A Drink’s Purple Reign

Mona Vie and the acai berry are nutrients that help your body-period. Like any business if you work hard and believe in the product and show enthusiasm you will do well. Not everyone wants to work hard at creating a Mona Vie business-they just want the health benefits and that's ok. It's very easy with Mona Vie not to necessarily create a business but at least pass on the good word on how well the juice is working for you and you may have a few friends that also want the juice. The end result is-you have your juice paid for just by recommending something you like. There is nothing wrong with that.

THE-REAL-DEAL-RIGHT-HERE,
I reported you to SPAM.........

Man, forget about this pyramid thing and someone losing money at the end of the pyramid. This is not a frikkin' chain letter where if you don't put your name at the top and send in $100 you will burn in hell forever, we are not on the airplane where you're almost at the captain level but you can't find one more sucker to toss in $1500 to push you to the next level and you have to get it done before the cops raid the meeting, this is not some virtual product where you have to build a tripod and you can even buy your own way in with multiple positions.

MonaVie is a tried and true and accepted business model. Like anything, you have to understand the MLM industry. You wouldn???t jump in and start trading stocks before you learned the proper way of trading, although stock trading is something I have a huge issue with, talk about gambling. Funny how all of a sudden everyone that ever failed in any sort of entrepreneurial business is now an expert and they quote anti-MLM authors and experts which frankly I have never heard of. MLM does work, and like any entrepreneurial endeavor, it works for those that are willing to put in the time and the effort. Effort means 60-80 hours a week, effort means no American Idol or So You Think You Can Dance, effort means zero wasting time watching the boob tube at all. That time you reserve for your family. Yup, you may have to actually interact with your wife and kids, which in our industry is one of the most important paths to success.

I find it heartwarming that all of the misinformed self proclaimed pyramid scheme experts want to help all of us dummies that simply don't have a clue about what have gotten ourselves into. You should all consider yourselves lucky that there is a MonaVie, it gives all the doomers and gloomers a place to vent about all of their failed MLM experiences. I would bet money on the fact that the majority of you that call everything MLM a pyramid scheme are just 9-5 clock punchers. Not that there's anything wrong with that, somebody???s got to do it. So keep up the good work and in 25 or 30 years you should be getting that pat on the back and that cool $70.00, 10k gold plated Timex you???ve worked so hard for.

THE-REAL-DEAL-RIGHT-HERE ,

Your Spamming again. Good thing you provided your personal info so that Newsweek can bill you for an advertising spot each and every time you spam the same junk again and again. You should call yourself THE-REAL-SPAMMER-HERE. It is bad enough that the MonaVie reps spam on a very informative article about a hyped up juice. I think they are all hyped up when MLM is involved because somewhere someone at the end of the pyramid will lose money paying for an overpriced juice that most people know they can get the same benefits from when buying at a local food store. Face it, we do not eat healthy, so what does it matter about preservatives, ORAC scales or how much of this or that is in the juice. What matters is once someone starts drinking some kind of nutritional beverage juice at their local food store, like pomegranate juice, they will see benefits if they drink it consistently, between 2-6 ounces two or three times a day.

Once in a while I come back to this page just out of curiosity... Amazing to see how a negative article becomes a portal to false advertisement. It's not so much about Monavie Scheme, High Price of a bottle, What it does and What it doesn't for your health, the Claims about the Founder of the Company...
Come on people...!!! How much are you willing to pay for your health?
The bottle offer a blend of 19 fruits and glucosamine (active). Original --> 19 fruits for children under the age of 12, pregnant or breastfeeding women! --> 13 servings of fruist/vegetbales daily by taking 40z of the juice.
All I read from the other companies mentioned below is blah, blah, blah and sugar, sugar... caffeine, caffeine... Would you really want to be wired up instead of healthy?
Scientific studies were done and KNOWLEDGE IS POWER!!! EDUCATE YOURSELVES BEFORE WASTING TIME, ENERGY AND SPACE!
"TELL ME AND I'LL FORGET, SHOW ME AND I'LL REMEMBER, INVOLVE ME AND I'LL DO IT !"
Get healthy... We need a strong generationg to follow our steps! To make history! To shine in this World!
Good luck to you all... Monavie has change my health!

A lot of deceptive mlm companies, like Monavie, went through someone simply filling a complaint to have a company looked into, which leads to huge fines to that company and possible termination for using deceptive tactics of income claims to product health claims.

Most people do not know where they can send a complaint to have a pyramid scheme shut down. Many Government Agencies look at BBB Reports first and may even work with BBB. Look for the BBB in the city the company is closest to ( Salt Lake City, UT ) and file a complaint. It just takes 20 complaints for the Attorney Generals Office to investigate a company, fine the company or shut them down. Find the state the offending party is in and send an electronic complaint fast.

