Common Sense Wellness Worldwide provides no information on its website about who owns or runs the company.

Common Sense Wellness Worldwide provides a corporate suite address in Texas on its website.

A Google search reveals this address actually belongs to the Shumway Van law firm.

Sumway Van are listed as the registered agents for Common Sense Wellness Worldwide LLC.

Richard O’Brien is listed as the sole manager of the company.

There are a few Richard O’Brien’s in the MLM industry, so I’m not sure which one is behind Common Sense Wellness Worldwide.

Note that any MLM company intentionally failing to provide company management and ownership details is an automatic red flag.

As always, if an MLM company is not openly upfront about who is running or owns it, think long and hard about joining and/or handing over any money.

Common Sense Wellness WorldWide’s Products

Common Sense Wellness Worldwide markets a range of nutritional supplements on their website:

  • CS BrainSense – “designed to provide a solid nutritional foundation to help your brain and body perform optimally”, retails at $69.95 for a bottle of 120 capsules or $239.95 for five bottles
  • CS GutSense – “a blend of probiotics, digestive enzymes, nutrients, and other natural ingredients to help keep your gut happy and functioning optimally”, retails at $69.95 for a pouch of twenty single-serve packets
  • CS SleepSense – “quality all-natural ingredients … provide the nutrient-ready environment for your body to achieve great sleep”, retails at $69.95 for a pouch of twenty single-serve sachets
  • CS Foundation – “created to be a best friend of recovery, rebuilding and repairing”, retails at $59.95 for a pouch of thirty single-serve sachets
  • CS Support – same product description and price as CS Foundation
  • CS XanSense – “a synergistic combination of nutrient dense super foods”, retails at $59.95 for a pouch of thirty single-serve sachets
  • CS Boost – same product description and price as CS XanSense
  • CS Motivate – “designed to provide a calm, powerful edge of mental and physical energy”, retails at $59.95 for a pouch of thirty single-serve sachets
  • Simply Sensible Meal Replacement Shake – “can act as a meal replacement component for many sensible plans to achieve weight loss goals, build and recover muscle, and fulfill daily nutritional needs, all while feeling satiated”, retails at $79.95 for a pouch of thirty servings
  • Java Sense – ” a silky bean extract designed to elevate”, retails at $69.95 for a pouch of thirty single-serve sticks
  • CS Greens – “immune support, detox, digestions”, retails at $69.95 for a pouch of thirty single-serve sachets

Just a note on CS Support and CS Boost, the only difference I can tell between their counter-parts is one is marked “all natural” on the product packaging.

  • CS Support is the “all natural” version of CS Foundation
  • CS XanSense is the “all natural” version of CS Boost

Other than that these appear to be the same product with different names.

Common Sense Wellness Worldwide’s Compensation Plan

Common Sense’s compensation plan pays both retail and recruitment commissions.

Residual commissions are paid nine levels deep through a unilevel team.

On top of that there’s confusing bonuses to pad out sales volume not paid out as straight residual commissions.

Common Sense Wellness Worldwide Affiliate Rank

There are fourteen affiliate ranks within Common Sense Wellness Worldwide’s compensation plan.

Along with their respective qualification criteria, they are as follows:

  • IBO – sign up as a Common Sense Wellness Worldwide affiliate
  • Preferred IBO – generate and maintain 22.5 PV  and 135 GV a month
  • Elite IBO – maintain 22.5 PV a month and generate and maintain 405 GV a month
  • Bronze – maintain 22.5 PV a month and generate and maintain 1250 GV a month (max 375 GV from lesser unilevel legs)
  • Silver – maintain 22.5 PV a month and generate and maintain 2500 GV a month (max 750 GV from lesser unilevel legs)
  • Gold – maintain 22.5 PV a month and generate and maintain 5000 GV a month (max 1500 GV from less unilevel legs)
  • Platinum – maintain 22.5 PV a month and generate and maintain 10,000 GV a month (max 3000 GV from less unilevel legs)
  • Pearl – maintain 22.5 PV a month and generate and maintain 15,000 GV a month (max 4500 GV from less unilevel legs)
  • Sapphire – maintain 22.5 PV a month and generate and maintain 25,000 GV a month (max 7500 GV from less unilevel legs)
  • Ruby – maintain 22.5 PV a month and generate and maintain 50,000 GV a month (max 15,000 GV from less unilevel legs)
  • Emerald – maintain 22.5 PV a month and generate and maintain 100,000 GV a month (max 30,000 GV from less unilevel legs)
  • Diamond – maintain 22.5 PV a month and generate and maintain 200,000 GV a month (max 60,000 GV from less unilevel legs)
  • Crown – maintain 22.5 PV a month and generate and maintain 500,000 GV a month (max 150,000 GV from less unilevel legs)
  • Crown Diamond – maintain 22.5 PV a month and generate and maintain 1,000,000 GV a month (max 300,000 GV from less unilevel legs)

Note that “lesser unilevel legs” refers to every leg in an affiliate’s unilevel team, excluding the strongest unilevel team leg.

