22K Collective Review: Oldschool check-based cash gifting
The 22K Collective website domain (“22kcollective.com”) was registered on the 14th of March 2015, however the domain registration is set to private.
There is no information on the 22K Collective website indicating who owns or runs the business. Infact, should you visit the 22K Collective website without an affiliate referral link, there’s not much of anything on the site:
Further research reveals a press-release uploaded by “Tidom Inc” on May 15th, naming Scott Miller as the owner of 22K Collective:
22K Collective launched its new website marketing Tidom Inc. in (a) small press meet here today.
Owned by Scott Miller, the company is offering the most successful business opportunity of the 21st century.
Scott Miller himself uploaded the press-release, indicating he is running both Tidom Inc. and 22K Collective.
Back in 2013 Miller (right) was heavily involved in the $1.8 billion dollar Ponzi scheme, TelexFree.
Miller was a prominent US-based investor, speaking on stage when TelexFree held corporate recruitment meetings in the US.
Following the shutdown TelexFree by the SEC in early 2014, Miller promptly began deleting and attempting to cover up his TelexFree promotional activity:
How much Miller stole from TelexFree victims is unclear. After the shutdown he signed up as a MyNyloxin affiliate (revenue-sharing), but that doesn’t seem to have lasted long.
Now, just over a year after TelexFree’s shutdown, Miller has decided to get back into MLM by launching the 22K Collective.
Read on for a full review of the 22K Collective MLM business opportunity.
The 22K Collective Product Line
22K Collective has no retailable products or services, with affiliates only able to market affiliate membership with the company itself ($2000-$22,000).
Once signed up, 22K Collective affiliates are given access to an ebook library and marketing training.
The 22K Collective Compensation Plan
The 22K Collective compensation plan sees affiliates gift eachother between $2000 and $22,000, which turn qualifies them to receive payments from subsequently recruited affiliates.
There are five accumulative gifting tiers in the 22K Collective compensation plan:
- Basic Package – $2000
- Builder Package – $3500
- Advanced Package – $6500
- Pro Package – $12,500
- VIP Package – $22,000
By buying into one of these levels, a 22K Collective affiliate then qualifies to receive gifting payments from recruited affiliates at the same or a lower level.
Ie. Pro Package affiliates can receive gifting payments from recruited affiliates at the Pro Package and below levels. If they sign up a VIP Package affiliate the commission is paid to the first available upline who bought in at the VIP Package level.
Commissions in 22K are tracked via a unilevel compensation structure, with every affiliate having to pass up their first commission (across any tier) to their upline (the affiliate who recruited them).
In turn, any affiliates they recruit must also pass up their first commission (again, across any tier) to the affiliate who recruited them. This continues down a theoretical infinite number of levels.
Commissions paid out are 100% of the affiliate fees paid by a newly recruited affiliate.
Joining 22K Collective
22K Collective affiliate membership costs between $2000 and $22,000:
- Basic Package – $2000
- Builder Package – $3500
- Advanced Package – $6500
- Pro Package – $12,500
- VIP Package – $22,000
The primary difference between these membership levels is income potential through the 22K Collective compensation plan.
Conclusion
There’s an air of oldschool cash gifting surrounding 22K Collective, by way of the scheme recommending participants gift eachother through the post by check:
You recruit someone, send them a payment and then inform Scott Miller’s company, who create an account for them with access to the pseudo-compliance garbage attached to the scheme.
The ruse is that participants are paying for training and ebook library access, yet it is the 22K Collective affiliate who recruited the new participant who gets paid directly. They are also paid 100% of the signup fee, thus qualifying 22K Collective as a cash gifting scheme.
There’s also a “pay to play” element within 22K Collective, as the more an affiliate pays the higher their potential gifting payment per recruited participant.
And if they should recruit someone who buys in at a higher level, they are then penalized as that payment is gifted to somebody in their upline.
Sitting at the top of the company-wide unilevel is of course Miller, who by virtue of how cash gifting schemes work, will receive the largest amount of pass-up payments.
Guess that TelexFree money must be getting low hey…
As with all cash gifting schemes, once recruitment of new participants slows down the scheme collapses. At this point anyone who has paid in without recouping their payment via recruitment of others, loses out.
Statistically in cash gifting schemes this winds up being the majority of participants.
Would he happen to be located in Indiana, by any chance K.C.?
That was where the Scott Mller of The People’s Program infamy was.
I’ve always wondered, if they’re supposedly paying for the Ebooks and such, why are some people paying $2000 for the same stuff some other people pay $22,000 for? And why on earth are the ones who pay 11 times as much for the same thing, the ones who are higher up?
Generally in real businesses, being higher up comes with a discount on the product, doesn’t it?
Cuz your not paying for the books. All you’re doing is paying a participation fee, which qualifies you to receive gifts from subsequent participants.
It gets even more ridiculous when they allow multiple positions (“why would one person buy the same PLR ebook garbage/marketing training multiple times?”).
@Prof
Might be, not sure. I came across some weird stuff in my research for this article.
Couldn’t tell if this was real or a spoof:
Same guy? Who knows.
prsync.com/entourage-marketing-group/scott-miller-retires-from-cash-gifting-122079/
I did a little more research, Oz. It is the same man. Phone number, email address, postal address are all perfect matches. He didn’t cover his tracks on the Tidom name as well as he did on 22collective.
Bizarrely, most of the ads for this scheme that Miller didn’t sign himself seem to be coming from Pakistani MLMers.
I’d guess these are the people who lost the most amount of money in Miller’s last gifting outing then.
Guys…this program has legs… Scott MIller is a very successful Cash Gifting Guru and he is here to help us all…I am goign in full force and expect to make truck loads of cash..money…mooohhlaahh.
Checks in the mail as they say….////
Since when is “successful in cash gifting”, an illegal scam, something to be proud off and idolized?
Let Rod Cook, MLM expert, explain that to you, if you care to read it.
mlmwatchdog.com/home_gifting_illegal_pyramid_schemes_scams.html
Thanks for posting this. I have come to the same conclusion after doing some research.
A friend is into this and directed me to his Tidom site. I appreciate the research you did.
just an fyi each product package is different, with the $2000 containing the least and the $22k containing the most information.
You are receiving the resale rights to the package you purchase ie not cash gifting.
Yet nothing is being sold. Affiliates paying affiliates = cash gifting.
I am doing research on TiDOM Inc right now and it seems you may have the wrong owner for the company. Scott Miller seems to be just a promoter of various scams and not the actual owner of TiDOM.
The TiDOM website is hosted in Canada and all of Scott Millers sites are in the USA. Scott Miller is currently promoting Aspire.
OK It looks like Jonathan Bane is the TiDOM Inc. Founder. I found this on a TiDOM Newsletter.
@Ethan
I never claimed Miller was definitively the owner of Tidom, only that his uploading of press-releases in the name of “Tidom Inc” suggested he might be.
As far as 22K Collective goes I quoted the Tidom Inc. naming Miller as the owner of 22K Collective.
Isn’t that illegal?
Yes, cash gifting is illegal.