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    MonaVie Hits Blogger Over 'Trademarks' In Metadata

    UPDATED 9/15/09. See below. More »
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    "The Purple Horror" Monavie Group Blog

    Remember the Monavie Acai juice Multi-Level-Marketing scam Chris Walters told you about a few weeks ago? There's a whole community blog set up where people can post their Monavie stories as moderator-approved comments at purplehorror.com. Here's one from a frustrated salesperson: "Our upline said that we weren’t pitching it the “right way”. Their idea of the right way was to lie. They didn’t think of it as lying, but it was... They would ask people if they had any medical conditions and whatever they said, the answer was always “Monavie can definitely help you with that." Note the word "upline." That's a common word multi-level-marketing schemes use to refer to the person directly above you in their modified pyramid scheme.

    Purple Horror

    3:23 PM on Thu Oct 23 2008
    By Ben Popken
    8,816 views, 80 comments

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    Just What The Heck Is MonaVie, And Should I Sell It?

    An anonymous reader asks,

    I've been approached by a friend to join up with MonaVie acai juice—it's a "superfood" juice that's sold through "network marketing." I actually do like the product, and this is a friend I trust, but my alarm bells are still going off. I don't want to get sucked into a scam, obviously. There's nothing about this company on your site, so I thought I'd drop you a line and see if you had any advice.

    Here's our advice: don't do it! When you look at the business details and filter out the friend-of-a-friend stories, it's not worth the hassle. More »

    7:14 PM on Mon Oct 6 2008
    By Chris Walters
    24,880 views, 117 comments

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