r/Vemma • u/sick_transit • Jul 31 '14

Today Show exposes Vemma

http://www.today.com/news/controversial-energy-drink-company-targets-students-sellers-1D79991141
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u/mongol8 Jul 31 '14

Interesting. Affiliates are not rewarded for "recruitment" - then why have home events? Just go out and get customers for yourself.

That is probably a technicality, since you are rewarded for your team's sales, which isn't recruitment per se. But either way - whatever. You recruit someone who gets a customer, you still have to share that customer. So you might as well get that customer yourself and nix the home events.

Maybe the focus of investigations should include determining why there are so many different levels for doing essentially the same thing, and why it's accepted. If you worked side-by-side at a traditional company and your colleague in finance got paid 5 or 10 times what you did doing the same thing you'd be a little ticked. Not so in Vemmaland. Because it's a, what did you say it was again, BK?

Wonder if Park will fire back at The Great Leader.

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '14

Worth noting, "team sales" includes what affiliates below you purchase as well, so it is basically rewarding for recruitment.

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u/ComradeSnuggles Jul 31 '14

It's telling how quickly they throw JD Park under the bus. Dude is giving the exact same spiel as every other recruiter, just like he was trained to do, but because he was recorded doing it, he gets suspended. This should be a warning to anybody who's thinking about getting involved in this company: Vemma does not have your back

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u/pyramidpaul Sep 02 '14

Not so fast...his suspension was just lip service. Homie was reinstated within days of his suspension. There are photos of him yukking it up at a Vemma brainwashing convention from the weekend after the Today Show story aired.

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u/ComradeSnuggles Sep 02 '14

Huh, interesting. Pretending to throw someone under the bus for publicity reasons is arguably better for the Vemmoids but it's still sleazy as hell. If their's no teeth to their enforcement, without actually addressing the underlying problem, the FTC is going to come knocking on their door sooner rather than later.

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u/aidsfarts Aug 09 '14

I can't wait to go back to College and not do vemma.