OEI Corp operates within the private care and dietary complement MLM niches.
The corporate is predicated out Malaysia and headed up by co-founders Jaswinder Kaur and Gurdev Singh (Chairman).
Kourosh Sharifirad serves as OEI Corp’s CEO.
Sadly the company bios of OEI Corp’s executives reveal nothing about them. As a substitute every bio is little greater than a advertising spiel for the corporate.
The identical names are cited as administration for OEW Group, which seems to be OEI Corp’s dad or mum firm.
All three OEI Corp executives have been with the corporate for various years. So far as I can inform that is their first MLM enterprise.
For reference, the “OEW” in OEW Group stands for Ortus Knowledgeable White.
The “OEI” in OEI Corp stands for Ortus Knowledgeable Worldwide.
OEW Group, as Ortus Knowledgeable White Pte Ltd, seems to have been in enterprise since 2009. OEI Corp appears to have been launched on or round December 2017.
Learn on for a full evaluate of the OEI Corp MLM alternative.
OEI Corp Merchandise
OEI Corp markets private care and dietary dietary supplements via their Royal Valens and Royal Esence manufacturers.
OEI Corp’s Royal Esence branded private care merchandise embody;
- Oxygen Masks – a pores and skin hydrating formulation that retails for RM 190 for a 50 ml bottle ($45.40 USD)
- Multi-action Toner/Serum – a skincare toner based mostly on “purified water, butylene glycol, prunus yedeonsis leaf extract and isononyllsononanote”, retails at RM 315 ($75.30 USD) for a 100 ml bottle ($75.30 USD)
- Nuevena Stem Cell (girls)- a “pores and skin lightening” and anti-aging cream formulation containing “lumskin, allantoin and keratoline”, retails at RM 315 for a 50 ml tub and RM 225 for a 30 ml tub ($53.80 USD)
- Nuevena Stem Cell (males) – product description is just like the ladies’s selection though with totally different substances (peg-50 shea butter, betula alba leaf extract and jojoba oil peg 8 esters), retails at RM 225 for a 30 ml tub ($53.80 USD)
OEI Corp’s Royal Valens dietary complement line is marketed as “holistic wellness to detoxify, nourish & energize your physique”.
Every Royal Valens selection is bought as a 14 day cleansing plan that targets the digestive system.
- Royal Valens LetItGo – incorporates digestive enzymes, garcinia cambogia and combined berries, retails at RM 190 ($45.40 USD)
- Royal Valens Qinova – incorporates circumin, fucoidan, reishi mushroom and black seed oil, retails at RM 225 ($53.80 USD)
- Royal Valens Fitunix – incorporates guarana, honey, pomegranate and prune, retails at RM 190 ($45.40 USD)
The OEI Corp Compensation Plan
OEI Corp’s compensation is a hybrid binary/unilevel. Extra performance-based bonus swimming pools are additionally on provide.
OEI Corp Affiliate Ranks
There are eight affiliate ranks inside the OEI Corp compensation plan.
Together with their respective qualification standards they’re as follows:
- Social Connector – buy a Social Connector Pack or 80 PV value of product and keep 20 PV a month
- Social Networker – buy a Social Networker Pack or buy 160 PV value of product and keep 20 PV a month
- Social Government – buy a Social Government Pack or 400 PV value of product and keep 20 PV a month
- Social Supervisor – buy a Social Supervisor Pack or 800 PV value of product and keep 20 PV a month
- Pristine Director – keep 20 PV a month and generate 20,000 PV a month in your weaker binary aspect and recruit and keep a minimum of 4 Social Managers (two on each side of the binary workforce)
- Rising Director – keep 40 PV a month, generate 40,000 PV a month in your weaker binary aspect and recruit and keep a minimum of two Pristine Administrators (one on each side of the binary workforce)
- Victorious Director – keep 40 PV a month, generate 80,000 PV a month in your weaker binary aspect and recruit and keep a minimum of two Rising Administrators (one on each side of the binary workforce)
- World Beater – keep 40 PV a month, generate 200,000 PV a month in your weaker binary aspect and recruit and keep a minimum of two Victorious Administrators (one on each side of the binary workforce)
PV stands for “Private Quantity” and is gross sales quantity generated by retail gross sales and an affiliate’s personal orders.
