RegenaLife Review: Minimal retail with affiliate autoship recruitment
RegenaLife began as Regeneration USA and is based out of the US state of New Jersey.
Founded in in 2008 by Justin Chernalis, Regeneration USA changed its name to RegenaLife in June, 2016.
Chernalis’ Regenalife corporate bio credits him with ‘over 30 years experience in the food and nutraceutical industry‘.
Chernalis serves as a RegenaLife Board Advisor, with the company headed up by CEO, Ernie Cadiz (right).
Ernie has over 27 years of business experience in the Energy, Telecom and Real Estate sectors.
He has built several profitable companies from the ground up during his career.
Cadiz has been involved with RegenaLife since it launched in 2008. I wasn’t able to turn up any information linking him to another MLM company, so it appears RegenaLife is his first MLM venture.
Read on for a full review of the RegenaLife MLM opportunity.
RegenaLife Products
Regeneration USA launched with an Anti-Aging Whole Food Bar flagship product.
Today RegenaLife offers a robust range of nutritional supplements:
- Astaxanthin – “the most powerful carotenoid antioxidant for free radical scavenging”, retails at $39.99 a bottle
- Cocoa Bars – “Alkaline Forming – RAW – Organic – Sprouted – Kosher – Gluten FREE Vegetarian – Non-GMO – Whole Food Organic Bars”, retails at $44 for a box of twelve bars
- Jiaogulan Tea (gynostemma pentaphyllum) – drinking Jiaogulan Tea can naturally assist you in controlling and maintaining healthy blood pressure, retails at $24.99 a pack
- Longevity Formula – “designed to produce the strongest antioxidant and anti-aging results possible”, retails at $39.99 a bottle
- Krill Oil with Astaxanthin – “contains naturally occurring long-chain omega 3 fatty acids; EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid) and DHA (docosahexaenoic acid)”, retails at $24.99 a bottle
- Blu-Lina – “highly nutritious and easily digested algae water plant”, retails at $39.99 a bottle
- Regena Slim – “a nutritious & great tasting meal replacement”, retails at $88 a tub
- Humic & Fulvic Minerals – “crucial to the maintenance of good health”, retails at $39.99 a for a bottle of liquid or $44.99 for a bottle of capsules
- Fulvic Skin Spray – “regenerate skin cells and deliver complex nutrients necessary for healthy, youthful & glowing skin!”, retails at $24.99 a bottle
- Maitake – “may enhance immune activity against Infections, Viruses, Fevers, Colds, the FLU and Cancer, as well as reduce allergies”
- Living Raw Chocolate – ” the essential chocolate experience, infused with the depth true dark chocolate lovers dream of”, retails at $44 a box (two boxes $78, three boxes $135)
- The Daily Dose – “a daily drink providing 38 essential ingredients for healthy and total immune support”, retails at $69.99 a tub
- Prostate Health – “uses the triple power of USPlus Saw Palmetto Extract, Cranberry Seed Oil with Lycopene and Pumpkin Seed Oil to make a complete, stable, efficacious men’s health formula”, retails at $24.99 a bottle
- Regena-Flex – “a patented Joint formulation that targets the root cause of joint discomfort and stiffness”, retails at $45 a bottle
- Tumeric Curcumin (Curcuma Longa) – “Curcumin C3 Complex is the foremost clinically studied natural anti-inflammatory and antioxidant with a variety of health benefits”, retails at $34.99 a bottle
- Vitality Factor – ” dramatically reduce both the loss of testosterone and the negative side effects that come with elevated levels of Estrogen (male breast growth, fat gain) and DHT (balding, acne & prostate issues)”, retails at $69.99 a bottle
- Whole Body Snacks – “selected raw and USDA organic snacks”, retails at $29.99 a pack
- Zeolite Whole Body – “carry harmful toxic substances out of the body via normal excretion processes without interacting with body tissue”, retails at $29.99 a bottle
The RegenaLife Compensation Plan
RegenaLife’s compensation includes retail commissions but primarily focuses on affiliate recruitment.
Commissions are paid out via a unilevel compensation structure, with additional performance-based bonuses also available.
RegenaLife Affiliate Ranks
There are twelve affiliate ranks within the RegenaLife compensation plan.