These links will help:

Better Business Bureau (BBB)
http://utah.bbb.org/WWWRoot/SitePage.aspx?site=139&id=ab12ce37-3680-42cc-9817-df71ecfda32e

FDA Consumer Complaint Coordinators
http://www.fda.gov/opacom/backgrounders/complain.html

FDA: Reporting Unlawful Sales of Medical Products on the Internet
http://www.fda.gov/oc/buyonline/buyonlineform.htm

FTC Consumer Complaint Form
https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/

National Advertising Division (NAD)
http://www.nadreview.org/AboutNAD.asp

If you are invited to attend a MonaVie opportunity meeting, even though they may call it something else on their invite, bring a voice recorder, video camera or even a camera and record the event with one of those medias. That away after the meeting if all you heard was how to recruit people to earn money or testimonies of curing ailments you have something to send to the FTC, Attorney General of your State, BBB or the FDA. Reps for Monavie always tend to show their potential earnings to entice you to sign up. Reps will also make deceptive health claims on how the juice cured or got rid of some kind of health issue for them or someone they know so you will buy the overpriced juice.

Easy simple breakfast: 1 gram of ground cinnamon has an ORAC score of over 2675. One gram of cinnamon is equal to 1/3 ounce. 1/3 of an ounce of cinnamon is equal to 2 teaspoons. So if you put two teaspoons (true measurement not a regular spoon) on say a bowl of oatmeal, you get over half of your RDA ORAC sore. Also if you eat 1 ounce of oatmeal (dry weight) you will be eating another 542 in an ORAC score. 1 ounce of oatmeal is roughly equal to one package of the instant oatmeal but I am basing this on 1 ounce of plain quick oats. So if you eat a bowl of oatmeal with two teaspoons of cinnamon for breakfast you will be getting over 2/3 the RDA ORAC score for a healthy breakfast alone. You will probably be less hungry than drinking 2 oz of juice for breakfast. Of course this doesn???t even include a 4oz glass of orange juice. Raw orange juice (4 oz roughly) has an ORAC score of 726. Now I am a lazy MonaVie non-believer so I would not be drinking fresh squeezed orange juice so I am going to cut the ORAC score in half to 363 for processed orange juice. So this quick simple breakfast takes you to a total of 3580 ORAC score. Now, how hard is it to get antioxidants into your diet?

Explains how MLM plans and illegal pyramiding works as defined by the FTC. Offers tips to help you decide whether to join a MLM plan.
www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/invest/mlm.shtm

As everyone knows, not all MLM comapnies are alike. Shaklee is a 50+ year old Fortune 500 comapny. They have the best compsansation plan in the industry as well as being the number one natura nutrition company in the US.

Like a handful of true visionaries who have shaped our society, Dr. Forrest C. Shaklee was a man of many diverse and passionate beliefs.

Dr. Shaklee realized the complementary strengths of science and nature had incomparable healing power. He also believed in an uncompromising respect for the environment, decades before words like global warming and biodegradable even appeared.

From these founding principals, Dr. Shaklee created natural food products and household cleaners that were the best of science and nature combined - and in this process, set his company on a path of Creating Healthier Lives.

This is why Shaklee is also a vibrant community of tens of thousands of people of all ages and from all walks of life who comprise its direct sales force- People with passion and vision who want to create healthier lives for themselves and others! People who have created such philanthropic organizations as Shaklee Cares.

Now, a new generation is discovering the Shaklee Difference and joining the Shaklee community. After all, the tenets are timeless.

You can find out more by contacting Natural Solution LLC at www.naturalsolutionllc.net

MonaVie is NOTa pyramid scheme, since you are are an INDEPENDENT DISTRIBUTOR. You are NOT PAID TO RECRUIT people. If you want, you can merely sell the product itself and make money off of the retail sales In order to be a pyramid, the enrollment fee would have to be paid directly to the person who is doing the enrollment upline, and MonaVie would not sell a physical, tangible product on its own. The only way to make money would have to come from the recruitment side of the business, which in MonaVie's case, it DOES NOT.

Lotions and Potions: The Bottom Line About Multilevel Marketing Plans.

'Tis the season for consumers to be confronted with a wide range of health, beauty and fitness products and promotions. Many of these items aren't available on store shelves and are sold only through distributors.

What Are You Buying?
Many companies that market their products through distributors sell quality items at competitive prices. But some offer goods that are overpriced, have questionable merits or are downright unsafe to use.

The Federal Trade Commission warns consumers to apply a healthy dose of caution before buying products advertised as having "miracle" ingredients or techniques and guaranteed results. Many of these "quick cures" are unproven, fraudulently marketed and useless or even dangerous.

Before using one of these products, the best prescription may be to check with a health professional.

What Else Is For Sale?
Some distributors sell more than diet and exercise plans, vitamin supplements or wonder creams. Many may sell "opportunities," too-a chance for you not only to buy, but also to market, the products. In addition to describing the benefits of their product or program, these distributors may encourage you to become a distributor.

