LiveGood Review: Ben Glinsky returns with discount supps
LiveGood operates in the nutritional supplement MLM niche.
The company is based out of Florida and is headed up by CEO Ben Glinsky.
Glinsky (right) made a name for himself in the MLM industry as founder and CEO of Skinny Body Care.
Skinny Body Care appears to have been abandoned in 2018.
The company was eventually sold off to Valentus in early 2019.
Glinsky has a mixed history spanning offline real estate, MLM lead generation (Pro Builder) and running various other MLM companies before Skinny Body Care (the last of which was Rejuvenate Worldwide).
Another name I recognized on LiveGood corporate was Director of Network Marketing, Nauder Khazan (right).
Khazan first popped up on BehindMLM’s radar in 2011, as founder and CEO of the pyramid scheme Stiforp.
BehindMLM came across Khazan again in 2019, as founder and CEO of AliveMax, and co-founder of Globallee. Both companies appear to still be in business.
Update 2nd March 2023 – As of December 2022 AliveMax’s website has been taken offline. It appears the company has shut down.
As at the time of this update, I wasn’t able to determine a reason for AliveMax’s collapse. /end update
Read on for a full review of LiveGood’s MLM opportunity.
LiveGood’s Products
LiveGood markets a range of nutritional supplements.
Note that while retail pricing is quoted below, discounted pricing is available to LiveGood Members for $9.95 a month or $99.95 annually.
- Bio-Active Complete Multivitamin (Men’s and Women’s varieties) – “strategically formulated with the highest quality ingredients at the optimal dosages to give your body 24 different vitamins and minerals”, retails at $12.95 for a bottle of 30 servings (60 capsules)
- D3-K2 – vitamin D supplement, retails at $12.50 for a bottle of 60 capsules
- Ultra Magnesium Complex – magnesium supplement, retails at $12.50 for a bottle of 60 capsules
- Complete Plant-Based Protein – “designed to be the ULTIMATE Protein Supplement on the market, giving your body the MAXIMUM amount of nutrition with the best ingredients on the PLANET!”, retails at $28.50 for a tub of 15 servings (20 g protein per serving)
- Organic Super Greens – “like a safety net for your health by filling in the nutrient gaps that our diets are not providing us”, retails at $24.50 for a tub of 30 servings
- Organic Super Reds – “contain the highest amount of fruit and vegetable extracts known to help improve blood flow by increasing our body’s production of Nitric Oxide, boosting blood circulation, supporting brain and cognitive function, sexual health, heart health, immune function and helping to maximize your body’s overall health!”, retails at $24.50 for a tub of 30 servings
- Organic Coffee – “healthy organic weight management coffee with mushrooms”, retails at $21.95 for a tub of 30 servings
- CBD Oil – “our CBD Oil represents that to the utmost level. Derived from only the top 1% of hemp farms in the country”, retails at $24 for a 1 oz. (30 ml) bottle of 750 mg or $34 for 1500 mg
- CBD Oil For Pets – “our 300mg chicken flavored pet formula is great to help pets with anxiety, pain relief and so much more!”, retails at $18 for a 1 oz. (30 ml) bottle of 300 mg
- Essential Aminos – “support muscle strength and function, to help maintain lean muscle mass, to boost stamina and recovery, and to promote healthy energy and focus!”, retails at $28 for a tub of 30 servings
- Daily Essentials Pack – combines Bio-Active Complete Multivitamin, D3K2 and Ulta Magnesium Complex for $34.95 retail
LiveGood’s website also details three “limited time” products:
No indication how long they’ll be available for, but I wanted to note Instant Youth and Ageless Skin Serum were both Skinny Body Care products. Not sure how that fits into the acquisition by Valentus.
LiveGood claims its supplement range contains “only the highest quality products of their kind available anywhere in the world.”
The nutritional information labels suggest LiveGood’s products are manufactured in the US.
LiveGood’s Compensation Plan
LiveGood’s compensation plan revolves around the sale of Membership, both to retail customers and recruited affiliates.
Retail (non-Member) Commissions
LiveGood pays commissions on the sale of products to retail customers.
Retail commissions are paid out as the difference between the retail and Member pricing of products ordered.
Influencer Bonus
The Influencer Bonus is a retail bonus paid on accumulated monthly retail sales volume.
- generate $2500 in retail sales in a month and earn a 10% Influencer Bonus
- generate $5000 in retail sales in a month and earn a 20% Influencer Bonus
- generate $10,000 in retail sales in a month and earn a 30% Influencer Bonus
- generate $25,000 in retail sales in a month and earn a 40% Influencer Bonus
- generate $50,000 in retail sales in a month and earn a 50% Influencer Bonus
LiveGood Affiliate Ranks
There are six affiliate ranks within LiveGood’s compensation plan.
Along with their respective qualification criteria, they are as follows:
- Affiliate – sign up as a LiveGood affiliate
- Bronze – personally refer three Members and have at least five Members across your downline
- Silver – personally refer ten Members or recruit three affiliates (each recruitment leg must have a Bronze or higher in it), and have at least twenty Members across your downline
- Gold – personally refer thirty Members or maintain recruit three personally recruited affiliates (each recruitment leg must have a Silver or higher in it), and have at least one hundred Members across your downline
- Platinum – personally refer one hundred Members or maintain three personally recruited affiliates (each recruitment leg must have a Gold or higher in it), and have at least five hundred Members across your downline
- Diamond – maintain three personally recruited affiliates (each recruitment leg must have a Platinum or higher in it), and have at least two thousand five hundred Members across your downline
Members are LiveGood customers (retail and affiliate), who pay $9.95 a month or $99.95 annually in exchange for discount pricing.
To count towards rank qualification, referred Members must be current with membership fee payments.
Member Referral Commissions
LiveGood pays Member referral 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.
LiveGood caps Member referral commissions down ten levels of recruitment (unilevel).
How many levels Member referral commissions are earned on is determined by rank:
- Affiliates earn 50% on level 1 (personally referred Members)
- Bronze ranked affiliates earn 50% on level 1 and 10% on level 2
- Silver ranked affiliates earn 50% on level 1, 10% on level 2 and 5% on levels 3 and 4
- Gold ranked affiliates earn 50% on level 1, 10% on level 2, 5% on levels 3 and 4, 3% on level 5 and 2% on level 6
- Platinum ranked affiliates earn 50% on level 1, 10% on level 2, 5% on levels 3 and 4, 3% on level 5, 2% on levels 6 and 7 and 1% on level 8
- Diamond ranked affiliates earn 50% on level 1, 10% on level 2, 5% on levels 3 and 4, 3% on level 5, 2% on levels 6 and 7 and 1% on levels 8 to 10
Note that Member referral commissions are only paid on the first month of membership. This is calculated off a $10 base membership price.
Recruitment Commissions
LiveGood affiliates pay a $40 fee when they sign up. LiveGood uses this fee to pay recruitment commissions.
LiveGood pays recruitment commissions using the same unilevel compensation structure and commission rates as Member referral commissions (see above).
Residual Commissions
After a Member’s first month, LiveGood pays residual commissions on monthly $9.95 Membership payments (both retail and affiliate Members) via a 2×15 matrix.
A 2×15 matrix places a LiveGood affiliate at the top of a matrix, with two positions directly under them:
These two positions form the first level of the matrix. The second level of the matrix is generated by splitting these first two positions into another two positions each (4 positions).
Levels thee to fifteen of the matrix are generated in the same manner, with each new level housing twice as many positions as the previous level.
Positions in the matrix are filled via direct and indirect referral of LiveGood Members.
A 2.5% commission is paid per matrix position filled with a LiveGood Member.
How many matrix levels residual commissions are earned on is determined by a LiveGood affiliate’s rank:
- Affiliates earn a 2.5% residual commission on twelve matrix levels
- Bronzes and Silvers earn a 2.5% residual commission on thirteen matrix levels
- Golds and Platinums earn a 2.5% residual commission on fourteen matrix levels
- Diamonds earn a 2.5% residual commission on fifteen matrix levels
Matching Bonus
LiveGood pays a Matching Bonus on residual commissions earned by downline affiliates.
The Matching Bonus is paid via the same 2×15 matrix used to pay residual commissions (see “Residual Commissions” above)
Generations within the matrix are defined in a linear manner based on rank. E.g. the first Silver in your matrix is your first generation Silver. The second Silver in your matrix is your second generation Silver and so on and so forth.
Using this generational structure, the Matching Bonus is paid out as follows:
- Affiliates earn 50% on residual commissions earned by personally recruited Affiliates
- Silvers earn the Affiliate Matching Bonus and 10% on up to two Silver generations
- Golds earn the Affiliate and Silver Matching Bonus and 5% on up to three Gold generations
- Platinums earn the Affiliate, Silver and Gold Matching Bonus, and 5% on up to four Platinum generations
- Diamonds earn the Affiliate, Silver, Gold and Platinum Matching Bonus, and 3% on up to five Diamond generations
Higher ranked LiveGood affiliates earn lower ranked Matching Bonuses, but the official explanation is a bit odd:
If you are a Platinum, for example, you will also get the Gold and Silver Generation Matches. So someone on your 2nd Silver generation, may also be your First Generation Gold, and your First Generation Platinum, so you would get a 10% 2nd Generation Silver Match, a 5% 1st Generation Gold Match, AND a 5% 1st Generation Platinum Match on that persons entire matrix!
I’m reading that as each rank is a Matching Bonus tier, with higher ranked affiliates earning on lower ranked tiers.
The rank crossover from the quote above (a second generation Silver can also be a first generation Gold and first generation Platinum), sounds like higher ranked affiliates qualify as lower ranked affiliates for the purpose of generation calculation.
E.g. a personally recruited Diamond downline affiliate would count as a generation in all five Matching Bonus generation tiers.
Note that the Matching Bonus is paid out from a LiveGood affiliate’s second month with the company.
Diamond Bonus Pool
LiveGood takes 2% of company-wide revenue and pays it out equally to Diamond ranked affiliates every month.
Joining LiveGood
LiveGood affiliate membership is $40.
LiveGood Conclusion
LiveGood’s business model is certainly interesting.
The marketing pitch is that that “92% of Americans are vitamin deficient”, and that LiveGood has cheap supplements with “high quality ingredients” to address the problem.
I did note that LiveGood don’t cite their “92%” figure.
Getting back to the business model; LiveGood pays retail commissions on product sales volume, but otherwise you’re just getting paid on Member fees.
This is typically a problem when we see Membership tied to the MLM opportunity (access to discounts isn’t a product). In LiveGood affiliate membership is an additional $40 so they’re in the clear there.
