Multi Stream Funnel Review: $20 a pop pyramid gifting
Multi Stream Funnel provide no information on their website about who owns or runs the company.
In fact, at the time of publication, the Multi Stream website domain is little more than an email capture page.
The Multi Stream Funnel website domain (“multistreamfunnel.com”) was first registered on December 16th, 2015. The registration was recently updated on December 22nd, 2016.
Ryan Carlson is listed as the owner, with a residential address in the US state of Nevada also provided.
There is a Ryan Carlson in Utah involved in MLM, but I wasn’t sure it was the same guy until I came across Multi Stream Funnel promotional material on his Facebook wall.
Other MLM opportunities Carlson has recently promoted include TVC Matrix (recruitment) and Speed Feeder (Ponzi cycler).
Why the Multi Stream Funnel website domain is registered with a Nevada address when Carlson is based out of Utah is unclear.
Read on for a full review of the Multi Stream Funnel MLM opportunity.
Multi Stream Funnel Products
Multi Stream Funnel has no retailable products or services, with affiliates only able to market Multi Stream Funnel affiliate membership itself.
Bundled with Multi Stream Funnel affiliate membership is access to a lead generation platform.
The Multi Stream Funnel Compensation Plan
Multi Stream Funnel affiliates pay $20 a month and get paid a $1 commission when they recruit others who do the same.
Residual commissions are based on a 1-up model, paid out via a unilevel compensation structure.
A unilevel compensation structure places an affiliate at the top of a unilevel team, with every personally recruited affiliate placed directly under them (level 1):
If any level 1 affiliates recruit new affiliates, they are placed on level 2 of the original affiliate’s unilevel team.
If any level 2 affiliates recruit new affiliates, they are placed on level 3 and so on and so forth down a theoretical infinite number of levels.
Commissions are paid out at a flat rate of $20 a month, as long as personally recruited affiliates continue to pay their monthly affiliate fee.
A Multi Stream affiliate passes up the second recruitment commission they earn to the affiliate who recruited them. This includes a downline the recruited affiliate might later go on to build.
In turn, recruited affiliates must also pass up their second recruited affiliate. In this manner every Multi Stream Funnel affiliate passes up their second recruitment commission to the affiliate who recruited them.
Residual commissions can also be paid when non-paid affiliates recruit new affiliates who sign up for $20.
A Multi Stream Funnel affiliate must be paying $20 a month to qualify for $20 a month commissions. If they cease paying the fee their earned $20 commissions pass up to the first fee-paying upline affiliate.
Joining Multi Stream Income
Multi Stream Income affiliate membership is $20 a month.
A free option also exists, however free Multi Stream Income affiliates can’t participate in the MLM side of the business.
Conclusion
Multi Stream Income combines cash gifting with pyramid recruitment.
Affiliates sign up and pay $20 a month to another Multi Stream Income affiliate (typically the affiliate who recruited them if they themselves are paying $20 a month).
Affiliates paying affiliates in MLM is cash gifting.
The pyramid side of Multi Stream Income sees affiliate recruitment required in order to generate commissions. If you don’t recruit $20 fee-paying affiliates, you’re not getting paid.
The lead generation platform is neither here nor there, serving only as pseudo-compliance to cash gifting and pyramid recruitment.
If the platform was available for sale at a retail level that could provide legitimacy, but only if retail customers (non-affiliates) were actually purchasing it. In a gifting/recruitment scheme, this is unlikely.
The $1 direct recruitment commissions ruins the math of the Multi Stream Income business model, however I suspect Ryan Carlson is covering the commission out of his own commissions.
Pass-up schemes primarily benefit the admins running them, as their position(s) sit atop the company-wide pass-up chain.
As with all subscription-based gifting schemes, once affiliate recruitment dies affiliates at the bottom of the Multi Stream Funnel company-wide unilevel team will find themselves paying $20 a month but not earning.
Eventually they’ll stop paying their monthly affiliate fee, which means affiliates above them stop getting paid.
Over time this effect trickles up the company-wide affiliate genealogy, eventually triggering a collapse.
