Team Travel MVP Review: Discount sports team travel?
Team Travel MVP provides no information on its website about who owns or runs the company.
Team Travel MVP’s website domain (“teamtravelmvp.com”) was initially registered in March 2019.
The private registration was last updated on March 10th, 2021.
Further research reveals Tony Verran citing himself as CEO of Team Travel MVP on LinkedIn.
According to his profile, Verran is based out of California. This syncs with a corporate suite address in California provided on Team Travel MVP’s website.
Verran’s LinkedIn profile cites him as CEO of Team Travel MVP since July 2016.
I believe Team Travel MVP is a reboot of My Dream Sports Biz, a collapsed MLM company launched on or around 2011.
Affiliate marketing copy credits Verran as the creator and CEO of My Dream Sports Biz.
I wasn’t able to ascertain whether Verran had any other MLM experience. Why his corporate bio isn’t provided on Team Travel MVP’s website is unclear.
Read on for a full review of Team Travel MVP’s MLM opportunity.
Team Travel MVP’s Products
According to its website, Team Travel MVP markets discount team hotel accommodation, tickets and collectibles.
How these fit into the MLM opportunity is unclear.
Clicking through to Team Travel MVP’s accommodation information page, reveals a pitch for “huge savings on hotels”.
Team Travel MVP, through our extensive network of travel partners, provide huge discounts on hotel accommodations for youth, high school, and collegiate sports teams as well as organizations and tournaments throughout the United States and Canada.
We offer great rates, free rooms/upgrades for coaches, and we do all the booking work.
Best of all, our service to teams and coaches is 100% free! (We make our money on large bulk hotel contracts.)
To get a quote you have to email Team Travel MVP or call them. That’s great for Team Travel MVP, no idea what affiliates are supposed to do.
Clicking through to tickets and collectibles reveals blank pages:
No explanation is provided. Needless to say this is pretty shabby for an MLM company launched in 2016.
Team Travel MVP’s Compensation Plan
Team Travel MVP affiliates sign up and pay membership fees. MLM commissions are paid on recruitment of affiliates who do the same.
Retail commissions do exist within Team Travel MVP’s compensation plan, however they have nothing to do with the MLM opportunity.
Retail Commissions
Team Travel MVP’s compensation plan pitches a 5-10% commission on the package price of any tickets or collectibles sold.
As stated above, the tickets and collectibles section of Team Travel MVP’s website is broken.
Recruitment Commissions
Recruitment commissions are split into two tiers, Trainee and Captain.
Trainee appears to be regular affiliates. To qualify as a Captain a Team Travel MVP affiliate must buy in at the affiliate membership tier and pass up two Captain commission rates to whoever recruited them.
Passed up Captain commissions are paid at 80% of the full Captain commission rate.
Once qualified as a Captain, a Team MVP affiliate earns the full Captain commission rate on their own recruitment, and 80% on recruitment of affiliates by their recruited Trainee tier affiliates.
Here is the dollar breakdowns per Team MVP affiliate membership tier:
Trainee
- recruit a Rookie tier affiliate and earn $50
- recruit a Superstar tier affiliate and earn $200
- recruit a Hall of Famer tier affiliate and earn $400
- recruit an MVP tier affiliate and earn $850
Captain (personal recruitment)
- recruit a Rookie tier affiliate and earn $250
- recruit a SuperStar tier affiliate and earn $1000
- recruit a Hall of Famer tier affiliate and earn $2000
- recruit an MVP tier affiliate and earn $4250
Captain (passed up Trainee sales)
- earn $200 per Trainee affiliate recruited by your personally recruited affiliates
- earn $800 per Superstar affiliate recruited by your personally recruited affiliates
- earn $1600 per Hall of Famer tier affiliate recruited by your personally recruited affiliates
- earn $3400 per MVP tier affiliate recruited by your personally recruited affiliates
Note that MVP tier affiliates qualified at Captain also receive overrides from their “area”.
