A couple of week in the past BehindMLM reported on Vasayo shutting down.
The corporate was bought to CEO Daniel Picou, who plans to relaunch the corporate beneath a special title.
Coinciding with that is Life Sensible, one other Vasayo spinoff pre-launched by former Vasayo Black Diamond Rob Alwin.
Not surprisingly, Alwin was additionally a Black Diamond in Monavie, Vasayo founder Dallin Larsen’s earlier MLM firm.
Alwin left Monavie in June 2012. Three months later he signed on as Jeunesse distributor.
I don’t understand how lengthy Alwin was with Jeunesse however Vasayo launched in December 2016.
Along with MLM, Alwin runs Lake Life Properties.
Lake Life Properties is a house flipping / property creating / property administration firm.
We buy run down houses and main tasks and rebuild the house to love new situation!!
We promote some and hire some. Now we have been doing this since 1987.
In pre-launching Life Sensible, Alwin is joined by former Vasayo Chief Scientific Advisor Tracy Gibbs.
On LinkedIn Gibbs cites himself as a “world famend formulator within the nutraceutical business.”
A 2021 advertising puff-piece, revealed by the Native American Fatherhood & Household Affiliation of all locations, moreover cites Gibbs as ” the formulator of over 900 dietary dietary supplements and skincare merchandise”.
Though Larsen has bought Vasayo, one would suppose Alwin, a Black Diamond, would wish to keep on with the corporate.
Additional questions come up when you think about it takes time to place collectively an MLM firm, suggesting Life Sensible has been within the works for a while.
Gibbs left Vasayo in June 2022, which provides a most seven-month time window.
Sadly I wasn’t capable of definitively pin down why Alwin isn’t persevering with on with no matter Daniel Picou relaunches Vasayo as.
I is perhaps studying an excessive amount of into it, however one Life Sensible advertising video addressing transparency caught my eye.
Within the video, Alwin states;
I’ve a really, very sturdy message that I wish to share with you of us.
There’s something referred to as management, and it’s both genuine and trustworthy, or it’s manipulative.
There are firms on the market with completely no transparency, and sadly that’s a heartbreak.
Nevertheless it’s why I’m not with these sure firms.
In one other video, Alwin states;
We’re not constructing this compensation plan to make a bunch of cash and promote the corporate.
We’re not constructing the enterprise in order that we will sit in an ivory tower.
Over the past three years as I searched and searched and searched my coronary heart to encourage myself to go do it, my integrity wouldn’t let me go construct as a result of it was too many issues I didn’t agree with.
So I believed I’ll simply pray for them and absolutely they’ll make adjustments.
Nope, these doorways closed and now they’re proper again on the usual issues.
Given Vasayo simply got here to an finish and with it Alwin’s time on the firm, I feel the context is fairly apparent.
One factor I’ll say is, for all of Alwin’s speak of transparency, Life Sensible at the moment doesn’t seem to exist past a YouTube account and closed FaceBook group.
If Life Sensible does have an online presence, it has not been made public (a lot for transparency).
One other title of curiosity is Life Sensible’s Vice President, Gregg Adelman (proper).
Adelman cites himself as a “founding accomplice” of Vasayo. As per Adelman’s LinkedIn profile, he joined Vasayo in January 2017.
Previous to Vasayo, Adelman was a promoter of the infamous OneCoin Ponzi scheme.
The Ponzi facet of OneCoin collapsed in January 2017. As of November 2018, Adelman was nonetheless desperately attempting to money out of OneCoin:
On the time Adelman had amassed 145,990.69 nugatory ONE Ponzi factors in his OneCoin backoffice.
Adelman hoped to dump his nugatory ONE factors onto a brand new sufferer for $1 a degree:
Getting again to Life Sensible, in a fifteenth February Fb submit by Alwin we study the corporate is predicated out of Arkansas.
Life Sensible’s headquarters presently seems to be a residential property.
Learn on for a full evaluate of Life Sensible’s MLM alternative.
Life Sensible’s Merchandise
On February twentieth Life Sensible uploaded a video to their YouTube channel titled “Life Sensible Merchandise with Dr. Tracy Gibbs”.
