Monday, January 5, 2009

The USANA Cellular Compensation Plan

Here's an interesting article outlining some of the problems with USANA's comp plan.

The USANA Cellular Compensation Plan

To sum it up:

Distributors keep paying into the system in the hope that they'll eventually make enough money to cover their expenses, and those commission payments are always just around the corner. USANA uses the concept of deferred commissions as a carrot to keep their distributors involved.

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There are several features of a network marketing company that should indicate that there are problems:


  • The company is more concerned with their structure than with the product they're selling.
  • The company's structure does not appear to provide any added value to the customer.
  • The company's structure has elaborate and complicated rules for no readily apparent purpose.
  • The company has numerous levels for supposedly independent distributors.
  • The company spends a lot of time insisting that it's not a pyramid scam.


USANA has all of these features, and then some. But the worst one is taking advantage of people's enthusiasm, hard work, and ambition, by promising a dream they have no intention of providing.

4 comments:

Kerry and Janet Hein said...

Court certified MLM expert, Len Clements has an offer for you, Usanareport.

Here's the post from the Usana thread, over at scam.com.

We're all waiting eagerly to hear from you, as we're looking forward to the 'debate'.

Here's the post from Len...

"When you continued to dodge my debate challenge I gave up and stopped following this thread. I was then informed in February by another poster that you had allegedly agreed to go forward with the debate under the terms I described. I'm assuming this post was what they were referring to.

Due to a lot of travel and and other projects I wasn't in a position to pursue this earlier this year - but that should be even better for you! Now you've had almost six months to "prepare".

So, how does this Tuesday, the 26th sound? That will give you another whole week to "prepare".

Len Clements"

Lady Theresa Hartman said...

You know, most companies that you would stay on your own - franchises, shops, restaurants - fail within 5 years without ever BREAKING EVEN! And that's traditional business. With this business, you can stay out making checks sporadically, if you're just doing it to get the vitamins at a discount, like many people do, or you can Go Pro, and work this thing! Is based on self-determintaion, not on a guaranteed salary, given (and determined )by a boss, who is making more than you, no matter what kind of moron he may be. In USANA, no matter what kind of moron brought you in, you can make more than he or she does. There's nobody so needs to die or retire to make room. There's no glad ceiling. There's no age or gender discrimination. The only thing keeping you down is you. You decide who you want in charge of making your dreams come true. I choose me. I choose to do USANA.

Lady Theresa Hartman said...

You know, most companies that you would stay on your own - franchises, shops, restaurants - fail within 5 years without ever BREAKING EVEN! And that's traditional business. With this business, you can stay out making checks sporadically, if you're just doing it to get the vitamins at a discount, like many people do, or you can Go Pro, and work this thing! Is based on self-determintaion, not on a guaranteed salary, given (and determined )by a boss, who is making more than you, no matter what kind of moron he may be. In USANA, no matter what kind of moron brought you in, you can make more than he or she does. There's nobody so needs to die or retire to make room. There's no glad ceiling. There's no age or gender discrimination. The only thing keeping you down is you. You decide who you want in charge of making your dreams come true. I choose me. I choose to do USANA.

Lady Theresa Hartman said...

You know, most companies that you would stay on your own - franchises, shops, restaurants - fail within 5 years without ever BREAKING EVEN! And that's traditional business. With this business, you can stay out making checks sporadically, if you're just doing it to get the vitamins at a discount, like many people do, or you can Go Pro, and work this thing! Is based on self-determintaion, not on a guaranteed salary, given (and determined )by a boss, who is making more than you, no matter what kind of moron he may be. In USANA, no matter what kind of moron brought you in, you can make more than he or she does. There's nobody so needs to die or retire to make room. There's no glad ceiling. There's no age or gender discrimination. The only thing keeping you down is you. You decide who you want in charge of making your dreams come true. I choose me. I choose to do USANA.