Over the past few weeks I’ve been in communications with various associates (ex and current), the QLD and NSW office of fair trading and have suspected that something has been building behind closed doors.

I can’t prove or confirm my suspicions at this stage but I thought I’d put together what I’ve observed and heard as together. Curiously they all seem to point to the same thing.

Have a read and perhaps you’ll experience a little ‘know for yourself’ too. [Continue reading…]

Ever since the Polaris Media Group launch, Polaris distributors and the general public alike have been trying to get their heads around the hugely complicated compensation plan.

There’s been emails, tables, diagrams, conference calls, videos and even a recently announced EMC (the guys who make all the money) Aussie tour between the 18th and 22nd of September with free entry to hopefully clear the confusion up.

Free entry…? Geez you know things are bad when Polaris aren’t charging for events.

I’m not a marketing guy nor do I have any extensive knowledge of MLM business opportunities. My focus on Polaris Media Group is continued on after writing about Liberty League International. I’m a guy who saw a tv commercial, did some research and started writing about what I found.

I’d like to think I’m fairly educated yet it still took me many goings over, rewatching and relistening to try and get my head around Polaris’ compensation plan.

The good news is I think I’ve figured it out and can hopefully explain it properly in this article. The bad news is I still think the entire thing is a pyramid scheme and will inevitably rely on a constant influx of new recruits to generate the infamous ‘six figure incomes’ distributors love to market.

But anyway, that’s what I think. Hopefully by the end of this article you’ll have enough information and leave some feedback for others to read on what you think of it all.

With all that out of the way, here’s an indepth look at the new Polaris Media Group compensation plan. [Continue reading…]

With the official launch of Polaris Media group just hours away, it seems the company has gone into a massive scale crisis management.

Things haven’t gone as smoothly as the company’s head honchos would have liked. Polaris Media Group advisors are running around issuing legal threats, the NSW government have declared Liberty League to be a pyramid scheme, job networks are refusing to list Polaris ads and a Whirlpool Australian community forum thread is thriving with over 2000 replies where Australians are discussing Polaris Media openly.

In addition to ordering a complete media blackout for Polaris Media Group associates, the company has also recently enlisted the services of Australian public relations company, Wilkinson PR.

At this time associates have been advised not to engage with any media or “bloggers” and to forward any enquiries to a Wilkinson PR email address. [Continue reading…]

With the Polaris Media Group launch just around the corner on the 9th of September, it seems some advisors have had enough of being called out on their scam.

Understandably tension appears to be high as all sorts of wild accusations and claims fly in the days before the company’s launch.

This evening the following email threat was received by OzSoapbox and appears to be from a genuine source. [Continue reading…]

With the recent NSW Office of Fair Trading press release going out yesterday there’s been a bit of an awkward silence over at the Polaris Media Group camp.

You’re trying to sell a scam that’s worked previously but now even random prospects are starting to ask some very uncomfortable questions.

So what do you do, how do you answer these questions and still get the sales?

The following is an actual query that was raised by an associate over at the ‘Polaris Media Group Network’ forum run by Polaris EMC member Tony Rush addressing this very issue.

I guarantee you the answers given will leave you shaking your head in disbelief. [Continue reading…]

Despite months of telling you it wasn’t a pyramid scheme, telling you to trust the EMC marketing committee, lying to your faces and declaring bloggers like myself to be posting “unconfirmed information and opinions” (Tony Rush)…,

Today the NSW government finally went officially public with its findings: [Continue reading…]

The biggest problem with the Liberty League sales model was that everybody knew nobody was paying those prices without the pyramid scheme business opportunity attached. Effectively you weren’t buying retail products, you were buying the right to resell the business opportunity you were buying into to others.

What this meant was that if you got in early and signed up enough people, you could effectively sit back and relax as qualifying products were sent to you as the bottom level of your sales pyramid attempted to resell the opportunity to others.

With Polaris Media Group we’re apparently going to see a shift away from the business opportunity and instead more focus on the products.

After having a look at the new lineup of products, I can honestly say I’m not convinced Polaris Media Group is going to be any more sustainable then Liberty League was.

The reason?

The underlying problem is still fundamentally the same. [Continue reading…]

After being tipped off by OzSoapbox reader Rod late last week that the NSW office of fair trading had classified Liberty League International as a pyramid scheme, I lodged my own complaint and then called them up on Thursday.

In talking to a representative I was told a report had been concluded back on the 5th May, 2009 and that the finding was Liberty League was indeed a pyramid scheme.

When I went public with this information (Liberty League found to be pyramid scheme in Australia) news spread quite quickly. At the time all I had was my word and supporters of Liberty League pushed the point that nothing had been released in writing, nor made publicly available.

In my Thursday call to the office of fair trading I requested a copy of the report be sent to me in the mail. Over the last week I waited patiently for it to arrive whilst a barrage of disbelief attacked me from all directions.

After not receiving anything yesterday in the mail, as promised this morning I again contacted NSW Fair Trading. After looking me up on the system my information was passed onto another department (of which I was unable to get the name of) and told they would be in touch.

A few hours later I held in my hand written confirmation from the New South Wales government that Liberty League is a scam in Australia. [Continue reading…]

Just a quick update, after being in communication with the NSW office of fair trading I now have in my hands written proof (according to their legal advice), Liberty League International has been classified a pyramid scheme in NSW.

Expect a full writeup along with documentation uploaded tonight.

Duped by an affiliate link I thought I might have stumbled across one of the changes or possible the ‘game changing’ announcement that was supposed to happen at yesterdays Supercharged Saturday.

Turns out the big announcement has nothing to do with the Liberty League site itself. Tipped off by a Whirlpool forum member phife, it seems the brand Liberty League international has been scrapped and now associates will peddle Polaris Media Group.

Apart from having a shiny new website (with even more promotional videos and game show thinking music) here are the main changes as Liberty League becomes Polaris Media Group. [Continue reading…]