Divvee Rank & Share Review: Promote apps, recruit affiliates, get paid.
Divvee Social initially launched as a “pay to access” e-commerce portal. Divvee affiliates were also paid to recruit new affiliates.
This concept flopped and interest in Divvee subsided a few months after launch:
In late September Divvee corporate announced a new mobile-centric business model. As per the Alexa traffic estimate graph above, this has sparked renewed interest in the company.
Named “Rank & Share”, today we take a look at and review Divvee’s new offering.
Divvee describe Rank & Share as a way for affiliates and free customers to
earn reward point by simply taking a few minutes a day to share their opinions and thoughts on some of the hottest new technologies and mobile apps just being released to the public.
Without the marketing-speak, this is essentially a point-based reward for spamming your social media accounts with apps Divvee pushes onto their user-base.
On the business side of things, Divvee have monetary partnerships with app creators.
To participate in Rank & Share, a Divvee affiliate or customer first downloads the Divvee app.
Through the app daily offers are made, via which a user can download, review and rank what’s on offer.
Divvee themselves have a financial partnership with the owners of apps promoted to users, which brings us to the Divvee compensation plan.
The Divvee Rank & Share Compensation Plan
Divvee are still using a 3×10 matrix compensation structure to pay commissions with (for more information, refer to BehindMLM’s Divvee Social review).
To qualify for commissions a Divvee affiliate must
- generate at least one hundred Rank & Share actions a month (includes personal actions and that of an affiliate’s free users)
- recruit at least one affiliate
A Rank & Share action can be an app install, review, rating or social media promotion post.
Commission payouts vary based on the agreements Divvee makes with app creators. Official Divvee compensation documentation states however that affiliates can be paid up to 25 cents on each Rank & Share action within their matrix.
Matrix levels require unlocking, which is tied to affiliate recruitment:
- be commission qualified to earn on one matrix level
- recruit and maintain two active affiliates to qualify for two matrix levels
- recruit and maintain three active affiliates to qualify for three matrix levels
- recruit and maintain four active affiliates to qualify for four matrix levels
- recruit and maintain five active affiliates to qualify for five matrix levels
- recruit and maintain six active affiliates to qualify for six matrix levels
- recruit and maintain seven active affiliates to qualify for seven matrix levels
- recruit and maintain eight active affiliates to qualify for eight matrix levels
- recruit and maintain nine active affiliates to qualify for nine matrix levels
- recruit and maintain ten active affiliates to qualify for all ten matrix levels
Being an active affiliate is satisfying the 100 Share & Rank actions a month component of commission qualification.
Divvee Points
Each Rank & Share action that takes place within an affiliate’s matrix also generates a point.
These points can be used to redeem the following incentives:
- $100 gift card – 200 Divvee points
- Divvee-branded stream box – 300 Divvee points (plus 50 points a month for “service”)
- iPhone 7 or Galaxy 7 with plan – 1500 Divvee points and then 100 points a month for the plan
- all-inclusive 5 Star Luxury vacation to Cancun, Mexico – 5000 Divvee points with inclusive airfare, 2000 points without airfare
Recruitment Commissions
Recruitment commissions in Divvee are paid out 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 recruit new affiliates, they are placed on level 3 and so on and so forth down a theoretically infinite number of levels.
Divvee cap payable unilevel levels at ten, with affiliates paid $3 per affiliate recruited into their unilevel team.
These affiliates must be active (100 Rank & Share actions a month) before the commission is paid out.
Note that unilevel team payments are subject to the same qualification criteria as matrix levels (each unilevel level must be unlocked)
Joining Divvee
Divvee affiliate membership is $50 a year. This is up $25 from Divvee’s initial $25 affiliate membership fee.
Note that Divvee are still charging $25 for affiliate membership until the end of the year.
Conclusion
I initially thought Divvee’s Rank & Share was entirely replacing their e-commerce platform.
Turns out the two are being run in tandem. As I understand it access to the e-commerce platform is still $9.99 a month.
Participation in Divvee Rank & Share however is covered with the Divvee affiliate $50 a year fee.
Right from the start, Divvee set the focus of their affiliates on recruitment.
Without recruiting at least one affiliate, Divvee affiliates don’t get paid.
In order to get paid on all ten available matrix and unilevel levels, affiliates must then recruit and maintain a total of ten active affiliates.
With each of these affiliates generating 100 actions a month (which can be an affiliate’s own actions on multiple devices), that unlocks the entire Divvee Rank & Share compensation plan.
The problem with this is it’s chain-recruitment. Divvee affiliates are paid both directly and residually to recruit new affiliates.
This makes Divvee a pyramid scheme.
When an MLM company pays affiliates to recruit new affiliates, whatever else they attach to recruitment commissions is irrelevant.
In this case it’s Rank & Share actions generated by free non-affiliates users of the app.