Retail Commissions

Common Sense Wellness affiliates earn a commission on sales to retail customers.

Retail commissions are calculated as the difference between the wholesale and retail price of products ordered.

Recruitment Commissions

Common Sense Wellness Worldwide pays commissions on the recruitment of affiliates.

Recruitment Commissions are coded based on rank.

When a Common Sense Wellness Worldwide affiliate recruits an affiliate, they are paid a recruitment commission regardless or rank.

Their upline (the affiliate who recruited them), also receives a recruitment commission regardless of rank.

From there the system searches upline for the first Bronze or higher ranked affiliate, the first Silver or higher ranked affiliate, the first Gold or higher ranked affiliate and then the first Platinum or higher ranked affiliate.

Each of these tiers pays out a commission.

Note if a Gold was the first upline found for the “first Bronze or higher ranked affiliate” commission tier, they’d still be paid the “first Bronze or higher ranked affiliate” commission tier rate.

The system would then search upline for a Silver or higher ranked affiliate and so on.

With all that in mind, here are the Common Sense Wellness Worldwide recruitment commission rates:

Option 1 $199.95 Pack recruited affiliate

  • recruiting affiliate earns $25
  • their immediate upline earns $10
  • first Bronze or higher ranked affiliate earns $10
  • first Silver or higher ranked affiliate earns $10
  • first Gold or higher ranked affiliate earns $10
  • first Platinum or higher ranked affiliate earns $10

Option 2 $499.95 Pack recruited affiliate

  • recruiting affiliate earns $100
  • their immediate upline earns $25
  • first Bronze or higher ranked affiliate earns $25
  • first Silver or higher ranked affiliate earns $25
  • first Gold or higher ranked affiliate earns $25
  • first Platinum or higher ranked affiliate earns $25

Residual Commissions

Common Sense Wellness Worldwide pays residual commissions via a unilevel compensation structure.

A unilevel compensation structure places an affiliate at the top of a unilevel team, with every personally recruited affiliate placed directly under them (level 1):

If any level 1 affiliates recruit new affiliates, they are placed on level 2 of the original affiliate’s unilevel team.

If any level 2 affiliates recruit new affiliates, they are placed on level 3 and so on and so forth down a theoretical infinite number of levels.

Common Sense Wellness Worldwide caps residual commissions at nine unilevel team levels.

Residual commissions are paid out as a percentage of sales volume generated across the unilevel team, excluding volume generated by recruited affiliate pack orders.

Note that residual commission volume is capped at 67.5 PV counted from every affiliate in the unilevel team.

How many unilevel team levels a Common Sense Wellness Worldwide affiliate earns residual commissions on is determined by rank:

  • Preferred IBOs earn 5% on level 1 (personally recruited affiliates)
  • Elite IBOs earn 5% on levels 1 and 2
  • Bronzes earn 5% on levels 1 to 3
  • Silvers earn 5% on levels 1 to 3 and 6% on level 4
  • Golds earn 5% on levels 1 to 3, 6% on level 4 and 7% on level 5
  • Platinums earn 5% on levels 1 to 3, 6% on level 4, 7% on level 5 and 8% on level 6
  • Pearls earn 5% on levels 1 to 3, 6% on level 4, 7% on level 5, 8% on level 6 and 10% on level 7
  • Sapphires earn 5% on levels 1 to 3, 6% on level 4, 7% on level 5, 8% on level 6 and 10% on levels 7 and 8
  • Rubys and higher earn 5% on levels 1 to 3, 6% on level 4, 7% on level 5, 8% on level 6 and 10% on levels 7 to 9

Customer Program Commissions

Customer Program Commissions appears to be an unnecessary complicated way to pay commissions on any PV over the 67.5 unilevel cap.

If an affiliate in the unilevel team generates more than 67.5 PV in commissionable volume, they receive 20% of what’s over as a bonus.

The rest is paid via the same nine level unilevel team used to pay residual commissions:

  • Preferred IBOs earn 10% on level 1
  • Elite IBOs earn 10% on level 1 and 5% on level 2
  • Bronzes earn 10% on level 1 and 5% on levels 2 and 3
  • Silvers earn 10% on level 1 and 5% on levels 2 to 4
  • Golds earn 10% on level 1 and 5% on levels 2 to 5
  • Platinums earn 10% on level 1 and 5% on levels 2 to 6
  • Pearls earn 10% on level 1 and 5% on levels 2 to 7
  • Sapphires earn 10% on level 1, 5% on levels 2 to 7 and 10% on level 8
  • Rubys earn 10% on level 1, 5% on levels 2 to 7 and 10% on levels 8 and 9

Autoship Bonus

If a Common Sense Wellness Worldwide affiliate maintains a 45 PV or higher monthly autoship, they receive a 5% commission on their own total PV generated for the month.

