Is Reliv Right For You?

Below is a comment we received from one of our readers. I am speechless and I encourage everyone to read it!!

"After my wife passed away at the tender age of 35, I inherited her Reliv business. Now that I had to raise a 6 month old, an 18 month old and a 7 year old I thought it would be great to be able to work from home. It seemed like a good opportunity at the time. I had good experience at marketing my day job on the internet and used my expertise in that area to sky-rocket my sales. I used Google PPC which back in 03 were a real bargain.

Between myself and one of my front-level Key Directors/distributors we were bringing in just over 410 new customers each and every month using Pay-Per-Click-thru Advertising called Google AdWords. This sales volume soon got the attention of the then, Reliv Vice-President os Sales, who then sent some of his Reliv Cronies (Ambassadors) on behalf of corporate to congratulate me on my newfound success and lucrative profitability. These so-called "Ambassadors" who said their greatest wish was to "Nourish Our World with Reliv" were actually in my upline and over the next few months got extremely jealous over the copious amount of business I was generating purely through simple everyday online marketing.

You see, these Ambassadors just happened to be traveling from city to city conducting recruitment seminars and hyping prospects with promises of a Brave New World for all who followed them. They called a special meeting of the "Inner Circle" Elite, yes that's actually what they like to call themselves. These are individuals who have gained the highest rankings with Reliv and who are essentially worshiped by Reliv hopefuls and treated more like Gods to must reign over the lowly, worthless new sign-ups.

Anyway, the topic of conversation was, you guessed it, me.

The "Inner Circle" didn't think it was fair that someone like me could bring in mass amounts of new customers and break all product sales records without having to do a one-on-one presentation in-person with each one of them. They felt that the best way to "share" their product was by throwing shake parties much like a Tupperware reps did back in the 60's & 70's. They also said the Internet gave ME an unfair advantage over the predominantly elderly, new Reliv distributor base and since those people were being taught that in-house demonstrations were the only way to go, my fancy-schmancy high-tech star-wars method of distribution would have to STOP and that I would need to start invading prospects homes and mailing out invitations and throwing shake parties like the rest of the old geezers were or I might get in trouble.

So as it stood, just before I was ready to quit my day job due to the fact that my Relkv commission checks were more than offsetting the loss of income I would have when I quit working, a strange and sudden Top-Level Executive Order comes down from Reliv brass that effective immediately, all distributor web sites shall be DELETED and any and all online ordering would now become prohibited in Reliv amended 'Policies & Procedures'.

Violation of this decree would result in the immediate termination of any and all Reliv distributors who did not submit, including eBay sales of Reliv products, which has since been the culprit for the termination of countless broke and scared distributors who, out of desperation, turn to eBay to hock their worthless powders online in attempts to break even on their losses before the Reliv Sharks behead every last remnant of financial freedom and stripping them of even the very minute morsel of hope.

Needless to say, this news was devastating to me and my dream of working from home. I knew that without customers coming in each month from my online endeavors, my income would plummet. Guess what, it did.

This company's ass-backwards thinking and anti-competitive ideas are just ridiculous in today's high-tech world of network marketing. And even today (2008) you still cannot buy their products online!! What is Reliv thinking? Why is Reliv slashing their own throat?! 99% of all MLM companies (except for Reliv) allow full online marketing and commerce, including the ability to order products, sponsor and promote on the internet. Reliv does not. Ask yourself what is Reliv trying to hide? What is Robert Montgomery afraid of?

If you are not a Reliv distributor, getting hold of the products is a living nightmare because you are forced to speak with an existing Reliv distributor (remember, no online ordering for customers) or you are forced to have the Reliv sales reps come out to your house to strong-arm you with a sales-y, hype-ridden opportunity presentation. This is where you can get the business opportunity shoved up your A**.

Now, if you go to the corporate web site http://www.Reliv.com and request information about how to become a distributor, those leads are filtered only to the elite "Inner Circle" and automatically signed up with one of those idiots based on where you live.