Within the video Gibbs confirms he’s behind Life Sensible’s product line and particulars three merchandise:
- Dream – cyclodextrin delivered sleep help containing melatonin and saffron extract, bought in a field of 30 single-use strips
- Restore – SMEDDS delivered black cumin seed oil and frankincense complement focusing on irritation, bought in a bottle of 60 softgel capsules
- Readability – cyclodextrin delivered “power boosting” complement, bought in a field of 30 single-use strips
In one other video Rob Alwin states Life Sensible may even have a $35 “management growth program”.
This system is put collectively by Chris Clem, Senior Pastor at Highland Meeting.
One of the best instructing from the most effective folks. Dr. Clem will probably be interviewing all the precise folks, folks you wish to study from.
He’s creating curriculum to assist lead you into your individual private promised land.
Retail pricing has not been disclosed for any of Life Sensible’s merchandise.
From their compensation advertising nevertheless, it seems Life Sensible’s merchandise will probably be priced between $35 to $39.
That is offered as wholesale pricing. Whether or not retail pricing is extra and even out there is unknown.
Life Sensible’s Compensation Plan
Life Sensible associates join and decide to a month-to-month autoship order.
Commissions are paid once they recruit others who do the identical.
Life Sensible pays commissions by way of a unilevel compensation construction.
A unilevel compensation construction locations an affiliate on the high of a unilevel crew, with each personally recruited affiliate positioned instantly beneath them (degree 1):
If any degree 1 associates recruit new associates, they’re positioned on degree 2 of the unique affiliate’s unilevel crew.
If any degree 2 associates recruit new associates, they’re positioned on degree 3 and so forth and so forth down a theoretical infinite variety of ranges.
Life Sensible caps recruitment commissions down seven unilevel crew ranges.
Commissions are paid as a flat quantity based mostly on orders positioned on any of the seven ranges:
- degree 1 (personally recruited associates) – $5 per product bought
- degree 2 – $3 per product bought
- degree 3 – $2 per product bought
- ranges 4 to 7 – $1 per product bought
Life Sensible Affiliate Ranks
There are seven affiliate ranks inside Life Sensible’s compensation plan.
Together with their respective qualification standards, they’re as follows:
- Bronze Associate – earn $200 every week
- Silver Associate – earn $300 every week
- Gold Associate – earn $500 every week
- Ruby Associate – earn $1000 every week and have three Silver Companions or larger in your downline
- Emerald Associate – earn $2000 every week and have three Gold Companions or larger in your downline
- Diamond Associate – earn $3000 every week and have three Ruby Companions or larger in your downline
- Black Diamond Associate – earn $5000 every week and have three Diamond Companions or larger in your downline
Notice that required rank particular downline associates should be in separate unilevel crew legs.
E.g. At Emerald Associate you want three Gold Companions or larger in your downline. Every Gold Associate or larger should be in a separate unilevel crew leg.
Whether or not there are any rewards hooked up to Life Sensible rank qualification is unclear.
Becoming a member of Life Sensible
Life Sensible affiliate membership is $99 yearly.
Life Sensible Conclusion
Whereas Vasayo had a powerful retail providing, Life Sensible is an easy autoship recruitment scheme.
Rob Alwin: That is going to be a spot the place you may get concerned and spend $39 a month … you’re by no means going to be requested to purchase greater than that.
We’d counsel completely different enterprise proposals to point out you find out how to construct massive and powerfully, that perhaps you get two merchandise and spend $78.
Possibly we solely require you to sponsor one individual on autoship of $39 a month. However, what if I laid out a plan the place if every individual for 4 you’ll finally, with only one product, with no entrance loading, you would find yourself making a major six determine earnings of us?
The truth is you would make a major earnings even should you solely obtained one individual began.
Right here I’m, I’m in at no cost till after launch. Free.
I’m figuring out whether or not I wish to spend $35 or $39 on autoship. There’s your comp plan.
