holds court and shows off and then they all go home feeling “empowered” and Mrs Castle Senior goes home somewhat less empowered, dragging some massive bags of laundry behind her and the bill for all the expenses also weighing her down.

Spongebobette · 14/07/2025 19:42

I spotted that too and rolled my eyes. Castle has no hesitation in exploiting her mum does she

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Wintersgirl · 14/07/2025 21:38

Castles mum looks knackered, even if she really wanted to do all the cooking there's no way I'd let my mum do all that work, it's way too much, and as Castle keeps reminding everyone she's a six figure earner, then surely outside caterers would be the order of the day and mum can relax with everyone else.

YouOKHun · 14/07/2025 21:46

Hello @Lookuptotheskies! Farmasi are on a big recruitment drive in the UK having retained the scamming services of some high up bots from the now [pretty much] defunct Acti-labs/Urban Retreat. It is the same old same old I’m afraid. In fact it may make Scentsy look almost honest in comparison.

It is frustrating to watch but until your bot realises that it’s not a Scentsy problem but a problem with MLM as a whole she is likely to hop from one to another believing, or hoping that this time it will be better. The problem is these companies can be very good at appealing to the vulnerabilities and sell a beguiling mix of money, glamour, flexibility, recognition and social camaraderie that is very attractive and all you have to do is want it enough - easy!. Much more attractive than the dull truth that MLMs are lying.

It’s hard to watch because it appeals most to the people who can least afford to get stung. ☹️

YouOKHun · 14/07/2025 21:54

Yes I rolled my eyes too and I also thought Castle’s mum looked done in. And yes, why can’t this 6/7/8 figure earner just bring in caterers?

I wonder how much Castle is charging the retreaters? If you went to a business retreat what would you think about the set up if the business guru’s mum was cook/cleaner/chambermaid? It doesn’t really say “success” does it? More like “Micky Mouse grift”.

Sugarplum48 · 14/07/2025 22:08

How are you a team when 2 of you are independent from the one person? Yawn it isn't a team. You're on your own with 2 women dipping in and out sporadically and being paid independently from you. She's such a dimwit

PieonaBarm · 14/07/2025 22:40

Don't forget the spiritual readings that Mummy Castle did for everyone

YouOKHun · 14/07/2025 22:57

Ah yes @PieonaBarm how could I forget to mention Mystic Mug. Apparently she said to one woman during a “spiritual reading” that she should use the idea for the product she had lurking in her mind. This amazing insight delivered by Mystic Mug despite having no idea whether the woman in front of her was a coach or a coach or a network marketer, a pipe dreamer or yet another coach, or unemployed like her own daughter. I’m surprised she had the capacity to dish out the woo when she had so much work to do. Come on Mystic Mug, those bogs won’t clean themselves. Ridiculous.

I have looked in my own crystal ball and at the clip of Castle driving the Rangey at speed while looking about 80% of the time at the camera rather than the road, and I see her destiny as A&E if she’s lucky. I don’t see such a good destiny for the people she hits. The woman is a prize idiot.

BSintolerant · 14/07/2025 23:38

The MLM episode of This Country is on BBC1 now. “Tastes like arse!” 🤮

ticktock19 · 15/07/2025 09:28

BSintolerant · 14/07/2025 23:38

The MLM episode of This Country is on BBC1 now. “Tastes like arse!” 🤮

Ahh, I have to thank who ever mentioned that episode on here yrs ago, for getting me into This Country, comedy gold

YouOKHun · 15/07/2025 12:33

It is indeed comedy gold! I would also add the Allez Vous episode of Schitt’s Creek to the MLM funny list.

Spongebobette · 15/07/2025 15:24

Oh it’s brilliant and the ‘tips and tricks’ is very like the ‘golden nuggets’ we often hear about from the bots

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dickiedavisthunderthighs · 15/07/2025 16:16

Fierce reckons her fucking spells are curing a woman’s infertility. I could punch her.

Spongebobette · 15/07/2025 17:11

dickiedavisthunderthighs · 15/07/2025 16:16

Fierce reckons her fucking spells are curing a woman’s infertility. I could punch her.

She’s absolutely shameless

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Sugarplum48 · 15/07/2025 21:10

Meanwhile yawn is charging a mind numbing 3k for the utter shit show she's trying to now flog.

Spongebobette · 15/07/2025 21:26

I can’t really work out who her target market is

seems to be ‘women who want to start a business’ ?

ex network marketers who want to be coaches?

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