While it’s technically true LiveGood are selling and paying commissions on “access to discounts”, it makes zero sense to purchase access unless you’re going to buy actual products.
This is true for both affiliates and retail customers.
This is what makes LiveGood’s business model interesting. I think it’s the first time I’ve seen “access to discounts” done within the boundaries of regulatory compliance.
All of that said, if the majority of LiveGood members are affiliates – the company can still operate as a pyramid scheme.
LiveGood could easily negate this possibility by baking in retail Membership requirements into rank advancement.
Pending that change, our best bet is determining retail viability.
For what you’re getting, LiveGood’s products seem competitively priced – even at full retail. Full pricing is readily available on LiveGood’s website without any hoops to jump through, so price comparison against the competition is easy.
LiveGood themselves take a dig at the competition with price comparisons on every product page.
From an MLM due-diligence perspective, you’ll want to know how many retail Memberships your upline has sold versus recruited affiliate Memberships.
You’re looking for a roughly even spread, ideally ratioed in favor of retail over recruited affiliates. Sales volume doesn’t really factor into things as LiveGood affiliates are only paid on retail volume.
If you find your potential LiveGood upline is primarily focused on selling Memberships bundled with the $40 MLM opportunity, beware.
Otherwise if your own comparison has confirmed LiveGood is competitive in your area and online, the cost of entry is affordable and, as far as I can see, there’s no strings attached.
Good luck!
Update 25th December 2022 – LiveGood affiliate membership now appears to be $40. This is based on signing up as an affiliate and being a Member costing $49.95.
Being a LiveGood member still costs $9.95 a month, so it follows that affiliate membership is now $40.
I’ve adjusted LiveGood affiliate membership pricing (formerly $20) across the review.
Update 21st January 2023 – LiveGood have made some changes to their compensation plan.
There wasn’t enough changes to warrant a separate updated review, so I’ve added in the changes.
- unilevel based residual commissions are now paid out via a 2×15 matrix
- Matching Bonus added
- Influencer Bonus retail bonus added
They weren’t significant enough to alter the review conclusion so I’ve left that as is.
I’ll make one note that while any retail bonus is welcome in an MLM opportunity, LiveGood’s Influencer Bonus requires $2500 in retail volume a month just to qualify.
Most affiliates probably aren’t going to reach this so it seems, as the name suggests, those with an existing large potential customer-base.
As a MLM veteran of 28 years FT and a Live Good affiliate I don’t want to sound bias.
I have followed and used the blog as it is great information and you nail it every time.
People are tired of paying jacked up prices for products to pay upline commissions and forced autoships to earn.
It is time for a change and fix this broken industry. Thanks for the review.
Thanks for the support!
People are tired and fed up with the crazy prices and the lack of retail opportunities that offer companies have.
Most are thinly disguised pyramid schemes this is a refreshing chang in mlm.
Finally, great Quality and very affordable products. As an affilliate, I am very pleased to share this opportunity or products to family and friends.
It makes me feel good as a person, knowing they don’t have to go broke to stay healthy using these products.
I just bought a load of products and got free shipping. I’m in LOVE with LIVEGOOD!
Priced right and membership is only $9.95 a month, simply amazing to have nutritional products at a fair price.
No money games here, everyone wins.
Amazing, great quality products! With a compensation plan that makes it easy for everyone to finally succeed!
Best decision ever to join LiveGood!! I’m already seeing results!!
Starting to look a bit spammy guys.
I stopped reading at “…chicken flavored pet formula is great to help pets…”.
Can we please rewind the clock to when MLM was about plastic things you could touch and reasonable quality cosmetics?
I was in Skinny body care in the past You mention it was abandoned in 2018. Why would I want to follow this company when it is owned by the SAME guy?
Have they changed the fee? It appears to be $49.95 now. I’m reading $40 for the affiliate signup & 9.95 for the membership fee.
I have a question: If I join to participate in the fast start plan and matrix comp plan, do I and my recruits even need to purchase and use the products?
It also appears that I don’t need to retail them if I don’t care about making a retail profit. If true, wouldn’t this just be some sort of cash-gifting scheme using cheap, private label supplements as a front?
Alternative Labs, the actual manufacturer, provides the certificate of analysis on their products.
Indeed .com provides quite a few negative and unsettling reviews on Alternative Labs’ cleanliness, machines, and management.
I’m not sure who Alpine 4 Holdings is, but here’s hoping they’ve cleaned up the place. But again, I’m not even sure the supplements are relevant to the “opportunity”. Oz?
*I said cash gifting, but maybe I meant straight-up pyramid scheme. I always get them confused.
Yeah $49.95 for affiliate membership and to be a LiveGood Member would mean affiliate membership has been bumped up to $40 (Membership is still $9.95 a month).
Affiliates don’t need to spend anything beyond the fee but the compensation plan is geared towards Membership sales. Membership sales can be made to retail customers (non-affiliates) or recruited affiliates. There’s no differentiation or retail requirement.
I have been in the industry for 30 years. Live Good doesn’t look bad at first glance. I would be very concerned with “any” type of commissions paid on a membership fee??
I do not believe one of the terms of what a pyramid is is when a commission is paid on “recruitment?? Research it out…
Now the prices look very good! When you look into their COA’s their still pretty good for the quality. Now… $9.95 monthly fee to be a distributor???
Now there becomes an issue and understand how they can sell their product a bit less than a lot of the products you find in dispensaries and gas stations.
Think about it.. $9.95 “fee” to be a distributor? That goes directly to the company? That does not sound very good too me??
Kinda makes me think that that charge helps them reduce the price to the user but at the distributors cost???
Thnk about the “fee” of $9.95 a month. When they hit 50k distributors (That shouldn’t take that long) that’s $497.500 to the company a “month”.
100k at $9.95 a month fee to distributors is $995,000! That’s basically a million $’s a month on the fees they bring in!
‘As I said the quality is not that bad. I have compared the COA’s with much higher quality products that can NOT be sold at such a low cost because “HIGH” quality products come at a high cost.
My personal take is, they will be adjusting things as soon as they rope a shit load od people in. “Remember” $9.95 per person?? That is something, along with a few other things that do not add up…
From what I understand…A commission is paid on the 9.95 monthly fee. 2.5% down 15 levels in a 2X12 forced matrix. Can someone explain that??
Sounds like a good plan for those affiliates who live outside of the US and Canada if the majority of LiveGood members are affiliates the company can still operate as a pyramid scheme. WHAT DO YOU THINK?
Commissions paid on member signups has always been illegal because of the “endless chain” problem where the last few people get left holding the bag.
That is why the FTC shuts them down as a pyramid or Ponzi scheme.
How they plan on getting away with this alludes me, but that is why no one else is doing it. It certainly is a well known marketing ploy.
Does no one care that LiveGood is practicing an illegal marketing system?
The FTC clearly forbids any MLM plan where someone can build an entire network of distributors and make money based on memberships alone. Product or service purchases MUST be exchanged.
I try to tell ppl this and get laughed at, told I’m full of sh** (like I was today) and that I’m a loser that’ll never make money.
Just wait till the FTC gets a few complaints about this and they shut down the company.
Oh, I guess my 25 year membership’s with pre paid legal and my Ameriplan memberships are illegal.
Membership is totally optional as our retail prices are almost 1/3 the price most MLM companies. Retail.
Revisit and look at the retail plan. Best I have ever seen hands down.
Lol, the 9.95 does not go to the company geniuses. The 9.95 is commisionable.
The prices are lower not to do with quality. They just don’t pay the commissions like traditional MLM.
Take a $20.00 product, sell it for 80.00 and pay out the CV+Profits) LG does not pay any CV upline so they don’t have to jack em up to pay a few leaders, influencers, and owners. IJS
PEOPLE!!
Pay attention to my previous message AND the others who state the “FACT” YOU CAN NOT PAY COMMISSIOND ON RECRUITMENT!??
My GOD people?? STOP getting caught up in your emotions!
Contact the FTC or any regulating administration. They will tell you the main Law governing MLM’s is, they CAN “ONLY” pay commissions on the sales of products or services (PERIOD) Paying commissions on marketing materials or fees to recruit people CAN “NOT” be paid out in any form as commissions (PERIOD)!
Ben and that other guy Nauder have done this type of thing before. The KEY FACTOR is, The FTC WILL NOT go after any company that is operating ILLEGALLY life LG until they have a sh*t load of money the FTC can cease! THAT IS A FACT.
This is where Ben will jump out, if he’s smart, BEFORE the FTC steps in. Don’t think for a second they aren’t starting to watch them now!
IF you, ANY of you would look into the simple fact and TRUTH, this is an ILLEGALLY run pyramid, maybe you might realize, or CARE that, you are setting people up to be hurt when it shuts down.
Most of you people who jump in these scams don’t care how many people you HURT anyway!!
Exactly – which is why the next best option to shut these illegal practices down is to file a complaint with the State Attorney General – and from what I’ve heard, Florida’s is a tough cookie. If she got enough folks filing, I have a feeling she would act.
Sadly you are right: there are far too many ppl that jump in, illegal or not, and are 100% selfish: Get mine and I don’t care what happens to you.
Had three different ppl cuss me out, tell me I was “ridiculous” and just shut me down when I attempted to point out the illegal marketing of this.
One is a simple-minded lady that I used to thing was a sweetheart. She is gullible and is following a millionaire and his crap-talk about how this company will make her a millinaire, too.
I tried to reason with her, pointed to the exact FTC rule on this – it didn’t end well.
I guess I care too much about people.
Timbo: Nothing wrong with a legitimate MLM, that’s for sure. Amway, PPLS, Primerica are three very old companies where I personally have known millionaires (one, I still have contact with- he’s been in it for 25 years as well – dude is crazy wealthy).
I’ve heard it said that more millionaires have been made by legitimate MLM opportunities than any other business endeavor.
LiveGood came up for review update today. There were a few changes to the compensation plan.
Not enough to warrant a new published review though, so I’ve just updated the compensation details of this review.
None of the changes warranted an update to the rest of the review so I’ve left it as it.
Oz, that was a bit confusing. Where is this review that you’ve left as is? What do you mean they “came up for review”?
Frustrating that they do have GREAT prices (altho that makes me wonder about their quality, and I can’t find any independent lab info so wonder just how good their vitamins are (as an example)) but they risk being shuttered due to illegal practices.
I’d join them in a heartbeat if it weren’t for that. I’ve endured a MLM shut-down by the gov and it ain’t fun.
