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Hi I wondered if anyone has any experience of the teletravel business that goes around on Facebook/Instagram? I totally get that it’s a MLM scheme and I actually have no intention of recruiting anyone else but wondered if it is worth it just to use it for your own travel and holidays? Any advice grateful! X

No. Just don’t get involved. Inteletravel is a front for a pyramid scheme called PlanNet Marketing. Any involvement risks people getting damaged one way or another.

@Finlay1986 all you’re telling me is what you’re spending on travel albeit with some discount. You’re the customer. This is not a viable business. I hope you are keeping a close eye on your profit and loss.

It is a viable business. I know people in this business that I have met who are making an income and travelling the world. Nothing in life comes easy, hard work pays off. Business mind is needed, a negative mind won't build anything or anyone. I know how to keep track of my ins and outs. If I make a loss they pay me back the difference. All in the small print.

There's a certain 'voice' people use when they are involved in MLM, isn't there? Is it trained into them? I sense a little desperation, either for self or to avoid cognitive dissonance. Very interesting!

Or it's a bot of course.

Who is paying you back for losses and how would you make a loss by booking holidays for yourself?

You know you're not fooling anyone, right?

The people extolling the virtues of these schemes always sound like hostages reading from a script.

THAT'S the voice. Nailed it. A certain Stockholm air to it.

“If I make a loss they pay me back the difference” 😂🤣. If that was true they’d be shouting about it not burying it in the small print!

You can work as hard as you like, you can be as positive as you like, the bottom line is the only people who make an [unstable, temporary] profit are those that recruit a huge downline and keep up the endless cycle of recruitment. That’s why Inteletravel’s profits improved during a global travel ban, when people were ripe for recruitment.

Success in these schemes cannot be done by selling a product or service alone. It is also difficult for most people to recruit, if I join a scheme and recruit just 5 people and those 5 recruit 5 each and each of those 25 recruits sign up 5 each and so one, there only needs to be 15 recruitment cycles before you’ve run out of world population. Given that there must be a few people on the planet not keen on a trip to Disney and not willing to be recruited that means many people in these schemes can’t make it work, they don’t have enough customers or recruiting potential. So if the numbers don’t work, if there clearly isn’t room for everyone to be successful how is ‘positive mindset” going to address the reality? The reality is that the percentage of people signing up for these schemes who make no money (or lose money) is 99.6% according to FTC linked research - that’s not a business opportunity, that’s a scam.

oh, and beware people who tell you they’re successful or appear to have the trappings of wealth. In MLM pyramid schemes it’s nearly always superficial facade or their ‘business” is propped up by another financial source such as a partner’s income. Recently one of Inteletravel’s “successes” left and confessed that once she was able to analyse her earning correctly she realised that she was earning 70p an hour.

The small print you really should be looking at @Finlay1986 is the document Inteletravel publishes which puts the best spin they can on the outcomes for their scheme members. In reality the figures are even worse as the numbers on the ID don’t include all the people who drop out within a year and the figures are before individual “travel agents” expenses are removed. It shows that over 97% of travel agents make an average of $154 a year with the typical income being very much south of that.