Travel agent MLM?

Spot on. In a nutshell.

I work in a hotel and we regularly get emails from Inteletravel agents. They ask for discounted rates so they can experience the hotel in order to recommend it to their clients. As soon as we don't offer a discount and advise we don't pay commission they disappear. I think people see it as a way of getting discounted holidays for themselves.

I know someone who recently got into this and it sounds like such a scam. The giveaway for me, is that if they're so successful and making so much money selling holidays, why do they focus so much effort on pushing "the opportunity " rather than the holidays? Why do they want to create competition for themselves?

Pity in some ways those posts were deleted.

They were the perfect example of the big sell.

MLMs are SCAMS

You never hear of 'agents' retiring on their earnings. What you do see is them going from MLM to MLM to MLM

I can smell the desperation 😂

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The only people making money from mlms are the ones at the top. Hence pyramid. Avoid!

No I’ve never touched mlm’s as I know they are a scam. So your assumption is wrong. It is an MLM aka a scam. I have better thing to do than listen to a call about scams, I have an actual job that pays me correctly and provides all set up without me paying first.

Yeah a good friend of mine joined this. At first I was really pleased for her. But then the typical hard sell started and the pushing and the constant messages. She has managed to join up one mutual friend that I know of. Last two times we met for a drink at the pub (which we did about every month or so) just became a hard sell. Her telling me what my pitch would be and my 'niche' if I also became an agent. Just a sales pitch all the time.

The last straw was on my birthday and I got a facebook message saying 'Happy Birthday!' followed by an attempt to sell me an extra special birthday trip plus to add my name to her increasing list of 'independent travel agents'.

We have been friends for 25 years. It's like she has been zombified. No conversation, no text, no facebook message can be had without her trying to sell me something.

It’s an mlm so basically you’ll make nothing. I have someone in my Facebook trying to push it and doing videos everyday. Before that it was health stuff and she’s always doing some sort of rubbish like this.

I don’t know anyone who uses an actual travel agent now as it’s easier and more cost effective to go online a book yourself. Even the agent we last visited about 15 years ago tried to sell us a Jet2 deal. DH went online whilst in the shop and saw that on Jet2’s website we could arrange the exact same holiday ourselves for £300 less. When we queried that she got quite shirty. We also went to an ‘independent’ agent. We told her that the actual agent could do it cheaper and she said ‘no they can’t, I have access to the same system and they’d effectively be paying for your holiday!’ Well they must have paid for our holiday as we got it £100 cheaper. Will never use a 3rd party again.

So they way I've seen it, it's people who would be spending that money on holidays anyway and are now making a saving as a result of the rates and "commission" but for those people they're making savings as opposed to making money.

And then they're promoting the concept to others so that can make a commission on their bookings. They don't want to actually book anyone else's holiday's, and at that point it's a volumes game and it's passive earnings from everyone else. So for someone who's already spending 000's a year on holidays they'll make a savings (commission) and then if they've a large insta following and can recruit they'll make a passive income.

For the likes of us I doubt it's worth it. Unless you're spending a fortune on holidays already.

They make very little commission on each sale. I only ever book Ikos and Sani holidays and they as a company offer zero offers to these travel MLMs. That tells you everything you need to know.

They earn a % of what their team earns, so say you’d get 10% commission on a holiday, 2% will go to your ‘manager’ and 8% will go to yourself. But often the deal is cheaper by maybe 5% than booking it yourself BUT you lose out on things like free transfers/free breakfast etc, so it works out exactly the same if not more expensive.

I enquired about joining as I book about 6 holidays a year and could easily book another 12 for family and friends every year but the commission is such peanuts it’s not worth my time.

I've also wondered about inteletravel. Even if you don't need to recruit others; does it actually make sense for doing your own travel bookings? They promise that you'll get great pricing on hotels and flights and because you're part of the 'travel industry' you'd likely get free upgrades and perks etc. anyone whos actually been there done that for any info to share?

I don't think it's the same account then, but yeah they could be doing it as a side hustle, but part of the training will be to make out that "their travel business" has paid for this that and the other to try and suck people in, it's about recruiting that's for sure.

@skyandocean Hmm it's not a person with a home account is it?

I follow one with a home account, her home is lovely but have had to block her stories as sick of the travel business 🐂 shit tbh.

An old acquaintance tried to get me into this thing and i sat in on the initial meeting and thought very much an MLM. She now only contacts me to ask about holiday plans. Very tiresome and rude but completely an MLM.

the travel mlm is called Inteletravel - they claim its not an mlm as you dont have to sign up for 'networking' side of it

but its total bollocks