Reliv's products are absolutely the highest, most over-priced drug on the market and its not bio-available like they claim, its a GENETICALLY MODIFIED SOY-BASED powder!

How many bio-available nutrients do you really think are even present after this kind of isolate-processing?

They even put cancer-causing ASPARTAME artificial sweetener in the weight-loss product called Slimplicity which Reliv secretly hides from its sheeple under an alternate chemical name, as well, Reliv Delight, a powdered soy milk product, its predominant filler composition is PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL!!! Guys, that ingredient which is very, very bad for you and banned for use in food in nearly every country except the US and Mexico. Partially Hydroginated Oil is even banned in Canada and labeled as a poison. Why is Reliv selling products with so many chemicals in them? Even the so-called "Vitamin C" in the sugary Innergize (a koolaide-like punch mix) product is a man-made chemical called ascorbic-acid.

High end liquid nutrients like Hi5 by Waiora.com are much more effective at battling anti-aging, immune system breakdowns, etc.

If you want to learn more about a REAL multi-vitamin/mineral supplement in liquid form that anyone can afford then go to Vitamark.com or Waiora.com and get involved with a couple of companies with real vision, not out-dated old school network marketing that does not work for the masses in the age of technology.

Here is some info I found while surfing the web...

Reliv International manufactures its food/drug products in 14 countries with varying product lines. It uses an independent distribution recruitment & prize award system to help it sell sub-grade, over-priced products in these markets; in other words, Reliv is a Multi-Level Marketing ( MLM ) company that makes a few people at the top very, very rich people and then compels them to prey on the "new bloods" in order to sustain their lifestyle of the rich and famous. They are all liars and will do anything and say anything to recruit you and take your money. Outside of Reliv, tactics and behavior like this lands you in prison.

As such, unwitting participants of the Reliv scheme have lost dramatic amounts of money serving their "upline Masters" as lowly affiliates of Reliv. Most distributors eventually fall out and that majority who are the mass casualties now laid waste and pennyless consider Reliv just another pyramid scheme or barely-legal ponzi program that keeps itself one politician, one kickback ahead of an FTC violation or total asset shutdown and seizure.

This MLM company has multiple pyramid levels that lavishly reward the top "inner circle" insiders who "never have to sell product again." It is the upper levels on the Reliv food-chain who make all the easy money off the broke, down-trodden backs of the "product pushers." Its the lowly new blood at the bottom levels who toil to make a few dollars peddling these unhealthy GMO soy-based powders on their list of "friends and family" whom they're told to hustle first because family won't say "No." The top-tier mega-millionaires make an ever growing percentage of each sale by the product pushers on the bottom and also from the sale of motivational books & tapes and enrollment fees of the new recruits.

The fact is, the sheer and vast majority of unsuspecting victims of this "get rich quick" scheme fail to make any tangible profit because it is encouraged at Saturday Trainings that it is a distributor's moral obligation to reinvest any profit from product sales back into the city-wide Reliv Success System controlled and manipulated by the top paid distributors in that area, but they are quick to point out all monies paid are a great way to show some "tax deductions" with the IRS for your day job. How innovative, how manipulative!

Indeed, 98% of all Reliv distributors end up with less money than they started out with, this is simply the fact and provable based on the numbers provided by the DSA (Direct Selling Association). Of course, its always the distributors fault if they fail, because they did not have a big enough "Wall of Belief!" This is the same lie that gets propagated into all MLM’s.

Reliv International's business practices are barely legal, if not ethically questionable and a few elite insiders at the very top of the Reliv shady food chain do in fact make lots and lots of money from the scam, but they are the exception because they are highly trained to continually sign-up more people than they lose in order to beat the high rate of attrition that is so common in the MLM industry.

If you are not a recruiting machine and cannot turn off your morals or steal food out of babies mouths, then you're like most people, decent, honest, ethical and moral. Trust me, Reliv is NOT for you!"