Along with their respective qualification criteria they are as follows:
- Active – generate 50 PV a month or more (MLM commission qualified)
- Builder – maintain MLM commission qualification and recruit a least three MLM commission qualified affiliates
- Manager – maintain MLM commission qualification and recruit a least five MLM commission qualified affiliates
- Bronze – maintain MLM commission qualification, maintain a least five MLM commission qualified affiliates and have another ten MLM commission qualified affiliates across seven unilevel team levels
- Silver – maintain MLM commission qualification, maintain a least five MLM commission qualified affiliates and have another twenty-five MLM commission qualified affiliates across seven unilevel team levels
- Gold – maintain MLM commission qualification, maintain a least five MLM commission qualified affiliates and have another fifty MLM commission qualified affiliates across seven unilevel team levels
- Platinum – maintain MLM commission qualification, maintain a least five MLM commission qualified affiliates and have another one hundred and twenty-five MLM commission qualified affiliates across seven unilevel team levels
- Emerald – maintain MLM commission qualification, maintain a least five MLM commission qualified affiliates (three must be Bronze or higher) and have another two hundred and fifty MLM commission qualified affiliates across seven unilevel team levels
- Diamond – maintain MLM commission qualification, maintain a least five MLM commission qualified affiliates (two must be Platinum or higher) and have another five hundred MLM commission qualified affiliates across seven unilevel team levels
- Double Diamond – maintain MLM commission qualification, maintain a least five MLM commission qualified affiliates (two must be Emerald or higher) and have another seven hundred and fifty MLM commission qualified affiliates across seven unilevel team levels
- Triple Diamond – maintain MLM commission qualification, maintain a least five MLM commission qualified affiliates and have another one thousand five hundred MLM commission qualified affiliates across seven unilevel team levels (three unilevel legs must have a Diamond or higher ranked affiliate in them)
- Black Diamond – maintain MLM commission qualification, maintain a least five MLM commission qualified affiliates, have another two thousand five hundred MLM commission qualified affiliates across seven unilevel team levels and maintain three unilevel legs with a Diamond or higher ranked affiliate in them
Retail Commissions
RegenaLife affiliates are paid a commission when they sell products to retail customers.
Retail commissions are calculated as the difference between the wholesale (affiliate) and retail cost of products ordered by retail customers (non-affiliates).
MLM Commission Qualification
Qualification for all MLM commissions offered through RegenaLife’s compensation plan requires an affiliate to generate at least 50 PV a month.
PV stands for “Personal Volume” and is sales volume generated via retail sales and an affiliate’s own product purchases.
Residual Commissions
RegenaLife pay residual commissions via a unilevel compensation structure.
A unilevel compensation structure places an affiliate at the top of a unilevel team, with every personally recruited affiliate placed directly under them (level 1):
If any level 1 affiliates recruit new affiliates, they are placed on level 2 of the original affiliate’s unilevel team.
If any level 2 affiliates recruit new affiliates, they are placed on level 3 and so on and so forth down a theoretical infinite number of levels.
RegenaLife cap payable unilevel levels at seven, with commissions paid out as a percentage of sales volume generated across these seven levels:
- level 1 (personally recruited affiliates) – 20%
- levels 2 and 3 – 10%
- levels 4 and 5 – 5%
- level 6 – 4%
- level 7 – 3%
Check Match Bonus
The Check Match Bonus is a percentage match on commissions paid to affiliates on the first three levels of a unilevel team.
- level 1 – 15% check match
- level 2 – 10% check match
- level 3 – 5% check match
To qualify for the Check Match Bonus a RegenaLife affiliate
- must be MLM commission qualified
- have recruited at least five affiliates who are also MLM commission qualified
- have two retail customers who have ordered at least 15 PV in the past month and
- have a downline volume of at least 1500 GV across level 1 of their unilevel team
Fast Start & Infinity Coded Bonus
Each RegenaLife product has a dollar amount Fast Start Bonus value. Affiliate packages have a Fast Start Bonus value.
To qualify for Fast Start and Infinity coded bonuses, a RegenaLife affiliate must be MLM commission qualified and have at least one retail customer ordering at least 15 PV a month.
A RegenaLife affiliate earns 50% of the assigned Fast Start and Infinity coded bonus value for their first two recruited affiliates and their monthly orders.
The full coded bonus amount is paid from the third recruited affiliate onward.
Note that which Fast Start affiliate package is purchased determines the maximum Fast Start coded bonus payable.
If a recruited affiliate buys in at a higher Fast Start affiliate package, the recruiting affiliate is paid their coded bonus and the balance is paid to higher package qualified affiliates.
Fast Start and Infinity coded bonuses generated by affiliates who are not Fast Start and Infinity coded bonus qualified are passed up to the first qualified upline affiliate.
Rank Achievement Bonus
RegenaLife affiliates are paid a one-time Rank Achievement Bonus when they qualify at the Builder and higher ranks.
- Builder – $75
- Manager – $100
- Bronze – $150
- Silver – $250
- Gold – $500
- Platinum – $1000
- Emerald – $2000
- Diamond – $3000
- Double Diamond – $4000
- Triple Diamond – $6000
- Black Diamond – $8000
Joining RegenaLife
RegenaLife affiliate membership is free.