Typically when I mark a review for an update I publish a new updated review. News is covered “as it happens” but for BehindMLM reviews I work off a list I maintain.
Not enough changed with LiveGood to warrant a new published review, so I just edited this first review and made a note of it.
I joined but I’m thinking about quitting. I think I’m starting to have a problem with being paid on the $9.95. But I also think why is Costco and Sam’s allowed to make money off of memberships and we can’t? They also sell a ton of services and products.
I would feel better once they start publishing % affiliates vs % customers. I see alot of people in one the groups ordering products. I’m sure most of them are affiliates. I ordered Factor 4 when I joined.
I’ve heard Kevin Thompson guess as to what the FTC would want. He thought somewhere around 70% customers and 30% affiliates. Maybe the hasn’t put pen to paper because that would be hard for a company to regulate.
I did chat with Ben and told him theirs a lot he could do with a membership model. Whatever it is he does he needs to be selling a crap load of services and products. He told be theirs a lot coming.
Oz you yourself would you say they are borderline illegal?
Nonsense again. Pre paid legal sells and pays on a membership. Ameriplan sells a membership. If folk wanna go pay 10x on a nutrition product God bless them.
No where does the FTC say you cannot pay on memberships.
Many travel companies sell memberships and pay on them even if you just take trips and never sell any travel.
Who gonna complain about a 9.95 membership and can buy these products at 1/3 the prices these MLM’s are selling at 19x to pay a few leaders, influencers, and owners. IJS.
“Nonsense”?
Hmm…for for those monthly fees (Ameriplan) you are purchasing a service – right? You tell me how to interpret this document from the FTC that gives an overview of legal vs illegal practices (not exhaustive, as it says within the doc):
ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/business-guidance-concerning-multi-level-marketing
I’m the first to admit I’m not an attorney but have sure heard from one that has specialized in MLM litigation (including fighting the FTC when they overstep!).
@Aaron
Not MLM so pyramid concerns don’t apply.
Read the review.
@TIMBO
If the majority of revenue generated within an MLM company is sourced from affiliates, that company is operating as a pyramid scheme.
This revenue can be derived through either product or service (membership) sales, it doesn’t matter.
And the ones with little to no retail (most of them) are pyramid schemes. WorldVentures was the most prominent example until it collapsed.
Ya know, Tim? You can go on and on about Costco, Sams or any other non-MLM all you want.
If you want to ignore the exact wording of the FTC where MLM’s are concerned, knock yourself out. I really do not wish any ill-will.
I love the inexpensive (although what’s the quality??) of the products. I just don’t love State’s Attorney General’s and/or the FTC shutting down an illegal pyramid in the middle of me building.
Any MLM that has a marketing model where NO sales are necessary (of products or services) to make money, and all I have to do is sign up people – that’s illegal… clearly stated in the FTC guidelines/rules for MLM’s.
We ain’t talking about Costco – we’re talking MLM’s. Don’t ask me why the FTC is harder on MLM’s than ANY other business model – but they are.
No one said they were anything less than corrupt…but it’s their rules and they literally have unlimited depth to their pockets and corruption.
I know this from a now 3-year-old case that’s going before a Federal Judge in 4 days as we FOUGHT BACK against those jackals.
I’ll bow out of this – I’ve said all I need to say. If they change their marketing model to line up with FTC rules, I’ll join. I need some of their products!
I love the live good products point blank I am an affilliate as well as a consistent customer . My friends and family are consistent customers and we absolutely love the products.
If you need the products stop the going back and fourth and get you some of these products at the wholesale cost. It’s just that simple!!!
If you choose not to build and share the info don’t. But get the products your health is your wealth!!!!
You can’t change the ftc or anyone else but yourself… it’s all about the great products that live good produces!
The results are in. I’m getting nothing but good testimonies about these products including my own.
@ Andy…There is an article that Kevin Thompson did about membership fees.
If you don’t know who he is… Google Kevin Thompson mlm attorney.
Aaron: Yes, am familiar with Mr. Thompson and indeed follow him on FB.
Because selling dreams to sell the dream, or selling the opportunity to sell the opportunity, is a scam. And, you cannot use that money to pay commission to the people who have sold the most dreams to dreamers also hoping to make money off of selling dreams.
Unlike non-MLM businesses, if people only buy/use MLM products because of the “opportunity”, you have a product-based pyramid scheme. The products only play a supportive roll to mask the dream/opportunity selling.
This is not okay. People don’t shop at Costco for the opportunity to make money; they’re there for the products.
The entire MLM system is inherently flawed, i.e, a scam. Why pay retail when you too can sign up, get a discount, and become a bajillionaire?
To be clearer, they must be sales to non-affiliates. Majority “selling” to downline does not count.
Didn’t you mean, “Shutting it down when you’re in the middle of retailing products to non-affiliate customers”?
The FTC is protecting people from paying for the opportunity to sell the opportunity. My criticism is that they don’t enforce it enough.
They should be ashamed they’ve let Amway et al. carry on for as long as they have. Very few people overpay for MLM products unless they’re also involved in the opportunity.
And besides, recruiting (not re-retailing) is actually encouraged by the company itself because this is how THEY reach new people and make their money. Affiliates dreaming to be bajillionaires are the best customers.
Did I mention inherently flawed? Yeah, I did.
You have your opinion – I don’t share it.
I see no difference between a traditional Corporate Org Chart and an MLM compensation plan. (Ozedit: snip, see below)
One is an MLM business model and the other isn’t.
First and last warning; BehindMLM isn’t the place to play dumbass.
You don’t see the difference between Paying to participate,and being Paid to participate?
Did your parents drop you as a toddler?
I hear this all the time. I think you’re just repeating an argument you’ve heard, and no one has ever explained the difference.
A legitimate corporate organization, and the pyramid structure I assume you refer to, derives its funds from people OUTSIDE the structure.
Suffice to say, the lower-level employees are not paying out of their own pockets to pay management. The funds to pay ALL the employees come from people who don’t work there, aren’t affiliated with the company, and don’t expect a paycheck themselves.
In the MLM world, that would translate to non-affiliate retail customers funding the pyramid organization. Then that money would be distributed accordingly.
If I were to use your analogy, office assistants employed by the corporation would be spending their own money for the privilege to work there, and that money would pay their bosses. That’s just stupid.
Now, try being an MLMer without buying/spending/investing in the MLM product or service yourself. You can’t.
MLM is as idiotic as an employee paying money to corporate headquarters to work at their corporate job. Still want to compare the two?
been there done that! Owners only care about there Profit!!!
They Target a demographic area, this time is the underdogs making $ 25 from the inicial $50 sign in. Thats a lot of money lol 10k affiliate a week represent them $250k a week $1,000,000 million a month only on sign in fees.
Plus the $10 bucks a month they only pay $3.75 per person .25 cents x 15 and the the matching bonus.
you have to build a huge huge group in other to make 16k im telling you they only thinking about themselves, not the little guy.
They claim products cost $5 to $6 per product and sell them 2x what is fine they also profit from the products and dont pay you guys nothing, NADA 0. COME ON GUYS.
Combine they build like 6 companies charging what they claim high prices Lets talk in 18 months good luck.
We all know that people purchase Costco memberships specifically to “shop at” Costco for products at discounted prices, and there is a saying “a penny saved is a penny earned”, therefore…
How many Walmart employees shop at Walmart?
I would suggest(expect) that the percentage would be damn close to 100%, for at least some of their purchases, given the “employee discounts” they receive.
Costco and Walmart aren’t MLM companies. They are entirely irrelevant with respect to LiveGood.
If the majority of LiveGood Members are also affiliates, it’s a pyramid scheme.
Oh good grief, it’s like teaching third-grade reading comprehension.
Maybe 100% percent of the employees shop at Walmart, but 99% of Walmart shoppers are not employees/affiliates.
WOW!! There are so many response I could make. There are people that are simply blinded by greed. They WILL only listen to ridiculous things told to them to justify their decisions.
Just one I will spend time on…
One of the most outspoken here keeps coming back more and more and someone has to be feeding him the nonsense he continues to post…
Costco Sam’s club ARE NOT MLM’s as stated here. FACT!!!
“Simply” put, These “NON MLM” Companies DO NOT pay “”ANYONE”” commissions for referring others to these companies???
I have said it many times, here’s the truth of this issue;
The FTC WILL NOT go after LG, or any other company operating illegally until they are financially VERY strong. They will not spend money or resources on these companies, Until… There is enough money to “cease” and cover their operating costs AND most of all extra “profit” for them.
That is the cold hard facts guys. The FTC is a “business” as well, think about it!
Pre paid legal/Legal Shield and others like this have a service (Legal Representation). Pick up the phone and you can be serviced “at any time” by an attorney for legal advice.
That is legit. To charge people $9.95 could fly if it was not ALL ABOUT people paying commissions on “RECRUITING” others!
I enjoy researching companies, comp plans and “Quality” of products in MLM. The products that LG have are simply “me to products???”
Research them with others you can purchase at you local store??? for the most part they are a bit less than you can throw in you cart while grocery shopping.
So think about this… If you choose to participate in what they are doing, Think!
If you want to purchase a couple products for say $25 a piece. That would be $50 right? Now, from what I understand you would have to factor in the $9.95 just to purchase anything.
Then you would have to factor in Tax, lets say approx 8%, that would be approx $4. Then factor in shipping, the cost of that has increased but let’s say 2 products shipping cost would be $10.
I believe I have seen, there is free shipping over a $75 product purchase.
Also, we all understand MANY companies have shipping agreements with companies that bulk ship and choose to charge customers “more” to gain a little profit.
ANYONE who believes Ben & Nauder are not doing this have NOT done a thorough background search on these guys. For me, I would say they are ABSOLUTELY charging a bit extra for profit.
So…
$50 (Products)
$4 (Tax)
$10 (Shipping
Total (approx) $64 for the 2. Each product goes from $25 to a cost of $32 for each product.
Now they are pretty much the cost of what you could purchase at NON MLM businesses such as Costco, Sam’s or BJ’s AGAIN THEY DO NOT PAY ANYONE ANY TYPE OF COMMISSIONS TO HAVE PEOPLE BE COME A MEMBER.
@ Jonathan relax dude theirs more coming…Ben has stated to me and on a call they are not stopping with Health and Wellness. More services and products coming.
You need to read an article that Kevin Thompson wrote. He says that a membership mlm is ok as long as their is a need for the products… people want them.
Now where they could get into trouble Is having more reps than customers. If you want to disagree with him then knock yourself out.