I believe these are 80% Captain commissions generated by Trainee affiliate recruitment when their upline are also Trainee tier.
Matching Bonus
SuperStar and higher tier Team Travel MVP affiliates qualify for a “Team Travel Match Bonus”.
- Superstars receive a 30% Team Travel Match Bonus
- Hall of Famers and MVPs receive a 40% Team Travel Match Bonus
What the Team Travel Match Bonus is paid out on isn’t specified.
Additional Bonuses
Team Travel MVP’s compensation plan references a “Major Market Leadership Bonus Pool”, “MVP Lead Pool” and “equity opportunity”.
No specific details are provided.
The equity pool in particular is a red flag as it could be a front for securities fraud.
Joining Team Travel MVP
Team Travel MVP affiliate membership is available at four price-points:
- Rookie – $500 upfront or $250 and then $100 a month for four months ($650 total)
- Superstar – $1950 upfront or $1250 and then $250 a month for five months ($2450 total)
- Hall of Famer – $4450 upfront or $2450 and then $500 a month for five months ($4950 total)
- MVP – $8950 upfront or $5000 and then $1000 a month for five months ($10,000 total)
The primary difference between Team Travel MVP’s affiliate membership price-points is income potential.
Conclusion
If My Dream Sports Biz had a similar compensation plan to Team Travel MVP, it’s easy to see why it collapsed.
Team Travel MVP is a four-tier pyramid scheme wrapped in sports marketing.
New affiliates sign up, with how much they spend directly impacting their income potential.
Each Team Travel MVP affiliate membership is a tier in the pyramid. You have to buy in to that tier to earn on that tier.
You will only need to qualify one time at each product level — thereafter you are a Team Captain at that product level forever!
Commissions are paid on personal recruitment and downline recruitment efforts.
The retail side of Team Travel MVP has nothing to do with its MLM opportunity.
That both tickets and collectibles, the only two retail product offerings, are broken on Team Travel MVP’s website is telling.
As with all MLM pyramid schemes, when affiliate recruitment collapses so too will commissions.
The math behind pyramid schemes guarantees the majority of participants lose money.
Your review is false and inaccurate in so many ways. Some of this may be our fault as our website is indeed not complete though our webinar is.
First You clearly don’t understand our business model which is driven by retail hotel bookings and only supplemented by sportsbiz package sales.
We save teams all over America time and money and our teammate reps make commissions by bringing us those bookings. That is the vast bulk of our revenue.
You also throw around terms like “pyramid scheme” – that is a legal term for companies who offer no product of value and/or do virtually no retailing.
Our service provides great value to teams , and our sport packages provide great training. 89% of our revenue comes from retail hotel commissions.
Further in a pyramid scheme the “guys on top” get almost all the money, in our comp plan you can make 10 times as much as your sponsor if you work 10 times as hard.
We have a great opportunity to take a love of sports and legitimately earn from home, ballpark etc.
Shoot me your phone and name and let’s sort this out. I believe your info is defamatory.
How are retail hotel bookings paid through the MLM opportunity? Team Travel MVP’s compensation plan doesn’t pay any MLM commissions on hotel bookings.
By not integrating retail into your compensation plan you’re not generating the majority of revenue through your MLM opportunity through retail sales.
MVP Team Travel’s compensation plan, the MLM side of it, pays only on affiliate recruitment. That’s not retail.
What Team Travel MVP does outside of its MLM opportunity is irrelevant.
The 1990s called, they want their copy of “bUt It’S nOt A pYrAmId ScHeMe!” back.
If you’re not generating the majority of company-wide sales through retail sales, your MLM company is operating as a pyramid scheme.
Again, what you do or don’t do outside of your MLM opportunity is irrelevant.
Facts aren’t defamatory.
How about explaining away Team Travel MVP’s “equity opportunity” and securities fraud?
(Ozedit: derail removed)
Every single teammate here has the opportunity to retail their butts off by sharing our team hotel bookings.