Note that full participation in the RegenaLife compensation plan however requires the purchase of a Fast Start package:
- $99 Fast Start Package
- $109 Fast Start Package
- $149 Fast Start Package
- $249 Fast Start Package
- $389 Fast Start Package
- $449 Fast Start Package
- $549 Fast Start Package
The primary difference between the above packages are bundled products and increased income potential.
Conclusion
Unfortunately the retail focus within RegenaLife’s compensation plan takes a back seat to affiliate recruitment.
The only retail volume requirement for some commissions is one retail customer ordering at least 15 PV a month. Everything else can be hit by signing up for 50 PV a month autoship and recruiting other affiliates who do the same.
The Power of Our Compensation Plan – “3 Affiliates who get 3 Affiliates to Join”
By Simply teaching everyone to sponsor 3 people per month, on month 7 (level 7) you’ll have built a massive residual income stream.
The 15 PV retail volume requirement is a bit of a joke. It’s far too low an amount and will likely be dwarfed by affiliate revenue.
Compliance problems with RegenaLife’s compensation plan begin with their Fast Start packages. Combining pay to play and pyramid recruitment, these are affiliate exclusive packages that pay a commission when recruited affiliates buy them.
RegenaLife affiliates can only earn up to the package they’ve bought into, adding a “pay to play” element to the compensation plan.
Q. Can I sell these packages without purchasing a package?
A. Yes, you can sell the package and you will be paid on the PV of the package. However, in order to earn the Fast Start Bonus or the Coded Infinity Bonus you must have purchased that package.
Q. Does the $549 Package qualify me to earn Fast Start Bonuses on all six packages?
A. YES!, plus any individual product orders up to $549
If these recruited affiliates sign up or autoship, the Infinity coded bonus then ties affiliate recruitment to ongoing residual commissions.
All an affiliate has to do to remain qualified to earn these bonuses is generate 15 PV in retail volume a month and maintain their own autoship order.
It is possible for a RegenaLife affiliate to generate the 50 PV required through retail sales, but given the emphasis on recruitment (“find three who find three!” etc.), extremely unlikely.
You can verify this yourself by comparing your potential upline’s monthly retail volume with GV generated by personally recruited affiliates.
If recruited affiliate GV isn’t anywhere near retail PV (or worse still, the affiliate only makes the minimum 15 retail PV a month), that’s indicative of RegenaLife operating as a product-based pyramid scheme.
In that scenario you’d sign up, get yourself on autoship, find someone willing to spend 15 PV a month (you could pay for a family member’s orders etc.), and then focus on recruiting autoship affiliates yourself.
That’s not how a legitimate MLM businesses operates.
Moving onto RegenaLife’s products, while in the nutritional supplement niche they’re definitely of the “alternative” variety.
That doesn’t necessarily mean there’s anything wrong with them, just that you’ll see a lot of “may do this” and “may do that” in the product descriptions.
Speaking of which, some of RegenaLife’s product descriptions appear to be in violation of FDA guidelines.
Take for example the company’s description of their Maitake product;
Maitake, Shiitake, Reishi and Agaricus are medicinal mushrooms.
They contain beta-glucan, which may enhance immune activity against Infections, Viruses, Fevers, Colds, the FLU and Cancer, as well as reduce allergies (where there is inappropriate immune system activity).
Any reasonable person is going to read that and take it as Maitake prevents cancer. That’s a problem as, by their own admission, RegenaLife’s products
have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration (and) … are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
For a company launched back in 2008, you’d think RegenaLife would have issues like this taken care of by now.
Between product and compliance issues in the compensation plan, there’s much work to be done before consideration of RegenaLife as a legitimate MLM opportunity.
How does a person sell any item at retail in this?
Is there a discount in price to members?
Or do they make it difficult to sell the products to anyone on a retail level?
Sounds like typical mlm recruit your way to massive wealth.
Full retail pricing is on the RegenaLife catalog. I assume the company takes retail orders.
The Regenalife catalog has both retail and affiliate (discounted) pricing.
It always amazes me with these Product Companies. A simple search on ebay or any other auctuon site tells the story.
When you see many people dumping the Anti Aging Bars then you know that they are not using the product and just want to get “some” of their money back.
Then when you look at compareable products such as there “Krill Oil with Astaxanthin” you can get the exact same product with the eXACT same ingredients for $3.00 a bottle….
I always tell people that if you want to use a product that is produced by an MLM company (because they do have Great Products in general)…simply go to the secondary market and buy them.
Companies simply are unable to monitor the activity of these sites because most of the companies tell you that you can not sell your products at a discount online……..YEAH RIGHT!!!
On the front of the website there is a shop button that directs you to the retail site and one to click on to join.
Cheap price = poor quality.
Mushrooms mentioned above help the immune system function better. They don’t cure anything.