Observe that the Social Supervisor rank have to be obtained previous to Pristine Director qualification.
Given PV necessities drop from 800 to 40 over these two ranks, I imagine as soon as achieved, Pristine Administrators not want to keep up Social Supervisor qualification standards.
Retail Commissions
Though retail pricing is supplied on the OEI Corp web site, they aren’t talked about within the firm’s compensation plan documentation.
The OEI Corp Polciies and Procedures references a “Enterprise Companion worth” (wholesale), so I imagine retail commissions are paid because the distinction between retail and wholesale pricing.
The 20% stage 1 fee fee paid through residual unilevel commissions suggests the retail fee fee might be additionally round 20%.
Replace twenty first November 2018 – OEI Corp has reached out and confirmed retail commissions are 22% to 22%. /finish replace
Recruitment Commissions
Every OEI Corp affiliate that indicators up should buy an affiliate pack.
An as much as 40% fee is paid out on the pack buy, based mostly on affiliate rank:
- Social Connectors earn 40% on Social Connector packs, 30% on Social Networker packs, 20% on Social Government packs and 10% on Social Supervisor packs
- Social Networkers earn 40% on Social Connector and Social Networker packs, 30% on Social Government packs and 20% on Social Supervisor packs
- Social Executives earn 40% on Social Connector, Social Networker and Social Government packs and 30% on Social Supervisor packs
- Social Managers earn 40% on all packs
The coded-nature of the recruitment commissions implies that if lower than 40% is paid out, the system searches upline for a better ranked affiliate.
As soon as discovered, they’re paid the distinction at their rank. If the 40% nonetheless hasn’t been paid out, the system searches greater until a Social Supervisor is discovered and what’s left of the 40% fee is paid out.
Observe that as Social Managers are initially paid the total 40% throughout all pack ranges, no coded bonus is paid out on their recruitment efforts.
Additionally notice that though not explicitly clarified in OEI Corp’s compensation plan documentation, I imagine Pristine Director and better ranks are paid the identical as Social Managers.
Residual Commissions (binary)
Social Connector to Social Supervisor ranked OEI Corp associates are paid residual commissions through a unilevel compensation construction.
A binary compensation construction locations an affiliate on the high of a binary workforce, break up into two sides (left and proper):
The primary stage of the binary workforce homes two positions. The second stage of the binary workforce is generated by splitting these first two positions into one other two positions every (4 positions).
Subsequent ranges of the binary workforce are generated as required, with every new stage housing twice as many positions because the earlier stage.
Positions within the binary workforce are crammed through direct and oblique recruitment of associates. Observe there isn’t a restrict to how deep a binary workforce can develop.
Residual binary workforce commissions are paid out twice a month as a share of matched gross sales quantity generated on each side of the binary workforce.
How a lot of a share an OEI Corp affiliate earns in residual binary workforce commissions is set by rank:
- Social Connectors earn 20% capped at $500 every week
- Social Networkers earn 22% capped at $1500 every week
- Social Executives earn 24% capped at $5000 every week
- Social Managers earn 26% capped at $12,500 every week
Residual Commissions (unilevel)
Pristine Director and better ranked OEI Corp associates are paid each binary and unilevel residual commissions.
A unilevel compensation construction locations an affiliate on the high of a unilevel workforce, with each personally recruited affiliate positioned immediately beneath them (stage 1):
If any stage 1 associates recruit new associates, they’re positioned on stage 2 of the unique affiliate’s unilevel workforce.
If any stage 2 associates recruit new associates, they’re positioned on stage 3 and so forth and so forth down a theoretical infinite variety of ranges.
Residual unilevel commissions are paid out as a share of gross sales quantity generated on as much as 7 unilevel workforce ranges.
