Is This Why Monavie Costs So Much?
Mon, Oct 29, 2007
One of the most popular posts I have ever written here at Scam types dot Com is one that asks, “Is Monavie A Scam?”.
In addition to having received a colossal number of visitors, that post has also attracted well over 200 comments too.
These comments can, predominantly, be categorised as either pro- or anti- monavie.
One of the main criticisms I had when I wrote the post, that has been mentioned by several commentators too, is that Monavie is simply very expensive.
The following picture may help to explain why drinking Monavie could, potentially, cost you hundreds of dollars per month -
So, as some of the pro-monavie commentators have said, the reason it is so expensive may be because you are drinking far more than you need to each day.
Do you drink too much monavie?
Tags: Monavie
Loading ...
Woot! woot! This really made me chuckle.
Do you really need to drink that much mona vie to see any effects?
I bet he spends rest of his time in the loo. His doctor will tell him later that most of it however is passed in the urine. I believe magic potions like these are mostly hoax as they are nothing more than vitamin supplements
But..but..but.. it’s full of antioxidants.. so it must be good.
Right?
Hey, I resemble that remark!
If Monavie was cheap enough, that would probably be me at any rate.
Ya, I’m a “juice dealer.”
…And I support Ron Paul too.
Apparently I just live for controversy
Don’t you mean you resemble the man in the photo?!?
As a Brit, I don’t know too much about Ron Paul, other than some of his more controversial speaches. From what I have heard, he would either be a great President or get assassinated real quick.
Of course that’s irrelevant cos Hilary has already won
Yup, that’s exactly what I meant. I drink close to a half a gallon of various juices throughout the day just ’cause I like ‘em. So it’s no stretch to think I’d be putting down a fifth of Monavie per day could I afford to.
Mixes quite well with my evening vodka indulgence too.
I’d say your take on Paul is spot on. Be careful mentioning his name, especially within shouting distance of “MonaVie.” Either seem quite capable of stirring up spontaneous online shit storms.
I thought your take on the MV biz was well balanced and objective. I hope you write on other subjects as well. Objective and honest journalism is tough to find these days.
Best,
RON PAUL
RON PAUL
RON PAUL
See.. no problems mentioning his name here (no grassy knolls or book repositories where I live
)
Honest and objective is very much a point of view. However, as I am in the UK, I’m precluded from being involved in these MLMs and, so, hopefully my opinion is not overly prejudiced by experience.
Honest and objective as a point of view? Hmmnn.. If so, I’ll still take it over what passes for journalism in the U.S. Given the same subject were they to appear in our papers would have headlined;
“MonaVie Scam Robs The Poor and Elderly!
“Is also linked to cult-like behavior and suspected ties to Al-Queda”
Then the rest of the article would slowly wind down with some veiled references, hearsay and innuendo sprinkled with speculations.
With the last paragraph or two basically admitting than no due-diligence nor fact checking had actually been done as the author runs for cover and attempts to distance himself from his own words.
But hey, he made deadline!
I’m glad to see that the UK isn’t the only country that tries to find a link between just about everything and international terrorism.
Which leads me to my next question…
… does Osama drink Monavie in his cave?
Hillary won?
And you’re too credulous, as well.
Naa, hypocrite that he is, he’s likely to be hoarding cases of high dollar scotch whiskey, opium by the barrel, cocaine by the kiloton, and a healthy sized harem.
(No wonder he doesn’t come out much. Just where IS that damn cave anyway?)
Unfortunately, he has “network marketing” down to an art form but isn’t looking to share the “health and wealth” with any of his down line. At least, in “this world”.
Libertyslegacy,
You controversial fire-starter! I like you already!!
I hope you stick around and get into some of the other conversations here!
I’ll do you one better.
GOD is angry at Osama, and has sent Ron Paul on a mission to discipline Mr. Bin Laden and the Al-Queda by spreading the Good News of Monavie exclusively to followers of the Global Warming Coalition.
If you act now, you will not only receive a lifetime supply of Monavie, but you will also get a beautiful ocean view cave (your choice of several middle east locations), and 100 Carbon Credits to help you offset your carbon footprint!
