Organo Gold Review: Ganoderma mushrooms & MLM
Admittedly mushrooms aren’t the first thing I think of when I think ‘coffee’. Taking the idea from ancient Chinese medicine though, Organo Gold seek to fuse together coffee beverages and health products with the Ganoderma mushroom.
Mushrooms and MLM…? Not the likliest pairing but nonetheless a pairing that Organo Gold have hinged their entire product line on.
Read on for a full review of the Organo Gold business opportunity.
The Company
Organo Gold was launched in 2008 by Bernado ‘Bernie’ Chua (photo right) and Shane Morand.
Chua serves as the CEO of the company and seems to have cut his MLM teeth in the Philipines before launching Organo Gold in the US.
Shane Morand on the other hand is credited as ‘Global Master Distributor’ for the company and has been involved with coffee MLM’s in the US since 2004. Morand’s prior company I believe was called ‘Gano Excel’.
One thing I noticed in particular is that members of Organo Gold seem to be quite feverish about the company. In my research the first thing that struck me was the whole finger thing (really?) and then there was little things like this;
That’s Bernie Chua, Shane Morand and Vice President of Sales Holton Buggs apparently knighting someone on stage.
I’ve got no idea what that’s about but it does look slightly cultish. Obviously a strong memberbase is important but I kind of get the sense Organo Gold might be overdoing it a bit in this department. Something perhaps for prospective members to keep in mind.
The Organo Gold Product Line
Where Ancient China meets modern science.
The above is pretty much the backbone behind the philosophy of Organo Gold’s product line and primarily the company makes use of the mushroom Ganoderma (photo right).
Ganoderma is a genus of polypore mushrooms which grow on wood and include about 80 species, many from tropical regions.
The medical benefits allegedly associated with Ganoderma are quite extensive, ranging from anti-cancer, anti-viral, anti-bacterial properties to reducing blood cholesterol amongst other benefits.
Organo Gold markets Ganoderma infused gourmet coffee, hot chocolate, green tea, soap, toothpaste (mushroom toothpaste? eeew), spore powder and grapeseed oil extract.
I have noted some concerns regarding ‘sodium alluminosillicate’ being present in Organo Gold’s coffee range, but it appears to be already used ‘widely used as a food additive‘, primarily as an anti-caking agent.
People seem to be latching on to the aluminium component of the name and equating this to a serious health concern, despite the naturally occurring mineral having no known side effects… personally the use of sodium alluminosillicate in Organo Gold’s products wouldn’t worry me.
The Organo Gold Compensation Plan
The Organo Gold compensation plan makes use of a Binary setup in the front end paying out on pure sales volume from month to month, with a unilevel backend providing you with a residual income based on those you bring into the business.
Along with this the company also provides upfront retail commissions, a Fast Track Bonus and a Bonus Pool that rewards members who move the largest sales volume.
Retail commissions
Organo Gold pays out a retail commission on all of their products. This commission is the difference between the wholesale cost of the product and the retail cost.
Note that products sold online have a fixed retail price, whereas products sold by distributors in person can be entirely set by the distributor.
Fast Track Bonus
Everytime one of your downline recruit a new member into Organo Gold with the purchase of a Business Builder Pack, you will earn a $20-$150 Fast Track Bonus.
The cost of the Business Builder Pack purchased will determine the Fast Track Bonus commission paid out.
Binary Commissions
When you join Organo Gold, you’ll begin to grow what we call your binary organisation. With you at the top, two legs branch out underneath you to form two teams within your binary organisation.
As you begin to grow your Organo Gold binary organisation, it should start to look something like this;
Binary teams are unlimited levels deep meaning there is no cap to the amount of people you can recruit into Organo Gold. There are however weekly commission caps enforced for binary commissions and these range from $500 as a ‘Marketing Associate’ to $75,000 as a ‘Crown Ambassador’.
The Organo Gold binary commissions are calculated by calculating the total sales volume of the two teams within your binary.
The team with the higher sales volume is called your ‘Power Leg’ and the other your ‘Pay Leg’. Organo Gold pay you out up to 20% commission on the total sales volume of your calculated Pay Leg (note that the Pay Leg is not fixed and is calculated from month to month).