At that point Multi Stream Funnel affiliates who haven’t recovered their monthly fees via recruitment lose out. Mathematics guarantees this will be the majority of affiliates.
Karanga Oliver (kango on the MMG forum) is pimping this! Sure sign of a site’s scaminess!
Just because my retail customers also happen to like making money doesn’t mean I don’t offer a valuable service.
If you actually looked at my system you would have seen that it offers you the ability to advertise anything you want inside of it.
I don’t require anyone to recruit affiliates or even be an affiliate. The system is fully customizable inside and out to use it how each retail customer sees fit for their own marketing needs.
They pay $20/month for the upgraded system features, not to be an affiliate.
In MLM they’re no longer retail customers if they’re affiliates.
it’s nothing more than a cash gifting scheme. Done and done.
Yet pay $20 and you’re a Multi Stream Funnel affiliate. Funny how that works.
I don’t say anywhere that anyone has to be an affiliate to upgrade their system. Anyone is welcome to use the system to advertise anything they want without telling anyone about it.
Name one “MLM” that doesn’t have affiliates selling their retail products. However, this is not an MLM. This is a marketing system with an affiliate program.
Hey, here’s a fun question for you, Ryan.
Do you know why it’s often referred to as “MLM” ???
The “ML” part is an acronym for MULTI LEVEL.
You know, it has multiple levels, just like the Multi Stream Funnel compensation plan.
Do you get leads for the 20 a month or not??
Or are you paying 20 bucks for the right to use a funnel thing in hopes of getting leads….
confused on the review here
Most people refer to MLM as companies that have tangible products. My pay plan is a direct payment of $20/month to the person who referred them, except for the second referral that upgrades.
Every upgraded member passes up their second commission on the referral upgrade. So I guess if you want to call that a multi level marketing program you could.
I guess you could call any affiliate program that has more than a payment for a direct referral a multi level marketing. Most people in the industry don’t consider a system that pays 1 up commissions to be MLM though. Just ask anyone in Easy 1 Up or National Wealth Center if they are an MLM and they’ll tell you no.
The fact is that I do not need affiliate commissions to keep the website operating. If every single upgraded member stopped paying their referrer, the website would still be up and running.
If everyone stopped paying the admin fees, the website would still remain up and running. Because I can still make enough money on using it to advertise anything I want, even myself that I can easily pay the server hosting fees to keep it up and running.
Before I implemented the one up pay plan, I was selling the system even without an affiliate program. The system has plenty of value to stand on it’s own, even without an affiliate program attached to it.
You may use the system for free to generate leads and build a list that you may export.
The upgraded features provide you with the ability to send email broadcasts to your leads and system referrals, done for you autoresponders that you can customize, complete customization of everything in the system, (front end and back end) a 15 URL rotator, and a lot more.
Everything you customize automatically duplicates for everyone you refer. It’s tremendous value for only $20/month. A lot more value than you get from other systems that charge much more.
Bless her heart… She is excited and starting to have a bit of success. I love seeing people like her starting to make money when so many other opportunities have failed them.
@Ryan
Affiliates paying affiliates is cash gifting, irrespective of whether it’s “optional” or not.
And there’s nothing optional about it in Multi Stream Funnel. If you wish to participate in the MLM opportunity you have to gift funds to another Multi Stream Funnel affiliate.
Then the only way you earn commissions is via recruitment and receiving gifted funds from other affiliates.
Gifting 100% of a buy-in to another affiliate is not “retailing a product”.
Multilevel comp plan = multilevel marketing company.
Her heart? HER? Sorry Ryan, but Karanga is a big black MAN. I doubt that he will appreciate being mistaken for a woman.
He’s also as unethical and dishonest as Faith Sloan.
@Yu Blueit, you got that right, Karanga is a thief!
Interesting, I guess his profile picture is of his daughter, so I always assumed he was a she. Just took a closer look, and you are right. If you’re reading this Karanga, sorry I didn’t realize that was your daughter.
There are a lot of scams out there that actually do steal people’s money, and don’t help them make money like we do. We have a lot of people actually having some success after getting burned by a lot of other opportunities.
My product is a system that helps marketers market their businesses.