So again genius. How is Pre Paid Legal or Legal Shield and Ameriplan USA paying on MEMBERSHIPS?
You do NOT get paid on the attorney, the dentists, the Eye wear provider, or the drug companies when you get a discount on your fees with your MEMBERSHIP!!!
I’ll wait on another book. I’m rocking with LG. No autoships, no jacked up products costs to pay upline, and the ability to work anything I want without fear of termination.
I am Live Good.
Not even gonna waist time reading that book he wrote with his opinion lol.
How many months will the people you recruit stay once they see they can’t afford to pay the fees to stay in and or recruit enough to cover the fees each month?
There are no fantastical products here that people would or should want to keep buying month after month.
You are just here to exploit a comp plan for the moment to move on to the next scheme.
@Timbo
Not withstanding the affiliate/membership pyramid scheme issue, I believe these memberships are actual services.
Access to discounts isn’t a service (think the MLM travel pyramid model, i.e. WorldVentures).
Also if you’re not going to read previous comments I’ll be quick to hit the spam button if I see anything redundant.
This isn’t a one-way street. And you’re certainly doing nothing towards convincing anyone the majority of LiveGood Memberships are sold to recruited affiliates.
What Service does Pre Paid Legal or Ameriplan provide? They sell memberships that allow you to get a discount on attorney fee’s, billable hrs, discounts on Dental Care, discounts on Vision and discounts on prescriptions. There is NO services provided for being a member.
Prepaid will handle a small traffic ticket but call them with a real issue and you get a discount on the hrs billed.
As far as people canceling a membership for 9.00 a month we will see. Better than paying 80.00 for a pill A bottle on an autoship every month.
A waste is a waste.
Actually PPL / Legalshield does have extras included. I know legalshield includes Wills as a specific part of the package (already paid for) that you don’t get charged for extra.
Not saying it’s not overpriced, but do they do give a product as part of things that has a tangible value.
I Know What I Am About To Say Is Going To Blow The Top Off A Lot Of People In This Program But It’s The Truth So Please Listen.
First Off, Let’s Discuss The So Called “Overpriced Non-MLM” Products Members Keeps Barking About.
Most High & Premium Quality Supplements CANNOT Be Brought Down To A Cheap Price Because Most That Care Will Never Allow A Cheap Price Or ANY Price For That Matter To Be Put On Your Health & Well-Being.
Those Stores Like Walmart Does Sell Supplements, However, Stores Like That And Even Online Supplements Stores Have The Guidance Of A Certified Physician Or Certified Pharmacy Tech Within Those Stores And Online Shops That Can Help Guide You Because Even A Simple To Use Supplement Product Need Extra Care When Using Them.
If You Sell Supplements, Cheap Or Overpriced, It Needs To Have An Advisor, Physician Or A Coach Attached To Help And Show You The Proper Way To Use Them, Exercise When Using Them Are Important As Well.
If You Have NO Idea What A Person’s Medical History Is, Even “The Cheapest Supplements On The Market” Can Do You Harm, But No One Is Talking About That Important Fact!
Now, As Far As The Comp Plan Goes, It Just Makes No Sense. First Off, The Comp Plan, For You To Win, You Have To Have Outstanding Sales Abilities And Even Greater Recruiting And Management Skills.
Do You Really Think A Newbie With No Sales And Recruiting Skills Will Win In This Game? NOPE.
They Are Saying You DON’t Need To Recruit To Make $2k A Month. REALLY? There Are So Called Levels In That Program You Have To Achieve To Make Higher Commissions And You CANNOT Do That By Doing Nothing! It’s All About Recruit, Recruit, Recruit And Less About The Products.
However, I Am Guessing That LG Does Not Tell Them The Comp Plan Until They Become An Affiliate & Member For $50. By Then, It’s Too Late, They Would Have No Choice But To Stay Because They Have Paid The Money To Get In. And That’s Sad.
I Love Inexpensive Supplements As Well, I Stay Fit As Much As I Can. I Will Say This Though, If It Came Down Between So Called “Overpriced” Supplements Which I Think These Guys Exaggerate A Bit And LG, It Will Always Be From Someone Who Knows What They Are Talking Because My Health Is NOT A Cheap Commodity!
And Since They Keep Yelling About Overpriced Supplements That Others Are Selling, Why Not Look At Your Comp Plan Because It’s Right Up That Alley.
Not Understanding If You Pay $50 To Sell The Products And The Biz Opp, Why Would You Need To Pay $9.95 Every Month Thereafter? Why Would You Need Discounting On Products That’s Already At Bottom Low Pricing?
Like I Said It’s Probably Going To Blow The Top Off Some But It’s The Truth.
If The Products Are So Much Better That Others As Far As Quality & Price, Then Why Not Prove That By Just Having The Members Sell The Products And Base Their Commission On That Instead Of Forcing Them To Pay Recruitment and Enrollment Fees To Sell Your Products? Hmm?
Enough Said.
Live Good with their membership fees were outlawed decades ago. It’s the same as cash Gifting. Bringing in money for nothing of value just to pay commissions on is the same as cash gifting.
No Timbo, cash gifting membership fees is different than subscriptions for actual services like legal shield in Ameriplan. 30 year hack more like it.
Why would anyone participate with the people that were part of the skinny body care scam. Doesn’t anyone remember that they were sued for stealing someone else’s product and selling it?
WOW!! The denial from some? AND the repeating of nonsense has now become entertaining!
So Jame & Mike… These guys are far from thinking logical (PERIOD). What you guys stated were facts and easy to research ftc (dot) gov.
Problem with this and some of these guys IF they were to actually research, they wouldn’t understand OR have the patience to grasp that facts of how MLM companies are governed.
I Own 10 websites that pay on recruiting new members, true they only pay 1 level down so no pyramid involved, and….my payment processor is PayPal, for 18yrs.
I’d like to know who they use. I generally judge by this, as most know PayPal ‘TOC’ is pretty tough and they weed òut marketers, and companies at will.
For the guy above who says the FTC ‘cease’ the companies holdings…when you can spell ‘seize’, I’ll be more likely to take legal advice from you!!! but
I judge if you have the option to make a commission on endless-chain recruiting i.e., building a team with team members who can also build a team.
That’s it, period, full stop. With or without products, what type of product if they have them is completely irrelevant.
It is literally that simple to know if it’s one type of scam. Just ask, “Can you endless-chain recruit?” Not do you have to, but CAN you?
Word on the street is that several Founders from the bizarre MLM OnPassive are cross recruiting their teams over to LiveGood — because there still aren’t any paid OnPassive products to sell, and because the latest launch was a flop.
At least they’ll go broke much faster with this opportunity, allegedly.
Morning. Surprise. Term and conditions, point 3 Compensation:
Buy in Europe and Asia only money are made are from sponsoring…..
That’s standard MLM pseudo-compliance.
In reality if the majority of Members are also affiliates, then commissions are defacto paid on recruitment.
That’s straight up a lie and can be proved by just looking at any of their affiliates posting on Facebook.
It’s the worst compensation plan on paper but the unintelligent have no idea.
Their number one earner only earned $7700 for the month and recruited 369 personals. The average person is lucky if they can recruit one person a week.
So what’s it really mean about their compensation plan when they have their top earner only making seven grand with all those personal recruitment. Right now all they do is celebrate the size of their team and not their income.
The company has them so fooled into thinking that the size of a team is more important what you make. And the #1 earner doesn’t even make money on the products his team purchases.
By the way the number one earner is the postcard guy. Remember him?
I always check this site before joining company. Thanks for your great reviews.
When I saw LiveGood, I just fall in love with the products and of course the price. I grabbed the Ultimate plan and not interested with the Comp Plan because I was looking for an alternative for my expensive GREENS from another company that I am paying $139 monthly for years but I don’t do their network marketing.
LiveGood will move faster, helping us avail of these affordable products. I am 62 and only loves Organic Healthy Products. Hope LiveGood will be forever and more products will be added.
God bless LiveGood and its customers like me.
Can Someone explain This To Me Please? From My Understanding, In Order To Purchase LG’s Products At A Discount, You Need To Become A Member Right?
So My Question Is, Why Would Any REAL Consumer Buy Into Any Discounting Program With Products They May Never Buy Again?
A Consumer Is NOT A Guaranteed Repeat Consumer, But They Are Being Forced To Pay $9.95 Per Month. People Can Go Down The Street And Get The Same Type Of Health Supplements At Their Local Pharmacy Or Health Store Without Waiting Weeks To Receive It Or Pay Shipping Fees, Ridiculous Discounting Fees Every Month And More Importantly, Ask Questions To See If That Product Has Any Allergic Reactions They Need To Be Aware Of.
Why Is It Fair To Those People Who are Trying To Be Real About Their Health? Products That’s Already At Their Lowest Pricing Should Not Need Discounting Further.
If You Cannot Afford That Extra $10 LG Is Snatching From You Every Month After Taking $50 The First Month, Then Maybe You Don’t Need It.
LG And It’s Members Are More About The Comp Plan Rather Than The Products. The People That Come On Here Complaining About High Priced Products Need To Look At Your Own Product Line Because If Yours Weren’t Overpriced, Then You Would NOT Need Discounting For Them.
It’s All About That $3.75 They Get From The $10 A Month That People Are Forced Into Paying Even If Some Members Are Not Concerned About Selling The Products And Many Of Them Aren’t.
I Tell You Though, Greed Is The Ruler Of ALL Evil. Geez!
Reply to above. The products are sold supposedly for less money because they are low grade ingredients. They were made by a MLM mill company in Naples Florida that will put a label on any bottle for you and call it what you want.
You could say that you invented a penis pill and it works great and it will grow like Pinocchio nose and they will put a label on the bottle for you. And you could have anything in the bottle.
Why anyone would trust and risk their health for a compensation plan baffles the mind.
Recruiters and sponsors should take responsibility on possibly hurting peoples health. And for a health and wellness company why aren’t the distributors being paid on the product purchases in the unilevel?
There is no motivation to sell the products. It’s just a $10 scam that they paid 75 cents to 15 people. The company pays out a total of $3.75. Of the $10.
And don’t bother saying that they pay a little extra because of checkmatch, Because that’s the secret catch. 98% of the distributors are not qualified for the check match that they keep on bragging about in the compensation plan.
Don’t you see the scheme now? Get in for a whole year and pay your $10 in advance, look at your large team of people in the matrix and only a couple are qualified to make check match on those people.
The only way to get qualified is if you are a big recruiter just like in any other company.
And the real scam by corporate is that most people are paying for the full year of the $9.95.
