Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

1. Getting kidnapped into sitting through presentations - a friend of my wife invited us to a "housewarming." We were surrounded by what I thought were her friends and family, but most of them turned out to be Nerium Brand Partners. 2. Products show miraculous results, but they tell you they can't make an actual health claim or the FDA will jump down their throats. 3. There is no scientific consensus on how the product works, or even if it works - it's all based on anecdotal evidence 4. You're forced to trust your zombie friends and family who are pushing the program on you. Otherwise, you will strain your relationships. But afterwards, if you find that you hate the product, the relationship is strained anyway. Bottom line, if they really cared about their relationships with people, they wouldn't push this stuff on others. 5. The anti-aging claim - really can't be proven. We're all getting older and will eventually die, but appeal to our vanity and we'll buy anything. 6. The get rich quick nature of these schemes. Nerium's compensation plan is one of the most complicated ones I've ever seen. The simplest thing is the quick start program. if, in 90 days, you can get 39 Brand Partners (sales rep) in your downline at $500-1000 per Rep, plus a minimum or three preferred customers who automatically buy a minimum of $80 per month, you qualify for a free bottle of product, an iPad, a $500 car payment and up to $2500 in other bonuses. 7. The pressure to get people signed up quickly. Everything is based on "fast start qualifying" for you and then the people in your downstream. Why take time to decide if you even like the product when you need to get everyone signed up so you can get an iPad and a Lexus? 8. The testimonials of a few people how got in at the start of the pyramid. They make $500K or a $1,000,000 a year, but they've got hundreds of people in their downline. There are always a special few who have these huge networks, while the vast majority of people at the bottom make nothing. In case you haven't noticed, the top sales directors talk about having been in "relationship marketing" for years. In other words, they have been building a personal downline network and they just keep finding a new pyramid scheme to get into and bring their network with them. 9. How cheap the product really is when you subtract all the commissions and bonuses for all the layers of people within the MLM organization. You get one free product for every person you bring in. Every person gets one free product for every person they bring in. So, during the fast start qualifying program, one product is being given away for every person who signs on to buy the product. Not counting all the bonuses, the $80 retail price has been cut in half by the free giveaways. 10. The incredible number of negative reviews on Amazon about this product. Out of 696 reviews, 282 were 5-stars, while 200 were 1-star. Since we know the sales reps are going to write great reviews about the product they're selling, that leaves us with a surprisingly high and troubling number of bad reviews.