At the end of the month, the commisionable volume from your Pay Leg is calculated and paid out on, and this same volume is then deducted from your Power Leg. Any leftover volume on your Power Leg carries over to the next month.
Minimum requirements for Binary Commissions are one active distributor in each of your binary teams, each of which are meeting the monthly minimum 50 personal sales volume requirement.
Each of your teams also need to be generating a minimum of 300 group volume before you qualify to earn binary commissions on your team.
Unilvel Commissions
Whereas your binary commissions are paid out on the sales volume of two teams, Organo Gold’s unilevel commissions pay out based on a member’s individual recruiting efforts.
For each preferred customer or new distributor an Organo Gold member signs on, the unilevel structure creates a new leg for that lineage.
Obviously preferred customers can’t recruit but new distributors certainly can, and Organo Gold pays out a commission following this structure down 9 levels.
The amount of levels you are paid out on depends on your Organo Gold membership rank and here’s a chart detailing the commission percentages, along with the rank requirements to unlock the nine levels of the unilevel commissions;
Unilevel Matching Bonus
Along with your own unilevel commissions, Organo Gold also pays out a matching bonus on members you’ve personally sponsored, and up to three generations deep on their downlines.
Again, your Organo Gold membership rank determines your Unilevel Matching Bonus and here’s a chart detailing the specific matching bonus commission payouts;
Generational Leadership Bonus
The Organo Gold Generational Leadership Bonus kicks in once a member reaches the ‘Sapphire’ membership level and pays out a commission depending on the number of Sapphire members present in a particular member’s unilevel organisation.
A generation is defined within the Generational Leadership Bonus as counting all the members between the first Sapphire member found in your unilevel organisation, and the next.
If there is no second Sapphire member found, the generation extends the entire length of that particular unilevel leg.
The amount of levels you are paid a commission out on again depends on your membership rank, and here’s the corresponding table outlining the various membership levels required and their corresponding commission percentages;
Global Pool
The Organo Gold Global Pool is made up of 3% of the company’s global unilevel commissionable volume and is shared amongst Organo Gold’s ‘Ruby’ members and above.
The Global Pool is split between membership ranks as follows;
- Ruby – 32%
- Emerald – 24%
- Diamond – 15%
- Blue Diamond – 10%
- Black Diamond and above – 10%
The amount each individual member is paid out on from within these pool is directly calculated based on their personal contribution to the company’s global unilevel sales volume.
More sales volume = a larger portion of the Global Bonus Pool.
The Organo Gold Membership Ranks
Various components and commissions within the Organo Gold compensation plan are only available to members upon reaching certain membership ranks within the company.
Starting off with the rank of ‘Representative’, here are the membership ranks of Organo Gold and their accompanying requirements;
Representative – Members must purchase an Organo Gold Business Kit for $49.95.
Marketing Associate – There are two ways to qualify as a Marketing Associate, Representatives must either
- generate 200 personal volume in sales (no time limit)
- generate 50 personal volume in sales, sponsor two new members and get them to sell one Builder Pack each – all within a month
Supervisor – There are two ways to qualify as a Supervisor, Marketing Associates must either
- generate 500 personal volume in sales (no time limit)
- generate 50 personal volume in sales, sponsor at least three new team members and get them to sell one Builder Pack each – all within a month
Consultant – There are two ways to qualify as a Consultant, Supervisors must either
- generate 1000 personal volume in sales (no time limit)
- generate 100 personal volume in sales, sponsor at least five new team members and get them to sell one Builder pack each – all within a month
Sapphire – To qualify as a Sapphire, Consultants must
- generate at least 100 personal sales volume a month
- generate team volume of 14,000 a month from their unilevel team (personally sponsored downline) with no more than 40% of this coming from any one lineage leg
- recruit at least 4 members (a minimum of 2 on each side of your binary) who have achieved Consultant status
Ruby – To qualify as a Ruby, Sapphires must
- generate at least 200 personal sales volume a month
- generate team volume of 40,000 a month from their unilevel team (personally sponsored downline) with no more than 40% of this coming from any one lineage leg
- recruit at least 6 members (a minimum of 3 on each side of your binary) who have achieved Consultant status