While a Divvee affiliate can certainly earn on these actions, the compensation plan forces them to recruit to earn.
In the long-term I predict affiliate recruitment will be the core focus of Divvee affiliates. Don’t get me wrong, free users of the app will exist (“try it out, it’s free!”) but not in any great active number.
Unfortunately this is not a sustainable MLM business model
There are a few clarifications that need to be made.
1) Starting Jan 10 with the official launch of the company, affiliates will be able to enroll free members. Free members can take advantage of the Rank and Share program, earning points that can be exchanged for all the rewards as well as items in the marketplace.
2) Free members will be able to use the marketplace, travel portal (similar to an Expedia or Travelocity), plus get great discounts on Insurance, Cable/Satellite, cell phone service, etc. There is no $9.95 monthly fee anymore for either members or affiliates.
All downloads and rankings done by free members are commissionable and pay out the same as if they were done by affiliates. Because of this, the focus will be on recruiting free members/customers.
The comp plan requires only 10 personally enrolled affiliates. There is absolutely NO incentive for enrolling more than 10 ever. Since I already have 10, any new people that come wanting to be an affiliate, I just give them away to someone else on my team.
I do expect to enroll hundreds of free customers. The ratio should be at least 100 to 1 free members to affiliates. It is definitely not chain-recruitment.
3) Not a Pyramid: As an affiliate you can earn from ALL your free members without having recruited a single other affiliate. The unlocking of the ten Tiers is only for when you recruit other affiliates.
Free members do not form part of the 3×10 structure and therefore are not subject to being unlocked. Commissions are not paid from the $50 yearly affiliate membership. ALL commissions come from the action of downloading and ranking the apps, not from purchases or fees.
4) This is not spamming anyone because the “share” part only requires that you share ONE of the apps you rank ONE time per week. After downloading and ranking, the apps are then promptly deleted.
Hope that helps.
If you spam once a week it is still spam.
Like, if you kill someone you’re still a murderer, even if you don’t do it “that” often.
Try to find info about the founder and the CEO, Scam demands are behind them!
@Jeremy
That’s nice. Doesn’t negate the chain-recruitment pyramid commissions though.
What you can and can’t do doesn’t negate the fact that Divvee affiliates are paid to recruit other affiliates.
Paying affiliates to recruit new affiliates in MLM = pyramid scheme.
This is false. $30 of every $50 affiliate fee is used to pay recruitment commissions via the unilevel ($3 on each level).
Nope. You didn’t understand where the money comes from for the $3 bonus. It doesn’t come from the $50 annual membership. That would mean it only pays out once a year.
In the OLD Divvee plan they were going to charge $49.95 a month for a pro package that would have paid out that way. However in the new updated plan, the uni-level bonus is a monthly residual bonus based on the 100 points required to remain active.
That means that the $3 bonus is also paid for every free customer that comes in and does at least 100 points in Rank & Share’s.
Again, NO ONE is paid to recruit. ALL commissions now come from Ranking. If the 10 affiliates I sign up never do any Rank & Shares, I don’t make a dime.
If the FREE members I recruit don’t Rank & Share, I don’t make a dime. It requires that people actually do something to get a commission.
So why the $50 fee? It is to pay for your tools. As an affiliate you get some really cool stuff from Turnkey Social like a webinar conference room, social sharing app and much more.
I currently pay $50 a month for Webinarjam so I am more than excited to start using the Divvee Hangout tool for just $50 a year. It is going to save me a bunch of money.
@John Doe Regarding SPAM: How is sharing an app that you like on your OWN Facebook wall once a week SPAM? If they asked us to share it on someone else’s wall, or send it in an email or something then sure, it would be SPAM. But that is not what they are asking.
You could literally just open a new account with no friends or followers and share it there. You don’t get paid for sharing, it is not a strict requirement, it is more of just a suggestion.
Which is exactly what’s represented in the Divvee compensation plan.
Come on mate, it’s not rocket science. New affiliate signs up, pays $50 and then $30 magically appears to pay unilevel commissions with.
Rank and Share commissions are paid out via the matrix. There’s a reason the $3 is paid out on affiliate recruitment (unilevel team) and not on free users.
Free users and Rank and Share only generate matrix commissions, they have nothing to do with the $3 recruitment commissions.
My company Kaizen Consulting does the official translation work in Spanish and Japanese for Divvee Social and we just got the final updated docs today.
Great news! The comp plan was just updated today. They have completely eliminated the $3 uni-level bonus. The only way to earn commissions now is through the 3×10 Matrix which is funded through “Rank & Share” activity.
With this there can be no risk of being considered a pyramid because nobody will make any money at all from recruitment. Only if people actually do the daily downloads and rankings. And only if they themselves do 100 points worth of downloads and rankings themselves each month.
