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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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Spongebobette · 22/07/2025 10:04

I wonder whether Yawn ever talks to someone on a ‘complimentary 30 minute call’ and says actually your idea for a business isn’t going to make you any money.

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YouOKHun · 22/07/2025 11:21

I also wonder if any complimentary calls ever convert into paying customers? I doubt it, hence the need to attach to others with slightly more concrete offerings. It’s a very bad time to launch anything when their small audience is likely to be dealing with school holidays and shelving their fledgling biz idea for the next few weeks (assuming their audience is mainly MLM/ex MLM). By the time people are focussing again after the summer this collaboration of experts will probably have got bored/fallen out/come to their senses about the value of it.

Spongebobette · 22/07/2025 12:21

I would love someone to do a 30 min call and ask her about GDPR etc

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Spongebobette · 22/07/2025 12:36

Techie bot is circumscribing her offer in the Buildy package very carefully! Don’t you dare go over 60 minutes a month for your tech support!

  • Includes up to 60 minutes per month for:
  • Site updates
  • Backups & performance tasks
  • Brief email responses, minor content tweaks, or a short support call

What do you mean you’d expect a bit more for 3k/ £250 a month? You’ll get Yawn shouting rah rah rah on Zoom calls! What else could you possibly expect?!

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Crikeyalmighty · 22/07/2025 12:47

I honestly think yawn is just plain vain - and the biggest buzz she gets is constant photoshoots etc -and short of being a model or an actress etc not many jobs are going to involve dressing up , making up and being photographed ! I no longer think it’s actually even about money- more just an ego boost

Spongebobette · 22/07/2025 13:05

Excellent point - without the opportunity to get glammed up and have photos taken I think she’d struggle

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Crikeyalmighty · 22/07/2025 13:13

@Spongebobette I honestly believe that’s what it’s about these days- somewhere in there isa plain Jane who got glam and needs others to see that !! if it came down to money then she isn’t that daft that she knows a standard job would probably pay better. If I was her H I would honestly find it tedious too

cheeseomelette · 22/07/2025 14:14

Thanks yawn! I’m on holiday and those pictures have made me howl. They’re so contrived and dated.

The one rising from the lavender field dressed like some kind of primark milkmaid is my favourite.

its all just sheer vanity, surely. I’d unfollow but I don’t know anyone like yawn in real life and I’m mesmerised by just how bad it is.

ticktock19 · 22/07/2025 14:18

Quick Quick Yawn, your legal experts are saying you’re breaking the law

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.
Crikeyalmighty · 22/07/2025 14:41

@cheeseomelette ‘Primark milkmaid’ - lol- that’s a good description - I agree I shouldn’t be fascinated, but I kind of am . Thing is I would be more impressed if she actually put up a bit of actual content related to business - ‘let’s look at price differential’ or ‘making sure you price correct factoring in postal costs’ or something as boring as that - rather than endless pics of wafting round fields being empowering - itsall a bit like a timotei shampoo advert circa 1988 - what she is relying on is the ‘you too can be me’ - which only really appeals to other good looking and pretty shallow people

Spongebobette · 22/07/2025 14:48

‘Squatting in a lavender field having a pee’

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DeliaDeetz · 22/07/2025 15:49

The photos from the latest shoot are definitely something else!

If you didn't have a clue who they were and somebody showed you those photos, I doubt your first thought would be "now there's the people to help me develop my business!"

The outing was clearly all about Yawn, although she did let the other 2 appear in a couple of the photos!

Spongebobette · 22/07/2025 16:34

The ‘sitting on a picnic table’with my feet on the seat photo (GET OFF IT, people are going to eat from that table!)

got 2 likes on FB, one from techie and one from the Buildy account

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Sugarplum48 · 22/07/2025 17:30

At this point it's just a group of ex mlmers fucking around as they have nothing else to do.

OhMyGiddyAunt · 22/07/2025 19:08

In half those photos Yawn looks like she's holding in a fart

Twentytwentyhindsight · 22/07/2025 19:32

If she’s still chugging the aloe jizz, probably best to keep them in.

fitgirl26 · 23/07/2025 10:07

Yawn frolicking in a lavender field dressed as a milk maid has me howling this morning 🤣

cheeseomelette · 23/07/2025 12:48

Her face is also a completely different shape in the ones others take of her. Compare the jaw lines!

She must photoshop the selfies to high heaven

Crikeyalmighty · 23/07/2025 12:56

Today’s post from yawn is particularly amusing -

I get quite a few emails from
people struggling to find and keep clients.

May I suggest a bit of self awareness might come in handy - it isn’t all about ‘turning up’ and the ‘energy’ you give off - it’s ’what’s Your offering’ !!

Spongebobette · 23/07/2025 13:36

Surely your advice to clients is just to relax, stop trying and be aligned or some shit like that

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YouOKHun · 23/07/2025 14:05

I find the best way to generate business is to stand in a field taking imaginary calls on a toy telephone.

And @cheeseomelette “Primark Milkmaid” 😂

I’ve been looking at the legal eagles’ posts about privacy etc on their FB page. It’s all a bit bot style but some sensible pointers which the average bot won’t have considered. The only trouble the legal pair have got is that at least one of their BuildaBot collaborators is failing to do what they say is necessary (whether it’s clear policies, GDPR, ICO registration, insurance etc etc). It makes me wonder what sort of legal expertise is on offer if they’ve failed to do any due diligence on the quality of their collaborators. That website you mention @Spongebobetteis woeful, every link to policies goes nowhere.

Crikeyalmighty · 23/07/2025 14:09

@Spongebobette I believe ‘relax’ isa suggestion too!! lol

Spongebobette · 23/07/2025 17:40

A lot of what Yawn posts is just self-soothing

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YouOKHun · 23/07/2025 21:44

It’s now a month since both Boring Names stopped posting on social media because Mr was hacked (or he claims). Mrs BN wasn’t hacked so why isn’t she keeping their bizniz in people’s SM feeds? Can it really take a month to sort out being hacked when your social media presence is so important or has something else happened? I’d love to know!

Spongebobette · 23/07/2025 21:57

Hmmm curiouser and curiouser!

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