Mannatech and Network Marketing

BaritoneUK

Hi all,

I don't know if any of you have heard of Mannatech.  If you have, can I first say that I don't use their products and I am not in their scheme- just so that you know that I am not biased.  Mannatech is up there with Microsoft has made billions since it's launch. I was wandering if anyone had any comments on Network marketing and Mannatech.

Mannatech is a huge company based in the US who basically produce a radically new range of health products.  One of their products is kind of a supplement and gives you complex sugars that we can't get by our normal diet.  They also have Phytovitimin supplements.  I have heard some amazing stories of people's health really getting better, asthma more-or-less completely cured and even cancer.

My BIG issue and stumbling block is their whole method of selling the products.  They use network marketing.  One of their products costs £30 on average and that will only last you one month.  That means to take full advantage you are looking for about £60-120 per month if you were going to use a good range of their products.

 Of course what they want you to do is to become an associate and sell to your friends.  You get a percentage and so does the person who introduced you and so on.  People are making £1000s a month and perhaps more just by selling products to a few people because they have many 'sellers' below them.  I went to one of their meetings and I felt that I was in a cult- with testomonies and 'get rich quick' stories.  The whole networking marketing scheme of course makes sense to them as it is a huge money spinner with hardly any overheads etc.  It has worked amazingly well in the US.  But over hear I am not so sure.  It looks very much to me like a pyramid scheme.  But when I was at the meeting they disputed this- "No one is a loser" they said. That may be so- but if you have to sell the products to subsidise your 'habit' then I think this is a huge dissadvantange.

What do people think?  Why can't I buy these products without getting into their scheme?  Any thoughts on network marketing?

Their website is https://www.mannatech.com

SunnyBrighton_2

Hi .. I was surprised to see no replies over the last 3 years!

I've looked at this company because I was interested in their products.

They are a very aggressively American company who have 'discovered' 8 glyconutrients (sugars) in foods, isolated them and then manufactured them into capsule / powder form which they then patented, and successfully enforced that patent against a UK company
http://prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=168056
last year.

I think the product looks quite interesting, but because it's MLM, a lot of the money it costs to buy the product goes to both the distributors and the parent company, making it very expensive.

You could, of course, save a bucket, by eating the foods that contain these substances, which is how people have been getting them for a very long time!
Take a look at this site for food sources:
http://heartspring.net/glyconutrient_sources.html

tomstickland

MLM = pushy sales pyramid style !!!!!!!!.