So they use those numbers to show the growth of the company when no one‘s even promoting it much after their first month but the company has their money for the year.
Oh, Now I Understand, Thanks Mike. I Thought They Get The Whole $3.75 Of The $10 Fee. That’s Even Worse!
Like I Said Above, If You Can’t Afford The Money You Need To Go Elsewhere For Your Supplements But Instead Need To Be Roped In To Get A Cheap Price On Your Health By Paying Ridiculous Discounting Fees To Get It, Then For Most Of Us, It’s Not Worth It.
Why In The World Would A Sane Retail Customer Allow Any Online Health Program To Take Their Money, Especially On A Monthly Basis For NO Reason Or A Ridiculous One And Not Question It? I Wouldn’t. And With That Said, I Highly Doubt The Products Are Flying Off Those Shelves Every Month As Some Claim.
So It’s ALL About Making Those Small Dollar Bills My Friends, No Other Way Of Prettying it Up, It Is What It Is.
They’re taking the $10 for a membership fee from every country and not shipping product. If that doesn’t prove it’s a money scam I don’t know what does.
This thread is getting more hilarious by the minute. From top earners earnings to not shipping products and all the other nonsense is funny to watch. LG is rocking!
Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is! Show Proof That Your “Cheap” Products Are Flying Off The Shelves.
Come Back To The Real World My Friend And See This Thing For What Is It. This Owner Has Been Through 1 Other Site I Know Of That Says That Same Jargon But This Time With LG It’s $2,047 Without Enrolling A Single Person? Yeah, Okay TIMBO.
His Other Site Is Called Pro Wealth Solutions Which Was $1,093 Without Enrolling A Single Soul And Then It’s Skinny Body Care Which Says The Same Jargon,That Time It Was $1468, Seriously? Please Do Your Research Please?
Every Site He Has That Said This Same Jargon Has Left The Station. What Makes You Think This Will Be Any Different Once People Finally See The Truth.
No Point In Denying It, It Is What It Is.
OK …..
Lets get a couple of things in Order here ….. I have worked as a Consultant For this Industry at the Company level for over 20 years ……And work with Compliance as for the Governing Agencies in this Space ….. Simple …..
the way it stands with Paying the Commissions from the Membership Fees…. That is a Ponzi Scheme by definition inside this Industry …. because you are Governed by a Compensation Plan …. Not Opinion …..
And as Far as Calling a Company Organic ….. That will bit you in the Tail as well …. Because if you Properly know how to Read Ingredients …. Then you will find that this is NOT an Organic Company and is Far From it ….. as Some of the Products contain Extremely Synthetic Toxic Chemicals on their Labels ……
Just Facts !!
SEAN can you tell what are nonorganic because it is a big scam and people do not see this?
tky
SEAN please tell which are this non organic to tell that ponzi promoters? Tky
Paid on Recruitment or Product Sales?
The way i see it LiveGood monthly membership at $9.95 is a commissionable digital product, being the “PowerLine Marketing System” that they offer.
Surely that is a product & is worth the monthly $9.95 as an affiliate?
Additionally, members have the ability to be able to make retail commissions, as there is no affiliate commissions paid, on the sale on their Health product Range?
Super Stars Only? Will you need to be an absolute superstar recruiter, to make money with this deal at $9.95 a month max spend because all product sales money, goes directly to the company and the affiliates get nada?
I can see a shit show ensuing here, as tradtional MLM’s wont like the spin, LiveGood Affiliates are throwing around, and the mass exodus.
M
Access to discounts isn’t a product with respect to the FTC Act (think discount travel pyramid schemes). Company-wide revenue needs to come primarily from retail customers buying whatever is discounted.
Thought I would chime in here…
I joined LIVEGOOD back in the summer of 2022, before the international launch on December 13th. We joined for the great prices of quality products.
I was tired of the overpriced product packages and marked-up pricing of other direct sales, mlm, and network marketing companies. Next, I noticed the product prices were even lower than Walmart, CVS, and Walmart.
When LIVEGOOD announced its international launch, more products, rank advancement, 2×15 matrix with unilevel, additional pay plan, powerline marketing system, three websites for affiliates, international shipping, and additional distribution centers coming around the world… the gates opened wide.
Thanks to LIVEGOOD, I am seeing the industry do a total change from the traditionally high price grabbing for entrance into a company. LiveGOOD doesn’t do any of that.
I currently have loads of customers only buying products from the company and not even in the business. The retail pricing still beats all other companies from what I see, plus the member pricing is amazing therefore, loads of people are joining.
Yes, people are exhausted from the old ways of direct sales, mlm, etc. LiveGood is showing others how to have an affordably priced product, top quality, and a simple way to start a home business.
Distribution centers all over the world will begin to pop up after fulfilling all legal documentions and requirements. In addition to that, more products will be introduced.
Currently, a distribution center in Germany will soon open to service EU / Africa & Germany. Exciting times.
I getting great results with the products, my friend been trying tons products two years and got results eith clicking knee and stiffness with factor 4, really helps my hernia pain.
the coffee is fab, super greens and reds I have great energy and my hypnic jerks have eased off so I can go sleep without jumping, sometimes odd jump, coffee gives me energy, curbs appetite, I’ve lost inches.
Just say to people please just try the products and stop been Judge and jury, on the livegood webinars all they talk about is the products.
You only start earning on memberships 2nd month, 2.5 per cent and down through matrix. You get paid very well on retailing, with matching bonuses.
try the products their certified, try before you shout your mouth off because if you have, not tried these fab products then talking bull.
Wow, Now Here It Comes My Friends and I Knew We Would Eventually Get There. The Very Day When We Meet A Rep That Shows Us How Far LG Will Go To Protect It’s Income Right?
“The Powerline Marketing System Is A Commissionable Digital Product and Wait Don’t Forget, It’s Worthy Of The $9.95 Per Month!
I Have Never Heard Anything More Ridiculous And More Desperate In My Life. Superstars? Given That You’re Probably One Of Those So-Called Heavy Hitters, Doesn’t Mean The People Below You Are.
Your So Called Digital Marketing System Just Doesn’t Include The Ridiculous Powerline, It Also Includes A Ridculous Ranking System. So, How Do You Suppose Your Newbies Would Be Able To Reach Those Ranks Without The Skills To Bring In People At A Rapid Rate On A Jargon That’s Dishonest.
You Will NOT Make $2,047 A Month Without Enrolling A Single Person, That’s A Lie! And That Is How You Rope Them In With The Promise Of 100’s Of People In Their Downline Before They Even Become A Member, Bizarre, But Okay.
Further, I AM So Sick Of Hearing LG Members Complaining About Overpriced MLM Products. It’s The Only Thing They Ever Say.
Well Let Me Say This, Those Traditional MLM’s Are Still Around, Why? Because They Are Legal To Be Around And Probably At Better Quality.
They Pay Their Reps On The Sale Of A Product And Not On Ridiculous Recruiting Fees, So Called Discounting Fees Or Enrollment Fees.
You’re Supposed To Be A Company That Sells REAL Quality HEALTH Products. REAL Quality Never Gets Reduced To Nothing.
Further, Why Aren’t You Guys Asking Questions When Selling Products Like This? You Have NO Ideas If They Are Even Allergenic To The Products You Are Selling.
Are They Supposed To Just Read The Label On The Package? There”‘s So Many Things Wrong With That. DO You Even Care?
Probably Not. So Don’t Talk About Other MLM Products Because As I Said Before, If Yours Weren’t Overpriced, You Would NOT Need The Discount To Buy It.
Good Luck!
@Pat
Speaking of “talking bull”, feel to provide peer-reviewed medical studies demonstrating any of LiveGood’s products can be used to treat hernias.
Failing which, you’re running around making illegal and unsubstantiated medical claims about LiveGood’s products. And being an affiliate, you’re probably marketing the products in violation of the FTC Act too.
@Oz – To be fair he never said it treated his hernia,. He said it has helped with the pain from his hernia. Big difference.
“Helping with the pain” = treatment.
Psuedo-compliance BS doesn’t work here. It doesn’t work with the FTC either.
Did he freeze the stuff and put it on his hernia as a cold compress? No?
Then do tell how it helped – be specific.
Kelly and Patrick speak for yourself. No one‘s tired of anything except you never making money and joining a new system every few days.
We are getting bored with the same old are products are certified and less money than all products. No they’re not.
Ben doesn’t care about the products. His skinny body care product was poop. And he copied it from my real company which is why they went under.
Tell the truth about these people that can’t recruit that they won’t make anything. they won’t get checkmatch on people that they don’t have personally sponsored.
Two cents for each person in the matrix and you make no money when your team sells product. It’s the biggest scam for the dumbest affiliates of all time.
NOPE, NOPE, NOPE.
Has Mr Ben Glinsky been living under a rock or just ignoring the Ponzi laws?
Paying on a $9.95 membership, Nope cant do that.
Paying on the $40 one time fee. Nope cant do that, either.
Not Paying members on downline product purchases, Nope you can get away with that Bs.
If each member only pays a $9.95 monthly membership, how many 1000’s of monthly 9.95 memberships do people need to get a decent paycheck?
Max downline volume per member is 10 BUX. = ridiculous.
Members/customers could be buying $millions in products and member/affiliates, will not be paid on product sales, = Nope you cant do that?
Why would members buy product if they don’t have to, as the complan pays on 9.95 monthly fees?
Has anyone checked the shipping and handling fee’s? OMG
LiveGood looks like it’s in the shipping and handling business.
I have never seen such stupid high prices, especially for internationals. They are triple the price of other companies.
They are click baiting people on the powerline to suck people in and lambasting MLM companies for over priced products. = Nope cant do that.
The way i see it, there are 4 major out points.
1) The so called heavily discounted prices are pulled back by the stupid high shipping charges.
2) They are deceiving people in using the powerline as click bait.
3) You can join and purchase product directly from the company website, skipping past the affiliate’s. = Nope You cant do that, not in Affiliate programs.
4) You can get paid on product sales volume= Ridiculous.
People will see through all this hooplah by june/july, and there will be a lot of disappointed people, as i can see 100’s of people complaining already that the click bait system, is not delivering as expected..
When it comes to Health and nutrition products in this day and age MLM/affiliate programs do not enjoy the rock star status they had in times past.
There are 1000’s of online sites, selling comparable products at reasonable prices, if it’s really the products your after.
I have heard it said, that if an affiliate is not making more than they are spending on products within 4 to 6 months there are gone.
Which kinda shows the real reason they were in the business.
