THE VISALUS SCAM! A few years ago my wife was approached by someone to buy $45 bottles of juice called MonaVie. As a personal finance writer, I felt I had to research how this company could stay in business pricing the product at 10x more than competition with no proven benefits. Turns out the answer was that MonaVie is really selling people on a business recruiting others and requiring them to buy the juice as an ongoing expense to continue with the business opportunity. In the process, so much was about MonaVie was uncovered that I had to create MonaVie Scam. The website has provided tons of irrefutable evidence supported by reputable third parties that MonaVie is a grossly overpriced product, with little nutritional value, wrapped in a poor business opportunity that the FTC guidelines say is an illegal pyramid scheme, which is itself wrapped in illegal medical claims, supported by nonsensical scientific studies, and tied to a fraudulent charity. Fortunately there is now a class-action lawsuit against MonaVie as others have seen the evidence. In that MonaVie discussion, another MLML distributor introduced me to LifeVantage Protandim. It turns out that is just as bad as MonaVie. You should simply read the article to learn more. Lastly, a couple of distributors mentioned One24 - a company that bills itself as a way to retire in 24 months - as long as you recruit enough people. Its a classic pyramid scheme according to the FTC guidelines. So I wrote an article warning people that One24 is a scam. On that One24 article a distributor brought up the name of ViSalus and the performance of their distributors. The name was familiar to me, so I searched through my email. I had one back from June from an Aretus Smith who asked me if it was legit or not. I get a couple of these requests a month for various companies and I dont have the time to research them, so my answer wasnt very good. Then six weeks ago Troy Brian sent an spam email to about 250 people involved in MonaVie (somehow the person selling this list has added my name and bunch of others illegally) telling them about a ViSalus challenge. So when Todd Hirsch brought up ViSalus on the One24 thread, I decided to spend a few minutes looking into it. It didnt take me long to find a lot of deceptive marketing designed to take advantage of consumers.
Posted on: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 18:01:26 +0000
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