Emerald – To qualify as an Emerald, Rubies must
- generate at least 200 personal sales volume a month
- generate team volume of 80,000 a month from their unilevel team (personally sponsored downline) with no more than 40% of this coming from any one lineage leg
- recruit at least 8 members (a minimum of 4 on each side of your binary) who have achieved Consultant status
Diamond – To qualify as a Diamond, Emeralds must
- generate at least 200 personal sales volume a month
- generate team volume of 200,000 a month from their unilevel team (personally sponsored downline) with no more than 40% of this coming from any one lineage leg
- recruit at least 10 members (a minimum of 5 on each side of your binary) who have achieved Consultant status
Blue Diamond – To qualify as a Blue Diamond, Diamonds must
- generate at least 200 personal sales volume a month
- generate team volume of 500,000 a month from their unilevel team (personally sponsored downline) with no more than 30% of this coming from any one lineage leg
- recruit at least 10 members (a minimum of 5 on each side of your binary) who have achieved Consultant status
- generate a minimum of 100,000 group sales volume from both of your binary teams
Black Diamond – To qualify as a Black Diamond, Blue Diamonds must
- generate at least 200 personal sales volume a month
- generate team volume of 1,000,000 a month from their unilevel team (personally sponsored downline) with no more than 30% of this coming from any one lineage leg
- recruit at least 10 members (a minimum of 5 on each side of your binary) who have achieved Consultant status
- generate a minimum of 200,000 group sales volume from both of your binary teams
Crown Diamond – To qualify as a Crown Diamond, Black Diamonds must
- generate at least 200 personal sales volume a month
- generate team volume of 2,000,000 a month from their unilevel team (personally sponsored downline) with no more than 30% of this coming from any one lineage leg
- recruit at least 10 members (a minimum of 5 on each side of your binary) who have achieved Consultant status
- generate a minimum of 400,000 group sales volume from both of your binary teams
Crown Ambassador – To qualify as a Crown Ambassador, Crown Diamonds must
- generate at least 200 personal sales volume a month
- generate team volume of 5,000,000 a month from their unilevel team (personally sponsored downline) with no more than 30% of this coming from any one lineage leg
- recruit at least 10 members (a minimum of 5 on each side of your binary) who have achieved Consultant status
- generate a minimum of 1,000,000 group sales volume from both of your binary teams
Joining Organo Gold
Those wishing to join Organo Gold must purchase an ‘Organo Gold Business Kit’ for $49.95. This kit contains some product samples, a replicated website and backoffice access for a year (after which I believe an annual fee is payable).
Additionally when signing up to Organo Gold, members may purchase one of the following optional Business Builder Packs;
- OG Bronze Pack – $150
- OG Silver Pack – $450
- OG Gold Pack – $1245
These packs contain various amounts of Organo Gold products.
Conclusion
Compensation plan wise, Organo Gold appears to be sound. You have retail options all the way up to the ‘Sapphire’ level, and even then you’re only ever required to get your downline to the ‘Consultant’ level which requires no direct recruitment.
Going beyond Sapphire you do need a sizeable binary organisation, but this is not necessarily going to come from your own recruiting and includes prefered customers you have (it’s based on sales volume, not membership numbers).
And even when you do have to recruit, the requirements are still based in sales as you have to get your downline to sell Builder Packs, as opposed to the usual which is they themselves purchasing them as part of your qualification requirements.
The unilevel of course plays a part too but again it’s a sales volume quota, not a recruitment requirement (although intrinsically this does equate to a two leg minimum).
Products wise we’re talking about mushroom coffee. The market for coffee exists and what it will essentially come down to is whether or not you can edge your way into a well established market with Organo Gold’s product line.
As always with coffee based MLM’s your biggest challenge isn’t going to be the compensation plan or marketing Organo Gold, it’s going to be the expense of giving out samples.
With coffee taste being such a personal preference in taste that varies from person to person, nobody is going to be buying coffee from you without sampling at least one of the flavours first. Especially when you mention to them Organo Gold’s coffee has mushrooms in it.
This expense is going to come out of your hip pocket and whilst over time you’ll no doubt get better at determining when to hand out samples, this is a learning curve that’s going to cost you – so be prepared for it.
