Archive for the ‘monavie’ Category
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MonaVie – The Worst Juice in America?
The good people from Men’s Health and the related book, Eat This, Not That, have come up with a list of 20 Worst Drinks in America. The drink are in various categories. The Worst Juice Imposter came in at #12 in the form of Arizona Kiwi Strawberry. One can is 23 fl. oz. and has [...]
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Skeptoid Agrees with JuiceScam about MonaVie
I came across this article on Skeptoid related to MonaVie.The article makes many of the same points that have been made here in the past. Some of those include: Much like how McDonalds is in the real estate business and not necessarily the burger business, MonaVie is in the MLM business and not the juice [...]
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MonaVie, World Progress Report, and Joan Lunden (It’s Another Scam)
Frequent commenter CGC had an interesting find regarding MonaVie and World Progress Report. It seems that MonaVie’s corporate website has a warning regarding World Progress Report and the use of Joan Lunden’s name. You can read about it here. Here is a choice quote: “We appreciate and share your enthusiasm for the recent feature story [...]
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MonaVie is Liquid Google?!?! (Trademark Infringement Inside)
I got an interesting e-mail the other day. It came from “dmdamerica@[somedomain].com.” This company wanted to let me know that they have “Liquid Google” shirts for sale on Ebay. I decided to grab a screenshot for all to see the listing. As you can see they clearly use Google’s trademark. I’m going to go out [...]
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The Problem with the “Try MonaVie” Argument
Many distributors come here with an argument of “try the juice” under the theory that you shouldn’t knock it until you try it. I know a couple dozen other people who have tried the juice. All felt nothing. Why? Because it is the juice of fruit. That means that if you start out with a [...]
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Market Value Doesn’t Apply to MonaVie
A commenter mentioned from a previous post said: “The price of a product is determined by “market value” which means if something is over-priced it will not sell, and last I checked MonaVie is still selling for now.” [Note: I cleaned up the quote for spelling a bit.] On the outset, that seems like an [...]
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Monavie is Embarrassed by Their Income Disclosure Statement? (Part 2)
[The following is a guest post from Anonymous Aussie, a frequent commenter on this website. I think it was intended to be a regular comment to the original article, but I think the mathematics that she points out is something that should be highlighted and are grounds for further discussion.] MonaVie Distributor Tom states “Show [...]
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Dr. Jonny Bowden and MonaVie
Dr. Jonny Bowden has come forth to comment on MonaVie. In an article titled “No More Claiming Mona Vie Cures Cancer!” he debunks the value of ORAC scores. That’s not overly surprising as we’ve seen MonaVie’s own Dr. Alex Schauss essentially discount ORAC as having little value in the body. He says specifically: “The argument [...]
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MLM Distributors asking for Credentials
Many distributors of an MLM will ask about my credentials. It sounds like a logical question on the face of it. However, upon further examination it really isn’t. I thought I’d break down a few of the reasons why so we can finally put this debate tactic out of commission. I ask you to read [...]
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MonaVie Uses EarthFruit’s Mid-Grade Acai (and Doesn’t Harvest or Freeze-Dry Their Own)
Two researches of MonaVie have come up with the interesting fact that you read in the title above. Amthrax started by asking, EarthFruits and MonaVie: What’s the Connection? Upon looking into it, Vogel (a frequent commenter here) found that both are in South Jordan, EarthFruits supplies Acai to companies, and that both support MonaVie’s MORE [...]