What number of unilevel workforce ranges an OEI Corp affiliate earns on is set by rank:
- Pristine Administrators earn 20% on stage 1 (personally recruited associates) and 10% on stage 2, capped at $15 every week
- Rising Administrators earn 20% on stage 1, 10% on stage 2 and 5% on ranges 3 and 4, capped at $20,000 every week
- Victorious Administrators earn 20% on stage 1, 10% on stage 2, 5% on ranges 3 to five and three% on stage 6, capped at $25,000 every week
- World Beaters earn 20% on stage 1, 10% on stage 2, 5% on ranges 3 to five, 3% on stage 6 and a pair of% on stage 7, capped at $30,000 every week
Observe that to keep up binary fee payouts, Social Supervisor qualification standards have to be maintained.
Extra Bonuses
The OEI Corp compensation plan references a Key in Bonus, State Bonus and Firm World Pool Bonus.
- the Key in Bonus is 5% of month-to-month company-wide gross sales quantity and shared between Social Supervisor ranked associates
- the State Bonus is 2% of month-to-month company-wide gross sales quantity and shared equally between associates who enroll with a Social Supervisor pack
The Firm World Pool is awarded to World Beater ranked associates who keep Social Supervisor qualification standards.
OEI Corp don’t disclose the share of company-wide gross sales quantity the Firm World Pool is made up of.
Becoming a member of OEI Corp
OEI Corp affiliate membership is tied to the acquisition of one in every of 4 packs:
- Social Connector – $150
- Social Networker – $300
- Social Government – $750
- Social Supervisor – $1500
Pricing for these packs just isn’t supplied on the OEI Corp web site.
Along with bundled merchandise with every pack, the first distinction between them is on the spot rank achievement.
I imagine a Social Connector pack is required at a minimal, after which greater compensation ranks might be certified for through PV.
Conclusion
My first run via OEI Corp’s compensation plan led me to imagine associates had been both paid binary or unilevel residual commissions.
This made sense because the month-to-month PV requirement from Social Supervisor to Pristine Director drops from 800 to only 40.
As I obtained to the tip of the plan nonetheless I observed this description for the Firm World Pool Bonus;
Those that obtain World Beater (WB) with SM or 800PV equal, will benefit from the Bonus of Firm World Pool on a month-to-month qualification foundation.
This means that Social Supervisor qualification have to be maintained to obtain the Firm World Pool Bonus.
The one motive I can see a requirement for that’s to proceed to earn residual binary commissions.
The issue although is that if an affiliate is sustaining Social Supervisor rank, they’re sustaining a minimum of 800 PV a month – robotically satisfying their Pristine Director and better PV necessities.
Granted there’s different qualification standards on the Director ranks, but it surely simply appears unusual to incorporate PV.
I suppose at Pristine Director and better binary commissions are non-obligatory, so one can select to proceed incomes them or not by satisfying Social Supervisor rank qualification.
Little bit of an fascinating twist on residual commissions and one thing I hadn’t seen earlier than.
Replace twenty first November 2018 – OEI Corp have reached out to make clear month-to-month required PV. The 800 PV is simply required to initially qualify. /finish replace
Sadly the remainder of OEI Corp’s alternative isn’t as much as commonplace.
Issues start with the character of how OEI Corp associates are suggested to construct their enterprise.
As above, which is taken immediately from advertising materials on the OEI Corp web site, new associates are instructed they “should” buy a pack.
They’re then suggested to recruit two others inside 90 days who do the identical.
This continues to duplicate, and over time you construct your OEI Corp enterprise.
Nowhere is retail gross sales talked about or featured as a element of the enterprise. And the absence of retail commissions in OEI Corp’s compensation documentation didn’t go unnoticed.
I’m going to exit on a limb right here and say that almost all of month-to-month PV necessities for OEI Corp associates is probably going happy via autoship, versus retail gross sales.
For an MLM firm it is a drawback. If nearly all of gross sales quantity generated company-wide are affiliate orders (autoship or in any other case), that MLM firm is working as a pyramid scheme.
One other regulatory compliance drawback is “pay to play”.
OEI Corp associates select their fee fee by paying extra for an affiliate pack, thus rewarding associates who spend extra.
Tying fee charges to affiliate spend encourages stock loading, the place product is bought to qualify for greater commissions versus real want.
