I’m not and have never been involved with MonaVie. Thus clearly it is quite possible to give MonaVie a bad rep. without “sticking it out.” In this case MonaVie gave itself a bad rep. by having no clue about how the Internet works.

As for your claim of being a Gold Executive, it is worth noting that you happen to be about 700 in 700,000 distributors. I got the 700 number by looking at MonaVie’s Income Disclosure Statement and used the math that is explained here to come up with the 700,000 number. As you can tell, you are the lucky 1 in 1000. Your good fortune has mathematically hurt many, many others financially. It is a like Bernie Madoff being proud of pyramid scheme. The correct emotion here to have is shame.

As for all your claims:

- Remember that MonaVie recently had a D- Better Business Bureau Rating… and it also looks like MonaVie Paid for Better Grade from the Better Business Bureau. And if you read that second article, yes, you’ll find out that the BBB is coming under fire – I reference an LA Times investigative story. However, even Connecticut Attorney General said, “Right now, this rating system is really unworthy of consumer trust or confidence. He has sent an official demand letter asking the BBB to discontinue the ratings system because it is “potentially harmful and misleading.”

- Inc. Magazine didn’t include MonaVie in its 2010 rankings at all. Why? Well you have to understand Inc. Magazine’s odd methodology and what its rankings really mean. Also, Inc. Magazine has published this article against MLM scams like MonaVie… a full 7 years before MonaVie existed. I recommend everyone read about Eliot there.

- Lastly, there is no credible evidence that MonaVie did $1 billion in retail sales. Considering it lies about the ORAC score of its own juice, it would be hard to give any credibility to such statements.

However, of course a Gold level MonaVie distributor would know all the above. That person would also know that they need to leave their name and distributor ID when posting on blogs, right? Ladies and Gentleman, I give you Cory, yet another scammer.

I don’t delete any posts that disagree with me. Did you read comment #44 here, where a MonaVie employee called me an “annoying douche”?

You can read more information about that here.

And if you don’t believe me about all that, why not check out the comments of MonaVie’s official blog where they admit to it.

Why not check with MonaVie themselves?

At first I didn’t understand why it implied my wife was a distributor, because I was using a version of recruit as in “to attempt to acquire the services of a person”, but I can see that it can also be the actual joining.

Learn something new I guess.

A local MonaVie distributor recently posted a comment to a LinkedIn group I belong to. Does that mean he violated his distributor agreement?

The distributor’s comment received a response from another group member, questioning the product’s claimed benefits. I then posted, asking the responder to cite references for her statements. The distributor immediately heaped praise on me, assuming I was siding with him. When I clarified I was merely asking for support for the statements made, the distributor began attacking me. Clearly, such tactics are business as usual for MonaVie and its distributors.

How do you know that MonaVie has helped you. I used to get colds and flu a few years ago (a few a year), but I haven’t gotten any in the last three or so. I didn’t drink MonaVie, so maybe it’s just coincidence.

I think an apple will give you a lower appetite as well, since it has more calories, more fiber, and is cheaper… so it’s still a poor financial choice.