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Is Market America a gimmick or perhaps is it legal?
Market America has been obtaining a lot of attention recently. Online forums really are a buzz as to whether or not Market America is a Scam. The fast and simple answer is no...it's not a scam. However, after doing my research about this company I've discovered several troubling issues.
What exactly is Market America?
Based on Market America they're "a product brokerage and Internet marketing company that are experts in One-to-One Marketing." What's One-to-One Marketing? Just a fancy term for MLM or Multi-Level Marketing. And just what exactly is really a product brokerage? An expensive word for any wholesaler. They provide the things they call an "unfranchise" for their members that allows the members to recruit more members and obtain paid commissions on their own purchases.
What do they offer?
Market America sells everything from shoes to financial lending. They are doing appear to really push their lines of generic health, personal care and anti-aging products. However, you don't have to purchase them there are brand name products available too.
What is the Market America Compensation plan?
The compensation plan is simply plain confusing...either they do not do a good job describing it or they purposefully made it confusing to hide what your real profits is going to be. So I did more research to discover exactly what their compensation plan is and what their real payouts are. This is where it gets scary folks.
So I visited the marketplace America main site (not an affiliate site) and that i couldn't find any detailed information on their payout structure. Hmmm...I wonder why? So I started a chat session with someone named Alex who kept saying to their field office to answer my questions (yeah right!...like I am going to fall for that one just to end up on a hard sales call). After a lot of persistence Alex finally explained that I could find an exhibition on an affiliate website, but that some affiliates decide to turn the presentation off. I'm wondering why they would do this? So I did several searches and finally found a joint venture partner site that had an exhibition and wow did my jump to spin. I needed to see the payout structure many times to know what they were talking about. Now we all know why most affiliates choose not to show the presentation.
First in order to qualify to begin earning money you must purchase 200 BV (Business Volume) price of product.
What is BV you ask? Yeah me too. So back to friendly but frustrated Alex at the chat center, and again I am continually told to contact their field office to answer what BV is. Well not entirely Alex does give me some rehearsed definition of what BV is but can't or maybe won't answer how much BV pertains to in dollars...you know the funny green stuff us humans use down here on planet earth. So I returned towards the forums and check engines looking everywhere for the elusive BV. Finally, I discovered it on some regional Market America Challenge site...it seems like they challenge their members to purchase specific products and if won by you the challenge you get preferred seats to their conference (that you simply still need to pay for). The BV exchange rate is variable and depends on these products sold. BV is approximately 60-90% from the dollar worth of the product. Most products appear to have a BV worth of around or simply under 80% towards the dollar. To qualify you must buy approximately $250 worth of products...hmmm that isn't bad I'm wondering why it is so secret?
Next refer two people to qualify.
To begin making money you need to refer two people (who both buy 200 BV price of product) for your left and right business line.
Begin to make money!
You make money in line with the GBV (Group BV) and you are limited to 3 business lines...but wait you can add an additional two business lines by doing something they call "Re-Entry". What's Re-Entry you may well ask? I've not a clue and frankly I'm fed up with searching to discover how to translate Market America terms and acronyms. Once both legs of the business line generates 5000 GBV each then you receive $1500. So if BV equals approximately 80% and also you need 10,000 BV to earn $1500 that means your company lines have to buy or sell approximately $12,500 worth of product. Which of course means you receive approximately 12% commissions. Sorry for the algebra problem.
Hold on it gets better...
Addititionally there is something called IBV. I understand you are going to ask here is exactly what Market America defines IBV as "IBV (Incentive Business Volume) may be the Unit (Point) Value allotted to an IBV Product/Service to calculate IBV Commissions". Are you currently confused yet...yeah me too. Also, now you can make even more money by registering for a Market America credit card and taking advantage of it on all of your MA purchases! WooHoo!
Just how much can I make?
The marketplace America presentation will show you how easy it's to create $10,800 a week or $561,600 annually! Ok...you would like the truth right? The truth is that based off of the earnings statement for the Canadian version of the presentation only 2.07% of members make a lot more than $80,000 and 65.75% of members make $3000 or less and 44.89% make $1000 or less per year. Tip: always see the Canadian version of a business opportunity presentation because in Canada network marketing companies must disclose the particular earnings of their members. You do too want to spend your time, money and effort the promote a program that has an average earnings of $1000 or less for nearly half of their visitors?
To conclude: Is Market America Scam or Legal?
Market America is not a scam and is legal. However, their payout structure is very confusing and also the average members rate of success is not excellent. They do seem to have a wide range of products that will be able to entice most online shoppers. If you are going to become listed on Market America achieve this for that products they provide not the business opportunity. Any business opportunity in which you only make $1500 commission off of $12,500 in sales is not excellent in my opinion. So make an effort to to help keep looking and just shop since you want to shop, to not make money.
