Is ASEA a Scam? Scientific Breakthrough or Another Health MLM Scam?

ASEA Review

The overview and rankings

What to look for in a MLM:

What is ASEA?

ASEA is a health and wellness Multi-Level-Marketing company selling skincare products.

Verdis Norton founded the company in 2009 with the goal of giving people a healthier and more fit lifestyle with the help of their products.

Here's a 3-minute video to know more about ASEA.

ASEA has numerous branches around the globe, specifically in 10 different countries. It’s also listed as one of the 100 best MLM companies in the world.

Is ASEA a pyramid scheme?

No, ASEA isn’t a pyramid scheme.

Their members can make and earn money from the company by simply selling their products without recruiting.

But a more accurate question to that is… Is ASEA a pyramid scheme in disguise?

What is a pyramid scheme?

A pyramid scheme is a company which pays members for recruiting people instead of letting them sell their offerings which may come in the form of products or services.

Many countries have already banned pyramid schemes because not everyone can earn good money from it. These companies also just pay people to recruit and not sell legit products.

Check out this Wikipedia diagram to know why...

The members who make money inside a company like this recruit as much people as they can by selling them this alleged “business opportunity.”

But based on the diagram above, this is no business opportunity because it’s impossible for everyone to earn good money knowing that you’ll eventually run out of people to recruit.

Here’s a 5-minute video on how you can spot these so-called “pyramid schemes in disguise.”

Let's then know why...

Success is rare with ASEA

If they can’t sell the minimum number of products then they have to buy it for themselves.

So what does that mean? They buy their own products, thereby losing money instead of earning!

We’ll be digging more into that with the ASEA income disclosure later...

How does ASEA Work?

ASEA is a multi-level marketing company selling skincare products and saltwater bottles that you can drink.

They also have an affiliate program where ordinary people can become members and sell their products to earn commissions.

This should be a win-win… But the catch is that ASEA saves tons of money on advertising and marketing because they just let their members do all the hard work.

Before we see if this is actually what’s happening, let’s learn more about...

ASEA products

Before proceeding, it’s very important that you know the actual products that the company is selling before you try your luck becoming one of their members.

You need to understand them really well so you’ll have an easier time selling them.

That’s if you're ready to take the risks...

Here are ASEA’s most popular products:

• ASEA RENU 28 ($50) - A skin gel that can be used on your face and throughout your body. It improve skin health by getting rid of wrinkles, dark spots, and freckles while increasing moisture.

• RENU Advanced ($75) - Tones up skin color and improves skin cell renewal to slow down the signs of aging. It also cleanses your face and remove makeup.

• ASEA Via ($12) - A nutritional supplement containing whole food-based nutrients. It improves general health wellness and speeds up cellular recovery and regeneration.

Note that there are lots of brands out there that are offering the same benefits as the products ASEA is selling.

There are even hundreds of MLM companies that offer very similar products just like:

• Atomy
• LifeVantage
• Poofy Organics
• Rodan and Fields
• Seacret Direct
• Bellame
• SeneGence
• Farmasi
• Mary Kay
• Maskcara

All these companies say that they are special and that they have a very rare and unique product. When in fact, all of them are just offering a very similar thing.

So, what makes ASEA special?

ASEA Redox - flagship product

Strengthens the immune system and improves the body’s response to inflammations. It also modulates hormone production and improves cardiovascular and digestive health. It's priced at $35.

Here's a 4-minute about ASEA redox...

Their products sound interesting, right? But...

Can you make money with ASEA?

ASEA will give you a hard time earning money.

There might be a few people to make a few bucks that’s just slightly above minimum wage. 

But they work like full-time sales managers. For what? For payment that’s just above minimum wage or even lower?

Their income reports even show that hardly anyone makes money from ASEA.

How to make money with ASEA

There are 2 ways you can make money from ASEA:

• Sell products to earn commissions.
• Recruit people and earn bonuses from downlines.

Note that you can only earn bonuses from the sales of your downlines and not from having to recruit them.

This is one of the reasons why MLMs like ASEA save themselves from being called pyramid schemes because they don’t earn directly from recruitment.

But even if that’s “technically” the case, the earnings are still from recruiting...

How much does it cost to join ASEA?

There are 4 subscription options to choose from when joining ASEA.

These are:

• ASEA Advancing Life - $120
• Basic Plus - $240
• Builder - $370
• Express Builder - $720

The first package includes only 1 case. The second one has 2, the third has 4, and the fourth package includes 8 cases. Each case contains 4 bottles of ASEA Redox.

ASEA monthly cost

It costs $15.95 a month to get access to your free website and stay an active member.

But you can see on ASEA's compensation plan that members need to sell a minimum of 100 PV per month which costs $100+ a month. You need to maintain 100 PV every month to stay active and be eligible to earn commissions. 100 PV is equivalent to 1 case.

The costs for 1 year are...