M
@oz never said about treating hernias, only said it helped,your the one twisting things,
@Mike, just say what you have to say but don’t be calling people dumb, I’d live to know uiur background and your dumb mistakes.
if you want to make a point do it but don’t be slagging pe off or start name-calling that’s dirty.
@Joe thanks
Pain management is a form of treatment. Again, pseudo-compliance BS won’t work on here or with the FTC.
Pain management is a form of treatment , I said it helps my hernia pain, can I not say that, what’s wrong with that, so I am supposed to not say that keep my mouth shut would you cop on.
if you were using a good product and told a friend its helped you and I say you,very done that or recommended products yourself, get a grip will you.
And I asked you to provide peer-reviewed medical studies to verify LiveGood’s products can be used to treat hernia pain.
Failing which, making unsubstantiated medical claims about LiveGood’s products is a violation of the FTC Act.
I’m So Frustrated Of Seeing People Acting Brand New To The World!
This Is A Simple Concept Because Obviously You Guys Don’t Get It. Talk Is Cheap! Prove To Us That What You Said Is Accurate.
There Is NO Scientific Proof That LiveGood Products Relieve Any Pain, Weight Loss etc. Did You Have A Scientist Run Those Products Through Scientific Based Studies And Clinical Trials? If So Let’s See It!
Is Ben A Medical Consultant Certified To Even Sell Important Products Like Supplements? NO!
Usually A Health Company Has Their Own Products. Some Of Those Products You Guys Are Touting Don’t Belong To Him.
Super Reds, Anti-Aging Serum, CBD Oils And Few Others. Those Products Were On Another Site Called CTFO.
How Do I Know? Because I Was In That Program Before. Kick Them To The Curb Because They Were Pulling Stunts I Didn’t Like.
Also, When I Would Ask For Scientific Proof, I Got No Response.
Products From Skinny Body Care Was Also Brought To The Table, But That Company Was Sued And Site Abandoned Don’t Believe Me, Do Your Research. Why Would I Buy From LiveGood?
NO MLM Program Should Ever Sell Health Products Without Scientific Backing! I Refuse To Join, Pay Or Recommend Any Company That Has That Mentally Of “Buy Now and Tell Us Later” NO Way That’s Happening!
This Is The Most Egregious Practice I’ve Ever Seen In Any MLM! Forget About Your Bank Account, Human Lives At Stake.
Do You Care? If You Don’t Fine We Care.
Testimonials Coming From Members Is Irrelevant. Unless You Can Show Us How You Were Before Compare To After. Scientific Proof That These Products Went Under A Microscope At A Reputable Place With Scientific Based Studies And Clinical Trial To Actually See If It Really Works EVERYONE The Way You Claim.
Proof Please? Nothing Less Will Do.
@Jame , well you know more than me, I know my own body and don’t need to prove nothing to you or anyone (Ozedit: snip, see below)
Nobody is above the law. Spam-binned.
Pat, I Said Scientific Based Studied And HUMAN Clinical Trials To See If It Actually Works On People Like You Say!
Why Would I Believe What LG And Members Say? LG Is Touting Products NOT Scientifically Based!
Who Cares About A Questionable Analysis Pat! I Said Clinical Trials, Why Would I Believe in the LG Program?
You Guys Are Making Money With This, So You Say What Have To.You Don’t Like That Concept, Sorry But It’s The Truth.
People Who Own Their Own Health Products Usually Go Through Studies And Human Clinical Trials To See If They’re Selling A Product Safe And Actually Works!
Your Products Have Not Been Through That Process So I Don’t Believe It Until I See It and From A Reputable Place That Can Be Fact-Checked!
You Will NOT Convince Me Otherwise. Unless You Have Some Clinical Trials And Science Based Feedback From A Scientific Medical Consultant In This Analysis, I Don’t Want To See It Because It’s NOT What I Asked For. Good Luck.
Yep, it’s ridiculous. There are so many stupid people, I mean really stupid people. Illegal Hype train – they get paid .25 cents, I mean LOL, LOL, LOL, did I say LOL? And nothing for product sales.
Yes, it is a total SHAM – WHAM BAM – SHAM! Remember Zeek, they got something like 1.5 million in before they were closed down.
The old FOMO Fear of missing out – they give the industry a bad name for sure and make lazy people even lazier.
Leaders putting their people into a scam because of fear. They should be ashamed of their selves. But the same naïve will still follow them into their next deal. They did the same thing with my res club.
They worked it for one month promo and now telling everyone they’re going to be blessed to join them in their next big program.
KELLY…
You are mimicking what others are saying? That type of duplication is disastrous. High quality products? You are copying that as well?
They are simply buying low grade products and slapping their logo on them… THAT is called “White Labeling” Many people do that!
Just their CBD alone is just a typical “Me Too” product you can buy at Walmart or the nearest gas station??? Read their COA’s (Third Party Lab Tests) Compare them with other “HIGHER GRADE” products?
In the world of CBD there is and average of 6 to 10% absorption into the body with standard “Me Too” products. NOW… IF one was to research, just a little, they would find that there are products MUCH HIGHER and with absorptions around 90%.
I understand I just wasted my time but maybe someone will take the initiative to actually check what people are filling their heads worth and jump off the sheep train 🙂
I-Payout runs all commission plans through Attorney Kevin Thompson and his firm for compliance and LiveGood uses I-Payout for commission payments to the field.
Kevin Thompson put his seal of approval on the LiveGood compensation plan. He either knows what he is talking about or he doesnt as far as the FTC requirement for commissions being paid for sales of product to the end consumer.
Is a membership a product? I think this is really a question for Kevin and his team.
@Christian
The comp plan on its own isn’t an issue. But if the majority of LiveGood Members are also affiliates, then the company is operating as a pyramid scheme.
Retail volume requirements address this and strengthen a compensation plan. A lawyer can’t force a company owner to ensure compliance.
FTC Or Lawyer Right? Hmm, Hard Choice, But I’m Going to Have To Go With FTC, They Know Better.
Thanks For Playing, Come Back To Play Again Sometime!
Wow, LiveGood people are so stupid…. their top guys, recruited over 180 people, all their money is from recruiting, his residual is less than $200, his income is from recruiting.
And they make nothing on the products that are hyped up nonsense. Let’s see if in month 4 the top earners are telling people…. they make $300 a month is residuals!
After they runs through their list and stops recruiting they won’t be able to pay their bills. And after they get shut down for an illegal membership payouts (sponsor nobody and make $2000) all the idiots will be starting over again.
Shame on them promoting this crap, shame on them for promoting laziness!
I’d need to see proof of this before I’d give it any credit. I also greatly believe that no proof is forthcoming.
Absolutely! And If He Did, The Only Way That Would Happen Is If They Did NOT Disclose Their Tactics Of Getting People In.
I Researched Him. The Man SAID That Any MLM Must Be Truthful And Transparent About Their Business Model And Products To Affiliates, Consumers And Distributors! I Do Research On ALL MLMs That Have BULL Jargon Like LG! ALL DAY!
They Have NOT Been Truthful About Any! Including The Traditional Cut-Throat, Manipulation And FOMO Tactics! That’s Fact And It’s The Reason Why So Many Joined, NOT Because It’s So Wonderful! How Can They Know That If They Are Not Even Told The Compensation Plan Before Handing Over Their $50?
Every Time LG Open It’s Mouth, I Have To Get To Work, Fact-Checking! It’s Really Annoying So Why Don’t You Just Tell The Truth And Stop Throwing People Under The Bus To Save Your Own Skin!
Truth And Transparency? Looks Like Their Definition And Ours Very Different My Friend. This Is Why I Quit MLM! The Cut-Throat Tactics These Programs Have Is Devastating To The Soul,
Stop It!
LiveGood SCAM LOL, Live Good idiots spamming messager…. my reply “, NO, the major networkers are not joining, it’s the worst program on the Internet… LOL, it’s laughable! No auto-ship, means NO orders, means NO commissions paid on any product orders. You pay $9.95 so you can work for Ben, selling his cut rate products and you don’t get paid, they keep the money. Their top income earners earn pennies compared to Every, ALL, other real networkers who are in the industry. With tens of thousands in their downline, the LiveGood #3 earner made $190 in residual” Oh, and because there is no sponsoring, it’s an illegal program paying on memberships. All the pros don’t want anything to do with this sham, no orders, no pay, top earners make pennies compared to all legitimate programs. They are already on the FTC and NAD radar. I feel sorry for all those lazy people who will make virtually nothing for their time. Shame on them. The lowest paid team members in legitmate companies earn ten times more money than the poor unsuspecting LiveBad people”
After all these distributors get abused when the company gets closed down, their new slogan will be I hate MLM because my company got closed down. 
Fact check:
The #3 earner earned way more than Mr. Mike posted above. Actually I know her personally and know what she is earning and your not even close. I never disclose my income but if anyone wants the facts simply message me.
Our products are FDA verified organic. Not just ORGANIC. Look it up and the verification process to get that certificate.
We are all members. I am a member and order products but not forced to on a forced autoship to earn.
We will have way more members than anything I have seen in the industry as there is no qualifying orders forced on members to order each month.
Our products are not cheap. The average cost of a MLM product in this space is $5.00-$15.00 period. To see what the typical MLM pays for products simply remove all the fast starts commissions, CV (Commission volume), BV (Business volume) and/or points that go in a leg as volume for a binary. That’s all the markup.
The 9.95 does not go to Ben or anyone else. Up to 80% of that is paid out to the field. Go read the comp plan!
I know people are upset LG is crushing it adding over 1000 members a day. I appreciate this site and all the concerns from OZ and his opinion but some of these comments are not factual so I want to clear it up. Get your facts straight first.
Timbo
Oh, I just figured out who Mike is…lol. I caught it with the Live Bad Statement. I know your upset everyone is leaving your deal but I wish you well.
TIMBO: You Are Ridiculous! Why Would Anybody Be Mad At Anything! You People Keep Barking Orders But NOT One Of You Has EVER Showed Any Recent Proof That These Products Have Been Through Rigorous Testing. Health Products MUST Go Through The Process Of Science-Based Studies And HUMAN Clinical Trials Before Putting Them On The Market! Your Flapping Gums Are NOT Science Based Evidence!
MUST Be From An UNBIASED, Reputable Medical Lab With A Certified Medical Consultant. A REAL Health & Nutrition Company Usually Go Through That Process Of Science-Based Studies And HUMAN Clinical Trials To Make Sure Their Product Is Safe, Has Little To NO Side Effects And Make Sure It’s Safe For Those With Allergenic Reactions! That Kind Of Research Takes Years To Complete. Yours Has NEVER Been Through That Process, Stop Being Silly!