If an affiliate maintains a 67.5 PV or higher monthly autoship, they receive a 10% commission on their own total PV generated for the month.

Global Bonus Pool

Common Sense Wellness Worldwide takes 29% of company-wide sales volume and places it into the Global Bonus Pool.

Bronze and higher ranked affiliates earn an equal share in rank-based smaller Global Bonus Pools:

  • Bronzes receive an equal share of a 2% Global Bonus Pool
  • Silvers receive an equal share of a 2% Global Bonus Pool
  • Golds receive an equal share of a 2% Global Bonus Pool
  • Platinums receive an equal share of a 2% Global Bonus Pool
  • Pearls receive an equal share of a 2% Global Bonus Pool
  • Sapphires receive an equal share of a 3% Global Bonus Pool
  • Rubys receive an equal share of a 3% Global Bonus Pool
  • Emeralds receive an equal share of a 4% Global Bonus Pool
  • Diamonds receive an equal share of a 5% Global Bonus Pool
  • Crowns receive an equal share of a 2% Global Bonus Pool
  • Crown Diamonds receive an equal share of a 2% Global Bonus Pool

Joining Common Sense Wellness Worldwide

Common Sense Wellness Worldwide appears to be pegged to the purchase of one of two packs:

  • Option 1 – $199.95
  • Option 2 – $499.95

If there’s an option to sign up without a pack, this is not disclosed on Common Sense Wellness Worldwide’s website or in their compensation plan.

Conclusion

Considering this is Common Sense Wellness Worldwide’s marketing pitch;

Do you ever look around and wonder where all the common sense has gone? Does the whole world seem out of sorts? It sure did to us.

We realized we had two choices; to see it and wonder what went wrong, or to simply get to work restoring common sense to our world. We chose the latter, and it has made all the difference.

It’s ironic they’ve made some confusing decisions regarding their MLM opportunity.

For starters commonsense would dictate an MLM opportunity be upfront about who owns and is running it on their website.

Common Sense Wellness Worldwide affiliate joining costs should also be presented to consumers, not buried in a table inside the compensation plan.

Both of these shortcomings are potential violations of the FTC Act.

Outside of the FTC Act, it’s just commonsense that an MLM company coming off as a faceless corporation is bad for business.

On the product side of things Common Sense Wellness Worldwide offers a standard nutritional supplement offering. I didn’t see anything that stood out, other than the “all natural” alternatives.

Given the… not natural (?) alternatives are the same price, if the products do the same thing as they’re marketed to, I’m not sure why there’s a need to have a natural and not natural variety.

While Common Sense Wellness’ products aren’t inspiring, they do a good job of providing full nutritional information in the available flyers.

Where the products are manufactured however is not disclosed.

Moving onto the compensation plan, Common Sense Wellness Worldwide’s is… well I said it in the compensation section: it’s just unnecessarily complicated.

For no reason residual commissions are capped at 67.5 PV. Then the rest is split up through a mess of “you keep this, this much gets passed upline through nine levels anyway and somehow the bonus pool fits into this too”.

My take on all of this complication was an attempt to pay out more to those who build deep. Read: Common Sense Wellness Worldwide affiliates who recruit and generate big downlines.

This happens anyway in most MLM companies but Common Sense Wellness Worldwide’s compensation plan seems especially geared towards it.

The assumption appears to be most affiliates won’t generate more than 67.50 PV a month, so better pump the deeper unilevel team level commission percentages.

Then the Global Bonus Pool comes along and swallows up 29% of generated PV which, due to the nature of bonus pools, will see larger payments go to higher-ranked affiliates.

Meanwhile there’s no retail volume qualifiers and a financial incentive to sign up for 67.5 PV a month on autoship – the exact amount paid out through residual commissions.

This suggests that retail, while possible, isn’t a focus within Common Sense Wellness Worldwide. You can verify this yourself by checking with a potential upline as to what they’re monthly order PV is, versus what they’re generating in retail sales.

Take any hesitancy to provide these figures as confirmation they aren’t generating retail sales.

Given the lack of disclosure regarding Common Sense Wellness Worldwide’s products, it also might be worth ordering one or two as a retail customer first before committing.

One of the pluses of Common Sense Wellness Worldwide’s products is there’s a large range to choose from.