Team Media Tool Trunk – WASTE OF MONEY

Update: Looks like the TEAM Media Tool Trunks have been reduced in price. The Media Warrior 2000 is now selling for $1,684.90 and the Media Warrior 1000 now goes for $859.70.

I came across this great comment from Candace on Lazy Man’s blog post about MonaVie.

She writes about two “incredible” tool trunks available from the TEAM web site, the TL147 – Tool Media Warrior Trunk 2000 and the TL146 – Tool Media Trunk 1000. The prices on these ultimate TEAM Tools are $2000 and $1000 respectively. Seeing that old Amway tools sell for pennies on the dollar on eBay, I was compelled to do a price comparison of these tool chests. The numbers in the spreadsheet below are calculated using the TEAM member prices, not the retail prices. Click the image below to see the spreadsheet full-size¹:

Now, usually, if I were to buy a compilation of tools, I would expect the compilation to be cheaper not more expensive. Orrin Woodward and his TEAM Leaders have once again succeeded at showing greed has no limits. Buy the tools individually² over the trunks, and you will SAVE $109.90 and $23.70 respectively!

But wait, don’t you get to keep the wonderful trunks so prominently displayed on the TEAM shopping site? No, read the fine print:

* Trunk not included

I bet Woodward is using the trunks to hold all the money he’s taking from distributors who don’t take the time to calculate the cost of purchasing the tools individually.

What do you get for purchasing this “powerful” tool set? Purchasers will “receive a free decal for their car and a matching tee shirt to be worn with pride.” Yup, buying this set means all of your fellow MonaVie Teammates will know you were the fool for buying an overpriced tool trunk.

Here are links to screenshots of the tools trunks from TEAM’s web site, as of May 24, 2009:

• Media Warrior 2000 Trunk
• Media 1000 Trunk

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¹ I could not find the price of the Success Magazine (Team Version) product, so estimated the cost as $2.25. Prices are effective according to TEAM’s web site as of May 23, 2009.

² I omitted the fact that a large percentage of these tools are brochures or audio files, items that can be easily converted into lower-cost (or even freely) downloadable MP3s or PDFs.

MonaVie Live Webcast from Dallas… or how Dallin is growing the business

MonaVie hosted a live webcast of the Dallas Regional today. Some of the speakers they had come on stage to “train” the distributors in the crowd were Black Diamonds Randy Schroeder and Robert Dean. Where did these amazing leaders come from? Did they start in MonaVie from ground zero?

I looked them up on the Internet and discovered both Randy (Agel) and Robert (Noni) were both huge leaders in other MLMs before they joined MonaVie within the past one to two years. There are rumors that large cash bonuses were paid to these leaders to leave their respective MLMs or to join MonaVie.

Couple this with Orrin Woodward (Amway/Quixtar), is this how Dallin Larsen is growing the MonaVie business — by dangling big under-the-table bonuses to leaders with big downlines from competing MLM businesses?

If that’s how he’s getting people to drink the juice, no thank you.

MonaVie 2009 = 1984

Seeing this photograph from the 2009 Orlando MonaVie Regional:

reminds me of this comic I did back in October:

The Next Major Function Is Always Just Around The Corner

Somehow I missed this tweet from BWW:

Summer Conference dates are now online at BWW.com. Start making plans TODAY to attend with your group!
10:13 AM Apr 7th from web

BWW hadn’t even finished with their Spring Leadership 2009 events before starting to promote the next event!

Now, I understand that organizing events takes a long time and requires much planning. I’m just pointing out a common trait of Systems to always be promoting the next Major Function as the most important thing to plan for.

Quixtar RIP 1999-2009

It’s May, 2009, which means the final step of phasing out the Quixtar name is nearly complete.

Right now, if you go to Quixtar.com, you’ll see in tiny gray text, “Quixtar North America is now Amway Global.” I would expect the quixtar.com URL to redirect to amway.com sometime in the next few days.

So there you have it. 10-years of Quixtar now gone. I hope that the corporation is earnest in dealing with the excesses and improprieties of certain Systems and their leaders. If they don’t, criticism of the business (in at least the North American market which I am most familiar with) will continue for the next decade.