Regenalife does make an effort at retail sales you may think it’s weak but it’s there and visible.
Retail being merely “visible” isn’t enough. That’s pseudo-compliance.
If the majority of focus is on affiliate autoship recruitment then RegenaLife has a problem.
You can join as a customer or an affiliate both are welcome.
That’s nice. But the RegenaLife compensation plan is heavily focused on affiliate autoship recruitment.
Affiliates of MLM companies tend to focus on the the company’s compensation plan focuses on.
There are wholesale and retail prices on the website click shop and get retail. Click join and fill out the application to get wholesale pricing.
You could get the 50 pv by retailing 25 pv to 2 customers as well as by having a 50 pv autoship. Some will become customers most will be a affiliates and the company services both.
Nobody is saying there isn’t retail. The RegenaLife compensation plan however is heavily tilted toward affiliate autoship recruitment.
To trigger the coding and matching bonuses you need 2 retail customers with at least a 15 pv product purchase monthly. Coding is infinite matching is 3 generations.
That wasn’t in the RegenaLife comp plan when I wrote the review in June.
that’s why it took him a month to come up with this excuse.
I read the entire compensation plan.
So did I.
I am glad regenalife products can be retailed online. All the prospects have to do is click the shop button on the website and then order the product and the company will deliver it.
I can’t do it myself I can’t see well enough to drive I left the company I was with because retailing wasn’t available.
With regenalife you can make money on downline sales and retail customers downline sales are the key to long term residual income retail sales are immediate income. I learned my lesson because I listened to you Kchang and the others.
Get 2 customers and you won’t need an autoship. Get 1 more and the coding bonuses kick in infinity bonuses will too.
What you can and can’t do doesn’t negate affiliate autoship recruitment.
Vemma and Herbalife taught us if it’s on offer, the majority of affiliates are going to ignore retail.
The same model that got Vemma in trouble. Look it up yourself.
First Thing I always do is go to Ebay and see how much people are dumping broducts for. Looks like the retail price for a TUB of Regena Life Meal Replacement that sells for 88 plus shipping equaling 100 dollars can be had for about 55 dollars INCLUDING SHIPPING on ebay…
The old saying … If someone swears by a product and wants you to use it to get you to a better place then would they not want you to get it at the best price?????
So many MLM companies FAIL THIS simple EBAY TEST….
Which brings up an interesting side question: if this MLM’s legit, it must have a return policy where it guarantees 90% buyback, i.e. it’ll refund 90% of purchase price provided product is unopened, etc.
So why didn’t the person take advantage of that policy… but instead is dumping the product on ebay?
The only logical reason is the return policy doesn’t exist… or is bogus (have too many hoops to jump through).
Kasey Chang Which brings up an interesting side question: if this MLM’s legit, it must have a return policy where it guarantees 90% buyback, i.e. it’ll refund 90% of purchase price provided product is unopened, etc.
So why didn’t the person take advantage of that policy… but instead is dumping the product on ebay?
The only logical reason is the return policy doesn’t exist… or is bogus (have too many hoops to jump through).
If they return the product then they loose comission and qualifications so many will take a small lose to make a few dollars. Eventually this collapses but not until MORE people recognize that they can get the product cheaper.
That was alwayas the hardes part of Product BAsed MLM’s. You can either find the EXACT product cheaper OR you can find products with the same ingredients MUCH MUCH cheaper from other providers…
The big example of this was the KODI Boxes that went around about a year ago. Not only can you download KODI free and access the movies but the boxes and Firesticks are being sold all day long from 30 bucks ish….. and many were selling their boxes for 300 and even 700 …. with the extra money paying affiliates…. a SCAM indeed and a shame..
1. Our compensation plan has NO autoship requirement in order to sponsor or earn commissions.
2. Our Affiliates are NOT required to have a monthly autoship or even a personal purchase. If an Affiliate has 2-3 retail customers they are active and can earn from the compensation plan.
2. The comment regarding finding similar products with the exact ingredients for $3 is completely inaccurate. Our formulations are owned by us. You may find similar ingredients but not at the same formulation strengths.
3. We also have a 100% money back guarantee on all of our products. We rarely have to give anyone their money back. When the products work, no one returns them.
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The review never claimed they did.
How can anyone be expected to believe retail is being taken seriously in RegenaLife when this is how the company is marketing itself:
Care to share what percentage of RegenaLife revenue company-wide is true retail?
Oh and you didn’t address the Fast Start “pay to play” recruitment commissions. Feel free to explain how that’s not a compliance issue…
1. Our products are also purchased directly by retail health food stores, Doctors, Chiropractors, Gyms, Holistic Practitioners, etc. completely outside of the network marketing side of the business.