OEI Corp seem to have already obtained some pushback on this, as evidenced by a November eighth video uploaded to their YouTube channel.
Folks hear MLM & begin operating away! Are you one in every of them, haunted by the entire system?
PONZI/SCAM/CHEATING/MONEY GAME/FRAUD/PYRAMID SCHEME is all you hear????
So, what actually is the issue right here? Is MLM actually all about what the taboo says? Watch & choose for your self!
Sadly the video in query fails to deal with any of the considerations I’ve raised above. As a substitute CEO Kourosh Sharifirad spends many of the video urging viewers to place apart preconceptions of MLM and enroll as OEI Corp associates anyway.
So far as OEI Corp’s merchandise go, they appear to be an enchancment over what was supplied via OEW Group.
Though it doesn’t seem like bought anymore, a minimum of not via OEI Corp, I really feel obligated to level out a regulatory warning issued in Singapore final 12 months.
Previous to the launch of OEI Corp, OEW Group marketed Royal Knowledgeable Whitening Cream.
In Could 2017 the Singaporean Well being Sciences Authority issued a warning towards Royal Knowledgeable Whitening Cream.
The regulator claimed testing revealed the product contained “3000 instances the allowed quantity of mercury”.
It alerted the general public to not purchase or use Royal Knowledgeable Whitening Cream and instructed sellers to take away all listings.
HSA suggested those that have purchased the product to cease utilizing it instantly and throw it away.
Reasonably than affirm or deny mercury ranges of their whitening cream product, OEW Group responded by stating;
Sellers are allowed to distribute their merchandise solely in Malaysia.
This isn’t a brand new challenge as there (have) been many counterfeit and imitation Royal Knowledgeable merchandise available in the market, and we’ve got taken all the required steps to curtail this challenge.
So far as I can inform, there was no indication within the HSA warning that the OEW Group merchandise examined had been counterfeit.
OEI Corp nonetheless promote a pores and skin whitening cream via their Nuevena Stem Cell cream. Whether or not the mercury stage challenge has been addressed or not I can’t say.
I did discover OEI Corp’s response to the HSA warning to be considerably regarding nonetheless. The solely acceptable response would have been to verify their merchandise don’t include dangerous ranges of mercury, and if that’s the case acknowledge the fault and cease promoting the product altogether.
I did notice that OEI Corp web site states the corporate expects ‘to gasoline speedy development within the Malaysian, Indonesian, Indian and South African Market within the close to future’. No thought on what the regulation for mercury in skincare merchandise is in Malaysia, but when OEI Corp haven’t addressed the difficulty it’s doubtless it’ll resurface ultimately.
As a possible client I’d discover that worrying.
Replace twenty first November 2018 – OEI Corp have reached out with the next response to my concern concerning potential mercury content material of their merchandise;
All of OEI Corp’s merchandise are registered with the Well being Ministry of Malaysia. Adhering to the Malaysian regulatory system, our merchandise can solely be registered after going via all of the related testing by the Nationwide Pharmaceutical Regulatory Company.
As for OEI Corp’s merchandise, all of them are made with the best high quality merchandise accessible available in the market and incorporates 16 patented substances.
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The remainder of OEI Corp’s product traces appear above-board. Nothing notably stood out however there was respectable synergy between what was supplied. Reasonably than go for a broad “we hope one thing sticks” vary, OEI Corp have a smaller focused vary, making it a better promote for associates.
That’s if the associates are targeted on retail gross sales, which going by OEI Corp’s compensation plan and advertising materials, for probably the most half I don’t imagine is the case.
Before everything OEI Corp want to transform their compensation plan, particularly how associates enroll.
Abolish tying greater spend packs to fee charges and as a substitute have everybody begin on the Social Connector rank.
Break up greater rank required PV between affiliate income and retail income (50/50 or greater), and go from there.
Till these points are addressed at a minimal, the OEI Corp MLM alternative leaves loads to be desired.
Replace thirtieth Could 2019 – Someday over the previous few months Ortus Knowledgeable White have renamed themselves to Dr Esence Sdn Bhd.