WATCH OUT!! DO NOT JOIN!! Global Leadership Alliance or GLA is a definite illegal pyramid scheme and they will try to recruit you at all costs. The company sells their alkaline water bottles at a whopping $300-$350, yet you can get the same exact thing for only $99 straight from the very company that they resell from (www.myalkalark.com). They will claim these bottles are a "miracle" or "fountain of youth" product when in fact, there is no scientific research at all to back up those claims.
Would you really want to go out and rip off your friends and family by selling them these bottles knowing that they could save $200-$250? ...especially in these economic times where these products are far from necessary? Well guess what? You're not required to go out and sell any products at all. That's right... this company is based primarily on recruitment and excessive inventory loading, which is one of the main defining characteristics of a pyramid scam. Here's why:
Your position and income is based on bonus points (BPs). The more BPs you have, the higher position you can achieve with more income. The comapny's model is based on a binary system which means distributors only have 2 direct downline(2 "legs"), however the 2-get-2 expansion downwards is endless and infinite (endless chain of recruiting).
The ranks and requirements are:
Master Trainer: Requires at least 400 BPs in each leg
Area Team Leader: Requires at least 2,000 BPs in each leg
Regional Team Leader: Requires at least 5,000 BPs in each leg
Area Director: Requires at least 15,000 BPs in each leg
Regional Director: Requires at least 25,000 BPs in each leg
Senior Vice President: Requires at least 150,000 BPs in each leg
Global Vice President: Requires at least 750,000 BPs in each leg
Here's the buy-in options for new recruits:
Bronze Package: Costs $299 / Generates 160 BPs anywhere in your network.
Silver Package: Costs $599 / Generates 400 BPs anywhere in your network.
Gold Package: Costs $1,099 / Generates 800 BPs anywhere in your network.
The more expensive packages simply stocks more inventory of product to the new recruit initially. In turn, it generates more bonus points. What's really disturbing is that these positions can be achieved without a single product being sold to outside customers, and can be achieved solely by recruitment and inventory loading. There is NO REQUIREMENT to sell products AT ALL. Let's do an example to see why:
Let's say a distributor wanted to achieve Regional Director. He/She needs 25,000 BPs in each leg. This can be achieved simply by:
-Recruiting 32 people in each leg on the gold package (25,000 / 800)
or
-Recruiting 63 people in each leg on the silver package (25,000 / 400)
or
-Recruiting 157 people in each leg on the bronze package (25,000 / 160)
That wasn't counting the bonus points generated by what the company calls "autoship" (inventory loading). In order to qualify for ANYTHING... to receive ANY income or get promoted to ANY position in this company, the distributor HAS to always be on a monthly autoship program which costs an additional $100 a month. This "autoship" is a stock of products shipped to the distributor every month. For every distributor who's on autoship, it generates 80 BPs in the network, and since autoship is REQUIRED to qualify for anything, every distributor is going to be on it.
So say for example you got 200 recruits in each of your 2 downline legs. It doesn't matter which package they get... That would generate 16,000 BPs (200 x 80) per month for each leg. The BPs also never ever reset, so it just keeps adding and stacking up. So that would mean in 12 months, your 200 recruits would generate 192,000 BPs on top of the BPs received from their initial sign-up.
192,000 BPs per year... with only the distributors receiving products. You can clearly see why no product needs to be sold to non-distributor customers and that it is in fact a pyramid scheme. Often,