PLEXUS DEEP DIVE | Products, compensation plan, and income disclosure statements explained #ANTIMLM

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0:00 Disclaimers
3:02 What is Plexus?
4:00 Products & Pricing
11:11 How to Join
14:54 Compensation Plan
23:18 Incentive Programs
27:38 Income Disclosures

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[robinapalategui]

I was an ambassador and hit a big rank and I can confirm all of this! The products are toxic, the culture is culty and toxic & the pay is horrible!!! When I hit my highest rank, my “average” was suppose to be $4500. Well my paychecks were only $1700 a month! After all that work! I’m so anti-MLM and I’m so thankful you make these deep dives for people to learn how this works!!!

[Allisonsaul]

My theory: They don’t make you a “brand ambassador” until you’ve more or less made a sale (aka technically earned *some* income) because it boosts their income disclosure figures…. If you have to earn commission before you’re considered a distributor, there will be no zeroes in the averages for the first rank. All the people who try and can never make a sale (which is most) are never on the books to begin with. Sneaky.

[ld]

my sister is a serial MLM hopper and swears by the plexus drink even after her doctor told her to stop taking all the supplements. something people don't often consider when stacking ALL these supplements together, is the toll it takes on your liver and sometimes your heart. With Herbalife especially there have been studies published in medical journals about hepatotoxicity. Tread carefully with supplements babes!

[katiehoffmann]

My ex's mom is in plexus and gave me 30 day supply to try of several different products. I started getting tremors, really bad migraines, kidney stones, and throwing up almost everything. She wanted to put me on her website for my 70 lb weight loss but I was losing weight because I was working a labor intensive job outside. Not from the plexus. I stopped taking it and everything went back to normal. I do not recommend any of their products AT ALL. Please don't take anything without physician supervision. It's so easy to wreck your health by taking the wrong things

[rachelrabbbit]

That Plexus Point part was like, when you find some obscure board game from the 80s at a thrift store and take it home, and then when you open it and read the instructions you realize why it was obscure and thrifted...
Pardon me while I just put that part of the compensation plan in a closet and ignore it for the next 20 years because it intimidates me.

[Annamilgreen]

I would love to hear how those old MLM companies, like Amway, Mary Kay or Avon dealt with market oversaturation and who they tried to target.

[Wolfnap]

I’ve been an ambassador since about 2018 and regret it more every day. I do need to say that my wife used to have extreme migraines for decades and after about 5 weeks of the pink drink daily she completely stopped having them. That was the clenched for us to start selling. The most I ever made in a month was like $200 but I hated the selling and pushing it part. My up lines up line is a sapphire and makes a ton of money but we just can’t figure out how. I figured out she’d need like 900 people under her every month and it just doesn’t sound possible. We are not allowed to sell stuff on any online platforms which is where I made the most sales before being hit with cease and desist letters. I am about to quit plexus and this video sealed the deal. Thank you.

[rondaherriott]

Plexus is what sent me down the anti-mlm road. I had previously done the buying to support friends thing and knew I didn’t want to join anymore mlms (previously did partylite). A friend sent me a hey hon dm after sharing about a neurological disease I was diagnosed with. I’m sorry but no drink is going to make my cerebellum suck back up into my skull. Only surgery can help me. I raged but ignored her. This was her 3rd mlm that I know of.

[nicolecarter]

This was the best break down deep dive of any mlm video that I have ever personally watched! Thank you for your work! I swear you need to be hired to give courses for “financial” classes at high schools and colleges on what to be aware of and how to avoid, scams, ect. I mean there is just no way to argue these points. It is what it is 💯.

[lisaflesher]

I had an old neighbor who has been with Plexus 8 for years. I tried it a few years ago, the pink drink, probio 5, bio cleanse are the products I tried. My stomach was upset 24/7 and it didn’t help me poop. The pink drink tastes good but after I stopped using it, I realized how awful I felt while taking it. My headaches disappeared and just felt better over all. It’s definitely not worth the money but I did help my neighbor install a pool in her new house. 🤦🏻‍♀️

[alisonrwolfe]

Omg i am so happy you did this deep dive! I had a coworker message me at home a few years ago with the weird "hey hun" feel to her message... i live in an area that is majority mennonite and mlm businesses are huge here. Many people do several mlms at one time! So anyway... she messages me at home pushing this "pink drink". At the time, i was going through major thyroid issues. I had developed Graves' disease/ hyperthyroidism and seeing an endocrinologist. I was waiting to have RAI (radioactive iodine) treatment. She latched onto that and basically told me she could cure my thyroid. I told her i wasn't interested (in the very typical indirect passive Canadian way...) but she wouldn't give up. She said she could have me talk to the "plexus physician" to explain how it could help me... i ended up having to tell her my doctor didn't want me taking it.

