My ex took the Herbalife and USANA supplements for months, and I have to wonder if especially the Herbalife, with its many stimulants, permitted him to stay up late into the night punching credit card numbers into the computer, listening to "conference calls" and "webinars". He seemed to sleep only a few hours per night. He complained of pressure in his chest for a while, and I told him to lay off the supplements! A cardiologist checked him out and found nothing. And this of course was long after the ephedra ban, and they changed their formula to include other stimulants. I wonder if the chemicals promoted mind control, and possibly even addiction for some people.
He lost tens of thousands in Herbalife and USANA.
Francie Smart <francies2@yahoo.
I was "in" herbalife for about 9 months in 1998/99 before giving up on it. that was before the restructure, which I have heard affected many good money earners negatively. In March 1999 I had a very severe heart attack. I was curious as to whether the Ma Jong (effedra) had anything to do with the heart attack. I had lost 40 pounds on the product. The doc told me that perhaps a reason I survived such a serious attack was that I had lost weight, mitigating some issues. On the other hand, the effedra did make my heart fibrulate and perhaps that had been a factor in the heart attack.
However, that aside, the business itself sucks (IMHO). It seems people were interested in losing weight but when they found out i was suggesting Herbalife, they were not interested. I must have put 10,000 cards on windshields trying to interest people in the product - no response. I think people are now much more knowledgeable about weight loss and KNOW or have at least heard that diets based on shakes and pills don't work. Although Herbalife, back then, did have menu planners, most people don't use them to learn how to eat right and would just use the shakes as meal replacements, and end up gaining more back when they go off the shakes and pills. Most everyone who wants to lose weight has at least investigated if not used Herbalife or knows someone who has and most results are not positive in the long run.
It was very expensive to "get in", ($1700) and I was buying boat loads of products each month to keep my status pin level (which was paid for not earned), intended to be for customers that never materialized. So the old addage about the car not being in the garage because the product was, was in truth very close to my case.
There was a very big push to get other people "in", and the more you personally sponsored, the more you made in residual. However, the volume tallied to get paid commissions on, went away at the end of every month and it was impossible to make residual unless one was a recruiting guru, and I was and have never been a recruiter. A program has to work for me for me to even begin to tell anyone about it.
Many companies use the ploy of "internet based" to draw people in alluding to that being an easier way to make a "business" work. If I am any where near normal or average, and I think I am, most people are like me and don't look at email solicitations that talk about "home based" business or anything that looks like it might be that.
Three things to look at when deciding if a "business" is right for you, in my opinion is this:
Can two or three people in the business explain the compensation plan to you in a consistant way that allows you to totally understand how the structure pays YOU, not someone else
and
Does the volumn on which you are paid commissions go away at the end of every month?
and
Can you work this "business" with a mentor attached to your hip showing you exactly how and what to do and learn and prove to yourself you can be successful BEFORE you sign any papers or pay any money out?
If a "business" really "works", there should be no issues with any of the three above indicators in my opinion. 99% of the time, however, the three indicators above are not achievable.
Francie
sepos32 wrote:
I have been reading these emails for a while now, i was in
Amway/Quixtar for about 10 years. Anyway i answered an add and it
turned out to be herbalife, Apparently its all done on the internet and
has very few meetings and tools. So whats the bad about it anyone know.
thanks
steve
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