Phoenix Power Rising Review: Failed 2012 cycler relaunch
There is no information on the Phoenix Power Rising website indicating who owns or runs the business.
The Phoenix Power Rising website domain (“phoenixpowerrising.net”) was registered on the 21st of July 2012, with “Terri Petty” listed as the owner. An address in the US state of California is also provided.
Despite Petty appearing to be based out of California, the Phoenix Power Rising Terms and Conditions state:
This site (excluding third party linked sites) is controlled by the Company from its offices within the State of Nevada, United States.
Petty first launched Phoenix Power Rising back in June of 2012.
The scheme initially launched as a three-tier matrix cycler, with an advertised $850 ROI on each $100 investment.
The initial incarnation of Phoenix Power Rising collapsed around late 2012 / early 2013. The scheme was relaunched in April, 2016, with the current iteration the opportunity this review is based on.
Prior to Phoenix Power Rising, Petty ran “Project 4 Freedom 2010”. Launched in late 2010, Project 4 Freedom 2010 promised investors ROI of up to 400%.
By early 2011 the scheme had collapsed, with most investors losing money in the scheme.
Read on for a full review of the Phoenix Power Rising MLM opportunity.
The Phoenix Power Rising Product Line
Phoenix Power Rising has no retailable products or services, with affiliates only able to market Phoenix Power Rising affiliate membership itself.
According to the Phoenix Power Rising website, affiliate membership provides access to “down-loadable digital products”.
Advertising also features on the Phoenix Power Rising website, suggesting ad credits may also be issued.
The Phoenix Power Rising Compensation Plan
Phoenix Power Rising’s 2016 compensation plan appears to be a clone of their 2012 one, with the exception that matrix position fees have been increased. This corresponds with higher commission payouts.
Phoenix Power Rising use 2×3 matrices in their cycler.
A 2×3 matrix places an affiliate at the top of a matrix, with two positions directly under them:
These initial two positions form the first level of the matrix, with the second level generated by splitting each of the two positions int another two positions each (4 positions).
The third level of the matrix is generated by splitting each of the 4 second level positions again, resulting in 8 positions.
A complete 2×3 matrix houses fourteen positions, with commissions paid out as positions in the matrix are filled.
Positions in the matrix are filled via direct and indirect recruitment of Phoenix Power Rising affiliates. Positions can also be filled when existing affiliates cycle out of matrices they’ve filled.
In total there are three tiers to Phoenix Power Rising’s cycler, with commissions paid out as follows:
- Matrix 1 (positions cost $120) – pays out $300 and cycles into Matrix 2
- Matrix 2 – pays out $1500, generates a new Matrix 2 position and cycles into Matrix 3
- Matrix 3 – pays out $7500 and generates a new Matrix 3 position
Joining Phoenix Power Rising
Affiliate membership with Phoenix Power Rising is tied to the purchase of at least one $120 matrix position.
The Phoenix Power Rising website states that affiliates may ‘may have as many positions as you wish‘.
Conclusion
Given Phoenix Power Rising is little more than a matrix cycler Ponzi scheme, the following sales pitch from the company website is all the more amusing;
Our Team has been in the internet industry for decades and we have enjoyed the good days, but as we all have, we experienced more of the bad days.
As time went by we noticed that only a few people ever really made the big pay day levels and the rest were left to move on hoping to find the next program that would help them with their financial goals.
We just got so tired of the designs that were made for the majority to fail and decided to take things into our own hands.
I am proud to introduce to you Phoenix Power Rising. We are strong! We are determined! We will strive to help you succeed!
The above suggests Terri Petty has been involved in numerous MLM underbelly schemes, most of which she’s lost money through.
How ironic that she uses that to promote yet another scheme, through which the majority of participants are mathematically guaranteed to lose money.
Phoenix Power Rising sees affiliates invest $120 on the promise of an eventual $9300 ROI.
To put that into context, each $9300 ROI requires seventy-seven $120 payments fed through Matrix 1. In reality this figure is actually higher, owing to the non-linear fashion in which affiliates will fill their respective matrices.
The initial launch of Phoenix Power Rising collapsed when newly invested funds slowed down. This in turn caused the scheme’s matrices to stall, with the only people making money being Terri Petty and a few of her early investors.
The reboot will play out the same, collapsing again once new affiliate investment at the $120 level dies down.
Petty has no doubt stacked the reboot with a bunch of new preloaded positions, poised to withdraw the majority of funds invested. And that’s on top of funds trapped in the system when it goes under.
As for the “down-loadable products” and advertising, these are attached to affiliate investment as a weak showing of pseudo-compliance.
The money and advertised ROI is what’s being traded here, as evidenced by Phoenix Power Rising’s refund policy:
There are no refunds allowed.
Don’t like the product you’re supposedly buying? Too bad.
Your money is gone and the only way to get it back is to recruit new Phoenix Power Rising victims.
Update 19th October 2017 – Following widespread investor losses since 2010, Terri Petty was arrested and charged with securities fraud on August 31st, 2017.
This time it’s even better. There is a ‘benefactor’ paying everyone’s $120 position up until end of this month.
So people are joining free, while expecting to be able to withdraw. So get in while it’s free 🙂
$9300 ROIs generated out of thin air?
Sounds legit…
Never underestimate the power of free. Even when you know going in its a scam right?
The whole being paid into it for free is just hype when you do the math. Free won’t get you paid or let you withdraw.
But it sounds good when you tell a few 1000 people to join for free.