Other than that, company wise I did get a sense there was a bit too much hype and positive energy going on. I’ve got nothing against positive energy mind you, it’s just that something definitely felt artificial about the energy levels on some of the Organo Gold promotional videos.
Kind of like that feeling you get when someone oversells you something claiming to be an independent source, but in actuality is paid by someone. I’m not saying this situation applies to Organo, just that the feeling was the same.
But that’s probably more me than a reflection of the company itself.
Still, with company management knighting people on stage (seriously, what on Earth is that about? I felt like I was watching a Scientology video or something), perhaps not.
All things considered, see how you feel gut wise before jumping in. Pay plan if you make the sales there’s nothing stopping you from succeeding and if you budget for the sample cost Organo Gold might just be the opportunity for you.
Good luck!
The problem with this idea is the mushroom, known as “lingzhi” in China, is readily available in any Chinese apothecaries in any Chinatown across the world. The only thing “new” about it is how it’s attached to MLM.
Lingzhi in pill form is readily available online and from any decent herbal / health food stores for a decent price. Thus, I suspect Organo Gold stuff is overpriced.
http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&q=linjhi#q=lingzhi+mushroom&hl=en&tbm=shop
(confirmed: they want $61 to $98 per bottle for Genderama mushroom capsules, when outside price is like 30-60)
No doubt the official line is that Organo Gold’s mushrooms are some unique strain of the purest quality ganoderma sourced from some remote village in China that nobody has ever heard of.
Or they’re just overcharging to cover commissions…. :).
Being a member of Organo Gold, it’s likely my view is tinted with bias and their pitch, but basically the gist of it is that the Ganoderma in the products is grown naturally (organically) – this fact is proven by myriad certifications including USDA and GMP, along with certs from various other countries.
Naturally grown Ganoderma is allegedly more potent than “plastic bag” grown mushrooms and also has the ability to produce spores, which the other method apparently does not.
Whether or not that is true, I can’t be sure, however Organo Gold IS the sole partner of the Xianzhilou Ganoderma Plantation, a $240mil facility, funded in part by the Chinese gov’t.
Also related, Organo Gold holds the patent on the method by which the Ganoderma is rendered virtually tasteless (while still retaining its potency), enabling it to be included in any number of products.
Besides all of this, they gain credibility through their partnerships with the Napoleon Hill Foundation and the Jamaican gov’t which donated 200 acres of land to Organo Gold for the sole purpose of growing Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee beans to be infused with ganoderma.
Considering that Blue Mountain coffee is one of the top exports of Jamaica, it’s unlikely that they’d just hand out acres of their very limited land willy-nilly.
Just some food for thought on the credibility of the product and company! 🙂
Though, if you had any rebuttals to anything I’ve said, I’d be interested to hear them. I’ve read your arguments against other MLMs in the past, and you typically have some pretty sound logic.
I personally see nothing to argue against in your clarification, GA. AFAIK, Oz don’t argue against actual products, or its production methods and such (unless it’s something completely fake, like those Internet HYIPs) Physical products are generally good in MLMs, as it’s far more legitimate than virtual products (like bids, ad packs, and whatnot)
I think the main questions when it comes to Organo Gold is the following (indeed, these would apply to ANY business):
* What is the potential market for this product, realistically? For ONE person to market to?
(Please don’t say “everybody”. That’s bogus.)
* How much effort / money does one need to spend to REACH this market?
Only then can you truly evaluate how much you can earn.
I also have no problems with the clarification. My original comment was meant to be taken tongue in cheek.
For me, Napoleon Hill Foundation neither adds credibility nor decreases it. His methods didn’t work very well for him either, in the 20 years or so when he tried to develop a ‘recipe’. The results were always too unstable, and they didn’t become stable before he started to sell the recipe instead of trying to follow it himself.
“Think and Grow Rich” was his first stable success, and the few other successes he had before the book followed the same principle – “sell the ideas to others”. Success was more related to his role as an author/editor than to the recipe, but the failures were closely related to the recipe.
Napoleon Hill was just an example. Some arguments will miss the target here. We are mostly looking for some other information than what’s used in recruitment, or what’s used to create the right feeling inside a business.