• $120 - $720
• $100 - $200 x 12

Minimum costs for year 1 = $1,320 - $3,120

And this is before you add in all the additional costs such as training on how to sell this stuff, marketing, and other miscellaneous expenses.

ASEA compensation plan

What I observed in all MLMs is that they make their compensation plans hard to understand by giving it complicated terms, diagrams, and computations.

Well, ASEA is no different! But you don’t need to worry because I’ll keep this simple…

There are 4 ways you can earn from ASEA. These are:

Retail Commissions

Earn 20% commission from each of your sales.

Preferred Customer Bonus

Earn $25 from every sold case whenever you recruited a new member for the company’s autoship program.

Recruitment Commissions

Earn $20 for every pack that is purchased by the newly recruited member.

Team Commissions

Earn 10% of the total sales volume of your team every month. Only those who have built a downline leg worth 300 PV are eligible for this commission.

Don’t worry if you’re still confused with all that because that’s completely normal for MLMs.

These companies use weird acronyms and complex and fancy terms to make it look like there are lots of ways to make money from the company.

When in reality, there are only 2 things that  you can do:

• Sell their products
• Recruit more people

Did you also notice that all of the ways you can get paid require you to recruit members? I smell something fishy here…

Anyway, you can dig deeper into their compensation plan in the 14-minute video below...

Or you can find the full compensation plan here. 

Is ASEA a scam?

No, ASEA is not a scam. The company is selling legit and effective products. They also pay their affiliate members exactly as they say.

Unfortunately, many of their members are annoyed and disappointed to know that instead of earning, they’re losing more money. Which is completely unexpected!

This is why many people might call the company a scam...

Just to be fully transparent with you, I am not a distributor myself and I do not endorse it in any way.

I have researched the website, testimonials and information on the Internet to get to the bottom of what this program genuinely does. This is because I have been burnt from programs just like this in the past and I want to prevent others from making the same mistakes. If you’d like to learn how to “Spot an Online Marketing Scam” then click the highlighted text.

What I like about ASEA

Key Terms:

• Pyramid Scheme – recruits members via a promise for payment from referring others to the service rather than providing a product
• Affiliate Marketing- Connecting a customer to a product they are looking for and receiving a commission for doing so
• Red Flag - A warning sign

#1 Proven history

The thing I like most about ASEA is that they’ve been in business since 2009.

This is very rare for companies like these because most MLMs don’t go beyond their first 10 years.

So, it’s safe to say that ASEA won’t be gone tomorrow or any time soon like many MLMs. It’s also good to know that ASEA isn’t a scam because they’re not shut down by the FTC.

#2 Positive product reviews

Another good thing I’ve found about ASEA is that their products have a lot of positive reviews.

Here are some of the ones I discovered:

As you can see, all these customers are satisfied with their products, especially with REDOX. So, let’s move on with...

What I don't like about ASEA

#1 Expensive products

The usual thing that happens with MLMs is that their products are expensive because of the supposed “proprietary ingredient” that’s present even if it’s just a case of branding!

Companies like these just want to earn huge profits without adding value to their products.

This brings me to my next point…

Would you drink a $35 bottle of “saltwater” when you can drink an energy drink from a reputable company like Gatorade for more than half the price cheaper?

#2 Hidden monthly expenses

Do you remember reading that you must sell 100 PV every month to stay active?

That makes no sense because in the first place, why do you need to have a sales quota? Sounds like a pyramid scheme in disguise to me...

The fact is… ASEA’s biggest customer base is their member distributors who are obliged and forced to continue buying their products with the hope that they can be their own boss in the soonest possible time.

#3 Is ASEA a pyramid scheme in disguise?

If you must continue spending over $100 every single month just to stay active, then there’s only one way that you can make sure that you won’t lose that $100 of yours on overpriced saltwater…

And that’s by recruiting people to be a part of your downline!

Here is a diagram to give you a clearer picture of what's actually happening here...

You can then guarantee them that they need to sell over $100 worth of products to stay active and earn money, thereby saving yourself the hassle of doing that...

#4 Only 1 in 493 members earn over $30k a year

You can see in the ASEA income disclosure that 0.03% of all members earn an average of $147,144 per year...

This means that 0.25% of all members earn over $30k a year.

In simple words, this means that only 1 out of 493 members make more than $30k a year!

My opinion - ASEA

ASEA surely has some interesting products in store compared to other MLMs.

But what do I think about the business opportunity presented here?...

The only real way you can make good money is if you recruit loads of people into the company.

You then aggressively motivate them to sell and sell and sell to stay active. The fact is… most of these people are just going to lose money from ASEA.

Does that sound like an ethical business you want to be a part of?

Nah...

But here's a better way to earn real good money...

How I make passive income online

MLMs are not scams or illegal. However, I'm not a fan of them because of the restrictions to the expensive products you have to promote.

Once I learnt about affiliate marketing, I realised it's a far superior business model because:

• You can promote anything you want and truly own the business
• You never need to sell to friends and family
• It's completely free to start

In 2018 I had no idea what affiliate marketing was.