Is Pure Team Global A Scam?
Company: Pure Team Global
Website: pureteamglobal.com
Type: MLM
Products: Supplements, nutritional shake drinks, etc.
Rating: 3/10
Will Pure Team Global Scam You
Just like other MLM companies, Pure Team Global needs associates to promote their products. These associates are also required to bring more people into the program after they have joined. If you are a regular reader of this website, you will already know that I try my best to bring all the information you need to decide whether a company is real or not.
Consequently, in this article, you will learn about Pure Team Global, the company’s compensation plan, advantages and disadvantages. At the end of this article, I expect you to be well informed to decide whether this program is for you or not.
Pure Team Global Products
The Pure Team Global Company markets a range of products in the nutrition and health niches. Some of these products include drinks and supplements. However, I have not been able to find any information that shows that their product has been evaluated and confirmed by the FDA (Food and Drug Agency). While this may seem trivial, I prefer to see drugs and products that have been recommended by a federal agency like the FDA.
Another thing you need to note is that you don’t see a price on their products when you get to the official website. While this is okay, I don’t think it is a general practice to hide prices from the public. It could be placed there if there is nothing wrong with the products or the company itself.
Pure Team Global has some of the following products. These products can also be found on their website:
Core – this comes in variety of liquid and other forms. It includes a liquid clean and capsule. It includes Detox and antioxidants. It can also be taken as daily vitamin.
Pure Cafe – This comes in a variety of green coffee been extract and contains roasted coffee beans.
Energy – This is just an energy drink.
GPS – this is designed to nourish the muscles and other nerves in the body. It is expected that when you make use of the GPS, you will get an improved physical performance. It can also be used to repair and refuel body tissues and rejuvenate lean muscle.
Super-fruits – they are made in different beverages from acai berry, noni, goji, mangosteen and other multi fruit based beverages.
Youth Renew – It is a moisturizer. Youth renew usually come with an anti-aging serum and can be used as a cream cleanser.
Health Trim – this category includes products that are general targeted at trimming the body through intermittent fasting, and vitamin ingestion. They also include appetite chews; fiber and protein shake mix, fruit mix, and ionic blend beverages.
Supplements – product in this category are expected to enhance the immune system. They include probiotic, alkaline water concentrate, organic sulfur, water and silver based supplement, coffee bean supplement, etc.
Pure Team Global Compensation Plan
The compensation plan is split into different levels so that different levels have different commissions. Affiliates that work with pure team global will earn retail commission when they sell products, they can also earn residual commissions via a binary and a unilevel. In addition, many bonuses are added to encourage their affiliates.
#1 Retail Commission
All products of pure team global will earn affiliates a retail commission when they are sold to non-affiliate i.e., customers. The retail commission is the difference between the price paid and the company’s wholesale price. This means that affiliates can sell these products above the company’s wholesale price and make as much profit as they can from their sales. However, there is a maximum for the price of each product.
#2 First Order Bonuses
This is one of the bonuses paid by this company to their newly recruited affiliates. When a newly recruited affiliate places his first order, he will get paid certain bonus based on the credited volume of sale and the personal volume (PV) generated by the affiliate for that week.
It is calculated as follows:
If the sale is above 100 PV, the affiliate gets 10% bonus and if it is above 200 PV, the affiliate earns 20% bonus. The PV is usually calculated from the affiliate’s own purchases or sales volume generated through retail sales.
Should You Join Pure Team Global?
In order to join this program, you have to create a monthly autoship order, which costs $37 or direct joining for $47. After your first year of membership, you are expected to be paying $27 annually.
One thing you have to note is that the compensation plan is not very encouraging. Aside from the wide range of products available to their affiliates, the compensation plan does not take into consideration the retail sales volume; only the rigid commission on retail sales is emphasized.
Another thing is that you have to be able to maintain a minimum of 100 PV per month before you can be entitled to any commission. If you have the money, you can purchase equivalent product monthly. But that can quickly add up. Generally, I would advise you to go for affiliate marketing, which is easier to operate and more flexible.
Why I Prefer Affiliate Marketing Over MLM
Unlike MLM, affiliate marketing gives you simple model to work with. As long as you can keep recommending products from your website, you will continue to make money.
If you sell any product, you are assured of a commission. While many people get attracted to multi-level marketing because it can generate a passive income, they are unaware that affiliate marketing also offers this and more. Moreover, before you can enjoy any passive income with an MLM company, you have to pay an upfront, which could cost you more than $100. In addition, you could be asked to pay a monthly fee to maintain your membership. Even after doing this, you have to be able recruit other people to join the program.
However, with affiliate marketing, you don’t have to go through all that stress before you can earn money. You can make money without the need of recruiting anybody.
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Hi Viljoen,
I am looking for ways to make money online and I came across this MLM company. Wanted to find out more and reached this site.
I am glad that I come across this review. Maintaining a 100PV per month to entitle the commission is gonna to force many people to stock up just to cash out.
I will give it a miss, thanks for sharing this informative review of The Pure Team Global.
Hi Edmond
The maintenance cost of joining and mlm can be very expensive and that is just to pay the people that are above you. Even if you do not use the products, you still have to buy them. Luckily you have a choice to either sell or buy at least 100PV
I would like to know where you can start a business for $120 a month The products are health products that you consume and for telling people about the products you can receive an income, for the life of me I can’t understand how you can say this is expensive especially when your health is involved
Thank you for another warning. If I know something about MLMs is that they are usually not sustainable and people have a really tough time making money. It’s better to go with better business models that will actually list, stuff like affiliate marketing. Keep up the good work and helping people not fall for this kind of stuff.
