MLM Scams? The Trial of Lifevantage and ACN

Today we have on trial two of the worst Multi Level Marketing Scams to exist in my opinion. For all of you who are unfamiliar with Multi-Level Marketing AKA Pyramid schemes; let me fill you in really quick. A friend or a relative that you haven't heard from in a long time calls you up and tells you that they want to catch up with you and go over a LIFE CHANGING BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY with you. Of course this sparks your curiosity. They either show you a video or have some highly energetic motivational salesman in the room when you meet them and they blow smoke up your ass about how you can live a better life and experience the financial freedom that you deserve. On the video you will see testimonies of people that were broke just like you, living from check to check just like you, stressed about debts and robbing Peter to pay Paul just like you are.

They blow a thicker cloud of smoke up your ass and tell you that in order to see a change in life that you have to truly want it....who the fuck doesn't want to see a change in their lives? They then give you quotes from celebrities and other famous people and tell you habits of the successful and what they go through to gain their wealth. Visions of sugar plums starts to dance in your head of Champagne dreams and caviar wishes.

Your curiosity gets sparked as you are just seconds away from escaping that job that you slave away at all day until you are fired or until you die. Anxiously you await to hear how your life is going to change to the point where you can wake up and walk on the balcony of your dream house and see the sun rise over the ocean and look at your exotic European sports cars below in the garage or contemplate where you are going to travel to with that yacht at the dock or your airplane in the hangar.

You're not educated enough or too lazy to go through the motions of opening up your own business to build your own wealth so someone is going to give you an inventory of a product that people will want and need. With this you will also receive business cards and websites with YOUR name on it! In just a little under a year it is going to be you behind that podium with your rags to riches story!

In order to get there all you have to do is come up with the startup cost of $500. Yeah, you're struggling but the risk is worth the reward right? You want to be super wealthy don't you? You want to experience financial freedom and take trips to anywhere in the world you want to go, don't you? Sacrifice the $500 and you're on your way to changing your life even though you have a car that needs repair, utility bills that need to be paid, kids in school and a rent man that is unlike your salesman who don't have the option to take "No" for an answer. Fuck it, you'll be living in your house by the Ocean by the time the rent man goes to the magistrate and has the eviction notice drawn up, right? You'll be paying off your Lamborghini by the time the clunker that you are driving finally breaks down on you. Within no time you will be telling that man or woman who was nice enough to give you that job that you hate to fuck off.

Now you're about to show the world that you're not such a loser after all. Seems like the right thing to do right? You have celebrities endorsing the product and the company is on the New York Stock Exchange.

Hey, but it is not about the quality of the product that you are selling. It's about how many people that you sucker into signing up to make your real money. Why wouldn't the product be important as the names that you can add to your contact spreadsheet to signup under you? Let's take the question to Lifevantage first.

Gregg Morris = Con Artist, CEO of Automobile Recruiting solutions and Lifevantage Recruiter

I don't want to give them free advertising and the only reason I mention their name is to give them negative publicity. Sales reps have over saturated google and Youtube with their testimonies of the miracle drug called Protandim. It supposed to cure cancer, treat AIDS patients and prolong your life. In the great words of Gregg Morris (Google his name and type in Con Artist in the search field and do your own research on this used car salesman's history) Protandim salesman and Lifevantage member, "You have a moral obligation to your friends, family and loved ones to introduce this to them." Nothing like good old fashion deception, fear and guilt to soothe aggravation to sell a product, right?



Just like any Pyramid scheme the conversation will always be directed towards the high earning potentials and door prizes of winning luxury vehicles at sales conferences for all of your hard work. Before you are caught up in the smoke screen of materialistic goods and sending your children to Yale or Harvard, let me appeal to your common sense by asking you a series of questions.

They say that they have Doctors on board to further accredit this bullshit. However, with all the money that there is to be made from this product, don't you think a doctor would either abandon his practice where he makes only enough to give you the illusion of his success and become a real success by peddling this miracle cure? I mean we're talking about medical doctors that if they could get their hands on the cure for cancer or any other terminal illness then they would go right to the medical board and be proud not only to introduce this product but be an original endorser of it. That would do wonders for their careers, right?


Doctors just like pharmaceutical reps are required to have a degree in biology to even peddle the prescription poisons for pharmaceutical companies. This is why you were approached by a family member that more than likely owes money to more people than you care to admit and some slick talking shark that has more than likely made his or her money in other avenues to try and recruit you. Are there truly any pharmaceutical salespeople that feel in competition with the product of pyramid scheme snake oils when they are presenting their scientists invented and studied medicines to doctors?

