Pyxism India: Relaunch but still recruitment based
As the TVI Express empire appears to be crumbling all around the world, Pyxism are attempting to capitalise on the once popular MLM opportunity.
Claiming that TVI Express is no longer valid in India, Pyxism estimate that there are now ‘three million members worldwide‘ now looking for a travel based MLM opportunity.
Enter Pyxism India, Pyxism’s official entry in the Indian MLM opportunity market.
Even with a compensation plan revamp though, just like the original Pyxism, Pyxism India is still nothing more than recruitment driven MLM partnered with a completely irrelevant product.
The Pyxism India Product Line
As before with Pyxism, Pyxism India are offering travel vacations. Depending on which level you buy into within the company, you are entitled to a set amount of vacation weeks annually. They are as follows;
Explorer: 1 week
Compass: 2 weeks
Horizon: 5 weeks
Navigator: 15 weeks
These vacation weeks are essentially time shares booked through a third party company and Pyxism themselves do nothing more then resell access to them.
The Pyxism India Compensation Plan
Gone are the ladders that existed under the original Pyxism compensation plan. They’ve been replaced by a more traditional matrix based compensation structure which, despite Pyxism harping on about how TVI is prohibited from operating in India, ironically virtually makes Pyxism a clone of TVI compensation plan wise.
Pyxism India are calling it the ‘P149 Hybrid Compensation Plan’ and in a nutshell, you pay money to get a spot on one of Pyxism’s four matrix levels and so long as you’ve recruited people (or someone else has), you get paid.
Here’s Pyxism India’s compensation matrices in a little more detail;
The Explorer Matrix
This is Pyxism India’s entry level matrix and exists solely to facilitate those who can’t cough up $299 to enter at the Compass level. Why someone who can’t afford $299 is joining a company that sells vacations that once you factor in airfares and other travel expenses well exceeds $299 is beyond me, but I digress.
The Explorer Matrix is a simply 2×2 matrix meaning there’s 2 levels underneath you and four levels under that level (2 on each side);
Entry into the Explorer matrix will set you back $149 and offers you a $375 payout upon filling the matrix.
Note that the Explorer matrix is a once off deal and once completed, $299 of your $375 is put towards the cost of entering the Compass Matrix.
This means that upon filling your Explorer Matrix with new Pyxism members, you take home just $76.
The Compass Matrix
The Compass Matrix operates in the same way as Explorer, but is a 2×3 matrix. This means that there are an additional eight spots to fill.
Note that unlike the Explorer matrix, the Compass matrix (as well as the Horizon and Navigator matrices) can be filled by existing members cycling out of their current matrices to join you.
Entry into the Compass Matrix is $299 and upon completion the payout is $1000.
Note that from your first Compass matrix payout, you have to qualify for subsequent payouts. Qualification requires you to personally recruit two members at either the Compass, Horizon or Navigator levels.
These sponsored members must they themselves be qualified (meaning they too have to have two qualified members at either the Compass, Horizon or Navigator levels and so on and so forth).
If you are not qualified by the time of your second Compass (or first Horizon or Navigator) matrix cycle, Pyxism India will hold 50% of the cycle payout for 30 days. If you’re not qualified after this time Pyxism will then hold 25% of the original payout. If a member is still not qualified after 60 days, they forfeit the matrix cycle payout.
The Horizon Matrix
The Horizon matrix is identical to the Compass matrix except that the entry fee is $750 with a $2500 payout.
The Navigator Matrix
Again, identical to Horizon and Compass with a $2,250 entry and 10,000 payout.
The Sponsor Bonus
The Sponsor Bonus is a recurring payout made when a Pyxism India member you’ve directly sponsored, or a member they’ve directly sponsored (your first and second levels) cycles out of either a Compass, Horizon or Navigator matrix.
At the Compass level the payout is $50, Horizon pays out $150 and Navigator $500.
The only requirement for the Sponsor Bonus is that you are a qualified member (2 personally qualified sponsored members participating in either Compass, Horizon or Navigator).