Some of your arguments missed the target:
* Napoleon Hill Foundation
* Jamaican gov’t
* a few others may miss the target, without being specific
You are familiar with this website, and you know we have a critical viewpoint, trying to detect possible problems rather than recommending opportunities. It also has a few other ideas, like “unbiased or balanced”, “factual information before viewpoints”, “analysing business models, not laws”, and a few others.
It means most of the arguments used to recruit people or used to create the right feeling inside an organisation will miss the target here. Most of your credibility-arguments missed me as a target, because I’m not looking for ‘social proofs’ when I’m trying to check something. I will usually ignore most of the arguments meant to ‘impress people’, or meant to create a feeling of credibility.
Do they? Then you should add the information needed to evaluate HOW they gain credibility? But usually it’s better to drop arguments like these in the first place, here on this website.
Information like that will miss the target because we’re NOT looking for opportunities to join – we are analysing information. I analysed the information, and I didn’t find the logic path leading to credibility as a conclusion. The information was too vague to analyse.
How come I can’t find out how much Ganoderma is infused into one sachet of coffee. Is it at least 250 mg. per sachet?
It’s 2.5 mg, according to information from an official Organo Gold representative, in a “Channel 5 investigation – Trouble brewing” video, between 2 and 3 minutes into the video.
http://www.krgv.com/news/coming-up-tonight-trouble-brewing-investigation/
2.5 mg, huh? That’s pixie dusting. 🙂 Barely enough to register it’s there, cost next to nothing, but enough to say it’s there. 🙂
The “Organo University” guys claiming it’s 250mg per sachet, same as one capsule.
http://oguniversity.com/community/groups/discussapp?topicid=85&app=walls&start=10
Turns out the source of this 250 mg thing is… another affiliate Shayne Morand:
http://www.oguniversity.com/community/1112-shane-morand/profile
Oops, I stand corrected. Shane Morand is cofounder of Organo Gold.
I was just at a coffee jazz thing, whatever they call it, and agree that there was a lot of hype. Wasn’t crazy about the coffee, but we bought one since it was a friend.
More than coffee, they were selling “Bernie” Cool Aid. They didn’t really get a commission so much as Bernie’s benevolence generously gave them some of his money, since he’s such a loving, caring guy. Compensation plan seems reasonable if you can recruit and sell the big packages.
I noticed the same thing at an opportunity meeting I stayed for after a meeting with a client of mine (that I spent most of attempting to convince him not to sell his restaurant earning him a $100,000 annual profit for $80,000 to go full time in Organs Gold at least until he had replaced that income with OG) that he hosted out of curiosity.
One of the first sales points was the success, integrity and goodwill of Bernie. It struck me as odd how much they revered their company’s CEO who’s been the target of various government agencies for his business practices, but they did portray him as some sort of benevolent leader spreading wealth to the masses out of the good of his heart, not size of his bank account.
They did treat Holton Buggs the same way for his financial success, however. He was held up as the top earning MLM distributor industry-wide and how lucky they were to have this man sacrifice his past success to become VP of Sales for Organo Gold.
Where Bernie was the benevolent leader, Holton was the model for success to be emulated and admired as the pinnacle for achievement, and having him at Organo Gold apparently showed that it had to be the best & brightest MLM out there.
The whole thing definitely bordered on a cult of personality (not saying the company is a cult, only that the way they view and promote their leaders seems somewhat excessive). The only other thing that stood out was the emphasis on earning $100,000 per month, the ultimate goal for this particular group.
Most companies seem to make that the annual goal for distributors and to stand up there telling recruits that if they worked the system hard enough they could earn $100,000/mo seemed really excessive and totally unrealistic hype. The naked appeal to greed was uncomfortable, and I’m a financial advisor!
That said, I agree with the analysis that the business and compensation plan are solid if you can create a market and keep the focus on retailing, but it’s hugely important to keep sample and autoship expenses under control.
The business expenses is OG can pretty easily grow out of control, eating away at any income one earns and opens the distributor to pretty heavy losses especially if their upline encourages large purchases to earn more commissions. Keep costs down, focus on retail sales and you can probably turn a pretty decent profit.