@Jeremy
Is the “new” comp plan on the Divvee website yet?
Also are affiliates still being slugged $50 a year then? Considering $30 of that $50 was to pay recruitment commissions, the company should be charging $20 (the actual value of whatever else was bundled with Divvee affiliate membership).
Or is the company still charging $50 and just quietly keeping the $30?
Thanks for this review and fire the last one. For a company banking on online presence they’re pretty sketchy and lacking. This was more informative than them.
I appreciate the detail in the writing. I’m sick of MLMs who divulge little by little to try add hide their comp plans.
No worries Erik, glad you got something out of the review.
The Divvee Tapp App does not launch until 2017.
If the app and the maps do what the founders say, Divvee will be a huge social membership network.
Now we shall see how much real companies will pay for opinions on products and services in this new network. My new year opinion is coming next year.
Any one know what’s going on?
The official launch was supposed to be Jan. 10th. It’s January 11th, and people still can’t join.
I have been following the latest news from divvee social. It is still sketchy in what they put out. Seems like to quote from other replies here that they are hiding something. Not a good thing to do if you are looking to get some trust from your market.
Anyway. I am in the U.K. My sponsor is in the U.S Can you clarify when you will be focusing on the uk market. We have a large number of people now getting really frustrated by all this holding back.
As I have a very good reputation in social media and my MLM experience I have put my stamp on this because I can see how this could pan out. Very good in principle. But very poor in support and information.
I appreciate that it takes time to get this right. Maybe yous launched way too soon. Tried to run before you could walk to put it mildly.
(Ozedit: Attempt to take discussion offsite removed) Hope you get this sorted out. Don’t want my teams to loose interest.
Stephen.
personally, i signed on as an affiliate. what i like about the company is that free members can pay their membership fees with points earned by ranking apps.
Another thing that should be clarified is now you only have to watch short videos 15- 30 sec videos like the ads on youtube.
for every video watched you earn points. there is no sharing the app you dont even have to download it, that is purely optional if you see an app you like download it.
affiliates will be able to veiw more apps then free members thus earning more points. yes getting others to sign up will benefit you because you can make a percentage of what people who you signed up make rating videos/apps.
so for free you can sign up earn your affiliateship rate apps earn money all without spending a dime … scam? how so?
Because free affiliate membership doesn’t negate Divvee’s recruitment commissions.
as far as i know i don’t get any commision for signing up new affiliates. the only benefit is that i earn a percentage of their activity & for apps rated. they don’t pay me to sign people up.
Please familiarize yourself with the Divvee compensation plan.
if i’m mistaken let me know, personally i’m excited about getting started.
i’m not trying to rob people or scam them, apps are a billion dollar industry. these companies want feedback they’re going to pay someone, why not me?
So… didn’t read the review or look at Divvee’s compensation plan?
This is what happens when you’re pitched a spiel and sign up without any due-diligence of your own.
i have the compensation plan, where does it say i get any money for signing people up? yes to earn a percentage off what others earn whom i signed up i must sign up affiliates but i can earn off my own actions for videos viewed…
i dont get a commision for signing others up. OZ really explain it to me i dont want to promote a scam.
it seems like a decent company that people can earn stuff and cash for doing stuff they already do im forced to watch a video on youtube every time i want to watch rick & morty why not get paid for doing so….
Pay an affiliate fee and get paid $3 per paid affiliate placed into your unilevel team.
The “watch videos get paid” part of the business you’re referring to is perfectly fine and has nothing to do with recruitment. Unfortunately it doesn’t negate the pyramid aspect of the wider business.
either way i have two hundred plus who are ready to sign up and awaiting the launch of the new app.
well thank you OZ , for your feedback have a good day.
Seriously I don’t really trust this, but u guess I will read more and educate myself more first before I involve other people to it.
as we speak there’s a guy from nigeria who has been pushing is to recruit more people.
But I suggest this gets cleared up even here how this works, it’s not easy to trust someone you don’t even know. can someone assist there?
If he’s paid a fee and wants to recruit you and have you do the same, he’s attempting to con you into a pyramid scheme.
was just watching a youtube video of a guy talking about this awesome Divvee opportunity — it is a facebook Live video and I guess a commenter asked about it being illegal and the guy starts talking about they have lawyers to make sure it is legit: mentioned Kevin Grimes. Now that is funny.
Is this a worthwhile venture or just another blag to get money out of people. The latest is that the uk is not legal yet. Never heard such a load of shite in years.
They have all them silly beggars downloading an app to gain points to spend in a reconciliation centre. Seriously.
I think you hit it right on the head with this review. I agree it’s a ponzi scheme.
These types of companies come and go so fast it will make your head spin. This one has already changed it’s business model three times.
As you can see in the Alexa image it took a huge plunge and will do the same again in the near future. The only way to earn money here is to recruit recruit recruit and hope they upgrade and then they recruit recruit recruit.