We offer a wholesale program where a store or an affiliate can purchase the products in bulk and resell them at MSRP pricing.
Many stores use this option. We also have many retail customers that purchase products directly from our website and other affiliate websites.
2. The fast start packages are 100% completely optional and not mandatory. This also applies to our autoship program. We do offer free shipping discounts for some autoship products.
Furthermore, We currently do not charge an affiliate registration fee, monthly fee, website fee or yearly fee. We provide the replicated website and back office 100% Free.
3. We have plenty of affiliates that qualify for monthly commissions without having a personal purchase simply because they have customer retail customer volume via the websites.
4. “The Power of Our Compensation Plan – “3 Affiliates who get 3 Affiliates to Join” also contains the example of getting retail customers within this example.
5. We also offer some products at a 1-time 50% OFF for customers to sample our products. Affiliates have the ability to provide these offers directly from the product pages of their websites and social media.
Here’s an example of our Regena-Slim Skinny Body Shake for 50% Off 1-time purchase for a new customer.
regenalife.net/regenaslim.html
6. At times, we offer discounted pricing if we have any products that will expire within 6 months. We also offer these lower prices to our affiliates & customers via their back office. This is very rare, however it can occur.
Lastly, as mentioned on our website “We are not your typical MLM”, we are a hybrid MLM Affiliate/Retail Marketplace that allows our products to be easily purchased by anyone in a global marketplace.
Regards
Regenalife Support
As far as regulatory compliance goes, what you do outside of the MLM opportunity is irrelevant.
Optional chain recruitment is still chain recruitment. In light of the recent FTC actions against FTC and Herbalife, “optional” doesn’t cut it.
Awesome. But what percentage of company-wide revenue is generated via retail orders? (excluding RegenaLife selling directly to retail customers).
RegenaLife competes directly with its affiliates to their detriment, got it.
I would retail the product line and sponsor affiliates using npros and freemart ads not ebay or Craigslist.
Delivery of product is handled by regenalife and that is good I can’t see well enough to drive to deliver products to my customers.
Like the customers the affiliates purchase online and the company handles delivery and customer service.
I am getting downline who can buy in bulk and resell the products like I do with the new freemart. both programs are internet based I cannot see well enough to drive.
Affiliate purchases are not retail sales (ref: Vemma, Herbalife).
You said someone has to retail.
The affiliates can resell the products either through the website or purchase in bulk
Yes, and? Affiliate purchases in MLM are not retail sales.
What an affiliate can and can’t do with their purchases does not change the fact that affiliate purchases in MLM are not retail sales.
The only exception is if an MLM company tracks and verifies each and every sale an affiliate makes when they purchase product to retail, which as far as I’m aware none do (beyond pseudo-compliance requesting receipts are kept but never checked).
I do online retailing and sponsoring through the site.
if the want instant delivery I would refer them to my downline who can drive and can deliver. if they order through my site as a customer or affiliate it would take a few days.
Regenalife will ship to customers and affiliates.
Awesome. But you are not every RegenaLife affiliate.
Nor does what you do change the fact that the RegenaLife compensation plan is clearly titled toward and marketed with affiliate autoship in mind.
If the items are ordered through the affiliates replicated site they are tracked and verified.
If you buy the air freshener gel at retail from my site the item is tracked and verified same is true of the new hemp oil product and the rest of the line.
Yes but we’re not talking about that. You tried to pass off affiliate purchases as retail sales.
There are ways around the autoship. They’re customers the autoship is a stupid idea it implies there’s something wrong with the products or company. (Ozedit: Nonsense that makes no sense removed)
I’m not interested in excuses or pseudo-compliance workarounds.
If you have to use either than the problem lies with the compensation plan itself.
I retail through the site and the company ships the products no need for me to carry inventory or delivery I sell them through my site.
I don’t know if there are mental health issues at play here, but ignoring what I’m saying and repeating yourself isn’t going to get you anywhere.
I feel like I’m conversing with a child having trouble comprehending what is being directed at them.
Maybe we disagree that’s it.
Disagreeing with a fact doesn’t make it any less of a fact.
I have emotional health issues (Ozedit: I wish you well working through your issues then. This isn’t a place to vent and I’m not here to babysit you.)
That’s the problem with your argument.
What YOU do has little or no relevance to the fact RegenaLife has minimal retail and an overly heavy focus on recruitment
If 1 person retails as well as sponsors and reaches the top others will follow the right person could change the culture of the company.
The title of this write up is misleading. “RegenaLife Review: Minimal retail with affiliate autoship recruitment”.
There is absolutely no autoship requirement when an affiliate joins RegenaLife.
It might, and then again, it might not.
Meanwhile, back in the present, RegenaLife TODAY has limited focus on retail sales and does nothing about the imbalance between retail sales and recruitment.