Nowhere in Life Tree’s publicly out there advertising materials are retail gross sales talked about. The truth is I don’t even know if retail gross sales are even potential.
The FTC has made it clear that retail gross sales are what differentiates official MLM firms from scams.
If an MLM firm isn’t producing the vast majority of its gross sales income from retail clients, they’re working as a pyramid scheme.
Life Sensible’s compensation plan, as offered by founder and CEO Rob Alwin, is seven ranges deep of autoship recruitment. There is no such thing as a retail element as offered.
Rob Alwin: Signal somebody up at no cost and spend $35 or $39 … you are able to do that as many instances as you want or solely as soon as.
And you bought 4 associates, and so they say to you, they go, “What can we do?”
And what do you say? Go get 4.
You solely want one however we suggest go get 4.
When your 4 folks every go get 4, now there’s sixteen folks. And you bought sixteen instances three, and also you simply made 48 bucks.
You’re bringing in 4. Your 4 grows right into a $285,000 a yr earnings.
And even when there was (one is perhaps rapidly tacked on following publication of this evaluate), Life Sensible’s core enterprise mannequin is clear: join, decide to autoship and recruit different associates who do the identical.
That’s your basic MLM autoship recruitment pyramid scheme.
And, naturally, sitting on the high of mentioned autoship recruitment pyramid scheme, is Alwin and the remainder of Life Sensible’s executives;
Tracy Gibbs: I’m tremendous excited to be teaming up with Rob on this new enterprise of ours, and having a compensation plan that’s utterly clear.
We’re constructing groups, proper there with you. And that’s our wage … we receives a commission off the compensation plan.
Rob Alwin: We obtained positions within the enterprise, constructing the identical comp plan and getting paid precisely the best way you do.
Satirically Alwin appears capable of establish fraud…
Most compensation plans at most firms, there’s large fraud happening.
They’re inserting positions above you to draw the chief as an alternative of permitting the chief to return up and present you the way it’s finished, genuine and actual.
…however takes subject with secrecy behind pyramid schemes, versus the pyramid scheme itself.
Shifting on to Life Sensible’s merchandise, they appear moderately priced for what they’re. Sadly any merchandise hooked up to an autoship recruitment scheme are secondary to the scheme itself.
One other disturbing facet to Life Sensible is the heavy integration of faith. Consider what you wish to consider, however mixing faith and MLM lends itself to toxicity, cliques and discrimination.
As an instance a degree, let’s say hypothetically I’m an atheist. Pyramid scheme or no I see Life Sensible as an earnings alternative and make my approach up the corporate’s affiliate ranks.
I’m incomes a good earnings on recruitment. However how lengthy will or not it’s earlier than me considering Christianity is a crock of shit turns into an issue?
One particularly potential problematic space is Pastor Chris Clem “creating curriculum to assist lead you into your individual private promised land.”
Is Life Sensible’s management growth program spiritual themed? In that case, that’s a doubtlessly main downside for anybody not religiously inclined. Or doubtlessly even worse, following the improper faith.
So? Simply don’t purchase this system then, duh.
Certain, and if that was the one crimson flag I’d be prepared to present Life Sensible and Alwin the advantage of the doubt. Life Sensible’s advertising materials nevertheless is already closely laced with spiritual undertones.
I’d be very shocked if Clem’s program wasn’t closely pushed onto Life Sensible associates.
Once more, by all means consider what you wish to consider – however mixing faith and MLM is mostly a foul concept.
When mixed with a pyramid model autoship recruitment mannequin, it additionally permits spiritual affinity fraud as a advertising instrument.
As with all pyramid schemes, as soon as affiliate recruitment dries up so too will commissions for current Life Sensible associates.
Until new victims are discovered, these on the backside of Life Sensible’s compensation plan will over time cancel their month-to-month autoship.
This may see these above them cease getting paid and in time cancel their very own autoship.
As soon as sufficient Life Sensible associates cancel autoship, an irreversible collapse is triggered.
The mathematics behind pyramid schemes ensures that almost all of members lose cash.
At present in prelaunch, Life Sensible is scheduled to launch in full on July 4th, 2023.