Inteletravel / Plan Net independent travel agents -how do they make money/scam?!

[Thierryhenryneedisaymore]

Talking to friend today who has recently signed up as an independent travel agent after following someone on social media. I've heard a lot about this lately and i'm very curious. She's a sensible person but i am a bit suspicious about the claims of how much you can save/ even more how much you can make if you recruit others... so friend got interested after following someone, apparently they call themselves 'mentors', this lady who she signed up with apparently was until recently in a normal job, normal house, she lives in the UK, and, has now recruited a lot of independent agents like my friend, desperate for cheap holidays, these people have been recruited since lockdown, and this lady seems to all of a sudden be earning up to 500k a year? How does this work?!!! Is it a scam? This person has a, new house, massive and bought for a lot of mobey, squilllions of expensive holidays a year, high expense lifestyle. I am gobsmacked. How do you make this type of money recruiting people? I have read about MLM but i dont see how you can get a mortgage these days with that type of insecure income? Am i missing something?!! Very curious.

Someone tried to recruit me into it and I was interested as I know travel agents like Hayes have homeworkers, so I assumed it was a similar set up and genuine work. I realised it wasn't when there was emphasis on recruiting others to join and I noticed all the "boss babe" posts by her on Facebook.

You have to pay a fee to join and then there are monthly fees to use the booking software.

What irritated me was how they market the holidays. Suppose you've got a beach front hotel. You have to post things saying "Naice Beach Hotel - our price £50 a night, Booking.com £80 a night." What you fail to mention is, your £50 room is a basic one round the back over looking the car park, while the Booking.com one is a premium sea view room. I couldn't mislead friends and family by thinking they were getting a good deal when really they were not.

This post explains how it all works:

uk.trustpilot.com/reviews/621f55a4445f5107dca5e53d

I have just read that myself but am just surprised if it's that dishonest and they are not posting like for like comparisons for holiday when they say they are. Then you have all these 'celebrities' doing it too? How do you go from veing a normal income to making a 6 figure salary from it as a 3 or 4 star 'director' in q couple of years? Without booking any holidays, just recruiting people??!! I just cant understand the piles of money coming in. She showed me a page for the lady earning a packet and the mind honestly boggles. And like i say, how do you get a huge mortgage from the banks with that type of job. It's staggering.

A well known ex wag does it (with the surname of a bank)

Stormcharmeleon, there are a few people doing it. Just all seems odd, i can't get my head around the money some people appear to be making.

@Thierryhenryneedisaymore Just seen your post. Inteletravel is a scam. It is a front for a pyeamid scheme called PlanNet Marketing. The people who recruit in large numbers make some money but no one makes money selling travel. The costs of joining, training and staying in the scheme are almost always greater than the money made. One of the U.K. directors of IT paid ABTA off for membership. They were due to be the subject of a media expose but luckily for them other world events overtook. It’s worth googling “antiMLM” to find out more about PM and IT.

If it was a genuine travel business why did its profits go up when travel was banned during the pandemic but lots of people were losing their jobs?

travelweekly.co.uk/articles/334992/inteletravel-refutes-fresh-pyramid-selling-accusations

mlmtruth.org/2018/04/05/all-you-need-to-know-about-inteletravel/ Old article but not much has changed.

Why are there so many of these companies that operate on the premise of people scamming one another? It's horrible.

I can’t remember the name of the account but there’s a girl on TikTok who used to work for one of these who explains all about how it works and scams people. She says most of the time, the holidays they have access to can actually be found cheaper online so there’s no point booking through one of these “travel agents” anyway.

How are you sure - and I mean sure - that anyone has a £500k income? Are you certain that the houses you see aren’t just rented for a few days?

Just found her, this is her page on TikTok - __dearsociety

"500k salary"

If it sounds too good to be true, then it's probably too good to be true

I often see online travel agents advertising deals abroad for X amazing price
I know that I can buy my own flights & own accommodation for cheaper

There was one “successful” Inteletravel woman who left and confessed all in a series of YouTube videos. She had a huge downline (the only way to make money in MLM) but when she left she worked out that even as one of their most successful recruiters by the time she factored in what she had spent she was earning 70p an hour.

@MartinMartinMarti

How are you sure - and I mean sure - that anyone has a £500k income? Are you certain that the houses you see aren’t just rented for a few days?

Spot on @MartinMartinMarti, so often with MLM it’s all an illusion. The MLM “business” is usually propped up by another income source (partner/their own proper job/bank of mum and dad et etc). There was a famous case of a high up MLM person in Forever Living (Aloe Vera products not travel!) who had a Castle rented for her by her MLM and a downline placed under her so she could sell the company to recruits by looking successful herself. It was all lies. The nice cars are leased, the new designer clothes photographed or the holiday destination turn out to be stock images. All the while people are falling for it and signing up believing they will have the same success, being told they will have the same success if they just want it enough. It’s all crap and there is some fairly extensive research to show that 99.6% of those signing up to Inteletravel, Avon, Forever Living, Arbonne etc etc, lose money. That’s not a business proposition, that’s a scam, and you’d be better off buying a lottery ticket.