Because it built on heavy recruiting, it will dry up in no time and the company will either fold or change their business model again.
Total waste of time. I say put your efforts in something that will last.
How can people remotely connect divvee with a ponzi? There is NO money required to start and earn. Again for you that have a hard time getting it: NO MONEY REQUIRED to earn.
No new members paying for the existing members. 1) Surf your ad 2) earn Points 3) redeem them. How hard can it be?
Divvee those nothing else then to shift the cpa market from ad Networks like maxbounty, peerfly and whatnot over into their app which is highly more profitable for app Studios as the customer is already on their phone while watching the ad and with that way more likely to download the app and do in-app purchases and generating ad Revenue for the app Studio.
Don’t know where you got Ponzi scheme from, but getting paid to recruit in MLM = pyramid scheme.
Whether you can sign up for free and make peanuts is irrelevant. In MLM one component of the compensation plan doesn’t negate or legitimize another.
Isnt the classic SCAM in all programs. “But its FREE to Join”!! Come on now…
Latest Divvee comp plan: mbmarketingbiz.com/2017DivveeCompPlan.pdf
(the $50 subscription is annual)
Divvee opening country strategy. (This will change consecutively)
mbmarketingbiz.com/DivveeOpeningCountryStrategy.pdf
(The number of affiliates (10k) will vary from country to country)
After watching the latest shambolic Facebook live update from divvee I can’t help but think what the hell is going on with this. Them two clowns don’t have a clue as to what is going on around them.
I have also heard from a very reliable source that divvee is finding it very difficult to meet the legal requirements to open in other countries because the CEO is under investigation for fraud and scamming.
What’s your thoughts.
Why people still longwindedly defend MLM is beyond my understanding. It can only be sustainable if people keep joining!
Once that dries up and people stat also dropping out, it is done. It then will be investigated as a scam as it is done with all network marketing ventures.
well it was supposed to go live yesterday, but appeared not to. Now I am told the App will be on Google play today.
It is all over Facebook, and I have people in my groups saying you don’t need to post on Facebook, yet they are. How idiotic is that?
Also I had wind that 90% of apps being promoted will be gambling related. That creates other issues.
Hello everyone, I wanted to share my personal experience with Divvee. Back in December I signed up for a “lifetime membership” which was $25 at the time.
I was told at the time of membership on the website that I signed up on, that I would receive an e-mail that was some sort of “welcome packet”. This never arrives.
I have checked my spam folder as well, nothing there. I tried contacting them via their Facebook page, and immediately got an automated message telling me to e-mail them at their support e-mail address.
I have done that LITERALLY over a dozen times in the past three months now, and I keep getting another automated message telling me to include details of what it is I need help with.
I have done this, over and over again, with no help, no support, nothing at all. And according to their Facebook page, I’m not the only one who is having this issue.
I am not an employee, former employee, anyone special, other than someone who feels he was scammed $25 and now the company has my money and won’t even assist me for a basic function as how to log into my account
They contacted me through facebook… i asked a couple of questions to Kim Richards and knew it was a scam… When i asked her to leave me alone and told her I wasnt interested, Kim Richards continued to harras me via messenger and wouldnt stop!
I asked her numerous time to stop and she kept bothering me!! Do Not do business with this company.
DIVVEE rip off people. You can’t invite people unless if you pay $50, then still cost you to invite people.
DIVVEE main focuse is they want people to pay $50. even DIVVEE is not every ready for business yet. It has been 2 months .. they keep changing from one thing to another..not single thing has been working.
DIVVEE IS MONEY HUNGER. They want people to pay $50 for their good to run business.
There is another business that launch about the same time with DIVVEE, not single dime has beem collected from members. They already start paying for February (the pay is once a month).
Watch 30 sec videos and comments and got paid.
DIVVEE should return all money to memembers who already paid. Until DIVVEE is ready for business then those members can start paying $50.
I have heard leaders are decamping from this and joining USI Tech.
Oh dear.
What are the leaders joining after USI-TECH?
Some of the top thieves in USI tech like Dan and Patti Hunt are laying low and enjoying their stolen hundreds of thousands of dollars from their downline.
Some others like Klingler, Stepsys and Calabro JR feel bulletproof after the lack of consequences from the USI riches they stole and are shilling CWE with a lot of the same morons buying into it in their downlines.
Other fools are following some of the “leaders” into Imarketslive and anything else they can sell to the followers that haven’t figured out they are just trying to steal their money!
Many have gone on to Kryptogenex… you have Calabro pimping something. A bunch are pushing NEWLIFE which is the resale of Melatonin..the sleeping aid… Nexus Global is definiutely being Pimped… Crypto Builder is another big scam… no product …pure new money pays old…
Plenty of stuff to stick your money into if you want to get scammed these days for sure.