{"id":689,"date":"2007-05-22T08:32:10","date_gmt":"2007-05-22T13:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sequence-inc.com\/fraudfiles\/2007\/05\/22\/settling-the-usana-75-savings-issue-once-and-for-all\/"},"modified":"2012-05-04T09:50:48","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T14:50:48","slug":"settling-the-usana-75-savings-issue-once-and-for-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/settling-the-usana-75-savings-issue-once-and-for-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Settling the Usana &#8220;75% Savings&#8221; Issue Once and For All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I issued a very short report for the <a href=\"http:\/\/frauddiscovery.net\">Fraud Discovery Institute<\/a> about the &#8220;75% savings&#8221; issue that Usana repeatedly presents in its marketing sessions. The claim has been made for years that the network marketing method of distribution creates this 75% savings.<\/p>\n<p>What does it really mean? Does it mean that the consumer saves 75% on the price of products? Well that can&#8217;t be the case because Barry Minkow and team has proven over and over that the products are signficantly <strong>higher<\/strong> priced than comparable products.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Maybe the 75% savings thing means that Usana has a normal profit built into the pricing strategy, similar to other companies, and has an additional 75% savings that is available to be given to distributors? That&#8217;s not the case either.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The numbers in Usana.s financial statements show that only about 39% of the wholesale price of the products is paid to<br \/>\ndistributors via commissions. Where does the other 36% go?<\/p>\n<p>Consider the HealthPak 100, which has an autoship price of $107 and a suggested retail price of $128.40. If an associate is able to sell the HealthPak 100 at full retail price, the associate has a gross profit of $21.40, or 16.6%. The 75% is clearly not there.<\/p>\n<p>On the autoship price of $107, commissions of 39%, or $41.73, will be paid to the upline. That $41.73 is 33% of the suggested retail price. The 75% is not here either.<\/p>\n<p>If a HealthPak 100 is sold at the full retail price of $128.40, the maximum that everyone collectively could make on that sale is $63.13, or only 49% of the retail price.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The bottom line? There is no 75%, not for the distributor or the consumer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I issued a very short report for the Fraud Discovery Institute about the &#8220;75% savings&#8221; issue that Usana repeatedly presents in its marketing sessions. The claim has been made for years that the network marketing method of distribution creates this [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pyramid-schemes-mlm"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Z0e-b7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689","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=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}