If I Was A Customer And You Came To Me With These Products, The First I Will Ask And Many Others Is “Is There Proof In What You’re Saying” Science Is The ONLY Evidence That Can Satisfy The Masses. Good Luck!
As Far As Your Compensation Plan, Why Would We Be Mad About That? Crushing It? Of Course You Are, Using Cut-Throat Tactics! But I Am Not As Callous As You Are To Lie To Get A Few Pennies In My Pocket! You Can Pretty This Up All You Want TIMBO, But It Just Looks The Same, Your Compensation Plan Makes NO Sense, You Can’t Sell Your Products Outright So You Have To Enact That $10 In There So Whether You Sell PrOduct Not You Get Paid. That’s Illegal And Harmful. You Bark About Who’s Going To Leave For A Mere $10? That May True For You, But NOT To Someone Who Really Needs To Pay Their Bills And Put Food On The Table!
Who Wants To Log Into Their LG Account And See People Ranked Up Higher Than Them On A Monthly Basis. They Will Get Discouraged And Then Resort To Lying And Cut-Throat Tactics To Get There. Then When That Doesn’t Work, They Leave. Be Careful How You Go About So Called Telling People Off. NOT Everyone Joins And Stays, Even For A Mere $10. Thanks, But NO Thanks!
Lol, you just told on yourself. You took a tour lol. I’m just in here to correct the misInformation and not to argue with clowns.
lot of people like you didn’t see the money in a 10 membership but I guess that’s better than a 80.00 a month autoship.
I guarantee we will have the highest retention rate in the industry but time will tell as were only 8 weeks out the gate.
Stay tuned and I will keep you posted. Now go sell your science based products and wish you well. We may knock it off and sell it at 1/3 the price to our members.
Know What You Are Talking About Silly! I Did NOT Take The Tour, It’s Called Old Fashion And UNBIASED RESEARCH, You Should Try It Sometime! You Don’t Think People Talk? Then You Don’t Know Half The People In The Universe Then!
Go Crush It! I Know The BIG BOSSES Will Be Asking The Same Questions Soon. You Know Them Right, The FTC And NAD, Of The Course You Do! Now Let’s See You Tell Them That TIMBO!
We’ll Instead Stay Tuned For That, It’s More In The Department Of Obtaining Justice For ALL Those That Have Been Hurt By You Ridiculous MLM Sayers!
Good Luck, You’re Going To Need It.
I have read all the comments and agree that the compensation plan which gives commissions on memberships isn’t okay and is highly deceptive telling people they can make 2,000 a month from spillover.
What is interesting is that people do love the products. I will not promote the business, but plan to keep buying the Factor 4 because I can’t find anywhere else a combo of turmeric, fish oil, CoQ10, and garlic (I was buying 3 of these separately before for more money).
I also love the multi and D/K because they use the best form of K(MK-7) which many supplements do not.
I did my research on supplements and learned that the filler magnesium stearate is actually safe(one of my favorite vitamin companies, not MLM, called Innovix Labs uses it), but the internet has demonized it, and I’m guessing is why someone put in the comments that Live Good uses toxic ingredients.
With thousands of people buying the products for the pure love of them such as myself, it seems that will keep the company in business. I pray they will stop deceiving people about the comp plan.
@Timbo
How much you’re charging doesn’t matter. If the majority of LiveGood Members are affiliates then it’s operating as a pyramid scheme.
Kare, they are not selling products. They are selling people.
Timbo, highest retention? Because you duped suckers into paying for a yearly $10 membership for a measly hundred dollars.
So they’re locked in even if they’re not promoting or working and being lazy. But none of them, I mean none of them will make The $2000 you keep on guaranteeing on your live good tour and out of your mouth.
Timbo, you claim you have over 12,000 people on your team and you only earned $11,000 in over eight weeks and you’re the number three recruiter personally.
That is an awful numbers. And a legit program where products are being sold and not a illegal fake membership 12,000 people would be $1 million a year earnings.
Timbo most professionals call it live bad.
I’ve never met you in my life. And I don’t do MLM. So you got the wrong leader
Listen, I’m Done Sounding Like A Broken Record. Why Are You Trying To Win A War That’s Already Over? It’s Useless!
The FTC Has Updated Their Law Called “The Consumers Protection Act” Gearing Towards Both Health & Non-Health MLM Programs. That Law Is Designed To Protect Consumers From Injury!
Most Need To Feel Safe In An Environment With People That Actually Know What They’re Talking About, Whether It’s Offline Or Online, NO Difference.
If They Are Prevented From Asking Any Meaningful Questions Before Handing Over Their Money And Have To Resort To Tactics That Are Cut-Throat And Downright Dishonest To Earn What’s Promised To Them, Then They Hurt The Next Person They’re Trying To Feed That Crap To! That’s Injury, Don’t You Understand That Genius? On A Health, Financial & Human Scale!
The FTC Said, Any MLM Product AND Its Compensation Plan Advertised MUST Be In Truth & Transparency.
What You Tell Others About Your Health Products MUST BE TRUE, Every Single Product! Followed By Real Proof Of Scientific Clinical Studies And Random Human Clinical Trials Before Selling Those Products To The Public, They Accept Nothing Less!
And That Does NOT Include Questionable Analysis Or Word Of Mouth!
Why Do You Think I’m Lying and Being A Clown? See It For Yourself, It’s Right There In Plain Sight!
The FTC’s “Consumers Protection Act” Is LAW! There’s No Dissecting It To See If There’s An “Unless” Clause In It.
This Is Their Territory Remember? Everyone Else Is Irrelevant! So You MUST Conduct Yourself How The FTC Wants You To, Because That’s The LAW!
If You Violate It, Then You’re Punished, Pure & Simple! But You Guys Don’t Want To Hear That Unbiased Side, Only The Side That’s Telling You “We Are Trouble Makers!”
And Once Again, Quit Barking About Overpriced MLM Products When YOUR Boss Was Doing The Same Thing With 2 Other Sites He Had (Pro Wealth Solutions & Skinny Body Care), Until He Couldn’t! LG Has Already Lost This War!
Why? Because Truth, Honesty & Transparency Has Always Been A Winning Policy!
The FTC’s “Consumer Protection Act” Is Set In Stone To Protect The Public From The Greedy Lion’s Den Called “MLM Industry” And It’s Harmful Tactics! That’s Fact, Look It Up, But I Doubt You Will.
NO Jealousy Here And I’m NOT A Clown! Just A Concerned Citizen Who’s Within The Boundary Walls Of Our BIG Boss’s Law Zone.
Pretty Happy About It Too! Are You? Well, Good Luck.
I know this is offtopic and I’ve refrained from commenting on it, but why on Earth do you capitalize every word?
It makes for an awful reading experience.
1$0 a month is very cheap if you can earn atleast #50 a month by referring people and doing retail sales of product.
I do not see the bad things on this, should they operate legally in the US country? If they have a legal papers NO QUESTION ABOUT THAT…
KEEP IT UP TEAM LIVEGOOD. GOD BLESS AND MORE MORE POWER.
I’m Sorry Oz, Forgive Me. But When I Have Repeated Something 20 Different Times, It Gets Annoying.
Emphasis On The Point, Until They Get It Oz, Sorry My Friend.
@Aldrin
What you can and can’t do is irrelevant if the majority of LiveGood Members are also affiliates.
If the majority of LiveGood Members are affiliates then it’s operating as a pyramid scheme.
The essence of pyramid scheme has no Products at all.. I ve been there since 1997.
As a networker, as long there is a product involve and buying the products online what i did before and up to now then got health benefits on it.. What s the problem….
Pyramiding is operating purely no products at all.
Product-based pyramid scheme. Look it up.
If the majority of LiveGood Members are affiliates then it’s operating as a pyramid scheme.
In addition their matrix scheme is not pyramid scheme.
If you are not a networker, do not use pyramid scheme.
Nobody said it was.
If the majority of LiveGood Members are affiliates then it’s operating as a pyramid scheme.
Matrix scheme (with products) is different from pyramid scheme (no products).
Cool story bro.
If the majority of LiveGood Members are affiliates then it’s operating as a pyramid scheme.
*finger hovers over spam-bin button*
What are your benefit from monthly subscription to livegood e commerce, to subscription from Netflix. (Ozedit: derails removed)
Netflix is not an MLM opportunity. Welcome to the spam-bin.
You Know What? Go Ahead And Do What You Want. I Hope You Have A Better Explanation When The Boss Comes Ringing!
They Are The Only Ones That Matter In This Whole Conversation. So Good Luck Because Matrix Schemes Even With Products Is A Violation Of The Act. You’re Earning Commissions On The matrix Too Instead Of Only Product Sales!
Product Sales Is All That You Are Allowed To Be Commissioned On, Anything More Than That Violates The Act.There Is No Other Way Around That.
Having a Product Or No Product Is Irrelevant! It’s Not Supposed To Happen Under Any Circumstances Okay? Goodness!
CHRISTIAN…? Where’s the documentation of Kevin’s? Documentation beats conversation…
There is still one BIG choice before an MLM attorney and that is, the ones who actually go after companies operating illegally…
PLEASE don’t think you need to dispute what I just said. The FTC has much more pull and authority than an MLM attorney that actually makes bank when a company needs their services. 🙂
GLIMDROPPER… Sad to say that I would not be shocked if no “Documentation” BY KEVIN is ever shown. Just like SO MUCH of what they keep feeding their distributors, FABRICATED to say the least.
I have to say, it’s getting to be very entertaining to hear these guys repeat what their told AND BELIVE THEIR OWN WORDS…
Timbo, What?? You must be new to NWM? The way I read what Mike said was “”Residual”” income. NOT the $25 dollar payment for recruiting? TIMBO… It’s easy to understand the difference of any type of upfront one time commission vs repeat orders of products and services customers and reps create.
What LG has are me to products? It’s that simple. They have these different products “White Labeled” Many companies do this and it gives people an illusion that the company name on the product is made by them and their science team.
So what if the products are FDA Verified organic? That just means they are probably manufacture in an FDA registered facility, TONs of companies do???
FDA anything means JACK in the health industry, YOU should know that?? It’s also very true, you get what you pay for with products.
I looked into the 750 & 1500 CBD. Those COA’s are very common to many products sold in stores and gas stations. I have studied many companies COA’s in case that has you scratching you head, it means Lab tests, 3rd party lab tests.
