Bebida Beverage Company (BBDA)

[elbiatcho1]

it's been PR in 2012-13 that it was in northern Cal and in southern Cal ( Bakersfield ) where did it go

It was Oakland and Fresno (which really isn't SoCal)... all pumped by shareholders attempting to help out the company by doing the distribution themselves.

The company is finding it difficult to get shareholders/friends to do distribution deals nowadays. This is MLM marketing (just like MonaVie? In fact Bebevco has had ties with ex-MonaVie workers: Joe Cudmore http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=75315080).


Here's a great article on MLM failing:
http://www.inc.com/magazine/19980601/941.html

So people sign up, buy the tapes, attend the seminars, and go out to sell and recruit. Whom do they go to? Their friends and relatives, of course, some of whom join the network as well. Most of them don't last, either, but they buy tapes and attend seminars before they leave.

And a few people, a small but predictable percentage, actually turn out to be good salespeople. They wind up selling a significant amount of the company's first product line--vitamins, personal-care items, household goods, whatever. That's good for the company. It's also good for the successful salespeople, particularly those who got in early and stayed with the program.

But their success comes at the expense of the other people, the ones who waste their time and money pursuing a goal they can never reach.

Pyramid scheme? Interesting idea.

It can’t be a pyramid scheme. Pyramid schemes don’t sell products.

This is a common lie/misconception. Again the FTC is your guide, “Some schemes may purport to sell a product, but they often simply use the product to hide their pyramid structure.” The FTC also says, “Not all multilevel marketing plans are legitimate. Some are pyramid schemes. It’s best not to get involved in plans where the money you make is based primarily on the number of distributors you recruit and your sales to them, rather than on your sales to people outside the plan who intend to use the products.” Under this definition, MonaVie could be free from pyramid scheme allegations if it can show how much juice is being sold to be people not signing distributor contracts. MonaVie does not break out these numbers, and information from commenters on this site seems to indicate almost no product is going to people outside the business.

http://www.juicescam.com/