Anything is misleading when you read something that isn’t there into it.
Neither the title of the review or the review itself mentions mandatory affiliate autoship.
It’d be far more effective if the company itself mandated retail sales in its compensation plan.
I disagree I feel encouraging them is more effective especially when they are tied to coding bonuses.
The bonuses are strong incentives to retail in addition to the profits and there is no need for inventory because the company handles shipping for the customers as well as the affiliates.
I signed up to market products online as well sponsor affiliates and I do both.
I understand the importance of getting customers. However putting pressure on the affiliates to do so will backfire.
That would be true if you want us to be employees of regenalife. i was talking about mandated retail.
The titles mentions “affiliate autoship recruitment”
This statement alone misleading, because when affiliates recruit there are no autoship requirements for the new affiliate in order to join.
Some statements above mentioned 2008, RegenaLife was formally Regeneration USA when it launched in 2008 as a retail big box store model. Regeneration USA products were in national retail as well as mom and pop health food stores, gyms, salons, chiropractors offices, doctors etc.
In Mid-2012, the company switched the model from retail distribution to an MLM Affiliate Hybrid model. In 2016 Regeneration USA changed its name to RegenaLife. Therefore as far as the comments in this post regarding RegenaLife not focusing in on retail customer is again totally misleading.
We have thousands of retail customers that purchase from us as a result of noticing our products in national retail stores from 2008-2012. The company also gives away the retail sales from the corporate website to affiliates that are working RegenaLife Business.
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Hmnn,
I’m guessing that’s why Oz didn’t use the term “compulsory” affiliate autoship requirements.
So are you saying that RegenaLife’s focus is NO LONGER on retail as of 2012?
But you provide ‘coded bonuses’ to people who *do* sign up for autoship, do you not?
So you are currently not that person!
Further – you are just recruiting Affiliates.
You are NOT focused yourself on RETAILING the products that you want and expect others to do yourself.
You are the problem you expect a cure for.
What I see here is that you think any product sale you make is some sort of CUSTOMER making a retail sale for you.
When in reality you have recruited an AFFILIATE that just happens to be buying product that you count as a retail sale.
Change of your mindset changes the whole problem you think you are solving.
IT has nothing to do with who or what delivered the product.
The issue is the point of ORIGIN of the SALE ITSELF.
Are your customers signing up to the business just to buy products?
OR
Can they just buy anything they want directly from the site without being attached to the business itself?
So far you have a downline of AFFILIATES you want to call customers.
Again, you give bonuses to people who *do* use autoship, do you not?
There’s no ‘requirement’ in the 3 words you’re objecting to. You are ENCOURAGING autoship, not requiring it, but is that really that big of a philosophical difference?
Are you making an offer the affiliates should not refuse?
You’re mixing up vocabulary (signs of doublespeak, as you’ve been trained to think A means B when A actually means A).
Retail means sell to consumer.
In affiliate marketing, you REFER customers who buy from the company (and get small commission when sales are made).
The “coding bonuses” you’re referring to was FOR YOURSELF. I.e. YOU will consume the product. You’re not selling it. That is NOT retail. YOU ARE THE CUSTOMER. Your monthly autoship means YOUR UPLINE gets the commission.
You are just replicating YOURSELF, much as your upline replicated him/her onto YOU… NO RETAIL!
RegenaLife is no longer in the national big box retail stores. RegenaLife still has mom & pop smaller stores, doctors, Gyms, etc they still support buy selling bulk products so they can resell outside of the MLM.
Basically a store can join as an affiliate, not build a business and just purchase wholesale products at special pricing for resale. The sponsoring affiliate still earns commissions with this example.
Coded Bonus: The entire product line is coded, meaning whether you make a single purchase or setup an autoship you’ll receive the coded business if you have at least 1 retail customer purchasing product from your replicated website every month. 2 Retail customers gives you the ability to earn coded bonus plus check match on your affiliate downline.
RegenaLife doesn’t pay you extra commissions for being on autoship. The only benefit is at times FREE shipping on some products.
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Kasey Chang I cannot see well enough to drive prospects can get products either as customers or affiliates they can make the decision whether to shop or join.
I don’t go out of my way to acquire customers I give the prospects my website and let them decide if they want to purchase products either as a customer.
I do not have to manipulate them I do it in a no confrontational way. And if they are combative they are rejected.
But you need to stay qualified, and 50 PV autoship will do it, right?
@Tc
If a compensation plan is geared toward retail sales over affiliate recruitment (autoship or otherwise), an MLM company shouldn’t have to “put pressure” on affiliates to sell to retail customers.
And are we really having this conversation? If an MLM company has to pressure affiliates to sell products to retail customers they seriously need to rethink their whole business from the ground up.