Indeed they bring in 89% of our revenue through hotel bookings to sports teams. That is as retail as retail gets, they earn retail commissions by so doing and being part of our sportsbiz packages. Don’t know what part of that you don’t understand.
89%,of company wide sales are retail – “ math called and wants you to understand” 🙂
Our comp plan pays on team hotel bookings as well as sportsbiz training package sales. Get your facts straight before “reviewing” .
Misstated facts and false allegations are may indeed be defamatory. Again I invite you to call me to discuss. I hope that you are in good faith trying to get the facts straight.
That’s nice. Can you point to where this has anything to do with the MLM opportunity though?
Specifically what MLM commissions are paid out on this activity?
You seem to think adding stuff to a pyramid scheme makes it not a pyramid scheme. I maintain the MLM side of Team Travel MVP has no retail and is thus a pyramid scheme.
Not interested in phonecalls and legal threats if you can’t explain yourself here.
Our comp plan pays a set number of ) per room per night at each tier.
Rookie $1.50
Superstar $3
Hall of Famer $4
MVP 4.50 plus overrides
All of this is in our webinar btw.
There’s no webinar provided here:
teamtravelmvp.com/contents/en-us/d5043_Income.html
So the “per room per night” commissions are paid on sports teams booking travel through Team Travel MVP. And pay $4.50, coded down to $1.50 based on how much an affiliate pays in membership fees?
And that’d be what the Team Travel Match Bonus pays out correct? Again tied to how much an affiliate spends on membership fees.
If you can confirm I’ll add that into the compensation section of the review.
Compliance issues are still:
-You expect me to believe the majority of company-wide revenue is from $4.50 room booking commissions when you’re charging up to $9950 for affiliate membership and paying recruitment commissions?
Either recruitment in Team Travel MVP is dead or your numbers don’t add up.
-Pay to play is a violation of the FTC Act. It is an indicator of a pyramid scheme.
This fits with charging up to $9950 in affiliate fees and insisting $4.50 room commissions provides more revenue.
In all fairness, anyone with the bigger package who books 2,212 rooms has made their money back, plus a few cents (quite literally), which they can put away for a later penny-in-a-fountain-wish fund.
Statistically speaking, you know the odds of every package affiliate booking rooms to cover 100% of their membership fees annually as well as I do.
It’s not happening.
Maybe they’re renting rooms hourly and charging $4.50 an hour? Won’t say what business uses hourly rooms though 😉
Year 1
2 teams a week. 50 weeks. Avg team travels 150 room nights per year. Do 15,000 room nights per year x rate. 60k at MVP. That’s 60k year one and year 2 goes 3-4X.
Again a real business which if worked highly profitable- still requires the work. (Ozedit: derail removed)
Yeah hypotheticals are nice but meaningless.
One slot machine a week, 5 cents, average machine pays out 97%. Do infinity machines per year x rate. That’s 97% of infinity dollars profit.
What matters here is probability of the hypothetical scenario wherein Team Travel MVP collects more in room booking fees annually than it does in affiliate membership fees.
Your average Team Travel MVP affiliate isn’t getting anywhere near booking two teams a week every week for a year.
That means as a company, your claim of generating more revenue on room bookings over collected affiliate fees is seriously questionable.
The only way I see it being possible is if there’s a few affiliates booking rooms, and recruitment has collapsed such that any bookings will provide revenue over $0 collected in membership fees that month.
Still waiting on an explanation of the equity pool.
Tony, last warning. If you can’t stay on topic, company owner or otherwise, I’ll be sending you to the spam-bin.
This isn’t Facebook. You’ll engage in an on-topic dialogue if you wish to discuss the review or none at all.
Outstanding issues:
-confirmation of room commissions (see #6).
-explanation of Team Travel MVP’s “equity pool”, so that suspicion of securities fraud can be confirmed.
-confirmation of the assertion Team Travel MVP is paying more $4.50 room commissions, dollar for dollar, than it has recruitment commissions over the past year.
It’s a scam. He doesn’t even bother with trying to book hotels. He just takes your money.