{"id":2370,"date":"2008-10-17T08:22:41","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T13:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sequence-inc.com\/fraudfiles\/?p=2370"},"modified":"2017-11-27T12:27:03","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T18:27:03","slug":"a-shoptoearn-brokers-opinion-on-the-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/a-shoptoearn-brokers-opinion-on-the-program\/","title":{"rendered":"A ShopToEarn Broker’s Opinion On the Program"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Shop To Earn broker left this as a comment last night on one of our ShopToEarn \/ ShopToEarth threads. I think she has some important insights, so I’m republishing it as an article so more people will see it. <\/em><\/p>\n

Are you thinking about getting involved with STE? Are you wondering if ShopToEarn is a scam or a fraud? Could it really be as easy as they’re making it sound with their push to recruit just two people? Check out what this broker has to say…<\/em><\/p>\n

I am a Broker with Shop To Earn and I would like to tell you all about my experiences so far with the company. I joined at the very end of July 2008. I didn\u2019t really know anything about the company but joined based on trusting the person who signed me up and taking a chance. It took me awhile to fully understand how things work and by then my 2 week chance for a refund had come and gone.<\/p>\n

I am hoping by posting my experiences on here I will help those of you who are thinking of joining and those of you who don\u2019t understand how it works. Also, if I am wrong about something hopefully someone will let me know. These are my personal feelings and experiences\u2026.<\/p>\n

I was led to believe that all you needed to do was sign up 2 Brokers (and buy $100 worth of earth products) in order to start receiving your SCORE commissions (this is when your points add up to cash). What I wasn\u2019t told (but read in my back office after I had enrolled) was that not only do you have to sign up 2 but in order to keep your SCORE (point) commissions those 2 you sign up have to also sign 2 up and spend $100 through their earth web site. Basically, your points mean nothing<\/strong> until those 2 Brokers you sign up sign up 2 Brokers of their own.<\/p>\n

In STE documentation it states\u2026 You can only SCORE as many times in a day as those who you persoanlly refered that are qualified. So if you sign 2 people and they are not qualified (meaning they signed up 2 Brokers\/spent $100 on earth products through their own site) your not making any money on your points. I am not sure but I hope that all of the points I am accumulating will turn into cash once I am able to sign up 2 Bokers and get them qualified\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n

As of now I have only signed up 1 Broker (and they have not signed anyone up) and if I don\u2019t sign up 1 more Broker by the end of this month (October) my points I have accumulated will be flushed and they will keep being flushed every month until I can find 1 more Broker to sign up. Actually last month (September) my points should have been flushed due to this but STE gave all of us an extra month. So, even if I do sign up 1 more Broker this month my points mean nothing yet because I still have to have the 2 Brokers I personally referred sign up 2 so I can SCORE.<\/p>\n

As of now, I have like 225 points on my left and like 1265 on my right. I have 9 people in my business. Since like I said I only signed up 1 Broker (200 points) all of the other Brokers and points came from people above me.<\/p>\n

I do think this business will work if everyone could sign up 2 people. Unfortunately I am having trouble even doing that. There are people in my upline who have signed up 30+ people!! I wish I could\u2026. The $100 you make from signing someone up is not a freebie in my opinion either. You are responsible for training and helping that person. That takes time and effort. People who are signing up people just to get that $100 and not helping that person are selfish.<\/p>\n

You do make money off of recruiting initially so I can see how that turns people off but the whole point is to change your shopping habits and shop through your website. If we all did that, all the time, not only would we earn cash back on our shopping but the points generated from everyone\u2019s shopping in your business could easily add up to a lot of money.<\/p>\n

I can see how it can work. I believe it\u2019s a good idea. Unfortunately for me I can\u2019t get anyone to join so the best I can do is earn cash back on my own personal shopping (you get this no matter what, weather you qualified your position or not).<\/p>\n

The points I do get from those above me signing people up under me me will disappear every month until I sign up 1 more so I won\u2019t be making any money off of referals. In the STE slide show (you can view it on their website) shows how much money you can make in 12 months off of people signing up- almost $200,000 (if everyone signed up 2, etc..). However, once I sign up 1 more Broker (and get my 2 to sign up 2) I can start keeping my points and eventually they will add up to cash.<\/p>\n

Also, I think a lot of money will be made by everyone’s shopping if my business grows to about 8000 Brokers. The residual income off of all of them spending $100 on earth products and shopping in general can net you around $9000- BUT that\u2019s if everyone is shopping and doing the monthly minimum which we know they all won\u2019t be. I mean I haven\u2019t spent the $100 minimum on earth products and I have only received 3 points total for my shopping so no oe above me is profiting hugely from me yet.<\/p>\n

I also think that the earn $4100 in 30 days is misleading b\/c they lead you to believe all you have to do is sign up 10. But you also have to help those 10 sign up at least 14 people total (so you can get the points needed to SCORE and so you can qualify your position so your points will equal cash as I explained above).<\/p>\n

I had a lot of hope when I joined. I am a mom who wants to be home with her kids and give them a good life. After writing this I realize the friend above me who has made over $10,000 did so by recruiting. He got the $4100 in the first 30 days and he has hundreds in his business so all those 200 points for them joining caused him to make all that money. It wasn\u2019t done on shopping yet\u2026.<\/p>\n

I guess I feel now that it\u2019s as much about recruiting (at least in the beginning) as it is about shopping. I didn\u2019t want to get rich off of this (would have been nice) but just make some extra money so I could provide a better life for my family. I do believe however that if it was possible for everyone to sign up 2 and end up with over 8000 people in our business we could make a nice residual income off of everyone’s shopping down the road. I just hate some of the rules and think they are misleading to a lot of people.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s it for now. Thanks for reading and wish me luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Shop To Earn broker left this as a comment last night on one of our ShopToEarn \/ ShopToEarth threads. I think she has some important insights, so I’m republishing it as an article so more people will see it. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[184],"tags":[885],"class_list":["post-2370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pyramid-schemes-mlm","tag-shop-to-earn"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Z0e-Ce","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}