The Leadership Bonus
While the Sponsor Bonus only pays two levels deep, the Leadership Bonus pays out six levels deep. Along with this payout however comes qualification requirements. You have two options to qualify and they are as follows;
- Compass – 2 personally sponsored members + $39.99 monthly Pyxism Active Store Front or 6 personally sponsored members
- Horizon – 4 personally sponsored members + $39.99 monthly Pyxism Active Store Front or 8 personally sponsored members
- Navigator – 6 personally sponsored members + $39.99 monthly Pyxism Active Store Front or 10 personally sponsored members
Note that the payouts for the Leadership Bonus are the same as the Sponsor Bonus, $50, $150 and $500 at the Compass, Horizon and Navigator levels respectively.
Fast Start Bonus
Pyxism India offer a Fast Start Bonus to their members who show recruitment initiative upon joining the company.
For each new member a Pyxism India member recruits within their first 21 days of joining, Pyxism India will reward the sponsoring member with a $25 payout.
The matrix ‘Hybrid Payout’ system
Rather then calling their compensation plan a straight matrix based plan, Pyxism India are claiming it’s a ‘hrybid’ due to the optional hybrid payout system they’ve implemented.
This hybrid payout system allows members to cash in half their matrix payout upon completion of half of the last level of a Compass, Horizon or Navigator matrix (3 members).
As far as I can tell this is just pure gimmickery. The hybrid payout doesn’t change the total payout and in theory would only be utilised by someone worried that they’re going to have trouble completely filling a matrix they’re on.
For the most part it’s going to have little to no effect on Pyxism India’s member payouts.
The Pyxism India Travel Storefont
From what I can tell, nothing has changed with the Pyxism Travel Storefront in Pyxism India. Here’s what I wrote about the Travel Storefront when I first reviewed the Pyxism opportunity;
Purchasers of the Travel Storefront are only able to receive commissions on travel sales made by other retail customers. This is stated to be a 50% commission but it’s important to note that this isn’t a 50% commission on the sale price, rather it’s a split commission on what the third party company offers.
Say someone books car hire through your portal for $100 and the agent commission is $15, you’ll then make 50% of that which is $7.50.
Naturally the agent commissions aren’t public so exactly how much a ’50% commission’ is will depend on what services people are purchasing through your Storefront and the commissions offered by various third party suppliers that Pyxism utilises.
Nothing all that special and with the commissions a shadow of the money being thrown around in the matrices, there’s really no incentive to focus any attention on retailing travel within the Pyxism India opportunity.
Note that differing from the original Pyxism compensation plan, under Pxism India, if you recruit four new members a month the $39.99 monthly subscribtion fee for the Travefront is waivered.
Conclusion
As you can see, apart from dispensing with the ladders and introducing a matrix based compensation plan, with the introduction of Pyxism India nothing much has changed with the Pyxism MLM opportunity.
All of the bonuses have a recruitment requirement attached to them and to even qualify for the bonuses you need to have personally recruited two Pyxism members who they themselves are qualified.
With this requirement in place it creates a constant need for new Pyxism members to seek out new members to qualify themselves. These new members then need to do the same and what we have is an perpetual never ending search for new members.
The Pyxism India product is just as irrelevant as ever and apart from reducing the recruitment requirements to qualify Pyxism India members for the Leadership Bonus, is completely disconnected from the compensation plan.
Pyxism India could make bananas, empty cardboard boxes or even toenail clippings to as the company’s primary product, it really doesn’t matter.
Ironically in trying to capture the Indian MLM market, Pyxism India have wedged their success on the basis that TVI Express failed to deliver a product as to the reason they claim they are not operating in India.
In doing so, with the creation of Pyxism India, Pyxism have basically created a TVI Express clone. Obviously not realising that the reason TVI Express is falling apart is due to the unsustainable recruitment driven matrices they employed in the TVI compensation plan.
The very same style matrices Pyxism India are now employing in theirs.
Pyxism India is basically TVI Express 2.0, and like it’s predecessor will most likely suffer the same fate. An unsustainable recruitment based compensation plan is going to ultimately fail, no matter which company employs it or what product(s) you pair it with.
Given that Indian courts have slapped Amway with a violation of their version of anti-pyramid-scheme laws, it is doubtful Pyxism will survive in India for long.
Hilarious article. Sounds credible but only that. Sir, I will stick to Pyxism. You’re not in business with me!
Well Bostan, that’s a convincing argument right there!
The author definitely gets it wrong when it comes to legit MLM.
In Pyxism, one is not paid based on recruitment. Sales of vacation products have to be made to get paid. If you just recruit but make no sales, you make no money. The same with the corporation you work for. If they recruited (hiring agencies) or hired (the corporation) people but these people don’t work, the corporation makes no money.