You might expect to pay hundreds, maybe thousands of (your native currency) for all this.
Today only, I am offering all this for just 19.99 plus S&H!!!
But not only that!!!!
I will also send you an authentic, state of the art, space meteorite with authenticity certificate!
Act now, Call today!
888-_ _ _ – _ _ _ _
phone number available by request only…
jb
If you can swap the space meteorite for a star then you are on
we actually offer to *upgrades* in this area.
You can opt for a star – not just naming it mind you, actual ownership.
OR
You can receive our real estate on the moon package – and since America owns the moon, this actually comes with U.S. Citizenship… particularly attractive to some of our foreign investors!
** note ** upgrades to cost extra, but don’t worry about that, we will bill you later HA HA HA!
Don’t forget, this offer expires soon ACT NOW!
I was sorely tempted by your sales pitch there, until you mentioned the idea of living on the moon which, as every one knows, is a hoax
I didn’t say LIVE on the moon, just own property on the moon.
One day, we will all have to escape our overheated planet (mice and dolphins first people) and those that own property on the moon will be very thankful for their foresight and investment skills!
Hurry and call the number on your screen… property is going fast, but there is still time on the clock…
Operators are standing by
call now
Thanks for emailing me the complete phone number Jon, but, why is it that when I call I get a husky voiced woman offering me a massage?
all part of the ‘package’ my friend, all part of the ‘package’!!!
remind me to send you the email I got from the Chinese Banker that has an account from an Iraq soldier who died leaving obscene amounts of money behind and no next-of-kin.
I am NOT kidding, I actually have it, but can’t really send it from work… I will try to send it when I get home tonight!!
JB
Ok, thanks for that Jon.
“Thanks for emailing me the complete phone number Jon, but, why is it that when I call I get a husky voiced woman offering me a massage?”
You must be a Gold Club Member, all I get is an indian that demands I spend 10+ USD for the privilege of conversing with him.
Oh shit, I forgot that Virgin mobile is “progressive”.
Don’t get me started….
Ok, look…
First of all, don’t think that Gold Club Membership would get you anywhere near the ’special treatment’ afforded a Quad-level Platinum Echelon Member such as Scam.
Second, do you have any idea how much a call center costs these days. There is absolutely nothing wrong with the fine call centers hosted in India and I pass all the savings on to you, the sub-Gold Club Membership member. (by the way, I fired that operator for offering you such an outrageous discount… standard fee is ALWAYS 25+USD… thanks for bringing that to my attention
)
jb
Expensive? Depends on what you call expensive. I don’t drive a Ferrari, because I can’t afford one or live in a castle for the same reason. However, I do drink the “juice” and feel better because I do. I drink 2-4oz. a day, because that’s all I can afford to.
Scam? I don’t think so.
I have friends who will lay down $2.50 a pop for a can of the energy drink of the week, which may or may not amp you up, then drops you like a ton of bricks.
The cost is associated to many factors, the first being the process used to freeze dry and pasturize the acai berry, which is one of the main ingredients and has the most potential for making your body feel better by adding antioxidants. Does it work right away? Maybe for some, others take a while to see effects, while some may never feel the effects. You may want to ask if they feel some kind of effect or feel the potassium kick in every time they eat a banana? OCjuice at my monavie.
Lets see:
Starbuccks 3/week 7.50
raspberries 4.00
Avacado (2) per week 3.00
Bananas 5/week 2.00
Soft drink 5/week 7.50
Bottle water 5/week 7.50
Fiber bar 3/week 3.00
1 quart OJ 3.50
1 Alpha Omega Vitamins 3.00
Total is $33.50 per week for the above. OK, you could skip the starbucks (but the energy!!!) Look at where we spend our money and what we get. I believe Monavie and the evidence is that it is an investment that is not too expensive for my health. What do you thinks statins cost per month when you get high cholesterol?
You said it Connie!
Living a healthy – disease free life….Priceless!
I don’t believe that’s monavie hes drinking. Looks more like cold tea.
