Plan B Pros Review
Plan B Pros is another direct product sales website that recruits people to sell products for a company called LifePath Unlimited. Life Path Unlimited sells personal development products in the form of books and DVDs.
This is a semi multi-level marketing system. In order to sign up with lifepath unlimited, you must pay a $49 “enrollment” fee. After this fee is paid, before you can actually sell anything, you must BUY the product that you intend to sell. (They say it will empower you better represent the product.) Here is an excerpt of their “compensation plan”:
“The retail price of the Discovery Series is $1,695 paid directly to the Discovery Representative when the $1,695 is paid. The $1000 profit is retained by the Discovery Representative, who forwards the $695 wholesale cost to LifePath Unlimited. The company will ship the Discovery Home Study Course directly to the customer. To represent the Discovery Series an Associate must own the Discovery Series. By purchasing Discovery, the Associate is immediately activated as a Discovery Representative and will retain the $1,000 profit on every sale they make of the Discovery Series.”
What does this mean for you? If you sign up for it, you must pay the $49 enrollment fee, then you must pay $1,650 to become eligible to sell the product. If you do not want to pay so much, you can also become eligible to sell the “Discovery Series” by referring 5 sales to your “Discovery Representative”, who keeps $5,000 and forwards the remaining $3,250 to Lifepath Unlimited.
Plan B Pros is a system that is set up to get you to purchase your way into the program by buying the product from Plan B Pros. You pay them $1,650, and pay LifePath Unlimited $49 for the enrollment fee, and you are on your way to selling!
The same concept applies to the other products that LifePath Unlimited sells. Just because you are a “Discovery Representative” doesn’t give you the ability to sell the higher-up products, such as the “Breakthrough Event” and the “Destiny Event.” In order to sell them, you must purchase them yourself. The Breakthrough Event costs $8,995. It is a “three day empowering vacation event” The Destiney Ticket/Event costs $14,995 and is a five day version of the same concept.
How easy do you think it is to sell someone a $1,650, a $8,995, or a $14,995 product?! All I can say is good luck…
You not only have to buy the products (or refer 5 sales to your representative), but you must also market the products in order to sell them.
You make money from your sales as well as your underlings sales. If you have 6 people selling under you, who have 30 people under them. You only make a profit off of the 1st person in each group to make a sale. So if 1 of your 6 underlings has a group of 5 people, and 4 of those 5 people make a sale, you only get money from 1 of the 4 sales. It is fairly confusing.
I do NOT find this as a source of long term, viable and easily sustainable income. It seems that it is VERY expensive to get started in the program and really doesn’t seem too different than any other MLM scheme.
I am not going to pay anything to Plan B Pros or Life Path Unlimited.
April 14th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
I have to agree with this post.