I have seen so many that were MUCH higher but cost more than 20 or 30 dollars. Those cheap brands are the majority out there that has the average 6 to 8% absorption.
There are a few companies that actually constantly are working to better their products. There are companies out there that have 60 to 90% absorption.
Quality like that where it would take numerous bottles of LG’s CBD to come close real quality.
Kind of like buying a 4 ply tire vs a 10 ply tire. (tires may look the same, but aren’t)
Buying 80% lean Hamburger vs Fillet Mignon (There both beef)
Buying a Honda vs a Harley. (There both motorcycles)
Timbo… YOU sir are so conditioned to bark back but NEVER listen to obvious facts???
Timbo is crying now because the bugger eaters that joined in LiveGood are now doing the same thing and quitting Live Good to join Nitroline We Got Friends. It’s fun to watch.
The crazy part is NitroLine We got friends opportunity has a more lucrative pay plan than Live Good.
Better entry level profits and paid on team levels on purchases which LiVeGood ceo doesn’t pay on and keeps all that breakage for himself.
The newest scam by LiveGood company is they are shutting members websites down because of too many leads.
The CEO wants to be your nanny and boss while taking most of the money for himself. Because if you go to the corporate homepage he takes orders which is competing with affiliates.
If you are making too many sales and getting too many leads he just makes an excuse up and shuts your tour site down and puts you out of business. AFTER YOU PAID!
@ Jonathan J Hill… It irks me when I see words used in the wrong sentences or context.
It’s not “cease” which means “to stop or to halt”.
You mean “sieze” which means “to take or to confiscate”.
I get it that many folks write words as they hear them without checking if it’s the correct word. But at some point in time it’s good to verify how similar sounding words are spelled and their true meanings.
You’d be surprised how often people use the wrong words without realizing it.
I just took a quick initial look. LiveGood sounds like just another MLM.
They are not product driven or else they would show you the science behind their products, if its in-house manf, whos the outsourced company and their testings among other transparencies.
Its recruitment based company, nothing more. The top gets the food.
Ah ……
TOMBO is either New to this Industry or is FLAT OUT LYING ……
I worked with the Regulatory Agencies in this Industry for Years ….. The FDA has Absolutely NOTHING to do with Registrations by the USDA ….. Nor Clearance on any Personal Care or Nutritional Supplements …….. EVER !!!!
So Keep Putting that out there and you are Going to Get the RED FLAGS Sooner than they are going to Happen as NOW the way things Stands ……
They Truly are Violating FTC Law…… Again, I worked with the Agencies for over 22 years and NOTHING has Changed …. You are either doing things RIGHT or Doing things WRONG …..
Its BACK AND WHITE …… And I already Feel sorry for some of the People in the Field and the Consequences that will Follow ……
Period .
Capitalizing the first letter of every word is annoying! Furthermore, it does not convey emphasis; it just makes our eyes cross.
Amen to that! I gave up reading any of Jame’s posts. They literally gave me headaches.
Listen, You Guys Are Trying To Get A Ruse Out Of Me And It’s Not Working. If You Noticed, My Last Post Did Not Have Any Sort Of Capitalizing To It Right?
You Do Not Have To Keep Repeating That Fact, I Already Know. You Don’t Just Not Like My Capitalization, But What I Have To Say As A Whole.
So Sorry, But The Truth Is The Truth And An Unbiased One.
If You Don’t Like What I Have To Say, That’s Perfectly Fine. I Will Always Give Oz The Maximum Respect, So If I Have To Say Something Pertaining To Facts, Then I Will Do That Without Hesitating (and Without Caps Of Course).
JAME
I guess you aren’t good at crosswords. People who can’t use punctuation generally aren’t.
You’re a scammer.
Here’s a lesson in English via a crossword clue: “Jame supporting a scam is a ?”
Four letters begins with the third letter of the alphabet, contains one vowel and ends in a consonant. The vowel is the first letter of uniform, umbrella, unicorn, etc.
Maximum respect. Loser
Scammer? Seriously, What Scam Do You Think Am I Actually Supporting? It’s Just Like I Said, You Don’t Want To Hear The Truth.
It’s Totally Fine, I Was Not Asking For Your Approval On The Matter Anyway. I Have No Idea What That Comment Was About, But It’s Pointless To Argue With Minors.
Just Like Everyone Else, I Have A Right To Speak. I Speak Truth And Facts, If You Don’t Want To Know What Is True And Not True, That’s Totally Fine, Can’t Please Everyone.
Scammer? Well, If Telling The Truth Is Being Called A “Scam” These Days, Then So Be It!
And Yes, Maximum Respect!
This comp plan video is so ridiculous.
LOL “Turn $49 into $10K/mth”
And the second “claim” — “Up to $2,047.50 per month without enrolling”.
Nothing to see here, Folks. LOL.
youtube.com/watch?v=BEGR7QSex38
Hey OZ,
Interesting review/comments.
AliveMax domain is no longer active (at least from our end)
The FTC has them on their radar.
Interesting. AliveMax’s website domain was available as late as December 2022. Was pulled down sometime after.
Wonder if it had something to do with LiveGood taking off. I can’t speak to a related FTC action, haven’t heard anything.
I think LG is a brewing time bomb. The owner might have good intentions but they cannot sustain this plan as they grow.
That’s when they are going to vanish, have problems and eventually banned by the FTC.
I joined with the $50, didn’t receive any product. The using a psychological trigger of FOMO by showing you a powerline system and for you not to miss out, pay $10 so you don’t lose your spot.
Now if I pay this money I get nothing for it. Can you imagine 1000000 paying $10 every month just to maintain an imaginary powerline where you have no control of?
For me this is suspicious. I don’t know why people cannot read in between the lines.
This company is an American company, yet reaching out to the world using hungry networkers who see this as their chance to make money.
If the get shut down by the FTC, most people not in the USA will lose out. For me I will not endorse this company as a legit mlm company.
You are capitalizing the first letter of every single word you type (including in the post you claim had “[no] capitalizing to it”. Why? It makes your posts difficult to read.
Maybe it’s not as bad as typing in ALL CAPS, but nearly so. No one is trying to get a rise out of you; we’re just saying you have a habit you need to drop if you want to engage with readers.
In English, only the first letters of sentences, quotes, and proper names ahould be capitalized. (In the German language, the first letters of nouns are also capitalized, but not in English.)
I hope this helps. No one is trying to pick on you, Jame.
Okay, I get it. but I have been typing that way for as long as I can remember. I don’t know how to type or write any other way.
It doesn’t feel right this way but I will try. It’s a habit that’s not easily broken but again, I will try.
@Jame:
Very good. Well done, Sir!
Interesting. I asserted back in comment #10 that the exchange of products wasn’t even necessary. Possible, but not necessary.
You don’t think he’s pulling a fast one by collecting money and working with big recruiters also collecting fees? That the cheap white-label products are merely a front?
In practical working terms, i.e., not just written on paper, “legit MLM” is an oxymoron.
*Claps hands for Jame attempting to correct a bad habit. Well done.
SHADOWMAN YOU sir are funny! Do you understand your words are typical “”KAREN”” words…
I use voice text most of the time and don’t spend my time rereading every time. My comments are for people who have commonsense and understanding.
YOU sir understood what my words were… yet… you had to take your intelligence and kill it by pulling a KAREN and make senseless comment…
This is offtopic but ironically the only Karen here is you.
Someone corrected your grammar, cop it on the chin instead of going all Karen on them.
Thank you for publishing a review on LiveGood.
To my understanding, if a company pays comissions on pure membership subscriptions (aka no products sold), it’s a pyramid scheme.
Don’t you think so ?
And why do you say it’s not an MLM project ?
Best regards,
Emmanuel
That’s one type of pyramid scheme. LiveGood would fall under the “product-based pyramid scheme” model.
Anyone who claims an MLM company isn’t an MLM company is wrong.
Seeing Faith Sloane now pimping this now. Huge Red Flag right there.
The owner of this page is doing the Lord’s work. Thank you so much for exposing these frauds
Rather than all the words back and forth, why not direction to the source the means the most?
This is just a small portion that was sent to me awhile back that had me look deeper into the ones who govern how MLM operates.
Some will STILL have a blind eye to this and will not spend the time to evaluate and unpack this information before dragging others into it…
Paying Commissions on Sales Tools, Sales Kits, and Training Materials…… No!
We often hear the question, “Can we pay commission on sales tools, sales kits, and training materials?” The definitive answer is NO! This isn’t appropriate.
Think about it, if a company paid commissions on sales tools and training then, conceivably, no one in the company would ever have to sell the company’s products or services.
Everyone would make money only by selling sales tools, sign up fees, and training materials. This has all the elements of a pyramid, head-hunting recruitment scheme.
This is an illegal pyramid scheme.
You can NOT require the purchase of a product or service for which commissions are paid on to join and/or participate in a business opportunity. They are requiring the purchase of the $40 and the $9.95 BOTH of which are paying commissions.
The FTC is going to love this (they are fastly becoming the purple tile on the gray wall), and this is the last thing our industry needs.
Oz I dont know what your intentions were when you wrote this review. But all the ponzi promoters are using this as a positive review to promote Livegood now.
Same intention as any BehindMLM review: to provide the most accurate information about an MLM company available.
Ponzi scammers are free to use that information, same as anyone else.
I’m sure there are not many if any retail REAL customers. Doesn’t there need to be a certain % in retail sales? Or non affiliate sales?
As per the FTC “the majority” of an MLM company’s sales revenue needs to come from retail customers.
Given we’ve now got serial MLM Ponzi promoters like Faith Sloan pillaging South Africa for recruits (MLM crypto fraud is pretty dead at the moment), not retail customers, it’s pretty obvious LiveGood likely falls well-short in the retail sales revenue department.
For his part, Ben Glinsky doesn’t seem to care.
Does LiveGood deliver the product to your retail customer on your behalf and in Australia?
David Harrison
I imagine so if products are ordered online.
So it begins:
fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-ftc-warn-10-companies-illegally-selling-dietary-supplements-claiming-treat-diabetes
Possibly not same Live Good? Dates are off.. sorry.
All good, it is the same company name.
Had a look into it; The FDA’s warning pertains to Berry Gen Slim, sold by Live Good Inc. This predates LiveGood the MLM company by a year (2021 vs. 2022 MLM launch).
If anyone else comes across the FDA’s diabetes warning from September 2021, note that it’s not related to the LiveGood MLM company reviewed here.
Is the Live Good scam worth it when the FTC does a TRO on the owners personal assets. That’s how it works.
Timbo and Ben, Karma has no menu. You get served what You deserve