Please! this is nothing but a scam. Take away the price of water, I drink tap. Take away the price of soda, ibuy mine at the supermarket. I buy concentrated oj $.50 cent a quart etc etc etc. not to mention the fact that you can find monavie substitutes online that are half the price and ACTUALLY list the amount of acai in the product! What your paying for is slick packaging and presentation. How much do you think it costs for those pretty bottles and those fancy cardboard boxes they come in? I’d be willing to bet .. more thaan it costs to make the juice………as the great P.T. barnum said ” theres a sucker born every minute”
my what intersting stats you throw around. back hem up please…….check out http://naturallypotent.wordpress.com/
and get all 19 ingredients defined for you.
Where did the original monavie article go? I cannot find it anywhere.
I had issues with the database and lost it unfortunately. There will be a new monavie article on Sunday…
Even at the recommended amount, it’s expensive… to a tune of $1400+ a year. It’s not that people are drinking too much. It’s much cheaper to just go out and eat good fruit and be done with it.
Ha ha – that avatar is appropriate to your site!
That’s pretty well my opinion too.
I’ve never drunk monavie (don’t think you can get it easily in the UK) but it sounds good enough.
There’s no way I’d pay that much though, especially when fruit is so cheap in itself.
Do you compare diamonds by the price? Cars? Wine, Ciggars? You must know what you get for under $5 per day is equivalent to 13 servings of common fruits & vegetables. I don’t know about in a 3rd world country… but in America you cannot buy 13 servings of common fruits & vegetables for $5 per day.
ps you own any tupperware?
Who are you asking Lisa?
pole
Click on the “Reply to this comment” link next time
what i find amazing is that franchises like McDonalds or any other avenue, like tupperware individuals try to get away from some huge company providing their paychecks is some type of scam too some fols. sure there are good and bad companies and good and bad people. pole sounds like a die hard to padding mega corps pockets.obscene consumerism. why wouldn’t you support your neighbor who’ll be standing there with a hose if your house catches fire? just wait, some enormous companies board of directors is waiting to steal your retirement to pay for his personal jet. wow. it’s a terrible thing to waste……..
Well I miss the lively discussions. I fell into the MonaVie and was happily surprised. My doctors have had me on 9 meds for over a decade. About 8 months ago I started to seriously gag on them so I asked my doctor to get me off as many as possible
(genetic high BP, thyroid & cholesterol meds) Looking for non pill form alternatives I immediately began changing my diet.
An old & respected friend of mine (very successful contracting business owner) told me about MonaVie and how much it had helped him. (they were snipping away at his toes!) He joined to get it wholesale and after a 2 month “trial” I did too. It did make a difference. I used my routine check up as my gauge. Dramatic reduction in bad cholesterol, much more energy, lost a little weight and my skin
was glowing again. It’s a really great product. But pay single purchase retail prices? Never. Joining worked for me. I DO know lots of other folks who are “drinkers” because the product is so beneficial to them personally. Now if they want to build on their membership that’s up to them. I offered it to folks I knew could benefit from its nutritional properties. Seriously, young adults with diabetes, people with bone & joint issues etc
Folks were so happy I went ahead and made a webpage and got a MonaVie site. So onto the research trail I went (and remain) and have found that many many people are embracing the product.
I hope folks join and don’t get reamed paying retail. I support and believe in the individual business person. Obscenely big business makes me sick. All I can see is empty headed herds of cattle filing into a big box to buy EVERYTHING at one place.
It feels creepy to me like herding for slaughter. Don’t get me wrong, there are certainly folks who have a “system” and are quite aggressive. Personally, I don’t want folks to be afraid to talk to me. I just think folks should try this product and get it as cheaply as possible. lisadeb1989@gmail.com
http://naturallypotent.wordpress.com/
Eating a balanced diet is cheaper. Plus, diets should be varied.
what you recommend Beth? specifically.WHICH diet plan? Or which ones? if you take DAILY vitamins or supplements should you rotate/vary those too? what if they’re the all in type?
please let us know.
where can you get 13 servings of common fruits and vegetables for under $5 per day?
