SUBMITTED: Tuesday, June 13, 2006
POSTED: Tuesday, June 13, 2006
What most people don't realize, because they don't listen between the lines, is that Lapre has stacked the deck squarely in his favor. You get paid $1000 for each *20* new customers you bring in. If you bring in 19 customers, you get nothing. Even if they were playing honest with the numbers, chances are that you're not going to bring in exact multiples of 20 customers at a time so they're going to make additional money from you. If you bring in 39 new customers, that's $1560 for them, of which they only owe you $1000. The economics otherwise just don't add up.
Secondly, as someone else said, you get no residuals from multiple orders, only from brand new customers. If you bring in 500 people that keep re-ordering, that's all gravy for Lapre's people. Third, you operate as a MLM, bringing in more "independent advertisers", which means even more people trying to make money for Lapre's company.
However, the biggest problem is that you don't have a clue what's really going on. You have no way of tracking how many hits you get to your website, nor how many people are actually buying. You have to trust Lapre that he's actually telling you the truth. For all you know, your site is generating 500 new customers a month, but he's going to claim you only sold 18 this month, and therefore don't get anything.
The same goes for your MLM advertisers. You don't even know who they are, much less what they're doing. Nothing says that Lapre has to sign them up as "tagged" to you, nor pay you when they get 20 new buyers, nor do anything whatsoever. All he has to do is rake in the bucks at $40 a bottle for cheap vitamins that cost him a couple pennies to make, maybe throw you a bone now and then for amazingly making over 20 sales in a week, and encourage you to keep trying harder when you're "almost there".
Like most of the other things Lapre has done, it's the fine print and what they don't say that you have to pay attention to. They stress the magic number *20* new customers, hoping nobody is going to ask what happens with 19 or 39 or 59, or ask for Lapre's company to prove how many people actually buy off the site.