There are more in now than just a few 1000. Apparently over 100,000. Maybe Bill Gates is the generous benefactor 🙂
There is no generous donor of funds paying for anyone.
You will soon see that as you probably won’t get paid anything. GATES has better things to do that run around scanning guys like you.
There is no such thing as a free lunch. So your endless chain of freeloaders will not get paid.
See you in a few months as you chase your next scam.
I’m not chasing a scam. Maybe you didn’t understand my irony.
You mean sarcasm.
Yes 🙂
WOW. People need to prepare for a big crash here. Terri Petty is a serial scammer.
She has collected money for years in her Project for Freedom Group. She collects thousands of dollars every week for a promise of returns on bogus trades. She has NEVER paid out a dime.
Now comes Phoenix. Here is the TRUTH.
1.There is NO BENEFACTOR
2.There is NO MONEY TO PAY OUT
3.Terri is waiting for the bogus trade returns to pay Phoenix withdrawls.
Terri Petty’s transgressions go way beyond this MLM fiasco Phoenix Power Rising/Falling.
I have to say is this woman is 100 times worse than Sheila Tabarsi. Terri has collected millions and millions of $$$$ over the years.
I bet Sheila Tabarsi hasn’t hit the million $$$ mark yet. If these 2 ever got together the world would go on red alert!!!
Terrie Petty doesn’t go for the small stuff. She recently told people give her $1,000 and she’ll give them a MILLION back and the sad thing is people gives this money to her for this bogus trade 5 or 6 years.
EVERY week she has a new excuse why it hasn’t paid and she needs more money and the poor suckers send her more money.
Not one of her bogus trades has ever paid in over 10 years as she shamelessly preys on the desperate and the elderly. I do not understand why she is not in jail.
She has had numerous bank accounts shut down. Surely the banks have notified the government of this suspicious activity.
GOOGLE Terri Petty or Terry Petty you can add scam to her name also. She has been a scammer for years.
That’s my opinion and I am sticking to it. Well no a lot more than an opinion. About 9 or 10 years ago a dear friend of mine put over $165,000 into Terri’s one of Terri’s trades. This is when these trades hit the internet.
Terri promised to pay 20 to 40%. My friend put $150,000 in for herself and her husband. The rest for myself and a few of her friends.
We were to pay my friend back when the trade paid… which was to be within weeks. Well, you know the rest of the story.
My friend was audited by the IRS and she had taken the the money she paid Terri as an investment loss and it was disallowed because it was not a “legitimate investment”.
So tell me, WHY IS THIS WITCH NOT IN JAIL???
WHY HAS OUR GOVERNMENT ALLOWED THIS TO CONTINUE???
WHY DO PEOPLE KEEP SENDING HER MONEY AND GETTING NOTHING IN RETURN???
SHE NEED TO BE STOPPED AND PUT UNDER THE JAIL!!!
Now you have “THE REST OF THE STORY”.
Those are ridiculous numbers and proves a fool with greed and money are easily parted 😛
I never knew of this lady since I attended the first call a month ago.
My big question is: every one of us recruited people for free. If she doesn’t pay, she still doesn’t get any money because there is no real money!
Most of the people on my team are waiting to be paid before they recruit more people as am I because those people will have to pay $120.
If it collapses now, she hasn’t made a dime or if she has, tell me how.
I believe you guys by the way, I’ll never see the color of the money I made but I’m losing time but no money. What is her advantage in doing this?
Terri Petty now has an email list of suckers willing to lose money in a Ponzi cycler.
If the owners of the email addresses are willing to believe they’ll get paid out of thin air, they’ll probably believe anything pitched to them.
Petti can either use that list to pitch some new scam to when the times comes or sell it.
I joined and if she doesn’t pay then so be it, I didn’t pay a dime but I did get sign-ups to my other programs using the ad credits on the site so i’m happy about that.
That’s your friend’s fault for being that stupid to give someone that kind of money.
Blame the victim, that’s the ticket.
Oh to be able to go through life so intellectually superior.
Good luck living in a world where being a victim is a crime and fraud is an acceptable way of life.
More like a superior scammer.
Terri is going to punch random figures into the suckers’s or your accounts.
When you want to withdraw the ‘money’ you need to pay the $120 paid by the sponsor. The catch being that you can not refund the sponsor using your earnings. You need to pay real money from your own pocket.
The rest will be history repeating itself after making the payment …. an endless list of excuses. l am just thinking aloud.
After weeks of promised payments with not a single one going out, people being told she was waiting for a money transfer, the site has been offline for 3 days – Service Unavailable, The service is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later.
Seems it’s over before the phoenix even got off the ground, unless I’m missing something here.
Well sometimes you have to take responsibility for your own life and to give someone that kind of money is and I say it again, just plain stupid.
The site has not been down for 3 days, it was working up until early yesterday and went down because they are upgrading the shopping network.
I’m not saying this out of criticism, but ‘try again later’ has been appearing for 3 days non stop.
The majority of people in the program are not able to get on the conference calls and there has been little or no other information available elsewhere.
That being the case, people will always think the worst.
It’s Over. What a Scam ..
Not if the worst is really the honest truth.
Ponzi schemes die a fast death. Lets hope you didn’t lose too much this time around.
There was no money to lose. It was free for everyone. I was just making a comment.
So you don’t think your time is worth money?
I just made the assumption you all expected to earn for free and wasted your time thinking it would work out. Seriously there is no free lunch!
Terri Petty is in Jail. yes in jail.
vcsd.org/pr-inmate-detail.php?txtBookingNbr=2022536
Thanks for the heads up!