Affiliates need 50pv per month to earn commissions, which may include:
1. Your autoship (if you set one up).
2. Your single monthly purchase of product for personal consumption.
3. Your bulk wholesale purchase to resell the products
4. Your retail customer orders that your website generates each month.
Any of these can qualify to earn commissions.
RegenaLife Support
@RegenaLife Support
A compensation plan geared towards affiliate autoship recruitment != mandatory autoship requirement.
In both Vemma and Herbalife autoship was optional at the time the FTC filed pyramid scheme claims against them.
Rewarding affiliates directly to sign up other affiliates on autoship creates a culture of affiliate autoship recruitment, typically at the cost of focus on retail sales.
This is what the review is pointing out. Instead of acknowledging that though and looking at the RegenaLife compensation plan, you’re fixated on “mandatory autoship”, which is never mentioned.
This is a review of the RegenaLife MLM opportunity. What you as a company do outside of that opportunity is entirely irrelevant from a regulatory compliance perspective.
In Response to OZ “pressuring affiliates”
Not sure where this statement came from?
RegenaLife doesn’t pressure affiliates to get retail customers. If the Affiliate wants to earn additional monies from check match & coded bonuses then they concentrate on getting 1-2 retail customers in order to earn those bonuses.
However, if they don’t want to focus on retail customers and just affiliate recruitment then they earn from the 57% Uni-level Compensation Plan.
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It came from Tc, who tends to inject random tangents into the conversation.
This is a problem and you need to address this asap (ref: Herbalife, Vemma).
What you term “focus on affiliate recruitment” is what I term “affiliate autoship recruitment”. It’s the same thing a huge compliance red flag.
And again, what you do as a company outside of your MLM opportunity is entirely irrelevant.
You cannot be running an MLM pyramid scheme and hope to justify it with direct retail sales RegenaLife makes outside of the pyramid scheme ecosystem. Your affiliates have to be making retail sales, period.
In response to OZ: “Your affiliates have to be making retail sales, period.”
RegenaLife affiliates have retail sales period!, Some don’t ever recruit, some recruit 2 affiliates and have over 50 retail customers not part of the MLM.
RegenaLife is not even close what happened to VEMMA and HerbaLife. If both of those companies you personally had to purchase each month. This is what you (OZ) call AUTOSHIP. however in RegenaLife, an Affiliate doesn’t have to personally purchase, they can use retail customer volume to get the qualified.
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“Having” retail sales is not enough. Both Vemma and Herbalife “had” retail sales.
The majority of your MLM revenue needs to be sourced from genuine retail sales.
False. Vemma did have mandatory autoship IIRC but got rid of it long before the FTC shut them down. Herbalife never had mandatory autoship (at least not recently).
Autoship is an automatic order of product each month, either by affiliates or preferred customers. Don’t project your flawed definition of autoship onto me.
Which isn’t going to happen in any significant number with a compensation plan that favors affiliate autoship over retail sales (as pointed out in the review).
If anything was flawed it was your review.
Over & Out
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So you’re not going to address the glaring compliance issues in RegenaLife’s compensation plan?
Awesome. Good luck with the FTC.
Regenalife does not pressure affiliates (Ozedit: You introduced “pressuring affiliates” into the conversation. You do not get to create an argument around your own assertion.)
Regenalife rewards retail sales. You want them to force retail sales. With the coding and the matching bonuses retail sales will happen without being forced.
with 10 affiliates and 3 customers the bonuses will kick in without the autoship when the affiliates and customers come all the bonuses kick in and the coding bonuses go to infinity and to get them you need customers and affiliates.
An MLM company that doesn’t primarily generate revenue from retail sales is a pyramid scheme (ref: Vemma, Herbalife).
If you have a problem with this take it up with the FTC.
An MLM company should aim for a 50/50 retail/affiliate revenue spread. Unless these retail customers are product whales, your example likely won’t cut it.
I made a mistake and I was trying to correct it. My pressure comment was and is flawed is trying to correct it wrong?
Please stop posting anecdotal examples of what you are or aren’t doing. You are repeating yourself without absorbing anything that has been said since.
Those 10 could be 100 1000 and more and the 3 customers can become 9. 27 81 etc besides what you said would be true if you stopped at 3.
With the internet there’s no need to stop at 3 customers and 10 affiliates. And I am focusing on customers and affiliates notice what I put first?
I am developing customers as well as affiliates because customers are the key to matching and coding bonuses as well as retail profits and the affiliates are the key to long term income without both you get neither.
Well sure, anything is possible – however the fact remains RegenaLife’s compensation plan is geared more towards affiliate autoship recruitment over retail sales.
This a key point you continue to ignore.
Because of you I learned retail sales are just as important as recruitment for long term growth.