All businesses exist to make money. That's the name of any game. Do you think that Pfizer or Johnson & Johnson is using this business model? Why aren't they knocking on your door or bugging the shit out of you to sell for them? You were told that you have integrity by your Lifevantage recruiter and they know everything that's good for you and everyone around you, don't they? I mean this is cutting edge cancer curing, HIV healing, anti-aging, nutritional all natural plant shit, right? Of course it is when it was seen on ABC Primetime...but also not too long before Protandim made it's great debut on ABC Primetime there was also a Faith Healer on that same show.

With a drug that can do this much, who the hell wants to recruit other people to work for them when they can sell it for themselves and make a shit ton of money, right? This is a product in this modern day world that would sell itself. The possession of this product alone outshines having a sales team that are energetic to sell it for you.

The second company on trial today is ACN (American Communications Company). The business model is the same. You can only make money if you recruit more people to peddle this bullshit service. Endorsed by Donald Trump himself, ACN representatives are spreading like wildfire.

The product of this pyramid scheme is to give people lower utility bills by offering them discounts on their home security systems, cellular phone companies, internet providers and cable companies. My question is, "How can they switch for a discount when two of the aforementioned are contracted purchases?" The ACN rep didn't answer my question. She just went on to blow smoke up my ass on  the earning potentials of suckering other people to sign up. She suggested that I take this product to my friends and family (as if I'm going to ruin good friendships and relations with my family).  

With the struggles in the economy in the United States, shouldn't we've heard about ACN before now? The number is high of all of the churches and charity organizations that are there to assist people who are struggling to pay their power bill alone. Donald Trump may be the next President but it is Obama who has his name on the discounted phone....DAMN, THAT RHYMED. LOL

It can be hard to think with common sense when you are opening your better judgment up to some energetic hotshot that tells you for once in your life that you can be somebody better than who you are already. They give you stories of how they once were in your shoes and how quickly their lives changed when they made the step of risking the money that they are asking you for that you really can't spare to lose.

"Stay Positive!" they will tell you as they sign your name on the sucker certificate. So now you've invested your money. Now you're on your way to Country Club memberships, ballroom dances, vacations with the kids to Disney World, getaways to the exotic Islands with your wife and retreats to ski resorts with your mistress. You are well on your way to having breakfast with Donald Trump, lunch with Bill Gates and dinner with the President as the paparazzi creates a lightning storm around your chauffeured car.

No? Your family and friends won't buy into this with you because they are not positive? Are they not positive because they lack the drive to do better or is it because they are thinking with logic when they see how bad you got fucked out of $500? Your friends are ignoring your calls? Every time your family has a get together you can't stop talking  about the potential of the product it is that you have to sell to see a return on your money?

Tapped out of family and friends? Go to your social media page where you can pitch to the people that you haven't seen since high school that same sales jargon you've learned from your ACN/ Lifevantage recruiter. Tell them that the internet is wrong when they do their own research on the companies and see the mountains of complaints from former people that were once in your shoes.

No, don't go forming an alliance with them so you can cope with looking at yourself in the mirror now that everyone thinks that you're full of shit. They just wrote those blogs and made those videos because they didn't do it right. They should've been more active, applied themselves better, listened to the bullshit at the workshops or plainly stayed positive.

Maybe instead of peddling this product, you should've bought stock in it being that it is on the NYSE. I'm going to end this blog with a strong word of advice. Nothing comes without hard work except for lottery winnings. Ask your recruiter that if you have so much integrity that you could compete with college educated doctors and pharmaceutical reps then why don't they loan you the money being that they can openly see that you are struggling to buy into the scheme or even pay for your seminars that they try to sell you when you are fail and getting frustrated at it?

What the hell do these Doctor's, pharmaceutical reps or professional businessmen know anyhow?! They just spent over thousands of dollars and sacrificed four to twelve years of their lives in some university where you just graduated high school and maybe dropped out of community college and can get on their level with just a five hundred dollar investment and information that you learned from some seminar.

As far as a high dollar salary coming to you in a year's time? Nothing comes overnight and without sacrifice. Hard work is the only way to get to the top of the mountain. If MLMs were the wave of the future then everyone would be doing it; especially businessmen and people that are way more educated about money than you are. There is nothing wrong with wanting to do better in life; it is only wrong when you waste the opportunities that are before you. It's not too late. Luxury cars, nice homes and lots of disposable income isn't financial freedom. The energy invested into chasing such material wealth is simply financial bondage.