I'm a skeptic. In my opinion, you've got to be if you are looking to find a home-based business. The scams are EVERYWHERE!! I get solicitations in my in-box daily for the latest get-rich-quick scheme/scam. "Earn $20,000 in 2 days, guaranteed! No Risk!" I wonder why I'm skeptical?
So, whenever I begin to look at a new opportunity I've heard about, I assume it's a scam or a pyramid scheme or the products are worthless or they'll be out of business in a month or two. I've seen these things and more happen too many times and I've been ripped off and lied to and worse. Probably anyone who is looking at home-based businesses has had the same experiences. And my first move is to look for proof of the scam. I ask myself, what's the catch and I begin with internet searches. And that's what I did with TriVita. I encourage you to do the same. Look for yourself and see what you can find! This blog is about my "due diligence" in researching this opportunity.
I did searches linking the word trivita with words like scam, beware, rip-off. Then I did searches using variations on scam with Sublingual B-12 and Super Sublingual B-12, Adaptogen 10 Plus, Nutrafruits and Leanology which I believe are their top selling products. I wanted to know if people who bought their products liked them or hated them. Did they think they worked? Did they send them back for a refund? I wanted to know if people complained about getting ripped off or about some other aspect of customer service. I found no complaints about Trivita. People seem to love the products and many have apparently been using Sublingual B-12 for years and talk glowingly about the health and wellness benefits they've experienced. Additionally, the products are doctor developed and many of them are backed up by third-party research.
Then I researched them with the Better Business Bureau or BBB. How many complaints? Were they settled satisfactorily? What type of issues? Are they members of the BBB? TriVita is a member of the Better Business Bureau and has very few complaints.
I also did searches on the founder, Michael Ellison and the Parent Company, Ellison Media. I wanted to know how long Trivita and Ellison Media have been in business and I wanted to know as much as I could find out about Michael Ellison and his son, Marcus Ellison who is company vice-president. Are these people ethical? I found no suggestions that these men are anything but ethical, legitimate business men. In fact Michael Ellison apparently founded this company in response to his own health crisis and a desire to help others to live healthier and gain wealth. The "tri" in trivita is for three aspects of health and wellness (physical, mental and spiritual) and he has written a book called "10 Keys to Creating Health and Wellness" which promotes the foundational values of this company. Ellison Media has been in business for over 35 years and Trivita has been in business for 9 years. I was very pleased to find that these are not Start Up companies! I found no hints of scandal.
I went to scam watchdog type sites to see if there were threads about trivita. Then I actually started a thread on Scam.com asking for anyone to tell me if they had been ripped off by Trivita. These guys love to trash illegitimate business opportunities, network marketing and mlm type home-based businesses. I wanted them to tell me whatever they had found or could find negative about this company, products, opportunity, etc. The responses were helpful in their skepticism and in guidance toward other business analysis tools, they were skeptical of the claims of Trivita as I expected, but nobody told me that Trivita is a scam or that they have been ripped off by Michael Ellison or that the products are just more snake oil. In fact, I believe that I was able to find a satisfactory answer to every objection and question they raised. Read it for yourself!
Finally, I wanted to analyze THE MAJOR QUESTION and the point to all my research: Can I make money with Trivita? I'll discuss this in my next post.....
So, whenever I begin to look at a new opportunity I've heard about, I assume it's a scam or a pyramid scheme or the products are worthless or they'll be out of business in a month or two. I've seen these things and more happen too many times and I've been ripped off and lied to and worse. Probably anyone who is looking at home-based businesses has had the same experiences. And my first move is to look for proof of the scam. I ask myself, what's the catch and I begin with internet searches. And that's what I did with TriVita. I encourage you to do the same. Look for yourself and see what you can find! This blog is about my "due diligence" in researching this opportunity.
I did searches linking the word trivita with words like scam, beware, rip-off. Then I did searches using variations on scam with Sublingual B-12 and Super Sublingual B-12, Adaptogen 10 Plus, Nutrafruits and Leanology which I believe are their top selling products. I wanted to know if people who bought their products liked them or hated them. Did they think they worked? Did they send them back for a refund? I wanted to know if people complained about getting ripped off or about some other aspect of customer service. I found no complaints about Trivita. People seem to love the products and many have apparently been using Sublingual B-12 for years and talk glowingly about the health and wellness benefits they've experienced. Additionally, the products are doctor developed and many of them are backed up by third-party research.
Then I researched them with the Better Business Bureau or BBB. How many complaints? Were they settled satisfactorily? What type of issues? Are they members of the BBB? TriVita is a member of the Better Business Bureau and has very few complaints.
I also did searches on the founder, Michael Ellison and the Parent Company, Ellison Media. I wanted to know how long Trivita and Ellison Media have been in business and I wanted to know as much as I could find out about Michael Ellison and his son, Marcus Ellison who is company vice-president. Are these people ethical? I found no suggestions that these men are anything but ethical, legitimate business men. In fact Michael Ellison apparently founded this company in response to his own health crisis and a desire to help others to live healthier and gain wealth. The "tri" in trivita is for three aspects of health and wellness (physical, mental and spiritual) and he has written a book called "10 Keys to Creating Health and Wellness" which promotes the foundational values of this company. Ellison Media has been in business for over 35 years and Trivita has been in business for 9 years. I was very pleased to find that these are not Start Up companies! I found no hints of scandal.
I went to scam watchdog type sites to see if there were threads about trivita. Then I actually started a thread on Scam.com asking for anyone to tell me if they had been ripped off by Trivita. These guys love to trash illegitimate business opportunities, network marketing and mlm type home-based businesses. I wanted them to tell me whatever they had found or could find negative about this company, products, opportunity, etc. The responses were helpful in their skepticism and in guidance toward other business analysis tools, they were skeptical of the claims of Trivita as I expected, but nobody told me that Trivita is a scam or that they have been ripped off by Michael Ellison or that the products are just more snake oil. In fact, I believe that I was able to find a satisfactory answer to every objection and question they raised. Read it for yourself!
Finally, I wanted to analyze THE MAJOR QUESTION and the point to all my research: Can I make money with Trivita? I'll discuss this in my next post.....