I am thankful for the fact that there are retail sales
I ignore (Ozedit: If you’re going to ignore things we’re done here.)
fixed that for ya’. the space was in the wrong place. just sayin’
You could ignore the autoship and focus on getting customers and affiliates notice which came first.
If you get customers as well as affiliates you won’t need the autoship.
What you can and can’t do doesn’t change the focus on affiliate autoship recruitment.
It shouldn’t be part of any MLM compensation plan, period.
I am not a RegenaLife member, but I am in the process of purchasing a few products to try them, as their website and the description of the products did impress me quite very positively.
Now, I can’t understand why some people, who appear to have all the time in the world, are doing what they can to discredit a business that many may be depending on for their livelihood. That is really sad.
On the positive side, this actually served to somewhat reassure me to proceed with my purchase of the products I am planning to try, as the company’s customer support has been replying, in a very patient and civil manner, to those unbelievable attacks.
That company’s customer support responses served to clarify even more what that company is about. Thank you!
You can’t understand why a lack of retail focus and affiliate autoship focus is a problem for an MLM company?
Yeah, that is really sad.
You are basing your purchase decision, not on the quality of the products themselves, but rather, on how their “customer support” react to “discredit-ing”. Is that right?
Is that like buying lettuce based on whether the farm has a “B” in the title or something like that?
That’s great Tr. Is it fair to say that, if you like the product, you will continue to buy it as a customer to support others’ livelihoods? I presume you are paying full retail to help them too?
Or will you become an affiliate?
Please keep us posted.
Dear Mr. Char,
Of course I will continue to buy a product I like. Isn’t that how it works in real life?
Also, when I buy from a store in my town, I will be supporting other people’s livelihoods. When I buy online from a large multinational corporation, I will be supporting other people’s livelihoods.
On the other hand, when someone buys a product I made for the company I work for, they will be supporting my livelihood and the livelihoods of the dear colleagues I work with. Isn’t that how that works in real life?
Whether I pay full retail or not, is completely irrelevant. As long as I am happy with what I am getting for the price I am paying, I win.
I am very surprised with your questions…
Sterling Wirth wrote on Jun 19th, 2017 at 10:57 am
BUT, I wanted to buy those Anti-aging bars for a lower price to try them out and, beyond a “simple search,” I did all kinds of searches on eBAY and I couldn’t find them.
I decided to lookup “RegenaLife” on eBay and that turned out 2 (only 2!) items, both were “Regena-Slim Skinny Body Shake USDA Certified Organic Vanilla Flavor Weight Loss”, one for $44.99 and the other for $71.03. SO MUCH FOR “product dumping…”
If you can find more of those products on eBay, please, post your link here for us!
It is amazing what some people do to pass their time, these days… I think that some people should, instead of trying to destroy their fellow human beings, use their time and energy to do something good for the planet. God Bless!
It’s not irrelevant to the affiliate you buy from when you are supporting their livelihood. You’re the one who brought up livelihood – “a business that many may be depending on for their livelihood.”
Now I’m confused. In your new post you said:
So you don’t want to help the affiliates make a living by paying retail for their products?
I thought that was your intention. Affiliates buy the product at wholesale and make money from the markup selling to you.
Oz and I don’t even live on the same continent, but then, you wouldn’t believe anything we type any way.
And who said I’m “Mrs” anyway? It’s “Mister” to you.
And it’s interesting you don’t bother responding to the original topic. So, what exactly *do* you base your purchase decision on?
I have no opinion on the product. I am far more interested in what’s YOUR reaction to it. So far, you’ve not answered. Which is an answer in itself.
It’s amazing some people who claim to be only interested in the product is instead, “use their time and energy to do something good”, like debating people “trying to destroy fellow human beings”.
Wow, just a few words from someone who’s not even critiquing the company, and a company can be destroyed. Hahahaha. Maybe you shouldn’t buy from a company that weak.
Exposing and reporting on pyramid schemes & Ponzi schemes, which helps people avoid financial harm, is good for the planet and people. I enjoy volunteering my time for good causes. How silly of you to think otherwise.
If you had bothered to look at my comments, I have only neutral things to say about this company’s products. But then, you’re looking for a conspiracy, and who am I to shatter your illusions? Live your dreams, but remember, it’s just dreams.
Tr:
you are so wrong… to stay on the same key as you are, you seems to be a poor little lamb which lost the way…
Generally I not surprised when someone is charmed by some company business (typically: as a new affiliate) or by their products (typically: as a new costumer affected by well targeted marketing and advertising, regardless of the real product value). It’s temporary setting. You gonna outgrow it.
Oz, Char and K.Chang are not your enemies, but adversaries. Don’t kill the messenger from the REAL WORLD just because you don’t like the message he brought.
And yeah, I believe they are three different persons. And now… back on topic.