Vitamin Marketer USANA Hit With Proposed Class-Action Lawsuit
West News • June 27, 2007
Independent distributors have filed a lawsuit accusing USANA Health Sciences Inc. of fraud and deception, the latest public-relations blow for the marketer of vitamins and nutritional ...
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Subject: RE: RE: RE: Usana under attack
Posted On: July 8, 2007, 8:21 pm CDT
Posted By: Mary
Comment:
Dear Roy,
Actually the "people I know" isn't hearsay, I know them very well. It was my husband and myself but I didn't give our names because the wonderfully caring Usana company were quite threatening when they took away our distributership. And no, we weren't given the facts of what we had done wrong. In fact the first letter telling us that this was going to happen they got the actual website wrong! It was someone elses! Yes, some so called comittee were supposed to have revied the "evidence" but we weren't allowed to know what that was so it was impossible to put our side or argue with the "facts" presented.
In our case we didn't see the policies until after we had paid their money and signed up! The policies don't protect the associates, they only protect Usana and the Gold Directors and above. For some strange reason people who are Gold and above are allowed to create their own advertising and many also have web sites. The Usana web site (paid for by the associates at very inflated prices,) provided, is a waste of time since no one makes money from selling the product. (Its vastly overpriced to allow the few pwople who make it to the top to earn huge comission cheques) The only way to make real money is to sponsor lots of people who then sponsor lots of people who sponsor lots of people...... What you need, and aren't supposed to have, is a recruiting web site.
As a Ruby director, you are profiting from masses of little people who are not, and will not, make any money. We actually were making some money, not a great deal in comparision with what we were spending but it might have eventually have worked for us. But that was with us both working very hard, constantly paying for leads, taking numerous training courses and buying training books,DVDs and CDs (the Usana training is faily basic) paying for ads which of course we weren't actually supposed to have (no mention of the Usana word) making hundreds of phone calls, travelling hundreds of miles to give presentations. Trying to organsise training of the people we found and get them actually doing something. We were always told that people "do what you do" if that were trues we would be diamond directors by now! We recruited quite a number of people but they didn't do anything very much.
What we were supposed to do, since advertising was not permitted, was to talk to family and friends and get them to join. If you don't have many family members and/or you have just moved to an new area and don't have a cirle of friends then what?
So no, Usana isn't the miracle answer to a great lifewith fantastic residual income. Its a confidence trick. And every day another "big name" on the board seems to have been economical with the truth. I just hope that Dr Wentz is the real thing! Of course he seems to have little to do with the day to day running any more which is maybe where the problem lies.
West News 
Subject: RE: RE: RE: Usana under attack
Actually the "people I know" isn't hearsay, I know them very well. It was my husband and myself but I didn't give our names because the wonderfully caring Usana company were quite threatening when they took away our distributership. And no, we weren't given the facts of what we had done wrong. In fact the first letter telling us that this was going to happen they got the actual website wrong! It was someone elses! Yes, some so called comittee were supposed to have revied the "evidence" but we weren't allowed to know what that was so it was impossible to put our side or argue with the "facts" presented.
In our case we didn't see the policies until after we had paid their money and signed up! The policies don't protect the associates, they only protect Usana and the Gold Directors and above. For some strange reason people who are Gold and above are allowed to create their own advertising and many also have web sites. The Usana web site (paid for by the associates at very inflated prices,) provided, is a waste of time since no one makes money from selling the product. (Its vastly overpriced to allow the few pwople who make it to the top to earn huge comission cheques) The only way to make real money is to sponsor lots of people who then sponsor lots of people who sponsor lots of people...... What you need, and aren't supposed to have, is a recruiting web site.
As a Ruby director, you are profiting from masses of little people who are not, and will not, make any money. We actually were making some money, not a great deal in comparision with what we were spending but it might have eventually have worked for us. But that was with us both working very hard, constantly paying for leads, taking numerous training courses and buying training books,DVDs and CDs (the Usana training is faily basic) paying for ads which of course we weren't actually supposed to have (no mention of the Usana word) making hundreds of phone calls, travelling hundreds of miles to give presentations. Trying to organsise training of the people we found and get them actually doing something. We were always told that people "do what you do" if that were trues we would be diamond directors by now! We recruited quite a number of people but they didn't do anything very much.
What we were supposed to do, since advertising was not permitted, was to talk to family and friends and get them to join. If you don't have many family members and/or you have just moved to an new area and don't have a cirle of friends then what?
So no, Usana isn't the miracle answer to a great lifewith fantastic residual income. Its a confidence trick. And every day another "big name" on the board seems to have been economical with the truth. I just hope that Dr Wentz is the real thing! Of course he seems to have little to do with the day to day running any more which is maybe where the problem lies.