I've also had a SIL say she could "cure" my thyroid with young living oils and also had my work supervisor add her mlm drink samples in an envelope with my xmas bonus cheque!

[TheThriftyBroad]

I did join this one out of sick curiosity 6ish years ago. That is also before I realized how bad MLM's actually are. I was recruited from someone on IG and immediately I was added to two Facebook groups and they definitely did a lot of hype and some love bombing etc. They also did these "giveaways" that seemed very contrived. I was smart and signed up with a credit card that was about to expire and never updated it when it did. I tried the items for about 60 days. The pink drink is disgusting and is super sweet and just made me not want to drink it. None of the products were magical in anyway. Just a bunch of overpriced vitamins lol that could really be toxic if taking too much of certain ones.

[ReadAndThrift]

A mom from a daycare I used to work at roped me in to trying plexus. I bought the pink drink and a few other things. I was so broke but felt bad telling her no so I bought stuff. I think she actually made me a preferred customer or something without my knowledge. I don’t think she does it anymore. She took some weird course on “breath work” that cost thousands and thousands and then got crazy and I blocked her haha. It’s really sad cause I loved her boys so much!

[breevestrand]

Was a plexus ambassador back in December 2021-Jan 2022. I had just had a baby and was looking to lose the baby weight and get “natural energy”. Signed up and was stressed into posting and messaging tons and tons of people while taking care of a newborn and 1 year old. I told my upline (who I know personally) and was told you gotta use any spare moment you have. Anyone with two under two knows any spare time you have you rest, so I was exhausted and felt even worse but kept going. Made one sale off my mom who hated all the products except one and couldn’t justify the price so she never repurchased.I was messaged constantly like they were checking up on a friend and asked why i didn’t purchase or anything or post. I said I just can’t sell it I don’t want to nor do I have time to. And still was pressured to be a customer. I told my upline and her upline who both messaged me within 5 min of each other that I cannot afford the products and will not be purchasing. They even agreed that unless you’re selling the products it’s pretty expensive to purchase them continually. Also I had to buy more products to even get money from my moms sale. I spent maybe $300 in products and made around $30-40 in sales 🙃 best part is now that I’m not buying or selling she doesn’t message me at all. While I was “working the business” she messaged me almost everyday just to chat and what not, now nothing lol

[MrBrittasaurusRex]

My friend got sucked into Plexus a few years a go. She asked me to join, at the time I had never heard of MLMs so I didn't know how bad the business model. I wasn't going to join just because I didn't want to have to socialize enough to sell stuff to people on Facebook. She gave me a week sample of pink drink to try out and see if I liked it enough to sell. I said ok to give it a fair shake. When I say this drink gave me the worst heart burn of my life, it's an understatement. I felt like I was going to die. My heart was racing, my chest burned like I swallowed a flaming sword. I felt like I was going to throw up but it never happened. I told my friend what was happening to me and she said you have to drink a lot of water. I drank almost a gallon that day and it didn't even touch the hellscape that is Pink Drink. My friend was horrified about how badly the drink affected me, I think that was the first crack in the myth of Plexus, luckily she left them a few months later. Just thinking about it makes my chest hurt.

[TheBerkeleyBeauty]

I’m a narcissist’s worst nightmare because I refuse to “feed” them. They eventually get the picture and move on. I’m also an MLM distributor’s worst nightmare for the same reasons. I wonder how many MLM distributors are narcs.

[Smwest]

Thank you for, not only showing the Lexus program per month, but also showing the total vs the actual cost. I hate when they say a "free" car. I haven't seen another content creator do that!

[LeahAutumn]

Wow best deep dive I've seen in a long time, Hannah the amount of time you put into these you need a medal, i love how you compiled your own charts and graphs it shows that you really care about showing people the real way these companies work. We don't deserve you !! keep it up girl :D

[katyr]

Yay just snuggled into bed after a 4 hour train journey (and a similar one this morning), perfect

[MaidMirawyn]

Interesting tidbit from the Plexus help center…

“The Plexus Compensation Plan…Allows Plexus to payout 50% of the company’s Commissionable Volume to Brand Ambassadors every month.”

Did they just admit that a huge chunk of the cost is paying the seven or whatever tiers of reps? NOT quality?