Not in Monavie
Seriously! This 13 servings claim (or even just a few servings) is an easy one to debunk. Take a look at the nutritional info on the bottle. It’s not too difficult to see that it is in no way comparable to the nutritional values found in actual fruit. It’s not even close. But they’ll continue to make the claim. It’s hard to sell juice for $20-40 a bottle without lying about its value.
Listen, Mona Vie Works who cares what you all say. If you can’t afford $35.00 a week then all of you have done something wrong in your job selection. All I know is when I am 35 (3 years from now) I will be sitting back and laughing at all you negative people while I am driving a new Black mercedes that mona vie just gave to me as a bonus. With a 6 figure salary. Oh yeah Plus I get to write it off, Drink my juice for free and get healthy . Oh my God people This is not a Scam. If you just want to drink the juice you will feel better, If you want to make money you can do that to. There is no pressure. But don’t knock it till you try it.Think about who you are working for now. If it is a corporation you will never make as much money as the owner. So it’s your choice you can sit around work for someone else, Never make as much money as them, work to many hours, spend time away from your family all and for what to retire in 30 years I don’t think so Not me. So good luck being negative and pre judging something that you know nothing about. I have seen people I KNOW making $200,000 and more a year from telling people about a product that works! The only people that bad talk Mona vie are the other MLM’s That want you to go with there product! Sorry guys You can never tell me Mona vie dosen’t work. I have lost weight, I feel awesome where’s the problem?
Oh my! “Good luck being negative” Hmm your post sounded pretty negative and a lot like MLM 101.
Look this is a well documented money making scheme where only about 3% of the people involved make all of the money from the labors of the bottom 97%. It’s just a fact and it’s available in writing from Monavie. And much like the corporations you referenced you’ll never make as much as the owner of Monavie. In fact odds are you’ll never make a living wage, it’s just a fact.
It’s been well documented that the juice is nothing special. It doesn’t “work” whatever that means. If it does “work” you can certainly get the same results from something at the store for about 1/5 of the wholesale price. Odds are if you’re feeling better after drinking this stuff it’s due to the fact that you want to feel better. Otherwise known as placebo effect.
It’s a scam. A very obvious one at that.
Yes, yes it is a scam. I don’t need to try something in order to know it’s not what sales people claim it is. That logic is flawed on a number of levels. There is nothing in the bottle that can’t be purchased for pennies on the dollar elsewhere and in a form that’s much better for you. The facts may be tough for distributors to swallow but it doesn’t alter them. The fact that there is a very small percentage of people making good money doesn’t justify the business model. Most make next to nothing. Over the years a lot of people have made money in MLM supplements that have disappeared. In time this one will too. Then the same people will find a new “miracle” product to pitch. Very sad that this is allowed to continue. Maybe we’ll get some new blood at the FTC (replace Amway’s old lawyer) and the government will crack down on these con artists.
Sadly most of Washington is on the take from the Direct Selling lobbyists (DSA) so I doubt the FTC will do much. Not that MLM should really be considered direct selling. The FDA is another story. There is enough evidence online to prove that illegal claims are being made constantly. In my opinion the sales methods will be the unraveling of this scam in the end.
No question about the lobbyists being the reason this stuff is allowed to continue. I just realized that my comment was stale because Murris hasn’t been at the FTC for a while now.
Jay you are one ignorant dude. That’s why your a broke person. I personally make 1000 a week in MonaVie. How much do you make part time?
Jay,
This is why your broke. Think like a business person and not like an employee. Stop defending the corporate world, you can climb that ladder all you want. But, unless you are the CEO or President you will not be rich. These network marketing companies are not about their product! They are about business minded people that enjoy networking with others to achive a financial goal. For everyone wasting their time blasfeming on Monavie; guess what? this company continues to grow and more people are passing you by in income part time! While you are still an employee and will die being one. Any business educated person knows that you can’t make head way in business unless you network. And yes, you must try something before you talk negative or positive about it. “The logic” like you claim does not make any sense if you live of someone elses testimony. Try your own then have credibilty as you speak or write about something.