Now that Organo Gold has been in business for 5 Years, what is your critical viewpoint of Organo Gold?
Unless the compensation plan has changed, the same as it was when I first wrote the review.
I do recall there was a bit of a fracas recently over some binary changes or some such. Seemed a few affiliates felt they were being screwed out of commissions going forward.
Still going strong as a member here – I’d like to correct an earlier post, the 2.5mg is false as the amount in the coffee. Word from the top is that the coffee contains the exact same amount as one of the ganderma pills per cup, which is to say, 250mg.
In response to you, Oz, I’m not sure what you’re referring to. They made the qualifications for rank advancement a little more stringent at the higher end of the ranking scale, but apart from that not much has changed.
They have improved the retail side recently by offering rewards programs and other such customer retention focused initiatives in order to lift the customer support burden off of the distributors.
Basically, now distributors can get a new customer and keep them stocked without having to continually babysit and follow up with them, instead the company keeps the customer contact alive. Pretty cool change, but I suppose it doesn’t really count as a change in the compensation plan.
OZ yes they did change the binary pay, due to the fact people where ab using it but if you are building it correctly you receive your money
Who cares how much gano is in the coffee? are you people freakin serious its night and day!
Do you want to drink toxic acidic coffee and pay starbucks dunkin and mc d prices or alkalinizing better tasting coffee that doesnt leave a nasty taste in your mouth for only 57 cents a cup!
The choice is yours fool! keep drinking your toxic poison all the way to the doctor!
I fixed that a year ago, dude.
Spoken like a true Organo Gold salesperson whose only knowledge of the bodies’ PH levels comes from their Organo Gold upline.
The body tightly regulates its’ blood and extracellular PH levels and you cannot influence blood PH levels by regulating diet.
You CAN influence PH levels in your urine with dietary changes, which is an entirely different matter and proof the body does an extremely efficient job of regulating itself.
Coffee is not a particularly highly acid food in itself.
Black coffee is designated as low acid only registering a PH level of between 4.5 and 6 on the scale, depending on the type, origin and roasting method of the coffee where neutral PH is 7. Lemon juice registers 2 and concentrated sulphuric acid registers 1.
The “acid” most associated with coffee by aficionados is an element of receptors on the tongue.
To put it in technical terms:
Great. You nailed the acid component. What about the toxicity claim?
Hey, he’s making the claim coffee is toxic, how about he comes back and explains exactly:
* what makes coffee “toxic”
* why Organo Gold isn’t toxic
* the source of his claims.
* how the processes involved in making instant coffee (which Organo Gold is, mushroom dust or not) and the chemicals involved are somehow better than the freshly ground beans used in making “real” coffee
Honestly, I can’t tell if DrDom is for or against OrganoGold.
Hello all, this is the first time i comment on anything related to organo gold or any mlm business. anyway here it goes.
It seems the same topics go over and over again everywhere seems people have same doubts i guess. there’s something that somehow bothers me and it is people’s lack of knowledge.
What bothers me the most is that everything you need to know to start one of these businesses is really out there you can learn it all with little to no guidance. I’ve seen people trust what some other guy tells them blindly just believing whatever they are being told with no further analysis. (i’m specifically talking about mlm and the ”meetings” that go on).
I’m actually for organo gold, not for what they say on coffee jazz meetings but for what it stands. I actually started the business because of the ganoderma that is in it.(i’ll get to this later).
Once i started, without going to any coffee jazz or whatever, just me and a friend which was obviously not capable of explaining the compensation plan without bulshiting me.
there are certain thing that jump right off, they were and i believe they still are saying that you make money from things you don’t. I don’t want to go too deep on it but it happens all the time and it’s really stupid because all you have to do is get a calculator out and try to see where the money goes and how it splits.
you will see very fast if it’s a true business or some guy is trying to bulshit his way on sponsoring you.
Another thing is for the product itself, people just don’t want to freaking read anything. i found questions about ganoderma several times and no one seemed to have a really solid answer just a speech you can detect everyone is repeating.
So i went on on my quest for truth.
everything about the compensation i learned it from the organo gold university, you have to keep in mind this is a public site if the lie on there they can get in serious trouble. so after i learned the ACTUAL compensation plan it really did check out on the commissions.
