![]() What happens when you don’t sell $600 worth of wine? Well, a lot of consultants will end up buying that much wine just to stay active. You also have to sell like $300 worth of wine to stay active in the company. You level up by selling a certain amount of wine every month. What TQ found is that you can earn up to 35% commission from selling wine based on your level. It’s not even a recent copy! TQ basically wrote an entire postdedicated to WineShop At Home and even he doesn’t recommend joining this MLM. Let me tell you, that thing was incredibly hard to find, which is super shady. TQ over at OnlineBzDog found the 2015 WineShop At Home compensation plan. This PDF on the FTC’s website tells you everything you need to know. The FTC states that 99% of people in MLMs end up losing money. MLMs have a structure where you pay to be a part of the company, but then you have to make enough commission to earn money or break even. I did not pay to be a part of them, so everything I earn from commissions is 100% profit. My affiliates are completely free to join. Now addressing the commission aspect of it. A company or winery cannot use my pictures or words without my permission or I can actually get the courts involved. Everything on my website including my pictures is owned by me. Usually there will be something in the terms and conditions that will state that anything related to that MLM is now property of the MLM even if it was just a picture you took of one of the wines on a Saturday afternoon. The difference between someone in an MLM and me owning my website is that everything on this website is owned and operated by me. I had a comment not too long ago asking how earning commission from advertisements placed on my website was any different. Essentially you’re a sales rep for a company and you just lose money or barely break even. One of my pet peeves is the fact that people think they own their own business when they join an MLM. Then they start asking if they can run their business online. Sounds a bit pyramid scheme-y if you ask me. As much as you want… You earn commission, but you also earn money on everyone you recruit, plus bonuses if you’re in an upper level. The first question asks how much one can earn with WineShop At Home. If you scroll a little more, you get to the FAQs. For $239, it comes with everything the second kit comes with plus order boards, messenger bag, Wine Away emergency kit, wine glass pens, 12 branded wine glasses, two demo bottles, 20 brochures, and two more bottles of wine. Finally, there is a kit called the Premium Pour Kit. The second kit is called the Social Sip Kit ($99) and that includes pour disks, corkscrew, 5 one ounce pour spouts, wine stopper, a tasting guide with a binder, two bottles of wine, and a one month subscription to their online services. Training for any job should be PAID, but I digress. The cheapest kit ($25) is called the Virtual Vino Kit that comes with a one month subscription to their online services, your personalized website, mobile app access, social media tools, and training materials. Once you scroll down a little ways, there’s a heading called “Get Started” and underneath it is three business kits. At the top, there’s a button labeled “Become a Consultant.” At this point, we’ve learned that is an MLM red flag. Once again, I have navigated through the website so you don’t have to. Wouldn’t it make more sense to host your own wine tasting and have people purchase from you? They want you to get your family and friends to host a wine tasting in their home, purchase a sampler from you, and then have their wine tasting guests purchase wine from you as well. Okay, so what exactly is WineShop At Home? WineShop At Home is a multi-level marketing company that sells wine, but they basically sell wine from wine tastings hosted in someone else’s home. Read this blog post to learn more about MLMs. ![]() Multi-level marketing schemes are legal because they sell a product, but the way you make money (if you even make any) is not by selling the products, but by recruiting people into what’s called your downline. It’s time to talk about WineShop At Home.Īn obligatory recap: MLMs are essentially legal pyramid schemes. Unfortunately for this particular multi-level marketing company, I am back with another MLM post. ![]() Fortunately for us anti-MLMers, I’m back with another MLM post. ![]()
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