How fucking stupid do you have to be to not understand this concept? As for the ‘unsustainable recruitment based compensation plan’ argument, that’s just a bunch of bullshit and yet again it shows that the author has no understanding of practicality versus theory.
In theory, any MLM model would eventually fail because you would run out of people. In reality, that’s not the case. Old people die and new people are born. So, practically speaking, legit MLM will continue to be sustainable model as long as humanity is still around.
Again, how fucking stupid do you have to be to not see it? Oh, it’s called 11 o’clock news and that’s the real world… no need to use your brain.
@Outraged
Usually, a recruitment driven business model will fail both in theory and practically (generally speaking, since I haven’t checked Pyxism). Legal MLM needs some “ordinary customers” to be sustainable.
A business model with unlimited right to recruit new distributors is like a pyramid scheme, and will eventually fail. A business model that requires distributors to recruit new distributors have the same problem.
This statement is misleading?
The population grows much slower than any recruitment driven business model. Most of the “possible new customers” in your theory exists only in your imagination.
I have heard most of these arguments before, and they are just bullshit. They are used to mislead new distributors to believe a business model is sustainable, and that the income will continue “for life”.
@Outraged / Bostan (yes, I can tell you’re the same guy) — so you’re saying there is no payout if you fill the matrix? Can you cite a section of website that proves this?
@Outraged
No they don’t. You sell Pyxism membership (nothing to do with travel products), fill up a ladder and get paid. You fill up Pyxism’s ladder with people, not travel products.
You can earn a commission on people booking travel, but the big money is in filling up the ladders. To fill up a ladder you can completely ignore the sales side of things and just recruit people.
This analogy doesn’t work because there’s no hiring agency for Pyxism. The company itself does the hiring through its members and they in turn get paid for it.
If Pyxism didn’t pay existing members for signing up new members (or somehow tied this into it’s travel products), then you could draw the comparison. But they don’t, so it’s not a valid comparison.
Oh, and the ‘corporation’ in your example makes money by putting hired people to work, not getting them to get other people to pay money to join the corporation.
As pyramid schemes grow exponentially, they run out of new members long before the average lifespan of people on this planet.
It appears you’ve got to be pretty fucking stupid, but nontheless you’ve succeeded. Well done.
Here’s some interesting numbers for those who insist they can get rich on selling trips for Pyxism or other travel MLMs…
Here’s CNN article on profit of airline industry:
http://articles.cnn.com/2011-06-06/travel/airline.industry.outlook_1_profit-forecast-airline-costs-political-unrest?_s=PM:TRAVEL
What does it say? Worldwide profit for airlines is expected to be 4 billion.
Sounds impressive, when you realize that their fuel bill, worldwide, is about 176 BILLION, and that’s 30% of cost. If you extrapolate some numbers, you get total cost of 587 billion.
So no matter how you chew that, that’s LESS THAN ONE PERCENT PROFIT for the airlines.
Don’t expect hotels and other hospitality industry to be much better. Expect 5% profit at most.
And you expect to get rich off the travel industry? How many vacations do you have to book to get that?
It’s clearly a recruitment based game. The product itself has no viable profit.
Speaking of claiming everything is a pyramid… I was having e-mail exchanges with Dr. Robert Fitzpatrick of pyramid scheme alert and we were discussing this very topic. He said that MLM industry have intentionally tried to do two things
1) distance MLM from pyramid scheme (which is illegal, which MLM is legal) by highlighted the “differences” (most of which are quite cosmetic), and
2) devalue the term “pyramid scheme” to make it a generic derogatory term and highlight the similarities to legitimate organizational types such as “not all pyramid shaped organizations are illegal” And it had been doing it for the past 40-50 years.
Nowadays, you see everything referred to as “pyramid scheme”. Mortgage industry, US Social Security system, insurance industry, the US Federal Reserve, and so on were called pyramid scheme in the news (just search for “pyramid scheme” on Google News and see what you get). The term itself had been devalued and broadened as if it is a generic term for “scam”.
And here we have a perfect example, trying to claim cycler recruiting is NOT a pyramid scheme by comparing it to a legitimate corporation’s organization.
Add to that the bogus explanation that “people die and people get born so market is infinite”… and you have the signs that whoever taught this guy MLM filled his head with garbage. Remember, GIGO (garbage in, garbage out).