I had several discussions over people that tried to convince me about the commissions being different than what they actually were.
About Ganoderma And the main reason i am for Organo Gold
you can find a whole lot of studies about this not in china but made in the USA. I collected tons and tons of studies i mean serious studies from top notch doctors on their fields
there are even books about it, ill start with
-The power of japanese red reishi, by Dr Meg Jordan
-The Fungal Pharmacy, by Robert Rogers
there are Journals like, The international journal of medicinal mushrooms, with Solomon P. Wasser on the head of the board. you have Nestor Curvetto in Argentina On the CONICET (look it up)
There are publications on the North American Journal of Medical Sciences, here’s one title: Triterpenoids from the spores of Ganoderma Lucidum,
there are publications from Penn State University 1996:
Potential Application of Ganoderma Polysaccharides in the immune surveillance and chemoprevention of Cancer, this one by Dr Raymond Y Chang, department of medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
and the list could go on and on.
So after all this you can see how it pisses me off when i see people talking down things they don’t even understand.
I almost Forgot,
The ganoderma in OrganoGold’s coffee comes from one top of the line producer named xianzhilou biology research corporation their site is superganoderma.com
they have research centers that even universities use, they go over there just to research about this thing.
So people just be careful out there and read a little bit.
@Fransico
Thanks for sharing.
Out of curiosity, how many retail customers have you signed up who are purchasing coffee regularly vs. affiliates in your downline?
Hello OZ
Currently i’m on a pause with this because it was getting in the way with me finishing college, but it was about the same amount of people.
I’ve to say it was haaaardddd, me living in a country where the product was quite expensive for most people, when compared with anything else on the market so i had to go through all that and practically teach why was everything like it was…
I will get off topic right now just because i saw some comments on the top that i didn’t see yesterday
People talks about over price an some say how fairly common is Ganoderma but the thing is that quality ganoderma is and has always been of a higher cost than the rest.
If you look for top brands like ones in japanese reishi association their price is always high, you have to pay top dollar for their stuff. So it’s no different with Organo Gold’s Xianzhilou Ganoderma, and to go further, Xianzhilou even sales a ganoderma coffee blend and guess what it’s about the same price as organo gold’s, plus you have to ship it from china.
I’m not trying to say, with all this, that somebody is wrong and i’m wright or anything like that, these are just my thoughts about this.
Organo Gold coffee 30 bags ( Black Gourmet ) price = 34 EUR.
High quality Coffee beans ( more than 100 cups ) = 10 EUR. This is the scam. Overpriced coffee for so called health benefit from a mushroom that has never been proven scientifically !
And you start to get compensated after you have recruited multiple people and if you dont continue recruiting people on a monthly basisi you get nothing ( as a matter of speaking youre fired!)
New era MLM is just Ponzi acheme related to a product, so they dont get prosecuted !
So your quest for truth means you studied a website written by the company itself (better than trusting affiliates bullsh**ting you), and looking up some studies regarding ganoderma that had nothing to do with it mixed with coffee or even the dosage. Right?
Bet you OrganoGold didn’t bother telling you that you can get Gano coffee directly from Xianzhilo themselves…
ganodermabuy.com/goods-15-Black+Coffee+with+Ganoderma+Extract.html
I’ll admit that OG did have lower prices though (30 satchel box MSRP $30, as low as $15 ONLine, but I can’t find satchel size so I don’t know if they are actually comparable. )
Serving size for a latte satchel 0.74oz/21g 20 to a box
Black 0.12oz 3.5g 30 to a box
I personally have been able to get 2 regular cups from one bag or 1 12oz to 20oz cup from one bag.
Ex OneCoin Ponzi pimps Wes Garner and Lisa Holt have moved on to recruiting people into this, but not before pimping the Ponzi Global Currency Coin in between.
What does that say about this company?
rats leaving a sinking ship with a new dodgy captain?
Ox, what do you think of Shane Morands new coffee deal? He did a zoom meeting today 02.11.2023. In prelaunch. Launching into several countries in February 2024
I haven’t looked into it yet. Reviews are kinda backed up due to the large amount of MLM news over the past few months.