“If you want to become rich, network with those who are rich and are willing to help you become rich” if you are not curently doing this; you are not in any position to talk inteligently and with conviction about this industry.
LOL I’m doing quite well. Get a life scammer and learn how to put a sentence together…
Oops, just looked at MonaVieOnTheMove.com & Carlos is doing much better than you.
Uh huh… YAWN
Carlos don’t waste your time here. Jay & James have nothing better to do than to write about something they know nothing about. MonaVie Distributors who treat MonaVie like a part time business KNOW it works. Others that don’t or don’t understand it make themselves feel better by hidding behind a computer and calling us names. http://www.MonaVie.com/IDS http://media.monavie.com/VIDEO/TheDoctors/ALL/ even CBS The Doctors Like it!
SENSE! lol
I dont care about Mona-vie or if it works or not, maybe it does. I can never understand why someone comes to you and says they have this great opportunity for you to make some money, but they need you to sign up for a product using your credit card, and you also must have it set up for auto-ship and it costs 140.00 a month. When you love money, it can cause you to make un-wise decisions.
I like money, I dont love it. Dont tell me how much money I can make when you are asking me for some money up-front. If these people are making so much money and they want to help me, then let me use your credit card to sign up for Mona-vie and I will pay you back as soon as I start making the thousands and millions you promised. Mona-vie may be ok, but these people who come and try to sign you up for a great deal are scam artist.
Can’t help but jump in on this one, been using the product since Jan 2007, think it works great for me and probably will for you too. Do I have any formal degree in health sciences, nope, no more than I have a degree in electrical engineering to be able to use a light switch; it just works, pretty much every time. So no hyped up health claims, silly arguments, or nut job promo on my watch, if they don’t get it on the sites Mona Vie and Brig Hart have, they won’t get it from me. Also Mona Vie does not contain Viagra, however we have a race car now and everybody smiles allot, just kidding, I put that in to snap the guys in the compliance department who probably monitor the blogs.
Mona Vie’s MLM, it works about the same as all the rest of the binaries do with several notable exceptions, no sign on fee for 2009 just get on board and pay the same price I do, (Remember to use 248969 when you hit the enroll now button on the Mona Vie or Brig Hart home page), even when they had one it was $39 not the several hundred dollars most MLM’s charge. Your points never go away as long as you are using the product as directed, if you are not interested in the MLM side, your points don’t matter anyway. Misinformed people doing crazy things, sure we got them, after all everyone is human and opinions and the way people see the world varies, guess what, that is what makes us human. The majority of the great people on board do it right way. No false expectations, no empty promises, no having folks order a bunch of product they don’t need, it’s against company policy anyway, and most importantly not bugging folks if they don’t want to be bugged. You get one call or e-mail from me to try to figure out how I can help you so I take a non response as you do not want to be helped and are happy being a non hassled wholesale customer, my contact information is in my personals back office anyway and I respond to all when they are ready to go and will do whatever it takes to get them there. What is my rank and how much do I make, don’t ask, it’s not about me, it’s about you, where you want to go with this and how I can help you to get there, see the Mona Vie Income Disclosure Statement, I’m on it, always thought that was a pretty rude question anyway.
Face fact’s around 90% of the folks on board are wholesale customers, ref Mona Vie’s IDS, which means they do not want to do MLM in the first place, so I don’t force them or even suggest for them to get a bunch of e-mail and promo junk they don’t want or need, if they want to be in the 10% or so who are ready for MLM and have the dream and drive to be free, happy to teach it the right way, simply put if it’s not in the MAP, don’t do it, if it is in the MAP go for it and hit a major function for a great time and learning the business from the best in MLM.
At any rate that’s my spin on it.
What a bunch of whiners. Monavie is a business opp like many others. You can succeed with it, but it certainly isn’t a “get rich quick” scheme.
Frank
I had the unfortunate pleasure of listening to the sale pitch for Mona Vie yesterday. Much of what they say is misleading. To learn how to recognize what works from “magic potions” read the new book “The Real Truth About Aging”