If you sign up as a distributor, you may be promised commissions or other rewards-for both your sales of the plan's goods or services and those of other people you recruit to become distributors. These plans, often called "multilevel marketing plans," sometimes promise commissions or rewards that never materialize. What's worse, consumers are often urged to spend or "invest" money in order to make it.

The Federal Trade Commission cannot tell you whether a particular multilevel marketing plan is legal. Nor can it give you advice about whether to join such a plan. You must make that decision yourself. However, the FTC suggests that you use common sense, and consider these seven tips when you make your decision:

Avoid any plan that includes commissions for recruiting additional distributors. It may be an illegal pyramid.

Beware of plans that ask new distributors to purchase expensive inventory. Just like 2 cases of MonaVie or more. These plans can collapse quickly -- and also may be thinly-disguised pyramids.

Be cautious of plans that claim you will make money through continued growth of your "downline" -- the commissions on sales made by new distributors you recruit -- rather than through sales of products you make yourself. MonaVies Payplan

Beware of plans that claim to sell miracle products or promise enormous earnings. Just because a promoter of a plan makes a claim doesn't mean it's true! Ask the promoter of the plan to substantiate claims with hard evidence. That is how MonaVie builds their business on deceptive claims, which that falls into the FDA.

Beware of shills -- (decoy) references paid by a plan's promoter to describe their fictional success in earning money through the plan.

Don't pay or sign any contracts in an (opportunity meeting) or any other high-pressure situation. Insist on taking your time to think over a decision to join. Talk it over with your spouse, a knowledgeable friend, an accountant or lawyer.

Do your homework! Check with your local Better Business Bureau http://utah.bbb.org/WWWRoot/Report.aspx?site=139&bbb=1166&firm=21000953

State Attorney General about any plan you're considering -- especially when the claims about the product.
http://www.illinoisattorneygeneral.gov/consumers/pyramid.html http://www.indianaconsumer.com/consumer_guide/pyramid_schemes.asp

Also check out the FDA warning issued to Monavie a year ago. http://www.fda.gov/cder/warn/cyber/2007/UTVokes.pdf

www.ftc.gov or call toll-free, 1-877-FTC-HELP (1-877-382-4357); TTY: 1-866-653-4261. The FTC enters Internet, telemarketing, identity theft, and other fraud-related complaints into Consumer Sentinel, a secure online database available to hundreds of civil and criminal law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and abroad.

www.ftc.gov/os/comments/businessopprule/522418-12585.pdf

Too many Red Flags,Warning Signs and Factual history on why MonaVie a Scheme!!!!

MonaVie is good for you. Nineteen of the most highly antioxidant berries put together in one bottle. Yes sir, two ounces in the am and two ounces in the pm from one bottle will make you feel great and drinking a case of the juice will change your life forever. Not a medicine, not a drug, just food in a bottle. I drink it everyday and I'm getting my juice for free. Tony, are you the one that wrote the article on MonaVie?? Some one needs to sign you and show you how you also can get your juice free. And, by the way, it is not a pyramid scheme.

Pyramid schemes all share one overriding characteristic. They promise consumers or investors large profits based primarily on recruiting others to join their program , not based on profits from any real investment or real sale of goods to the public. Some schemes may purport to sell a product, but they often simply use the product to hide their pyramid structure. Sounds just like MonaVie.......

http://www.sec.gov/answers/pyramid.htm

Pyramid schemes

A pyramid is an investment scheme in which a participant primarily makes money by recruiting members who, in turn, make money primarily by enticing others to join.

The focus is on recruiting participants, not on selling a product. Products that are sold are overpriced or nearly worthless.


If you are considering a product/service-selling investment, be cautious. If the opportunity for income is primarily derived by recruiting more investors or salespersons rather than by selling a product, the plan probably is illegal.

Claims that a promoter makes concerning the investment opportunity often are exaggerated and misleading. Since few products are sold, most of the money generated is through recruitment of members.

When recruitment slows, the marketing system collapses, leaving most participants with losses.

Penalties for participation in a pyramid scheme, recruiting people to participate in a pyramid scheme is a felony, punishable by up to four years in prison, up to a $5,000 fine or both.

Every person who recruits another participant into the pyramid can be sued for twice the amount the recruit paid. If a marketing system is deemed a pyramid, the court can order the defendant to pay civil penalties and consumer restitution.

The FTC works for the consumer to prevent fraudulent, deceptive, and unfair business practices in the marketplace and to provide information to help consumers spot, stop, and avoid them. To file a complaint or to get free information on consumer issues, visit ftc.gov or call toll-free, 1-877-FTC-HELP (1-877-382-4357); TTY: 1-866-653-4261. The FTC enters Internet, telemarketing, identity theft, and other fraud-related complaints into Consumer Sentinel, a secure online database available to hundreds of civil and criminal law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and abroad.