TEAM / MonaVie Scam!

Hello World!

Welcome to the website! This website is dedicated to inform the general public of the current scam (MLM - Multi-Level Marketing) selling MonaVie products (Açaí Berries). The information on this website is to help you avoid being caught in this crooked deal.

Please take this information seriously as you read through the website.

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Facts : 

• ...the MonaVie Active juice “tested extremely low in anthocyanins and phenolics” and that “even apple juice (which also tested poorly) has more phenolics”. (Source)
  
  
• ... MonaVie’s vitamin C level was 5 times lower than that of Welch’s Grape Juice.” (Source)
  
  
• The average annualized income for all Distributors during this period was $2,918.22. From July 2008 to June 2009, approximately 87% of individuals who executed a MonaVie Distributor Application and Agreement, and made at least one purchase in the last 12 months, are considered wholesale customers. (Source)
  
  

• The drink is not made up of 100% freeze dried Açai. They use a blend of Açai puree and freeze dried Açai. (Source)

• MonaVie is not purchasing their Açai berries from Sambazon (source of the best berries).  (Source)
  
  
• For a $39 initiation fee and responsibility for sales of at least eight bottles of MonaVie a month, people can retail the product and build their own sales tree, which is where the big money is. In two years, Whitaker and Nafziger have built a 30,000-person tree, earning them up to 20 percent of every sale—which is more than $1 million each in annual commission. (Source)
  
  
• ... each bottle of the drink costs $45. A one month supply is about $180. (Source) 
  
  
• ...according to MonaVie’s 2007 income disclosure statement, a federally required printout of their distributor earnings. More than 90 percent were considered “wholesale customers,” whose earnings are mostly discounts on sales to themselves. Fewer than 1 percent qualified for commissions and of those, only 10 percent made more than $100 a week... (Source)
  
  
• Critics call MonaVie a “legalized scam” that benefits only a few kingpin executives. The product itself, they say, is an overhyped fruit drink that eludes drug regulation by the Food and Drug Administration by letting its distributors (as opposed to MonaVie itself) make the health promises. (Source)

• Forbes magazine reporters Emily Lambert and Klaus Kneale noted:  “... It is selling motivational aids to help MonaVie vendors move the juice... (Source)