So what you’re saying is that by allowing the people using the system to make more money than I do, I’m a scammer. But if I kept all the money for myself and just charged them for the system then I’d be legit.
We’ll let people decide for theirself, and I’ll just leave it at that.
Gifting money isn’t making money, it’s stealing through a fraudulent business model. Once recruitment slows down most of your affiliates are going to lose money.
Stealing money via cash gifting is nothing to be proud of.
irrelevant when it’s hitched to a cash gifting business model.
No, you made that up on your own. Running an illegal cash gifting scheme makes you a scammer.
Nice strawman attempt though.
So what you’re saying is that ALL 100% commissions programs are scams?
Ryan.. He is saying that a CASH GIFTING program disgujsed like yours is a SCAM..
Does a free person really get value with your product….
If NO, then why not charge and make money on system that is truly benefiting others..
OR…
Is your prodcut not worthy enough to warrant simply paying (like many other auto responders, funnels, etc. programs do and have done for years) for and therefore you HITCH this CASH GIFTING SCHEME TO IT….
Affiliates paying affiliates in MLM = cash gifting.
Typically that’s pseudo-complianced via “100% commissions”, “donations” and/or “crowdfunding” but it’s gifting regardless.
Okay, well thanks for the review Oz! Take care.
No worries, best of luck with the scamming.
Apparently the product must be garbage and therefore the only source of financial impact is via a cash gifting scheme…
Another one down the drain….
And with cash gifting schemes having such a rich history of longevity, then…………..
Oh, wait
After doing a bit of a background check, it appears that Ryan has been actively and knowingly involved in cyberfraud since at least 2012, and possibly as far back as 2006.
One large question looms though. Is this the same Ryan Carlson who was in the middle of the Club Paradise credit card fraud case?
You can give people a great system to help them with any business, but if it doesn’t have an affiliate program, they’d rather have one that does.
You can put an affiliate program in the system and pay them 50% commissions, but if it doesn’t pay them 100% commissions, they’d rather have one that does.
You can put a 100% commissions affiliate program in the system, but if it doesn’t pay them by leveraging the efforts of others with pass ups, they’d rather have one that does.
You can put in a pass up system and start getting a lot of people finally excited about the system, but then you’ll have people publicly calling you a pyramid cash gifting scammer for offering 100% commissions with pass ups.
When people see them calling you a scammer, they believe what they read, and look for another system. That’s what you get when you give people everything they want in a system.
No, it’s not the same Ryan Carlson.
You can try to justify it however you want.
Affiliates paying affiliates in MLM = cash gifting.
If your affiliates want to participate in cash gifting, time to stop pandering to scammers.
Well, apparently 99% of everyone in the work home industry is a scammer since they all want what will pay them the most, the fastest, with the least amount of effort.
None of which has to do with cash gifting schemes.
You’re keen on the strawman arguments though hey.
Actually, if I’m not mistaken Ryan the Securities & Exchange Commission proved that a pass-up system is legally an illegal pyramid, back in 2006.
butbut, what can poor ryan carlson do? the ‘people’ are sooo demanding and want him to run illegal pyramid schemes, and he’s just good ol’ santa claus giving them what they want.
blame the people. not ryan carlson.
Cash gifting / pyramid / endless chain recruiting schemes are illegal under Section 5(a) of the FTC Act, 15 U.S.C. § 45(a)governing “unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce.”
Each individual state of the US also prohibit cash gifting / pyramid / endless chain recruiting schemes under separate statutes.
More specifically, Ryan Carlsons’ home state of Nevada prohibits pyramid / cash gifting/ endless chain recruiting under Code Section Nevada Revised Statutes section 52.598.100 through 52.598.130: Pyramid Promotional Schemes; Endless Chains.
I see Ryan Carson is back now with 100K Club
Oz, you can put the link together from this:
www DOT onehundredk DOT club
$60 a month scheme, so upped from $20 a month.
Looks another Ponzi to me.
Plenty more gullible people out there and claims of making $100,000 in 12 months just by shopping.
Oh dear
Thanks for the heads up (and email). I’ve added One Hundred K to the review list.