Sorry for late replies. I tried to tactfully mention concerns but it wasn't appreciated😬 so i won't be able to say much more. I hope she doesn't regret it. There seems to be a hierarchy of agents and smaller teams and the upline seems to make all the big money. This lady i mentioned is definitely making big money. Big house renovation, sudden growth, plenty of lavish holidays with family, regular business class travel, big social media following, a 'director' with so many stars which suggests 6 figure income. Husband seems to have normal job. You just could not live that life on credit cards, it's too much. This was by all accounts a normal person on bog standard income 2 years ago. I definitely think some people like her are making money out of it but minority perhaps, and they show / flaunt 'the life' to others who then scramble to sign up. I think that's the category my friend falls into and it's odd as she is normally lecturing the rest of us a lot of the time 😁. There are a few 'celebrities' doing this too. It just sounds a bit like a cult 😬😬, all of this gushing about mentoring/ travel / destination experts after a few online sessions just seems crazy.

Oh wow that trust pilot review is mine 😁 Have to to say if anyone is interested in getting into the travel industry there are many other ways you can with no experience. See below link to Travel Gossip Weekly where they have done all the research....please avoid Inteletravel/Plan net like the plague.

www.travelgossip.co.uk/latestnews/travel-gossips-new-guide-to-help-you-find-the-best-homeworking-agency/?fbclid=IwAR05fcFcJ6Ue2yf2wcwXxG-k-s7qHl9ZvcqHhnSfn3EI3K4G7OcaEx2cYuY

You can also check out Dear Society on You Tube, she has done some deep dives into Plan net/Inteletravel.

Really helpful

I read all those comments. It's funny how you saying between people make millions and its a scam. If it would be a scam so many people wouldn't make so much money. You get paid for your hard work, recruiting people, learning about travel, about business,selling packages, flights, hotels, parks.. I started 6 months ago both businesses and getting paid for the work i do. It's not a scam, if it didn't work out for you doesn't mean it's a scam. Scam where people losing me. Here I earned over 8000 dollars just in 6 months. It's a business it's not a work. If you can't run your business to make money then something wrong with you not with the company where other people make money. Sorry but I hate when people say scam where you getting paid

Katekatekate777 any money you make is coming from orher poor sods below you.

How much revenue have you made from selling your product itself to individuals not employed as part of the programme? Ie not sales to downline to start business etc

And heres the Hun defending the site like they always do, why did you dig up an old thread just to say this.

It is a scam it's practically a pyramid scheme.

The usual inarticulate response from the pyramid scheme playbook. I doubt you’ve made money @KateKateKate777 but if you have, or think you have, it’s probably from fleecing other recruits or from internal sales to others already signed up. If you’ve made money do you really think that means PlanNet/Inteletravel isn’t a scam? Wake up.

A good friend of mine has signed up to this. I'm a natural cynic but I don't want to lose her friendship. She'll be hurt if I don't support her. What do you do? Caution her? Nod smile and don't buy anything?

If you want to get in the travel business, call a local agency, one that has been around for a long time. If they are wanting to recurit other people (that is all they care about, and that is how they make their money) don't do it. It amazies me how many people sign up with these companies (there are many). Some people right near me, that never call my agency (which is local and we have been open for 32 years, plus we have a store front) and they sign up and they are out of the business in 6 months. Sad but true

I tried to tactfully mention concerns but it wasn't appreciated

It rarely is, OP - at least, not while they're in the initial throes of gushing about how wonderful it all is - and gullible people tend not to enjoy being told they're gullible no matter how nicely you phrase it

If as you say she's usually sensible all you can do is be there for her when the light dawns, but obviously don't get drawn into anything in the meantime

MLM central. Myself and a friend were being 'recruited' by someone we know a few months back. It is the biggest pile of shite.

How is your friend doing with this OP?

It's def not a pyramid scheme but it definitely is MLM/ network marketing. I don't have an issue with that aspect as even doTerra oils and Neals Yard Remedies have MLM (I used to do both but there earnings are low in comparison as travel is just more lucrative)

I signed up to the travel agency part and make decent commission as a side hustle. I booked by boss holiday for her for 5k and made 400 commission after intele took their cut (30%)

For me it's an easy side hustle. And thinking of doing the network side of it as some of my friends wants to join as well because we get really cheap rates on practically any hotel on the world (off to Jumeirah beach hotel this summer with a 50% discount - just had to show my travel agency licence certificate)

You have to to the Atol and Abta training otherwise you can't book travel so it's a legit business.

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