A Drink’s Purple Reign

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Thank you Newsweek for exposing a Split Pyramid Scheme business!!!!
I will emphasis why Monavie is a Scheme.
Too many crooks involved with Monavie along with the clinical study that was done on the juice.

FDA site on Dynamic Essentials a company Dallin Larsen, owner of Monavie, was a V.P. for, before it was shutdown by the FDA for making false claims for treating various diseases like cancer, arthritis and ADD. A lot of juice companies go down the same way. You would think Dallin would of cleaned up false claims being made by Monavie Reps.
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http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2003/NEW00976.html


DR. Alexander G. Schauss, PhD, FACN who did the clinical study on MonaVie. Criminal??? Had run-ins with the FDA! How bogus is the Monavie clinical study now?
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http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-9205625_ITM
http://www.lysator.liu.se/skeptical/newsletters/Georgia_Skeptic/GS05-05.TXT


FTC on Split Pyramids ( Binary Comp Plans) same comp plan MonaVie uses. Many MLM companies shut down for using the Binary comp plans!!!
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http://www.ftc.gov/os/comments/businessopprule/522418-12585.pdf .


FDA Warning issued to MonaVie and sales reps for making unethical medical claims. FDA is not done with MonaVie yet, after a cyber warning, they keep MonaVie on the Radar. With all these reps making medical claims and giving their name, phone number and website out, the FDA has a way to hit your company hard.
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http://www.fda.gov/cder/warn/cyber/2007/UTVokes.pdf


For a privately held company, they sure do have a lot of complaints on the Better Business Bureau website!
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http://utah.bbb.org/WWWRoot/Report.aspx?site=139&bbb=1166&firm=21000953


Lawsuit filed by Quixstar (Amway) against Monavie for making unethical medical claims in order to build their business back in March of 08. Quixstars intent for the suit is to help protect the MLM industry from MonaVies deceptive tactics to build a business. Many examples was provided with Doctors making speeches of falsely claiming MonaVie cures cancer. The docket link does cost 8 cents per page to review the court case.
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http://dockets.justia.com/docket/court-utdce/case_no-2:2008cv00209/case_id-65339/


If people prefer the pour in a bottle solution to their health they know they can get their juice at a fraction of the cost of what Monavie cost elsewhere. It seems when your company does not have a unique product, your only choice is to build your business on hype, false claims and other deceptive tactics. Building a business based on a juice that can be copied so easily along with hype filled testimonies that many times cross the legal line into medical claims will catch up with MonaVie and the Reps. The hype only lasts so long. Too many "juice" deals without any kind of composition patent is going to kill off many of these companies unless they come up with something unique and protected with a patent.

I eat Cheerios with a teaspoon of Splenda in the morning after my two ounces of MonaVie. Oatmeal makes me gag and I never did like the taste of cinnamon. Say, do you think this subject has been worn down to a frazzle?? Lets start commenting on the cost of prescription drugs that only treat the symptoms of what ails you.

MonaVie is a rip off. I tried it and was still tired. It's all about greedy people trying to get rich off of your expense, by tricking you into going to the tastings and signing you up without even giving you a receipt, provided that you are stupid enough to buy the juice in the first place!

Describes companies like Monavie and Acaiplus

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.

You can report this scam by the link I provided; it's very easy to do and only takes a few minutes to fill out. In fact, that goes for any MLM scam out there.

https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/FTC_Wizard.aspx?Lang=en

It only takes 20 complaints to the FTC, to trigger an investigation into this pyramid scheme, then the FTC will work with BBB to further their investigation and then involve Attorney Generals of each state if need be.

Check out the Unsatisfactory rating with BBB on Monavie. That rating will amplify FTC quick and decisive measures to have this scam shut down.

http://utah.bbb.org/WWWRoot/Report.aspx?site=139&bbb=1166&firm=21000953

Quick do your part before other harmless people are scammed.

Don't believe everything you hear. If you would have done your own reserch you would know that Monavie doesn't make any claims that it's product will cure anything. And it's distributor shouldn't either. Monavie is not medicine it's JUICE! I'm sorry to hear about your brother, but really what were you expecting. The only thing the juice can do is help your body by giving it the things that it needs on a daily basis. I have been drinking monavie for over a year and even though I am a distributor per-say I don't make any money at it really...once in a while one of the 1/2 doz people that I have introduced to the juice will purchase a bulk order and I make a bonus. But I still buy it and give it to my family everyday. it keeps us heathy and it has helped with some medical problems like allergies and back aches... not because its a cure but because my body is getting the extra nutrition that it needs. And yes I could do this all my self by eating more fruits and vegetables but I don't and neither do my kids, this is my way of making sure they get what they need and well worth the money. Which is less than I used to pay for my starbucks everyday.

Ok folks, lets face it. In my opinion, all these juices are overpriced. Just because you add less water to the base does not make it worth $40 for 25 oz. And by the way 4 oz per day means you need to drink 5 bottles in a 30 day period.. $200 per month ! Its ridiculous. Soon the big juice companies will be all over Monas butt with the same product for $10 per bottle. Acai, and the other fruits are not that hard to get if Mona is selling "1Million bottles per week" In fact, i would argue that the wondrous fruits are in extreme abundance. Its great to have a network of friends who all have fun together doing tastings and such, but lets get real, its overpriced juice and its overpriced because they have the market cornered. Already there is a juice that has 8687 ORAC per ounce vs Monas 692 per ounce. One ounce per day means $50 per month versus $200. Mona is a wonderful product, just like the others, but it is the most expensive and you have 1 million other distributors to compete against. Not good odds.. well maybe if 70% drop out, which I think is very accurate.. The expensive juices have thier days numbered until big companies jump on the wagon and they already are.. just look at the local grocery store.. tons of Acai products popping up... it will be the new "energy drink" phenomenon soon...

Nothing is said about the Sodium Benzoate and Ascorbic acid that is used as a preservative. This will turn into Benzene. If exposed to heat, the Benzene level will increase to the point of being toxic. ipersonally know of 3 people that had to go to the hospital. After all the test were run, it came back with high levels of Benzine. Benzine can be found in anti freeze and gasoline. Google Sodium Benzoate and Ascorbic acid and get ready to be shocked.