Hi JP
It will take a very long time for you to make back the money that you initially invested into the mlm scheme. So people do not even reach this point. Most mlm companies are very expensive and the majority of people will never make their money back.
This one is 9 yrs old. Debt free. And backed by Bill Knight. Know him?
I don’t think preferring the FDA audits companies like this is trivial at all.
I have been audited multiple times at my full time job by the FDA and they are the most thorough auditors I have ever dealt with. This alone makes me not want to promote Pure Team Global’s products.
Is there an affiliate marketing program you recommend instead of going the MLM route?
The FDA can sometimes be a pain but it is necessary for them to do this. The affiliate marketing program that I am recommending is called Wealthy Affiliate.
Thanks for your comment.
Wow i recently came across this product and so i searched for a good review on the product on google. I came across your website and it lead me to this. Very helpful and thanks for taking the time to write a review about it. Helps me put in making a decicion. Cheers and keep up the work
Thanks for popping in.
A comprehensive, if slightly biased review and comparison of a specific MLM opportunity and affiliate marketing. You raise some good points though you concentrate on the bads points of this particular program which may not necessarily be the case with other MLM programs. I would agree though that is you have a good training program affiliate marketing can be a good way to earn money.
Hi Penny
When I come across an MLM company that has something that I do not like, then I am more likely to share it with my readers. I also try to be very unbiased with my reviews. For instance I have written a article on ZynTravel that was one of the better MLM companies out there which is proof that I do not consider all MLM as bad.
Hi Viljoen
Thanks for this review, I remember when I first came across MLM schemes it was also promoting health sector products such as these. This raises another question how many other companies are out there selling these types of products and that you would be competing alongside.
I think selling any kind of product is difficult and especially when it’s something you may not actually know that well or want to use yourself. Affiliate marketing has many advantages as you say over MLM schemes and another one is that you get to choose your own products to match your own interest areas.
Affiliate marketing is one of the most flexible business models out there. I can promote products in any country and I can also go into any niche that I want to. The nice thing is that new products are added on a daily basis which makes it easy for the market to not become saturated.
Earning a passive income from small sites is pretty exciting in your case because you have proven that you can make your sites work. If you can do it for 2 sites why not do it for 10 or as many as time allows? That’s not to mention always working on the money makers to be even more profitable. That’s exciting stuff and no one can take those skills away from you.
Wealthy Affiliate has enormous advantages to the beginner. I like the idea of being able to search the site whenever I’m stumped or just ask the helpful (to say the least) forum.
I find sticking with WA is my best thing to do and not vacillate by reading about the almost infinite number of ways to market online. Do you try to stick with WA exclusively?
The training inside Wealthy Affiliate is very helpful and I do stick with it most of the times. You will realize that after a year you will develop your own methods and set of skills that no training program can teach. So yes. I do sometimes move outside of Wealthy Affiliate, but this program has helped a lot in building my foundation.
Hi Viljoen. As with my review with your post about Traffic Authority, my response to your post about The Pure Team Global remains unchanged: a typical MLM product is all about taking money to make money. In addition, the only people that are making the $thousands/month are the ones at the very top who have been there when the product first launched. I feel that slowly, but surely, people are realizing that MLMs are becoming “dime-a-dozen” where it’s not the best way to start/run a business.
I have seen a couple of mlm companies fall in 2015. Those that are on top are earning the majority of the money because of the new enrollees.
This seems like a typical MLM scam where there are a lot of promises but few if any results.
It’s a shame that so many people fall for such schemes out of sheer desperation and end up losing more money than they ever make.
I think that you’ll need to put some money into it whether it’s MLM or affliate marketing, but with affiliate marketing these costs are something you can control such as domain name, hosting, etc.
I have also seen people lose a lot of money with affiliate marketing, but it is usually those that do PPC with little to no experience.
Hi, there.
Saving people from MLM scams is always a good way to earn trust and have more followers. I am not sure but I think this is the second post I read on your site.
Always valuable stuff. The comparison table between MLM and Affiliate Marketing is awesome! It illustrates perfectly every bad aspect of MLM.
Keep up the good work, man.
Imad
Thanks Imad. Affiliate Marketing also has its downsides, but it is not as much more manageable than that of mlm.
I really liked the look of these products. It seems like a legitimate website however the affiliate program seems ridiculous. Paying so much to help the company out seems ubsurd.
This was a great article and really enjoyed reading it, keep it up and i look forward to seeing more of your articles in the future
I hate the entire process of multi level marketing. I really don’t understand why some people get involved with these programs. The products that you show here look pretty good but as you have pointed out not being approved by the FDA is red flag no.1!
I don’t like the way that MLM programs expect people to sell their products and I feel affiliate marketing is a much better alternative as you said.
I noted that the first two hits on Google AD Words were articles recommending Affiliate Marketing online over MLM. I’ve actually used Genesis Pure products for three years and no one ever pressured me into selling the product or recruiting friends. The 100PV is less than many spend on Starbucks each month, and SB has not helped reduced the depression and anxiety my teens dealt with before Goyin or help me to rehab a knee injury so quickly it amazed my PT.