DOes anyone know anything about this product? Is it legit, does it work?
I met a lady who makes sometimes 10 grand a month and she's my age, she sells this stuff and such... I was wondering if it really does what it says, and what anyone can tell me about this product.
I know for sure she makes that much because she's been doing it for the past 2 years, and makes enough money that she goes away for 2 weeks all the time on vacations to various places around the world, and her parents are poor.
Thanks :)
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 Feb 23 2006, 1:02 pm (Edited on Feb 23 2006, 1:07 pm)
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Feb 23 2006, 1:08 pm
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I'm not sure what it is, but it sounds like a Pyrimid Scheme. If it's based around selling the option to sell something to others avoid it like the plague. Especially if there's something in there where you make money when the people 'under' you make money.
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After doing a little research I get the impression they're trying to sell you cases of the stuff at wholesale and let you sell it. Probably with the idea you'll get hyped up over it, buy too many bottles of the stuff and then they've made their money.
The alarm bell it's set off for me is this person is claiming to be making $10,000 a month off it. I'm assuming that she's claiming that is profit, but with the price of these things you'd have to sell a lot. If it's not a scam she must have the market completely cornered. To make $10,000 a month (profit, charging $15 more per bottle than you're buying them for) you'd need to sell 667 bottles of the stuff every month. That's a full time job. Throwing $15 more onto the wholesale price isn't likily to work either, seeing as anyone on the street would be able to buy three bottles for $42 and the minimum wholesale price is $30 (well, the lowest I seen was $38, but they claimed $30 was the minimum). If you want to make some money selling drinks, buy a vending machine and place it in a high school. | |
I can't find any concrete details, but it looks like a network marketing scheme. That isn't the same as a pyramid scheme, though it does bear some resemblance at first glance.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_marketing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-level_marketing | |
from what I understood most the money comes from getting people to sell the product, not just from getting people to use it. So the whole idea is to get people to sign underneath you, so whenever they make a sale you get paid extra because they did. That's how she makes most her money (from what she's explained to me). It's a you benefit I benefit relationship, as she likes to claim.
Well Xango seems very simular and it's been going for a long time, so it's possible the drinks are just nutrition drinks (like a liquid multivitamin) and thus they are helpful but not as they claim? | |
Jon Snow wrote:
from what I understood most the money comes from getting people to sell the product Yeah. That's what I guessed from your first post. The problem with such a model is it sucks all the money up to the 'top' until the money runs out then it all collapses. Thus screwing most of the people involved. With this it might not be so bad, provided enough people actually sell the stuff to regular customers (and don't just sell the chance to sell). In the event that it does fold, you'd also still be able to sell the stuff you've brought (in theory). That said you wouldn't take something like this up with the intent to sell the stuff. You can find a bunch of much better products to sell where the profit doesn't get 'shared' amongst the people who told you about it. When people make money off these it's just because they signed up at the right time. They could just as easily have signed up a month or two later and been one of the people who lost money. Well Xango seems very simular and it's been going for a long time, so it's possible the drinks are just nutrition drinks (like a liquid multivitamin) and thus they are helpful but not as they claim? People still want nutrition drinks, so it's not like you'd have to sell it as the miricle cure all potion. Although at the price you buy it at you'd have to sell it at a price where it wouldn't really be able to compete with the regular stuff. If you're looking for something like this I recommend you go with something more traditional. Ie, you buy off the same person everyone else buys off and your job is to sell it. You wont make mega bucks, or even enough to really call a second income, but you'll make a little extra cash for a little extra work. I mean seriously, you can make more money with a little eBay store that buys in bulk then sells seperately than you can with any of these 'you're going to pull $5,000 a month working in your spare time' setups. | |